"News of the Weird" is a weekly syndicated column by Chuck Shepherd. He reviews odd events and pokes fun at them. In his column for this week, Chuck discussed "You've Been Left Behind LLC". They are at http://youvebeenleftbehind.com/index.html
They charge $40 per user per year to store documents you want delivered via email to people after the rapture. They say:
We have set up a system to send documents by the email,
to the addresses you provide, 6 days after the "Rapture" of the Church.
This occurs when 3 of our 5 team members scattered around the U.S fail
to log in over a 3 day period. Another 3 days are given to fail safe any
false triggering of the system.
Folks - there is NO secret rapture.
They charge $40 per user per year to store documents you want delivered via email to people after the rapture. They say:
We have set up a system to send documents by the email,
to the addresses you provide, 6 days after the "Rapture" of the Church.
This occurs when 3 of our 5 team members scattered around the U.S fail
to log in over a 3 day period. Another 3 days are given to fail safe any
false triggering of the system.
Folks - there is NO secret rapture.
1 Thessalonians 4:16a
"For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel"
THIS IS NOT SILENT!
the next verses are in chapter 5:1-3
"Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape."
The day of the Lord COMES as a thief in the night, unannounced, but it brings swift and sudden destruction. A pregnant woman wants the "delivery" but does not know when it will come/happen. The birth process can begin at any time - sometimes at very inconvenient times.
2 Thessalonians 1:7-10
"and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed."
When Jesus appears, verse 7 says he will be revealed in flaming fire - not secret!Dispensationalists want this to apply to the end of their Tribulation period, but that is being imposed upon the text. You will not find that anywhere.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 and 8
"Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction ... And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming."
The "man of lawlessness" must be revealed first - before the coming of our Lord. And the Lord will kill him with the breath of his mouth.
AGAIN, as in 2 Th 1:7, fire is involved with Jesus' return.
This also corresponds to 2 Peter 3:9-10
"The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed."
Here we see that the long delay of Christ's return (corresponding to the long pregnancy) will be ended unannounced (like a thief that doesn't announce his coming) and the heavens will be consumed (the fire we've seen twice before).
There is a rapture. Believers are "caught up."
And then the fire consumes what remains.
"You've Been Left Behind LLC" will never send those emails and their subscribers will have spent $40 per year for nothing. They need to invest their time in being good ambassadors of Christ - pray for the unsaved, witness to them, show them Christ's love.
