I have been raptured, you've been left behind

I’ve been raptured, you’ve been left behind.

For the past 150 years or so millions of Christians have gone to the grave disappointed. Millions of contemporary Christians are on their way to the grave following their spiritual fathers in disappointment that they were not raptured.

The rapture is the end time notion that society is a living in the last days. The last days characterize the end of time when the anti-Christ, or the man of lawlessness will enslave the whole earth, causing the Christian church, to be physically removed to heaven while those left behind will suffer the pains of totalitarism before Christ returns.

 Millions of Christian are anticipating the end of society, hoping they will be spared from the ‘wrath to come’ standing around sky gazing, waiting for something to happen…the end of the world. They hope to be ‘raptured’ which is the misguided notion that when hard times come they will be lifted up into heavenly space thus avoiding the wrath of the antichrist or man of lawlessness destined to enslave the whole world.  

The wrath to come mentioned by Jesus Christ in Scripture was the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Jesus also mentioned that that event would be the worst the world would ever experience. If Jesus prophetic words are true, which they are, the worst that will ever happen on earth is behind us, past tense, ancient history, and Christians were delivered from the wrath to come by fleeing to the mountains from Jerusalem.

I believe the word, rapture, is a synonym, for the born-again experience. John 3:3 “You must be born again.”  Other words are used to describe the same event, the personal salvation which happens to every Christian, indeed, the event which makes them a Christian, the Spirit of Christ put inside them.  

1Corinthians 6:14 And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.

Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Romans 8:11  But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through who His Spirit dwells in you.

Ephesians 2:6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

1Thessalonians_4:17 Then we who are alive a