Sharing a Video with you: in it this young lady makes two claims. They are actually contradictory of one another, but, I also believe that the first claim to be in contradiction with the Scriptures.  

There is much talk of the great deception these days, as there should be.  I’ve written concerning it as have many Christians with blogs.  This (her understanding) I have not yet heard, but she says it.  Her first statement is about those who will not accept the Pre-Trib Rapture.  Although she does not insert pre-Trib, but just the Rapture.  People in Dispensationalism actually think that we have rejected the Rapture, just because we don’t believe it to be separate from the Second Coming, when in fact Paul says that it occurs in conjunction with Jesus coming.  These not believing her way, she says: are those who are  one part of the Church that have accepted the deception concerning the Rapture. It’s all about the Rapture to These believers.  she sees deception surrounding the Rapture to involve, those who now will not accept it’s future occurrence pre-TRIBULATION occurrence, and they won’t see that it will be covered up as an alien abduction.  She thus believes that those who now refuse to believe this scenario are those, who will fall away because they will accept this deception in that future, and they will not therefore be Raptured with the bride.  This then is her version of  the falling away. (Is This Biblical?) it places her certain belief in the Rapture above accepting Jesus in one’s salvation. 

Her second appeal then is to everyone to come to Jesus and be saved from their sins because Jesus is coming.  A good and valid appeal.  She doesn’t specifically say that we must repent for not believing in the rapture her way. She does imply that all Christians will be Raptured.  So indirectly she has implied that we who don’t believe the Rapture her way are really not saved.  She also says that accepting Jesus will bring us the sealing of the Holy Spirit. So can this: not believing in a pre-Trib Rapture, for those who are in Christ ever be found mentioned in Scripture, as a sin leading to a falling away?  But to many any other view then the Pre-Trib view is considered to be liberal and very wrong eschatology.  

Yet, I can never condemn a believer for being an advocate of their belief.  I also believed the pre-Trib Rapture at one time.  However, I would never tell you that believing in the pre-Trib Rapture vs the Post-Trib Rapture would be a sin unto death, and would by holding to it, cause one the loss of salvation as this young lady is implying concerning what I see to be Scriptural.  

So here is what I do see as a danger from believing the pre-Trib view, should it be wrong when the Tribulation progresses.   For then after it is proved to be wrong, and we find ourselves actually present in the great Tribulation; then it could cause enough confusion for it’s believer, so as to cause them to question and even lose faith in Jesus, and He had said: if you deny me; I will deny you before my Father in Heaven.  Can this scenario cause an offense between you and God?  The answer is yes it can, how do I know that?  

I have a good friend Greg Abbott, who is a pastor.  Greg used John the Baptist and his circumstance in Harold’s prison to teach on how circumstances can cause offense, when things that we may have falsely believed actually place us there at that crossroads without understanding; then there is danger.  

Jesus had actually sent John a message because of his circumstance. Within that sent message were the words “do not be offended”.  John’s circumstance was allowing him to question the very one whom he (John) had had revelation of, as to His being the Messiah.  And he was now questioning and possibly being offended in his heart because God was putting him through something that he did not expect to ever experience.  

Applying this same possibility to a potentially failed pre-Trib Rapture we must think of what Jesus said of His coming and our watching:

Matthew 24:42  Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. (KJV)

He here stated that you know not the hour.  Then concerning that hour He says:

Matthew 24:44  Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. (KJV)

Be ready: what does that mean to Jesus? – be ready.    Does being ready mean, always looking to the sky for Him? Or does it mean: always walking so close to God’s Spirit, close enough so as to discern the times of His coming; so as to have God’s understanding on everything except for the very hour of His coming, which hour alone is unknowable, and understanding all that, so as to not even have the chance of being offended in any way?  

How can this understanding be possible?  Are we not promised that the Holy Spirit will lead us into all truth?  Are we not clear on the fact that His word is truth?  You see we can actually know the times and season of His Coming; (not the Hour).  Paul makes this clear in 1 Thess. 5.

And, I can think of no such scenario that would cause us to be offended, not from believing the Post -Trib view of the Rapture; and to then by have done so, to have it lead us in any way to lose faith. So, I’m not certain why this blogger would believe as she apparently does concerning all this?  

Consider, if the great deception is the coverup of the Rapture of the Church what purpose does it really serve?  The Bible has proven itself true throughout history and worldly men continue to reject it.  The world is already deceived, so who is the deception for? But what if this deception from Satan is aimed at not only the world but also at Christ’s Church, even as Christ implies. “If possible, even the very elect would be deceived”.  

If we are presented with space aliens and their claim, (as I am hearing), and that they be the ones who brought you and me into existence on this planet, and if they are able to: through holograms in the heavens, and cause you to hear from Jesus that Allah is your true GOD; then if one is already questioning God because they have not been Raptured, will that weaker believer be in danger of these deceptions effecting their faith?  Listen and decide if any of this meets the deception that’s coming, and much of which is already here: