Will we meet in the rapture?

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What’s Your Question? for Oct. 7, 2009

Premillennialists teach there will be a rapture of the saved before Christ establishes His kingdom. John L. Bray (a Baptist preacher in Lakeland, Fl.) has written extensively against this theory. He documented that the first to write such was Morgan Edwards in 1788. Edwards predicted the lake of fire will be on the moon, the millennium would begin in 1996 and the rapture 3 1/2 years prior. The Bible says nothing about a rapture of seven years, nor animal sacrifices being reinstituted. Paul said Jesus will come with a shout and the trumpet of God, not a secret coming; the dead in Christ will be raised first (before the living saints are caught up), and they will be caught up together to “always be with the Lord,” not 7 years and then back to earth (1 Thess. 4:14-17).