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V. Hahn

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Helping a "Rapturist" Understand re: Second Coming
« on: September 16, 2017, 12:22:22 PM »
I fill in for a secretary at a non-SDA church when she is gone, the main reason being is that I want to be a witness for the truth to those dear people.  I talked to one of the church members this last week who is heavily into the Rapture/Dispensationalist theology, (which apparently is different from what the pastors at that church believe and teach). 

Sad to say, she is more versed in her beliefs than I am in the truth of the subject. She rattled off verse after verse of why she believes that way, and had an rebuttal to everything I had to say about it.  She is even studying Hebrew.

We even talked about how Jesus spoke about deceptions in the last days, and she was very aware of that fact.

At the end of our short discussion she said it doesn't really matter which way we believe, because we will be saved either way.  Of course, I tried to explain it does matter, but she had a response to that as well, and she said we would continue this discussion later.

Of course, I'm praying about this and will study more into the subject when I have chance, but does anyone have any experience with witnessing to someone like this?  She is dead set that she is right and I can tell she is not interested in hearing an alternative explanation.  I know an "argument" will not be productive, but want to plant a few seeds in her mind that will get her thinking.  Thoughts?

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Re: Helping a "Rapturist" Understand re: Second Coming
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2017, 04:08:15 PM »
 Vicki,

This website has a lot of good info on the Secret Rapture. I linked to it from Amazing Discoveries.  http://www.secret-rapture.com/
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Re: Helping a "Rapturist" Understand re: Second Coming
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2017, 08:29:15 PM »
all you can do is pray and be there when God works on her....
she knows where to come if she is moved to question/doubt her beliefs
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Re: Helping a "Rapturist" Understand re: Second Coming
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2017, 06:48:09 PM »
Noah's Flood was not Secret, Sodom & Gomorrah destruction was not secret, The fiery furnace and golden idol / death decree was not secret. 

When Jesus said - Luke 17:24-30   "as it was in ........ Son of Man be"  What does Scripture explain ?  Secret or public.    Is a sky wide lightening storm secret ?
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Grateful for Psalms 32 and Titus 2:10 While it is true that God gives the message from Scripture and SOP. The taste I give to others about the message sells it or kills it, I learn to walk it well & cook it well & eat it myself, before I preach it.  Then the SDA message appeals by His righteousness.

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