Reply #8: Your mileage may vary [View All]

[Ezlivin]

Others will undoubtedly jump in with variations, but the basic idea is this:

What about the animals? Do they get raptured? Stay here without man following the final coming?

They remain behind. Because they have no souls, they are expendable.

The planet itself? Does it finally get a break from human abuse? Or does God just wipe it out for kicks?

Ultimately destroyed in fire, then rebuilt anew.

Is there some plan to repopulate the earth if it is not wiped out for kicks?

Only the righteous will inhabit the new heaven and the new earth. No re-population needed.

How about time? What happens to it? Does it come to an end?

It will have no meaning in an infinite heaven/hell.

How about God himself? What's he planning on doing with His time? Just hanging in heaven with his peeps?

Receiving praise while sitting on his throne.

Just wondering the specifics of the deal here.

The fundamentalist view of End Times revolves about the righteous (born-again Christians) escaping a period of Tribulation that lasts 7 years by means of Rapture (literally a "snatching away"). The 7 Years of Tribulation involve 144,000 Jews who suddenly become born-again and believe Jesus is the Messiah. These 144K Messianic Jews go out as super evangelizers, trying to save the rest of the world. Then the Antichrist...

Forget it. Don't waste perfectly good brain cells on this shit.