I Know What Happens To Righteous And Sinful Folks During The Rapture. But

[DistressedAmerican]

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

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

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

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

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

Just wondering the specifics of the deal here. :freak:

Anyone? :shrug:


May not be so bad if people were taken out, animals survived and the earth were given a break(repopulation seems risky at best though). May not be so bad after all!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Some of this will be considered nutcase stuff.... parts of it

make some sense. Take from it what you will.


www.gaiamind.org

[leftofthedial]

2. certain animals get to go too

but some, like skunks and spiders, don't.

[demosincebirth]

4. How about snakes?

[leftofthedial]

9. only the ones on planes

[DistressedAmerican]

5. Won't That Fuck Up The Web Of (after)Life?

What about the balance?

For example, we'd be overrun with mosqitos sans the spiders!

[leftofthedial]

7. hey! complain to the fundies

it's not my problem

[4nic8em]

3. Relax...

just enjoy your 72 virgins like everybody else.

[Blue-Jay]

6. Sheep go to heaven.

Goats go to hell.

[Ezlivin]

8. Your mileage may vary

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.

[DistressedAmerican]

12. Yeah, That Sounds Hosed.

Who needs that crap?

[zeemike]

10. A short sketch of how it will happen

If you read the bible and study the end time prophesies for yourself.

There is no rapture. that is all made up
There will be a "time of sorrow" as Jesus put it that will last 7 years, after that the sun will be darkened for three days and then all of the world will see Jesus return to the earth.
Jesus will then gather the "elect" from the fore corners of the world (there will be 144,000 of them) and Jesus will set up his kingdom on the earth that will last 1000 years and evil will be locked up for that time. This is the time man will beat his swords into plow shares and its spears into pruning hooks.
After the thousand years of peace evil will be realized for a short spell and then New Jerusalem will descend out of the heavens ( New Jerusalem is described as a cube 5000 miles square) and all the good people will be taken up into it and the rest with the earth will be cast into the lake of fire, then New Jerusalem will take man to a new heaven and a new earth.
So it is not only the end but the beginning.

[DistressedAmerican]

13. Screw It. No Sale!

I'll burn! :evilgrin:

[Homer Wells]

16. Sounds like it was written by Tolkien

NT

[Homer Wells]

11. The Revelations were written in the First Century AD, by a hermit

on the Greek island of Patmos. The view of the world at that time was quite limited, I would imagine. Events such as the Great Flood of the Old Testament spoke of the whole world as being flooded by God. There is some evidence that there was a great flooding in the Middle East at some remote period of history.
This Armageddon prophecy may well occur, but perhaps only in the Biblical lands. A great nuclear war may well happen there, eliminating a great deal of life, and sending whole bunches of folk up into the sky (read DEAD).
I wonder what the Fundies would think if a rapture was given and they weren't invited?

:shrug: :sarcasm:

[cynatnite]

14. As long as I have internet access...

wherever I go won't matter. Without it, I might as well be in hell. :evilgrin:

[TlalocW]

15. Here's what really happens

We all die in a train wreck and are whisked away to Heaven, which looks just like Earth except better. There, we can run as fast as any animal without getting tired, see our deceased relatives from dozens of miles away, and get to play with a talking lion who is the lord.

Or maybe I just read the Chronicles of Narnia not too long ago.

TlalocW