Where's everyone going?

Apparently something called 'The Rapture' is going to happen soon, and all the true Christians will ascend to heaven.
However, this has been predicted many times before, but it never actually happened. Or did it?
Maybe on all those previous occasions, all the genuinely holy Christians did go to heaven, it's just that no one noticed because there were so few of them.
What do you think?

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Adstar · 56-60, M

The rapture will happen on the day of the second coming of the LORD Jesus.. Christians who remain and survive the end times tribulation will be ""caught up"" ( raptured) into the sky to meet Jesus in the clouds as He returns to earth.. They will be coming back down to earth with Jesus as He touches down on a hill in Jerusalem and they will rule the earth with Jesus for 1000 years..

SpudMuffin · 61-69, M

@Adstar but which christians? Is it all christians; protestants, catholics, orthodox, non-conformists? Or is it just one particular sect?

Adstar · 56-60, M

@SpudMuffin Well lets say Christians who believe Jesus and trust in the Atonement Jesus secured by His death on the cross, that pays the penalty for their sins... So where ever they are on that day if they are alive and remain they will be caught up..

(1 Thessalonians 4:16-18) "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: {17} Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

SpudMuffin · 61-69, M

@Adstar when do you think that's going to happen?

Adstar · 56-60, M

@SpudMuffin After the great tribulation.. meaning after the great persecution that will come upon true Christians and after the great wars and the great famine and the meteor ( wormwood ) that will stike and the greatest earthquake humanity has ever seen...

Now when will this actually happen date wise ? I don't know.. I suspect it will be in the 2030's but thats just a personal hunch.. I am not predicting dates..

SpudMuffin · 61-69, M

@Adstar that's what I thought - the people who are being specific about dates have no more idea than anyone else!

Adstar · 56-60, M

@SpudMuffin Jesus made it clear that no one would know the day or the hour..

(Matthew 24:36) "¶ But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."

So if anyone gives you a date you can totally disregard what they say..

But the message of the Bible is that in the end times people will know the times.. They will know it is near, without knowing that actual day or hour..

(1 Thessalonians 5:1-6) "But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. {2} For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. {3} For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. {4} But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. {5} Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. {6} Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober."