📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. I wonder why would Jesus mention people are eating, drinking, marrying when rapture happens. This normalcy has been around for thousands of years except disrupted by the first and second world war. Does Jesus mean the world shall suffer a greatness first, and recover, so that normalcy returns, people go back to eating, drinking mode. The peace and security comes back in their mind. Then all of sudden, destruction/rapture comes. I am leaning toward this thought. This Covid-19 has scarred everyone in this planet. Restaurants and bars are ordered to close. Marriage is forbidden due to restriction of gathering. When this virus is gone, normalcy returns. People are saying "peace! security!" which finally returns. They go back to eating, drinking in public places, marriage resumes, then bang, booms, sudden destruction comes, the rapture!!! Greetings.......... Great thread. One thing I have been pondering is the days of Noah and Lot. I have seen a few people talking about how things have to be in a state of normalcy as it was in the days of Noah and Lot when Christ makes an appearance. I am wondering about that. Yes, Noah probably preached as he built over the 100 years of work.......and to his neighbors he was probably seen as the eccentric old preacher who had lost his marbles by building in a non flood plain desert. But nothing happens in a vacuum (or rarely). I highly doubt Noah had a BBQ the night before they boarded and waved goodbye. The clouds had to have been darkening for days. Animals not endemic to that region started showing up. I am thinking that it was not like flipping a light switch, but there were rumblings and changes that people of faith could see and be affirmed.......but no matter how much........the unsaved would always see it as sudden destruction. In Pompeii there was not even a word for volcano in their language. But the mountain behind them had been belching for days before the first lava came out and even then it came out like a rainfall. Then came THE day when it erupted and buried them all alive. No amount of atmospheric changes could have made them become more aware (I say that because perhaps Sodom went through something similar). No matter what, THE day of the lava eruption would have been sudden destruction. So i am wondering..........we see the gathering storms. We see what will be coming on this earth in a very short period of time. To those not looking it is normal (or new normal). I am just wondering if it does have to get back to what it was before........i don't think it ever will. But like Noah we see the clouds, hear the thunder, and interpret its meaning.........our neighbors don't. No matter how much evidence they see to the contrary for them it is life as normal and will be sudden destruction. I dunno......i guess i just don't see the need to go back to what it was before this virus.......in fact i see it as proof that we are just that much closer. We see the gathering clouds and we know it is not normal. Our neighbors see the clouds, but to them it is normal (or new normal). No matter what it will be sudden destruction for them. Hope that was not too confusing.......if it was let me know and i will clarify. Thanks! My grandmother always said that was why most Miss America's come from the south. She thought it was the humidity and heat. LOL :mdrmdr: Your fish was only giving you the evil eye because it overheard your wife talking about a sushi meal. B-) I firmly believe our pets will be going up at the rapture because they are part of our household. Acts 16:31 “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” On Passover the Israelites applied the blood on the door posts of their homes and if they had barns on the door posts of that entry way as well. If not, they had their beloved cattle all inside their homes so they were safe and sound. :whistle: With regards to animals later on, I am of the opinion and have often stated that they will turn against man altogether. They will indeed persecute and chase after men, including beloved pets! My goldfish is now giving me nightmares! Lions, tiger and bears, oh my. TR
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