Three Reasons I Don't Believe in the Rapture (Anymore)

The rapture is a topic of major controversy. In this video, Dr. Matt O'Reilly explains why he gave it up.

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Dr. Matt O'Reilly is Lead Pastor of Hope Hull United Methodist Church near Montgomery, Alabama, Director of Research at Wesley Biblical Seminary, and a fellow of the Center for Pastor Theologians. He holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from the University of Gloucestershire, an M.Div. from Asbury Theological Seminary, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Auburn University. He's the author of Paul and the Resurrected Body: Social Identity and Ethical Practice (SBL Press) and The Letters to the Thessalonians (Seedbed).

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[mikemccallister]

1 Thessalonians 4:17.... 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.

[suzanneholcombe]

I have recently jumped ship from being a pre tribber. When people would speak of the rapture I would get an uneasy feeling in my gut. The more I would pray and ask for direction and God started leading me to research and to discern for myself, not what others were saying. I now firmly believe that we must endure not escape. Jesus endured the cross for us, so we must endure til the end for him. He never said it would be easy but that he would be with us til the end. I’ve also learned that the West is the only ones that believe in a rapture. Either way I’m ready to meet Jesus, but I’m prepared to endure if it comes to it as well.

[angelastevens]

I would rather stand with God and be judged by the world than to stand with the world and be judged by God.

[YouTubeChristian]

Ask the Lord to show you!! On January 25th 2024 I had the most amazing rapture vision!! I have never felt such peace & complete joy!! I didn't even know there was a rapture until I was in my 30's. I was raised New Age & Lutheran. I was lukewarm until right before the pandemic when my 6 year old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I had no one to rely on but Jesus. Since then, I have slowly grown closer to the Lord. I pass out the gospel & I do my best to glorify Him in all I do. I believe the Lord is coming for His bride very soon & is letting His church know!

Don't let ANYONE steal your blessed hope!! ✝TITUS 2:13

✝REVELATION 3:10-11 "Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. 11 Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown"!
LOOK UP!! ✝MATTHEW 24 ✝LUKE 21
Maranatha!!✝🌥👑💍

[Vajrahn]

I was a Sunday School teacher and the end-times came up in our studies. I taught from the Assembly of God material and saw it as convoluted. At that point I began my own study of WHAT JESUS SAID and history. There is no indication in the Bible that there will be a 3rd coming of Christ, so He is only coming back to mete out justice. When He does, 1Thess. 4:13-17 will be fulfilled. All people will receive immortal bodies when Jesus returns. Some will live forever with Jesus and some will not, period.

[johno]

I used to believe in the "secret" rapture because I believed false teachers and never did my own research. I recently read the "rapture" passages on my own and discovered that those passages do not demonstrate a secret "rapture." 2Th2 opened my eyes.

[dianelawrence]

Believe that the Lord Jesus died for you and He rose for you. He wiped away your sins. Hang on to your faith and give thanks to our Heavenly Father. Ask for wisdom from the Holy Spirit

[Gratuitous_Hillbilly]

I'm very new to this concept. No rapture. Was brought up in the "pre-tribulation" thought. Then reading scripture I was taken back. Literally by the word TAKEN. I started researching and found "taken", "snared", is used when referring to sin and wicked. Then "left behind" was righteous. Same words during Noah's day that Jesus spoke. Jesus also told us to endure. Why would I need to endure if I'm going to be ruptured? The Diciples had to endure. I'm not even in the same category as they so I shouldn't get special treatment.

[GivonWayne]

Interesting take. I still hold to a PreTrib rapture. 1. Because in the days of Noah they were living life as usual before the flood. Rev 6 will be so bad there will no longer be any life as usual. Same with the days of Lot... life as usual, then calamity struck. I do believe Christ is coming to rescue his bride before the great tribulation. 2.The tribulation will be a time of God pouring out His Wrath or anger upon the Earth. God is not angry with me. I am worthy because of the work of Christ, to escape all these things. 3.Telling me that I will have to endure the great tribulation gives me no comfort. How can you comfort me with these words if you are telling me I will have to see most of the world be destroyed? All that to say, If you are a believer, we can talk about it more during the 1000 year reign. As for me, I'm going to meet Him in the air and go back home with Him, like Elijah and Enoch.

[jessicabrown]

The church i grew up in was obsessed with the end times, us kids were terrified of it, growing up with nightmares about being left behind. Which gets caught up with trying to behave right out of fear, instead of having God change us from the Inside out, so we are obedient out of love and knowing what He wants for us isn't out of guilt and shame, but because He wants us to have an over abundance of blessing and what he has for us is always better then what we plan. I can relate with the not even knowing we had an option to opt out of rapture theology, until 12 years ago when I found out its not biblical & the scriptures to support it, didn't even sound like what I was always told it was gonna be. The more I built my own relationship with Jesus and stopped just listening to other Christian's I realized how backwards we get it. We go to others, who do the same thing instead of going to the source. I now understand it more, because there's alot of Pastors that got real comfortable in their role in the church, they forgot Jesus is the head not them. Not all of them but alot. I got excited to understand how much scripture is taken out of context and to start walking in truth not allowing anyone to weaponize scripture and use it to manipulate me. So it was a real wake up call to all of a sudden have my church family turn on me, the more I discovered freedom all these things I was being told I was getting but I was miserable and didn't know the 1st thing about grace or love. And definitely not about the resurrection. Read 1 Corinthians 15 the whole chapter out of the message and I pray God reveals what He showed me, because it's even better then I ever imagined, and He lead me to your video to show me my little family isn't alone, and to share the excitement of our future hope with Heaven on Earth. It's our own personal Eden with Jesus by our side as we honor our Father together. And so much more then anything.... I hope you respond when you see what I'm talking about

[Kristenm]

I stopped believing in the pre-trib Rapture when I read the Bible for myself with the Holy Spirit teaching instead of listening to men. Jesus clearly says the tares go first.
Matthew 13:30 30Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
John 17:15
“I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.”

[StealthFlightFPV]

Point number two has been a red flag for me as well. In fact after I looked into the origin of rapture theology, that about did it for me. I find it so disturbing how much of the evangelical church just takes this as fact without question. Its a sacred cow for sure.

[barttyler]

Years ago Dr. Walter Martin gave a lecture on this. He took a historical pre millennial view. His arguments were so convincing and as I further studied the scriptures and read another book by Hank Hanegraf called the Apocalypse Code, I abandoned the dispensational position. I still am not sure what eschatological camp I would put myself in, all I know is that He is coming again! Lots of interesting theories out there though.

[bcspride]

Thank you. No one ever cites a person in the 1700s, 1600s, 1500s and back who preached, taught, or wrote about a pre-tribulation rapture.

[janinamolina]

Revelation 3:10
Because you have kept My command to preserve, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
Maranatah, the Lord is coming and his bride will be taken away!!!!

[SpotterVideo]

Once a person comes to understand the New Covenant promised to Israel and Judah in Jeremiah 31:31-34, which is found fulfilled by Christ during the first century in Hebrews 8:6-13, and Hebrews 10:16-18, and specifically applied to the Church in 2 Corinthians 3:6-8, and Hebrews 12:22-24, modern Dispensational Theology falls apart, and the pretrib removal of the Church falls with it.

[zoej.]

Thanks for the video. I was taught about the rapture. But, while pondering about it, I came to the same conclusions. Glad to hear I'm not the only one.

[ChristAliveForevermore]

My Southern Baptist mother believes the (secret) Rapture *is* her "Blessed Hope, " and not the Resurrection from the Dead that Christ became the First Fruits of. It's like she fears persecution so much (PTSD) that she *needs* to believe the Rapture is any day now in order to function normally in life. Every day, she's "studying" astrology charts using every ounce of her confirmation bias to find a modicum of meaning in how the sky matches some obscure Jewish feast description or biblical passage. In short, it's a mental disorder, and it's sad to see. She's clearly intelligent, but because she was raised on this belief, she can't accept Orthodoxy or Catholic doctrine that spans back a millenia and a half. No, somehow she believes the Church Fathers *and* the Apostles believed Christ would whisk them off into the air at any moment, *but for some reason, * they spread the Gospel unto death with the vehemence that only a Saint could have..

I guess my point here is that most often, this false Rapture doctrine deters one from living like Christ and uniting as a Church family because, *at any given moment in your life, * God's gonna break you outta the Matrix, so to speak. In short, it's religious escapism.

[martyboddie]

I once believed in the rapture, because that is what I was taught. I was surprised to discover nowhere does the bible say the church will be raptured to heaven.

[jamesschmidtke]

I don't agree, but I like the video. “Then there shall be two men in the field; one will be taken, and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken, and one will be left. Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.—Matthew 24:40-42 I think this scripture is referring to the rapture. There are many mysteries in the end times we will never know, but blessed are they that study the word of God!