According to the Bible if a lost person hears a clear presentation of the gospel before the rapture and chooses not to accept Christ will they have another chance to be saved after the rapture?

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• Why would anyone want to wait right up to the last second to see if they can get away with this? Do you honestly think God is so naive as to ignore what he knows about your heart?
  

• I believe there is still a large amount of debate concerning the rapture of the church. Some believe it will be the beginning of the end, some believe it will be the end of the end. Some think that God's children will be called up before the trials, and some think after. It's really all a matter of how you interpret what is written in the Bible. Unfortunately, when it comes to prophecy, it's not as black-and-white as it is with law. Particularly when it is in regards to prophecy that is yet to be seen fulfilled. So, without clearly knowing when the rapture will happen, we cannot know at all whether there will be a "second chance". According to the "Left Behind" books by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, the rapture will be among the first signs of the beginning of the end times, and people appear to be given second chances. However, while this is "Biblical Fiction" (fiction derived from Biblical prophecies) it is only one view on an ever-mystifying subject, and not necessarily to be taken as Word.
  

• I never worry about when the rapture will occur since we "know not the hour or day". Why worry about such things? You could die in your sleep tonight! As food for thought I would generalize the question: "If a lost person hears a clear presentation of the gospel and chooses not to accept it, will they have another chance before they die?" I don't have the answer.

• The majority of Christians do not believe in a "rapture." It is a myth (and of recent origin), and needlessly frightens people. Don't believe in it.
• If you don't believe in the Rapture, then a majority of Christians don't believe the Bible. After the Rapture I don't think you will have another opportunity. But the Rapture will happen. I guess they don't believe in Jesus either. Jesus said: Matthew 24:29-31 But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory. And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. (40-41) Then there will 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.

• Oh it's gonna happen. God said so.

• Either you're a believer or non-believer. There's no half-way. If you're just hedging your bet, don't.. You will become paranoid. After all, how can you hedge your bet when there are hundreds if not thousands of named and unnamed god. You can't possibly study them all. Study evidences or lack of evidences, then decide.

• The "rapture" that everyone speaks of, is not the catching up in the clouds thing that everyone thinks it is.It is the time that Jesus returns for his children( Christians). This is a one time thing at the end of the world. He does not return twice, and the Bible is clear on this. If Christians were meant to escape the Tribulation, why would the book of Revelation even be in the Bible? The non-believers sure aren't going to study it. It is a guide to let Christians know what to expect, and to give them hope that eternity is near. Many that believe in the Rapture will fall by the wayside because they have been convinced that they will escape Tribulation. It is all in the Bible, and is meant to be realized. The"rapture" is unbiblical.

• It's already too late for most of us . Revelation 14 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. Only 144,000 celibate men will be saved. (Those who were not "defiled with women.") Or are the 144,000 men that are "not defiled by women" homosexuals? Are only gay men to be saved?

• on "Matthew 24:29-31 But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. First, The moon does not give off it's own light. It is the reflection from the sun.Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.Second, Stars don't fall from heaven. It's the meteorites that we see streaking down from above.Then why are only a tiny fraction of stars visible from earth? Under the best conditions, no more than a few thousand stars are visible with the unaided eye, yet there are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy and a hundred billion or so galaxies.The early writers of the bible believes that the earth is covered by a FIRMAMENT that divides the waters from heaven from the waters on earth.Genesis 1:17 And God set them (Sun, moon and stars)in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,It appears that the ancients believed that there were bodies of water, one in the sky and one on earth, that would have a tendency to fall into each other. A firmament would thus be necessary to separate these bodies of water so that the water of the heavens could remain separate from the body of earthly water. They may have believed that the sky was essentially an elliptical dome, atop a flat Earth, upon which the stars were affixed. Once medieval Christians had taken up the Ptolemaic system, the idea of the firmament had to be accommodated to a spherical Earth and celestial spheres.

• Rapture is our word for it, and not the Bible's.The Rapture will happen, and no, Jesus will not come down twice in the end times, but His coming is called the 2nd Advent, as He has already come in the flesh once. The tribulation is not for Christians, as all Christians are taken up into the clouds in the twinkle of an eye in a time which we knoweth not. The Rapture triggers the events of Revelation, as the instant disappearance of all of the Christians causes mass hysteria, since many Christians have very important jobs and we they are translated, chaos will ensue.The purpose of Tribulation is to show the world what happens to those who reject God and His Son, as God is a Holy God, and He cannot condone the sins of the world, a world that rejected their only chance for salvation. The Tribulation, even though it is unbelievably horrible for the unsaved, including many of the Jews, the Christians are praising God for saving their souls, and saving them from having to face such tulmultuous times. However, the Jews believe that the Messiah is still to come, as they reject the New Testament, though the Christians (Gentile Bride of Christ) accepted Him and are now saved. There will be 144, 000 male virgin Jews to preach to the nation of Israel in the last days, evangelizing them, for Israel/Jews are still God's chosen people, and God will not allow anyone to go to hell unless they utterly and completely reject God's plan for salvatiion, though the faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, and have eternal life, thanks to Christ's conquering of death on the cross. There will be also two witnesses who preach in the streets of Jerusalem (I believe) and many believe that they willl be Enoch (the righteous man who was taken up into heaven early on in Genesis) and Elijah (who was also taken up to heaven, but unlike Enoch, he was taken by angels in a chariot of fire and in a whirlwind). Some believe that it is not those two, or maybe it is just one of them, with Moses replacing the other, as Moses' body was buried by God Himself and only He knows where Moses' body really is. These two witnesses will preach the gospel and repentance, and tell everyone of the hell from which to run and the heaven that is to be won through Christ and through God's plan of salvation. Everyone will see these two on TV or online, and they will try to kill them numerous times, and God will allow these two to breath fire on the lost world, as they are not meant to die until God allows it. They will be killed by Satan, through the Unholy Trinity, the Anti Christ, the Beast, and the False Prophet, but God is the One who determines that, and not Satan, as Satan was once an angel, and therefore, Satan was once created perfect by God Himself, but Satan corrupted himself with his lust for God's power. The bodies will lie in the streets and deteriorate while the people will celebrate their deaths, and make a new holiday, and get drunk, stoned, and indulge in immorality of all kinds to defame the death of these two saints. However, they will rise again, and they will hear God's voice, calling for them to return, and they will be gone. As to the theory that lost people can be saved in the tribulation, I tend to believe that no one who has heard the gospel can be saved then, as the Holy Spirit leaves with the Christians. The Holy Spirit is that still small voice that deals with people when they hear or think of the gospel and about their future. If the Holy Spirit is gone, along with the grace (as well as the guardian angels) that allows the Christians to be protected, all hell will break loose, and 2/3 of the world's population will die, through meteors and through demonic plagues and all of the vials and bowl judgments. Those who are not save by the Rapture will find it is too late. This is why Christians encourage others to be saved today by confessing sin for time is running out, as God's grace is enduring, but it will come to an end.
  

• When John wrote the book of Revelations and spoke of the Rapture and all the would ensue, he was speaking at that point of Jerusalem. All that John said would happen, he said would happen before that generation passed. And it did! Jerusalem was invaded and half of the inhabitants died. The other half fled into the hill country. Everything described took place approximately 39 years after he wrote it with a generation being defined as 40 years. So that particular "rapture" took place just like the Bible said it would. The Tim Lehay series was a great work of fiction that made him a lot of money, but unfortunately was a few years off the mark.

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