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On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:23:20 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

>The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>Just curious - what was the reviewer's background? Reason I ask is
>>that that view doesn't correspond with any of the major Christian
>>traditions. Yet only Christians would have thought much about the
>>eternal state of Christians. (And I'm not aware of splinter Christian
>>groups that teach that - and I have studied a fair bit on this - have
>>I forgotten one?)
>
>Most Christians don't actually believe in the Rapture at all, although
>probably this belief is more popular in America thanks to Hal Lindsey.
>
>Of those churches who do, very few of them hold the belief that the
>Rapture has already happened and that we are the remainder who are
>left.  But I know some churches that split off from the Witnesses do
>believe that, and they believe that we are living in the Time of=20
>Tribulation right now.

One of the commentaries (a modernist one, IIRC) actually asserted
that, when the Seven Churches read the book, they believed the results
of the various seals, trumpets, and bowls were something God Himself
was sending them right then. Most commentators, of course, believe
these are more generally applicable.

He never did get around to explaining what they thought the New
Jerusalem represented.=20
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"