But the second problem, and the one that I think is more fatal to using Matthew 24 or Luke 17

to try to support the position that some people are going to be raptured and some are going to

be left behind, is that the passage and context is teaching the exact opposite of that.

So in rapture theology, being taken is good and being left behind is bad, whereas in the

New Testament, it's the reverse.

Let me show you what I mean. Welcome, I'm Josh Hesemus Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And today, I want to talk about the end of the world and specifically the idea of the rapture. Now, if you're part of a church or denomination that celebrates Advent, you may know that this time of year, we look forward to the coming. That's what Adventist means, the coming of Christ, both at Christmas, but also at the end of the world. But many people,

particularly evangelicals in America, believe in another event called the rapture. Now, for those of

you who are not Protestant or are not from America, this might be foreign to you. Maybe you've heard of

movies like Left Behind that kind of depict this theology. But having grown up believing in

the rapture and thinking this was the biblical way of understanding the end of the world and what was

going to happen next kind of in what's called eschatology at the end times. I wanted to explain both what

people mean by the rapture, where they think they see it in the Bible, and also what the Bible

actually means by these controversial passages. So just to outline very, very basically, the two major camps on this question.

The first is what I'll call the traditional view.

This is basically all Christians before the 19th century.

There might be a handful of exceptions, but I'm going to leave the whole question of the

history of rapture theology for another time.

But the traditional view is that described in Hebrews 9. So Hebrews 9 says

that Jesus has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of

himself. Now notice that reference to the end of the age doesn't mean the end of the world.

This is talking about Jesus' death, his self-sacrificial death. But then it says,

and just as is it appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ,

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