Can a person be saved after the rapture?

Or does that event signal the end of all hope of eternal salvation?

Dr. David K. Bernard responds to this frequently asked question on this episode of Apostolic Life in the 21st Century.

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One question that pops up frequently is whether a person can be saved after the rapture.

Now, I'm just speculating here.

I think maybe the popularity of that question, the frequency of that question is due to the

popularity of that series of books that Tim LeHay and Jerry Jenkins wrote, the Left Behind series. You're probably familiar with them. Now, in that series of books that Tim LeHay and Jerry Jenkins wrote the Left Behind series.

You're probably familiar with them.

Now, in that series of novels, the central plot is there's some people who come to faith in

Jesus Christ after the rapture happens.

And so I think that that has maybe spurred the interest in that idea.

Not to be fair to Jenkins and LeHay, they didn't invent it, as you know, the idea of salvation after the rapture. Does the Bible leave any possibility of that

happening of salvation after the rapture? Does it open the door to that at all? Or once the rapture

happens, is that the end of all hope for a person? That's an interesting question. And to some

extent, it depends on your view of the timing

of the rapture. So as the Left Behind series indicates, it's based on a pre-tribulation

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