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Old 07-04-2007, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by bookslover View Post
I guess most people are agreed that it was a bad-taste/cruel sort of joke. But, we still have to deal with 1 Thessalonians 4:17, which is, after all, part of the Word of God, despite the jokes we make about it (and despite how it's been "ruined" by dispensationalism): Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

How can the Reformed view of the Rapture be summarized?
A Brief Sketch of Amillennial Eschatology

Hoekema addresses that halfway through this article under " As regards future eschatology, amillennialism affirms the following:" (see #5).
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