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America After The Rapture
What
Will Happen to America after the Rapture?
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Highly valuable and experienced military commanders and business
leaders and medical professionals will disappear, perhaps in the middle of
critical projects or medical procedures. The impact will be catastrophic - it
is difficult to imagine how the U.S. could remain a superpower. How could we
quickly replace all our Christian intelligence and foreign-policy officials who
would suddenly be gone? How could we quickly replace all the officers and NCOs
throughout the ranks of our military who are born-again believers? With all the
resulting chaos and dislocation caused by the Rapture, how could we defend our own
homeland?
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As we have seen, when the
Rapture occurs, every single American who is a born-again believer in Jesus
Christ will suddenly disappear.
This will cause enormous
disorientation and disruption for all the unbelievers who are left behind as
their lives suddenly change and they are forced to handle the aftermath and
adapt to the new and rapidly shifting conditions.
Think of how dramatically
life in the United States changed after we lost some three thousand Americans
on September 11, 2001.
First and foremost, the
emotional impact was devastating.
Then the way we travel
changed.
The way we conduct
foreign policy changed.
Our economy changed.
Our government
institutions changed.
So many areas of life
changed that it is difficult to adequately categorize them, much less catalog
them.
Now try to imagine the
U.S. losing a million people in the blink of an eye. Or 5 million people. Or 25
million people. Or more.
If you’re riding in a car
driven by a believer who suddenly disappears, that car very well could crash.
If you’re on a plane
flown by believers who suddenly disappear, that plane also could crash.
Highly valuable and
experienced military commanders and business leaders and medical professionals
will disappear, perhaps in the middle of critical projects or medical
procedures.
The impact will be
catastrophic.
Consider, too, the
emotional devastation for people who suddenly and irretrievably lose a spouse,
children, parents, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and other loved ones.
There will be no long
illnesses during which one can get prepared, no dead bodies to identify, no
human way to find closure.
Consider the horror that
will be experienced by millions of people who long described themselves as
Christians but suddenly realize that they were not included in the Rapture,
people who realize that they never actually received for themselves the free
gift of forgiveness and salvation offered by Jesus Christ.
Consider how sickened
they will feel when they realize that despite having gone to church and perhaps
having occasionally read the Bible and done good works and been “religious” in
some way, they never really understood or accepted God’s simple plan of
salvation.
Consider, too, the terror
felt by atheists and agnostics and people of other religions when they see
their country and their world imploding and realize that their family members
and friends who had been followers of Jesus Christ were right, and thus are
gone, but that they themselves were left to face the wrath to come.
Can such people fall on
their knees the minute after the Rapture and receive Christ’s free gift of
salvation for themselves?
Absolutely, and they
should.
If they do, the Bible
teaches that their sins will be instantly forgiven and their souls saved
forever.
They can know without the
shadow of a doubt that they are going to heaven when they die and will spend
eternity with Christ Jesus, not in the lake of fire with no way of escape.
But as wonderful and real
and true as all that redemption will be, such people who receive Christ as
their Savior and Lord after the Rapture will also be struck by the daunting
realization that they and their remaining family members and friends and
neighbors will have to endure previously unimaginable suffering in a country
that will neither be nor seem like anything they have ever known, a country
that has neither the strength nor the will to oppose the Antichrist or the
persecution that is coming.
Imagine, too, the
economic implications of the Rapture.
If you think U.S. banks
have a foreclosure problem now as millions of Americans cannot afford to pay
their mortgages, imagine what will happen when millions of American homeowners
suddenly disappear, never to make another mortgage payment again.
What will happen when
millions of business owners are suddenly no longer around to pay their bills?
Or pay their employees?
Or continue delivering vital goods and services?
What will happen to the
federal government when millions of taxpayers are no longer providing Washington
much-needed revenues?
What will happen to state
governments?
What will happen when
nonprofit agencies and medical clinics and hospitals that care for the poor and
needy here in the United States and are run by and funded by believers suddenly
stop operating?
What will happen when
humanitarian relief organizations and adoption agencies and other charitable
organizations that are run by and funded by believers in Jesus Christ stand
empty?
Those who sneer at
Christianity and mock the do-gooders and the missionaries will suddenly realize
how much of a blessing believers actually have been in the U.S. and around the
world.
All of this traumatic
change in the United States will be compounded by the fact that hundreds of
millions of believers around the world — possibly a billion people or more — will
have suddenly disappeared at the exact same moment.
They will stop returning
phone calls and e-mails.
They will stop paying
their bills and compensating their employees.
They will stop being a
force for good and hope in the world. They will simply be gone.
The foreign-policy
implications for the U.S. must also be considered.
With
such an immediate, enormous, and unprecedented shock to American society and
economy from the loss of millions of people, it is difficult to imagine how the
U.S. could remain a superpower.
How
could we quickly replace all our Christian intelligence and foreign-policy
officials who would suddenly be gone?
How
could we quickly replace all the officers and NCOs throughout the ranks of our
military who are born-again believers?
With
all the resulting chaos and dislocation caused by the Rapture, how could the
U.S. move rapidly and effectively to defend a threatened or invaded ally or
defend our vital interests around the world?
How
could we defend our own homeland?
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