Question: With the false doctrine of a “rapture” as the main focus, it’s hard to believe that ...

Question [abridged]: With the false doctrine of a “rapture” as the main focus, it’s hard to believe that Bereans would advocate [this] nonbiblical doctrine. Nothing in 1 Thessalonians or in any other New Testament passages teaches that Jesus will return secretly to take believers to heaven for seven years and then return with them for another thousand years....So, where did the “rapture” doctrine come from?

Eusebius, Origen, Clement, and Ignatius, et al., never mentioned...the dispensational rapture or earthly reign of Christ....Jesus will never set foot on planet earth again. He arose from the Mt. of Olives - at the next and only trip, all the saved will meet the Lord in the air. That’s what the Bible teaches. You folks can thank John Nelson Darby, Hal Lindsay, Tim LaHaye, Cyrus Scofield and other “latter day prophets.” Throw in William Miller and Ellen G. White for being bedazzled by their sundry array of false prophecy.

Response: Bereans, who indeed search the Scriptures diligently (Acts:17:11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
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See All..., where Jesus tells his disciples (which includes all believers in Him) that He is going to the Father but He will return for them and take them where He will be. Paul tells us that the event is a mystery in which all believers will be miraculously changed when the Lord descends from heaven and catches them up to meet Him in the air, promising that they shall always be with Him (1 Corinthians:15:51-52 [51] Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, [52] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
See All...; 1 Thessalonians:4:16-18 [16] For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: [17] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. [18] Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
See All...). Scripture promises that Jesus delivers His bride from the wrath to come known as the time of Jacob’s trouble and the great tribulation (1 Thessalonians:1:10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
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See All... adds that every eye shall see Him. Matthew:24:30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
See All... states that all the tribes of the earth shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. Job:19:25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
See All... and Zechariah:14:3-4 [3] Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. [4] And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
See All... declare that at His return the Lord shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, specifically upon the Mount of Olives. Zechariah further adds that living waters will go forth and the Lord shall be king over all the earth. Multiple other verses supply more details, which every believer can search out and truly have confidence in the doctrine of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture.

Regarding doctrine, a “Berean” should have only a passing interest (if that) in the commentaries or the writings of men—certainly those of the early church fathers (who were a mixed bag of truth and heresies) and especially of the false prophetess Ellen G. White, who did not believe in a pre-trib Rapture. Confidence in any doctrine must be based solely upon one’s own understanding of the Scriptures, especially since the Word of God declares that we are all personally accountable for what we believe. (See 1 Cor:2:9-16 [9] But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. [10] But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. [11] For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. [12] Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. [13] Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. [14] But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. [15] But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. [16] For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
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