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Rapture bible study for kids11/21/2023 ![]() A year later when we brought our first child home from the hospital, I should have felt pure joy. What about my kids?īy the time I got married, I was finally starting to vocalize this fear. However, my church taught that Christians were most likely going to go through a terrifying “tribulation,” where we would deal with the persecution of “the Antichrist,” and most of us would wind up dead or wishing we were. They welcomed the bad news and rejoiced in the evil condition of the world, because it meant that we would get whipped out of here faster. A lot of other Christians I knew weren’t as afraid as me - some of them believed in the rapture. I was aware of what eschatological (or “last things”) beliefs could do. When I tried to pull it out, it would break and grow back later. This fear was a weed and the roots had grown so long and deep that they became entangled in every part of my life. Sunny days were gloomy to me, as everything reminded me of my impending doom. I became so fearful that I had a hard time enjoying life at all. I couldn’t watch movies that were “futuristic” or apocalyptic in nature. By the time I was a teenager, I was afraid to listen to the news or read the newspaper for fear that I would see more “signs” of "the end.” I became afraid of technology even barcodes terrified me (I was told these were the mark of the Beast). I never dreamed fear could grow roots like it did. For me this turned into a life-altering fear. Just pure scare tactics from the good ol’ Fire and Life Insurance Agency. Our teachers never applied systematic theology in fact, we never even opened a Bible. Youth group films that illustrated our bizarre ideas only inflated our fears. Bible classes at my private school encouraged our imaginations to run wild, and what started out as a pre-teen fascination and curiosity about Biblical prophecy soon turned into an intense phobia.
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