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If you’re like me, perhaps you’ve thought about your financial situation in light of what happens after the Rapture. Frankly, I’ve never seen anyone else discuss this, but I’ve personally considered it a number of times over the years. If you don’t think the Rapture is imminent, then this isn’t even “a thing” with you. However, if you believe like me that Jesus will indeed return at any time for His true church, then a financial conundrum develops. Have you ever pondered this and wondered what to do?
Here’s the issue: Right now, it’s fairly easy to determine good places in which to sow your money into God’s Kingdom. Of course, first and foremost, we’re to tithe to the church where we’re predominantly fed the Word of God. Beyond that, we can find reputable ministries through such organizations like the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability which provide a financial breakdown of where your money goes so that you can send offerings and donations with confidence. All well and good pre-Rapture when the people working at these ministries are all – for the most part (presumably) – born-again believers.
But what happens after the Rapture?
At that glorious moment, all true believers in Jesus Christ who are saved by His blood are called into the clouds and heaven by the Lord Himself, where we remain for the entire seven years of the Tribulation until we follow Jesus back to earth in His 2nd Coming.
Of course, we’ve either read the book or seen the movie. There are many Left Behind – many who thought that they were in good shape with God because they’d said “the prayer.” As Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins portrayed, a goodly number of these folks will have been in churches or working in various Christian ministries. This is when a Christian’s financial legacy gets dicey.
It’s unclear how society will deal with wills and charitable gifts in the wake of the Rapture. Normally, a person must be proven as deceased in order to trigger the execution of these financial instruments. That’s not going to technically be possible with the disappearance of so many people. So, what do the legal eagles and the courts do to resolve this?
Compounding this problem is that at this point those remaining in positions of Christian trust will react quite differently one from another. Some will realize their mistake and immediately fall to their knees in repentance and ask for God’s mercy. A certain number will do so later. However, I have no doubt that many who are left behind will feel great anger and resentment at God. They will shake their fist at Him and seek revenge. One sure way in their minds to do this will be to embezzle the funds coming into the churches and ministries at which they’re employed. The odds of any financial legacy at this time actually being used for the intended purpose will be virtually nil.
Thus the conundrum we who wish to leave monies to advance God’s Kingdom face. The last thing any of want to do is have our hard-earned assets end up in someone’s pocket, even if it may only be there for at most seven years.
What to do?
In my case, I contacted Terry James at Rapture Ready and posed the question to him. He responded with such simple rationale that I could only say, “Of course!” when I read it. Here’s some of Terry’s reply:
My own thinking in this regard is that once we are gone, the government will confiscate all that was in the accounts of those missing…. Monetarily, I don’t think the government will leave a leaf unturned to find those assets, so, doing nothing in that regard is as good as anything we can do.
Thank you, Terry! I think you’re absolutely right. Given the attitudes and hard hearts of the day, there will certainly be a concerted effort to locate and appropriate all such funds. It really won’t matter what we try to do with whatever we’ve designated for good works. One way or another that money will disappear. It’ll be stolen by a faux Christian employee if it somehow makes it to the charity, or more likely the government bureaucracy will claim it for its own.
The bottom line for me seems to be Terry’s good advice: Don’t worry about it. Set up whatever you wanted to as if the Rapture wasn’t going to happen. When it does occur in the very near future, we won’t care anyway because God’s got all these kinds of issues under His control, and we can leave it to Him to make things right.
As always, the Biblical advice remains: Don’t be anxious about anything.
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Anonymous
there is an after rapture dilemma all right Gary Micheal Epping Link Hudson ppl hope to die before rapture just to avoid their own post-trib theological confusion
Anonymous
Troy Day I don’t know when Jesus will come back. Many people in my parents and grandparents generation thought it would happen in their life time. I am supposed to watch and wait, but it doesn’t say to worry.
Your fears about living through a post=trib end-times scenario are in no way evidence for the pre-trib rapture.
The appeal to fear is a logical fallacy. So is the appeal to authority. These types of arguments seem implicit in a lot of posts. I do not think you are right because you post about how much education you have in theology or Greek. I consider how valid your arguments are. I do wonder if your education included a course in logic.
Anonymous
Link Hudson Christ urged us to live a life of readiness and preparedness
I’ve said it before and I will say it again – the people who believe to go through trib shall receive according to their faith… The BIBLE is pretty clear about it and our eschatological hope rests in it alone #ThatsIt
Anonymous
Troy Day faith can move mountains. Do you believe faith can create new raptures not taught in scripture? Why not just faithe up a rapture for yourself right now if that is the case? Why don’t godly saints all just gwt transformed bodily and fly away?
Anonymous
This is superbly interesting Link Hudson your personal story of gratification, your praise of your wife, your life-long questions you just asked. Your posts are always intriguing, mesmerizing, perceptive and practically brilliant in their own odd ways.
BUT not to me. I am interested in pure Biblical theology – it is what I live for. Not for something you saw on the internet. With this in mind, what specific question do you have about this particular OP here?
Anonymous
Troy Day then why don’t you post well thought out the illogical content on your own forum. My posts may seem self-reflective or off the wall to you, but why don’t you put up a little pole and ask people who supposed to have heavier theological content mine or yours?
Anonymous
Link Hudson the only think I post is post well thought out and logical content to this forum. Mainly by people who well thought out and logical scholars. But it does take a bit of theological training to get it! And I will also stop entertaining personal non-theological posts in 2024!
Anonymous
Troy Day you often post scarcely comprehensible sentences full of peoples names sometimes in ways that do not make sense grammatically. That and little jabs and false statements and accusations you probably think are jokes. Rarely do you make a well-reasoned detailed argument as a post.
Anonymous
sorry Link Hudson aint the mamma for your drama
post theological discussion posts or bid farewell in 2024
Anonymous
When the wrath of the Lamb falls upon this world, what will those days be like in the 7-year Tribulation, this the most horrible of all times? These gritty stories reflecting the Seal Judgments opened in the Book of Revelation will intrigue you, a period more dystopian than any fiction writer can imagine.
Anonymous
Troy Day Troy is exactly right, the Tribulation is going to be very difficult (what an understatement, horrible as Troy says is a better statement). It will be at the very least a place those who have squandered opportunities to prepare a tremendous disadvantage. This is a recipe for apostasy among those who have been lackadaisical during the calm before the storm. Failing to understand that they need to prepare contributes to the problem. For if your pretrib friends really believed and understood that they were possibly going to have to negotiate the Tribulation, it just stands to reason that on the one hand they would be preparing more aggressively now, and on the other hand that they would be less inclined to have their faith undermined or eroded altogether when it suddenly became clear at that future time that what they had believed was wrong. This is a formula for despair and makes them fair game for being lured by the Xchrist.
Yes it would be wonderful if posttribbers were wrong. Actually, if I had a vote, it would be for a pretrib rapture. It would be a great relief if the Lord just took us out of all our trouble. However, my reading of the bible tells me differently, and that we have a very important job to do: to demonstrate that come what may we are going to remain faithful to Jesus – even in the midst of the Tribulation. For this I am preparing and to this end I am trying to help others get ready as well. Troy is even welcome to come up and do some mountain and wilderness training here in Montana.
Anonymous
Gary Micheal Epping not to disagree with you or anything on this one BUT you and Link Hudson are yet to show ANY Biblical plan for surviving the Trib except if you convert to Judaism