Apologetics

WHEAT VERSUS CHAFF 2

by Jeff Van Hatten
08/31/23
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Please pray for all who continue to teach the Biblically unsupported Instant Disappearance Paradigm, and who refuse to accept the Biblical Witnessed Resurrection and Rapture Parallels, Patterns, Pictures and Types.

Remember to Download the Book and Send it to all your friends and acquaintances: The Witnessed Rapture In a Nutshell

The Query
Queries were sent in May and June 2023 to over twenty well known Instant Disappearance Paradigm teachers, pastors, and scholars  in letter form, and then via email for those whose email addresses I was able to locate. The query said:
I am curious why so many teach that the resurrection/rapture is an instant disappearance event, as I cannot find even one single Biblical verse or scripture that defines a resurrection which culminates in an instant disappearance of the person who has just been resurrected! And to further complicate my confusion, neither can I find a single Biblical verse or scripture that defines a bodily rapture from earth to the clouds as an instant disappearance, either. As a matter of fact, I cannot find even one single word that describes an instant disappearance! Can you help ameliorate this confusion?

The response has been minimal!!
One scholar personally responded with a definition of the word Harpazo. An office worker from a pastor’s church responded with a more detailed of the rapture as described primarily in 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 and 1 Corinthians 15:50–54. An office worker from another pastor’s church responded with a list of videos they wanted me to watch and stated that it’s not a salvific issue – everyone has an opinion. Three responses, but none of the above answered my question!! And none of them have responded to further requests for clarification.

Overall, the Biblical parallels, patterns, pictures, and types are still ignored and fictional stories still taught as if they are doctrine! Oi Vey. How sad. Sooooooooooooooo, again I say: Please pray for all who teach the Biblically unsupported Instant Disappearance Paradigm.

The Trumpet
Ezekiel 33:4-5 – “If anyone hears the sound of the trumpet yet does not heed the warning . . . his blood shall be upon himself.”
Consider me a loud sounding Trumpet. I have now given a severe warning to the Biblically unsupported Instant Disappearance Paradigm teachers. If they refuse to listen, their blood is on their own heads, not mine (Ezekiel 3:18-20). Thank you Ezekiel!!

Separating the Wheat From the Chaff – A Harsh Bible Teaching
Job 21:18; Psalm 1:4; 35:5; 83:13; etc. – “May they be like chaff before the wind.”
Jeremiah 23:28 – “What do chaff and wheat have in common?” asks Yahweh.
Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17 – “Yeshua will clear his threshing floor and gather the wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
I suggest that all who espouse the Biblically unsupported Instant Disappearance Paradigm are standing in the middle of the pile of chaff, not with the heaps of wheat. They are in danger of being blown away like chaff in the wind. Or worse yet, as fire licks up the stubble, and the chaff is consumed in the flame, they are very likely to be burnt to a crisp! These possibilities are likely “because they have rejected and have despised the word of the Yahweh” (Isaiah 5:24).

The Blind and Deaf
Romans 11:8 – “Yahweh has given them a spirit of dullness – eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, right down to the present day.”
Jeremiah 5:21{CJB} puts it this way: “Hear this, stupid, brainless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.” Ouch, double ouch! Other translations tone it down a bit and simply call them “foolish people who have no understanding”.
I kinda like the Complete Jewish Bible {CJB}; it is blunt, to the point, in your face, and quite succinct. And how well those scriptures describe many of today’s well known scholars, speakers, pastors, and authors who are so unwilling to even see or hear what the Biblical parallels, patterns, pictures, and types have to say about the resurrection and the rapture.

The Likely Result
1 Corinthians 3:13-15 – “But each one’s work will be shown for what it is; the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire — the fire will test the quality of each one’s work. If the work someone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward; if it is burned up, he will have to bear the loss: he will still escape with his life, but it will be like escaping through a fire.”
Thankfully, even those who fail to teach the Biblical parallels, patterns, pictures, and types will not lose their eternal life. Sadly, they will experience a loss of rewards. Ouch!

Prayers Needed
Please, please, pray that they repent, will stop teaching the Biblically unsupported Instant Disappearance Paradigm, and instead only teach the Biblical parallels, patterns, pictures, and types which clearly describe witnessed events. If I may suggest, in addition to your prayers, perhaps you could also contact each of those whom you know and express your concerns and encourage them to teach what the Bible has to say about the resurrections and raptures.

Conclusions
I know that the Witnessed Rapture Paradigm is substantially different from the Instant Disappearance Paradigm currently being taught, but . . .
• Scripture demands two or more witnesses to establish a fact. There are twelve resurrections, three bodily raptures, and multiple Greek and/or Hebrew words that describe these events as witnessed events. Fact Established.
• The Bible only, repeat ONLY, depicts resurrections and bodily raptures as witnessed events. Fact Established.
• There is not one single instance of a resurrected person just up and disappearing, nor is there a single instance of a bodily raptured person just up and disappearing.  Instant disappearance is not biblically supported.
• As a matter of fact, the Bible does not even use one single Hebrew or Greek word that describes an instant disappearance!

My Advice
• Accept the Biblical parallels, patterns, pictures, and types, and only teach what the Bible teaches.
• There are those who are willing to listen, Bless them.
• And there are those who stubbornly refuse. Pray for them, too.
• Stand with the wheat, or possibly be removed/burnt up like the chaff.

Final Thought for 2023
The stage for Yeshua’s return is being set. Prophecy continues to unfold in an escalating pattern as foretold by the Hebrew prophets. The season of the birth pains is here – they are burgeoning and not going away. Time is short – Yeshua Ha’Mashiach is coming soon – be sure you have salvation in Yeshua and keep busy reaching the lost.