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- The Eastern Orthodox Church teaches that from the time of Christ's coming into the world, the fullness of Divine Love is revealed to those who believe in Him, the veil is fallen, and the Lord's sacrifice has demonstrated His Divine Love in His resurrection.
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Apr 22, 2010 · As already stated, most Christians, Orthodox, Roman Catholics and Protestants do not believe in the Rapture. In fact, one Protestant pastor, John L. Gray, summarized magnificently what we Orthodox and most other Christians believe about the Rapture when he wrote these remarkable words:
The understanding of the rapture varies between pre-trib and post-trib raptures. The pre-trib rapture is a secret escape from persecution, post-trib acknowledges that Christians would be suffering and enduring persecution under an Anti-Christ.
Jul 25, 2019 · Many Christians (outside the Orthodox Church) think about “the End” as a horrific time of the Rapture, Tribulation and the Battle of Armageddon. In an oddly related way, secular non-religious folk have their own brand of dreary “end times” eschatology.
The Rapture’s supporters derive their opinions ultimately from a single Scripture verse, I Thessalonians 4:17, “Then we who are left alive will be carried off together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord.”
Pretribulationism is the most widely held view among Christians believing in the rapture today, although this view is disputed within evangelicalism. Some assert a post-tribulational rapture.
Jan 3, 2024 · From Paul’s words in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, we are told that the Lord will come down from heaven, but He will not physically touch down upon the earth. The Lord will not touch down physically upon the earth until the Second Coming, which is distinct from the rapture of the church.
So let’s look at three things the Orthodox Church teaches that can help us understand life after death. 1. The soul isn’t more important than the body, and it isn’t eternal by its nature. Discussions about life after death tend to expose a lot of misunderstandings about what the Orthodox Church teaches about the soul.
