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The Rapture will never happen because of Free Will Salvation!

I base this on 2 Peter 3: 9 which reads, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

Now, let’s take a look at this. Most so-called Theologians will tell you that the “any” in this verse refers to everyone who lived or who will ever live, because of their belief in Free Will Salvation. Free Will Salvation is where one believes that God will never save anyone unless they first, of their own free will, choose to accept Jesus as their personal Savior.

With that in mind, if God is not willing that “any” should perish think of this. Today is the day of the Rapture. However Jesus sees that tomorrow you will choose to accept Him as your personal Savior so it would not be just for Him to deny you the privilege of being saved. To do so would make Him unjust and a liar since He said that He is not willing that any should perish.

Maybe even now, there is someone who will hear the Gospel one hour from now and the Rapture has to be put on hold, for that reason, until that person chooses to accept Jesus. However, there will always be someone who will choose to accept Jesus later today, tomorrow, next week, next month or next year or even 10 years from now.

So, for God to deny any of them the opportunity to hear the Gospel for the first time and to become willing to accept Jesus would make God out to be a terrible God, for He would be denying them their rightful place in eternity. Instead they will die and go to Hell when they could have gone to Heaven.

Now you can see how the Rapture will never happen because God is not willing that “any” should perish but that all would be saved.

There is, however, one way that the Rapture could happen at any time and “all” who are to be saved will be saved and that there will be none left behind. If Free Will Salvation is not true but that the doctrine of Election is, then the Rapture could happen at this very moment.

Look at that verse again… “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

If this verse is talking about the Elect of God then you could also say this in this verse… “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward the Elect, not willing that any of the Elect should perish but that all who have been chosen to salvation should come to repentance.”

Then, when the last person, whom God has chosen to be saved, is saved the Rapture can occur and that verse will have been fulfilled. For God had been patient (longsuffering) towards His elect and waited until the very last one whom He has chosen to be saved is saved for He was not willing that any of those whom He chose would perish. Thus, all those whom He chose for salvation did come to repentance and they were “all” saved.

Then comes the Rapture.

With Free Will Salvation we will never have a Rapture but, with Election being the sound Biblical Doctrine that it is, the Rapture could occur at any moment as soon as the last person whom God Chose to be saved… is saved.

God will not leave anyone behind who is destined to be saved. He will patiently wait until the last of His elect is saved. For He is not willing that any of the Elect should perish but that all those whom He has chosen to be saved will come to repentance and so be saved.

God’s Word stands and it will be fulfilled…