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Imagine, too, the economic implications of the Rapture. If you think U. What will happen when millions of business owners are suddenly no longer around to pay their bills?

Or pay their employees? Or continue delivering vital goods and services? What will happen to the federal government when millions of taxpayers are no longer providing Washington much-needed revenues? What will happen to state governments? What will happen when nonprofit agencies and medical clinics and hospitals that care for the poor and needy here in the United States and are run by and funded by believers suddenly stop operating?

What will happen when humanitarian relief organizations and adoption agencies and other charitable organizations that are run by and funded by believers in Jesus Christ stand empty?

Those who sneer at Christianity and mock the do-gooders and the missionaries will suddenly realize how much of a blessing believers actually have been in the U. All of this traumatic change in the United States will be compounded by the fact that hundreds of millions of believers around the world—possibly a billion people or more—will have suddenly disappeared at the exact same moment.

They will stop returning phone calls and e-mails. They will stop paying their bills and compensating their employees. They will stop being a force for good and hope in the world. They will simply be gone. The foreign-policy implications for the U. Adam was born [sic. Christ was conceived! Forcing his own chronological scheme on the Bible, he totally ignores the fact that Herod died on April 4, 4 B.

Those who set dates are best refuted by the passing of the predicted day without the even occurring. Rarely does one fine the belated but honest admission that one was wrong and an asking of forgiveness from those who were led astray.

Since the September date passed without the expected Rapture, may we now expect a sequel volume: 99 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 99? Sir Robert Anderson clearly discerns the harm these chronological date-setters cause to themselves, to others and to the cause of Christ:. They have brought reproach on Scripture itself, [sic] and have given a stimulus to the jaunty skepticism of the day.

Certainly, Christ may come soon. Every believer has hoped that Christ would return during his lifetime. Paul, the Church Fathers and the Reformers anticipated that the Lord would return in their day.

Believers today hope they are the generation that will experience the Rapture. Three things are obvious. We cannot say that we can predict the time or season of the Rapture. One would think that date-setters would learn a lesson in humility from their disappointed predecessors.