[Sons to Glory!]

CMW - I enjoyed your two postings. Fresh & frank. And yes, we could ALL be wrong!

One example WL gave that sticks with me, and lately others I know have also commented about it. He used to say that studying the scriptures was like putting film in a camera. It was there just waiting for the light to come in. So many times this has been my experience. I have the word in me, but it's more logos (static) than rhema (living). Then I get some light and shazzam - it really comes alive! Most Christians have this experience I think.

I must be honest and say that I am still more in the realm of the logos word when it comes to the rapture. It just makes the most sense to me that there is more than one rapture of the ekklesia, when I read about raptures occurring at different times. Therefore if you ask if I believe in pre-trib, the answer is "yes." If you ask if I believe in post-trib, the answer is also "yes." That's because that's what I read - they are not mutually exclusive.

I have received some light regarding the judgement of our works at the Bema Seat of Christ. We will receive different rewards, based upon how faithful we've been in a few things that we've been given (did you read my paper on that?). Therefore I believe the outcome of the Bema is not binary, it is analogue - that is, varying rewards based upon our faithfulness & works.

Many Christians seem to have a binary view of everything: I'm saved so I get it all, and therefore all Christians will be raptured at the same time.

But what is in us is life. Life starts out small - as a seed - and grows. Good growing trees, when full-grown produce good fruit. Some fruit ripens faster and is picked earlier.