Can you explain the rapture, second coming, and if dead believers are in limbo?
by Westminster
This episode is an answer Pastor Ruttan has provided to a question submitted through Westminster’s Q and A Forum.
The question (submitted anonymously) is this: “I’ve heard it said that when Christ returns (I believe some people refer to this as “the rapture”?), he will take all those who believed and have already died to heaven first; then he will take all the living believers. It’s a little unsettling to think that our much loved ones who were faithful believers are just hanging out somewhere waiting for that day. Could you also say a clarifying word about the terms ‘purgatory’ and ‘the millennium’?”
Please note that we’ve slightly condensed the question, but have tried to capture it’s main elements.
You can also read the answer in text form in blog format on our website here.
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