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**laurat99** · 10-01-2011, 06:46 AM

(10-01-2011 06:42 AM)bean Wrote: @laurat99: looked it up, it was actually painted in 1973....

I guess the reverence for a simpler time has been going on for a long time in Fundyland..

bean · 10-01-2011, 07:04 AM

Indeed. I was thinking late 50s when I saw it.

**RobMille** · 10-01-2011, 07:53 AM

That's kind of sick. And people look forward to this being a joyous blessed hope of God's great goodness to humanity & earth. I thought about making a lame "rapturous" pun, but it' just pretty sick to paint a tragic disaster scene like that as if it were something to anticipate with glee.

**RobMille** · 10-01-2011, 08:19 AM

No where in scripture is the judgment seat pictured as a great hope

Tony Mel · 10-01-2011, 05:05 PM

I still wonder why Fundies still believe in a secret rapture even though there is nothing in Scripture that suggests it, even remotely.

**Tiarali** · 10-01-2011, 06:40 PM

Coming like a thief in the night doesn't suggest secrecy to you?

**RobMille** · 10-01-2011, 08:49 PM

BTW, I don't at all think that all or even most pre-trib rapture people are like this. Most will jump through all kinds of hoops to believe that a rapture would cause minimal to no such scenes of mass tragedy. To the point of inventing the "all airlines man flights with at least 1 atheist pilot" stories. Fastforwarding several minutes past the rapture and trying to capture mass tragedy as a joyous occasion just struck me as both intentional, and deeply blood thirsty.

**Tiarali** · 10-01-2011, 09:13 PM

(10-01-2011 07:20 PM)Donb123 Wrote:
(10-01-2011 06:40 PM)tiarali Wrote: Coming like a thief in the night doesn't suggest secrecy to you?

Plenty of thieves aren't secret. Sometimes they kick in your front door.

Like a thief in the night simply means unexpected or unawares.

Good point. Also fits with the biblical teaching on 'as in Noah's day...'

Tooktheredpill · 10-01-2011, 11:53 PM

Quote:Fastforwarding several minutes past the rapture and trying to capture mass tragedy as a joyous occasion just struck me as both intentional, and deeply blood thirsty.

IMO, sadism probably isn't the motivation behind this painting. More likely the desire to scare the hell out of people and "win some souls." This painting traumatized me as a kid, and was one of the reasons I prayed "to get saved" at least once a day...