Expert: Pastor Don Carpenter - 9/20/2009

Question
To start with, I am saved. But, will the unsaved (those still living at the time of the rapture) get a second chance for salvation after the rapture occurs? I have been told that only those who have not heard the message of salvation (other than the 144000 jews sealed by God) will get the opportunity to accept Christ after the rapture takes place.

Answer
Hi Dottie,

Thank you for this great question.  I do not believe that folks will get a csecond chance after the rapture to believe because of the following verses:

2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769.

I hope that this helps you.

In Christ
Pastor Don