So will our economy go down the toilet before or after?

[Maximilian]

With all the gloom and doom over the up coming crash soon to happen, do you think
we Christians will have to go through this? Or will this happen after the rapture?

I kinda feel like we will have to go through it. Reason being that the more people that are
around the more burden this puts on the economy and the markets.
So it makes for a better effect or crash with the suffocating masses of civilizations population.

I kinda think with maybe 1/3rd of us (if thats a sound equation) being raptured out,
there would be less stress on the economies and markets and the AC could then
globalize the worlds economy easier after we are gone.

I keep hoping to be saved from the hour of temptation..all of it.
People and society do desparate things to survive when there is no food and money.
We can all imagine a worse case senerio of our social break down with out me making something up.

Thoughts?

Christains went through the great depression so I see no reason why we
would be saved from having to go through this like our grand parents did.

[TheOddBall34]

I believe this will happen before the ac appears reason being society would melt down which would give the ac the opportunity to come out, and say he can fix the worlds problems. Of course we know what will probably happen from there. I'am not so much into pre trib rapture, but no matter what happens, I will be patient for the Lord when he does return. I feel we will be here when this happens. We do have to go through trials like other people who have followed God, but in the end the reward is being with God, and no more suffering. Many people may be swayed when they are not raptured, and these things happen. I know it is scary in these times, but there is nothing God can not do, and all you can ask is for protection. He protected, and gave food to the jews who were held as slaves in Egypt. They lived through all the plagues that came upon the Egyptians.

[LoudRam]

I think after the rapture. Before it happens we will have problems but the bubble will burst after, based on the fact that things will be fairly normal right before the rapture.

Luk 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Luk 17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luk 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed [them] all.
Luk 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

[Eagles Fan]

I kinda think with maybe 1/3rd of us (if thats a sound equation) being raptured out,
there would be less stress on the economies and markets and the AC could then
globalize the worlds economy easier after we are gone.

I think After.

Just imagine what would happen to the economy if 1/3 of the population wasn`t there to build, produce, maintain, BUY stuff, etc.

[HisAlways]

I think after the rapture. Before it happens we will have problems but the bubble will burst after, based on the fact that things will be fairly normal right before the rapture.

Luk 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Luk 17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luk 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed [them] all.
Luk 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

I'd have to agree with you. Good thinking with the above scriptures. If the economy is busted, how much selling could go on?

[CelticMist]

We are seeing the evidence of the "melt down", it will continue to decline, and I believe we will see it collapse completely. The only ones who will survive it will be the billionaries, that 2% of wealth. Even those in the high six and low seven digits will feel the affects of the fall. Do you think this could usher in the "Amero" as some have called the currency to come?

[Joseph The Carpenter]

I hope after.

[Free in Christ]

It seems that when more things happen at relatively the same time, the bigger it seems in life. It just seems to me that for the AC to get the following of the world things will need to be pretty bad. If people disappear, bombs are exploding, and the economy crashes about the same time people will be looking for a leader to satisfy the first two levels of the Maslow pyramid: physiological and safety needs. But, time will tell...

Short term, money may have no value and bartering will be the preferred way. So, no matter if you are rich or poor, security will not be in money.

[Sharon]

Even if we are still here we will bear our cross to the end and not worry because the Rapture will occur and if we die with our cross before we will meet up with the ones still here in the air with Christ our Savior. I am willing to bear the pain if that is the case because Christ sacrificed Himself for us.

[Nocheechako]

We are spared from God's Wrath, not the consequences of living in a sinful world.

When God is finished with the US we will be done.

Not only could the "crash" come but our complete destruction could come before the rapture.