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   Joe Allen Doty said, about 2 hours ago

   Oh, is the Professor a person who believes the rapture will take place before the Anti-Christ comes?

   The doctrine of the Rapture of the Church really isn’t found in the Bible and the word “Rapture” is not even used in correctly translated Bibles.

   I have valid reasons for not remembering certain things. Friday morning, I was trying to remember what grade I was in when my older brother, older sister and I attended a country school when it was a really cold winter and the family went to a school Christmas program.

   I called my older sister in the morning. She told me that since she was busy with the arrival of a new caregiver for her husband the fact that a hospital bed was coming later that morning, she would have to think about exactly when it was and would talk to me later in the day.

   By the time I called back several hours later, I remembered the details and the fact that I was in the 2nd Grade and she was in the 3rd.

   The kids in the school drew names earlier in the month and the school was going to have a man dressed as Santa Claus at the end of the program. Our little sister was 4 years old and our baby brother was 6 months old.

   Mom and Dad didn’t want Ruthie to be left out so they wrapped a present for her, too.

   When the man in the red suit was handing out the presents, he would say the name of the person who brought the gift and whom it was for.

   When he picked up the gift for our little sister, He said, “This one if for Ruth Doty and … it’s from … me!”

   Mom had put “Santa Claus” as the name of the gift giver.

   That was the only time any of us children ever received a gift from “Santa Claus.”