Did Les expect the Rapture to happen before January 1, 1994?
Yes, the speaker was almost confident the Rapture would happen before January 1, 1994, saying he kind of doubted that date would arrive with believers still here. Yet he refused to set dates, saying his faith would not be shattered if it did not occur.
Les explains that he was almost confident the Rapture would occur before January 1, 1994, but he would not be shaken up or have his faith shattered if that date came and believers were still here. He says he kind of doubted it and felt we were getting close, yet adds, if not, so what? because we do not set dates or know the Lord's timetable. Personally, he thinks it is based on when the last person is saved, tied to Romans chapter 11 and the fullness of the Gentiles being brought in. When the trumpet sounds, the dead in Christ will be suddenly resurrected, and the living and remaining will be changed instantaneously, like a caterpillar to a butterfly, from this old body of flesh to a new glorious resurrected body. Les notes there is no language of cataclysmic events or God's wrath in that resurrection passage; it will just suddenly happen, and we will be gone. He then moves to I Thessalonians chapter 4, verse 13.