Mask mandates are coming back, the jab mandates are being enforced, schools are going virtual. I hope we are getting close because we are all about to get backed in a corner. My employer has not mandated the jab yet but if you have to be in the community you have to have the vaccine. If you don’t have it they won’t allow you to do a major part of your job function which will probably be grounds for termination.
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The pre-Tribulation rapture is unbiblical. John Nelson Darby was a Theosophist.
Come out of Babylon, and that includes the 501(c)3 Protestant churches who have reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church.
The Holy Spirit through John the Apostle wrote Revelation—Not John Darby. Show me in Scripture where it is unbiblical. The truth is that when God judges the world—He never judges His Children with the ungodly. (Noah, Lot’s family, parable of the wheat and the tares, parable of the 10 virgins, Rev 12- Woman and the dragon). The ark doors shut before the floods came, Lot and his family were removed before the fire came. Jesus himself said as in the days of Noah and Lot so will it be like when the Son of Man returns.
Correct, God will not punish His children, but the AntiChrist sure does before all of that starts. We all will be tested. The saints first and then the rest of the world for persecuting the saints.
Matthew 24:29-31. You mention God "punishing" his children; that would be God's "wrath" you are referring to? The tribulation is not God's wrath. That comes after the gathering of the elect in verse 31. I believe in the pre-WRATH rapture, but not a pre-tribulation rapture. Frontier Alliance International (FAI) has some very good studies on this topic and an entire series on Daniel 7 through 12 which is related to this. Blessings fren!
Punishing not the best wording —I changed it. Peter talks of fire stored up in the heavens for the time of Gods judgement, God’s wrath won’t be poured out on the earth while His children are still here (the first male-child born of the woman in Rev 12). Actually- He is even so merciful that even if you miss the rapture and turn to Him afterwards—He offers protection for the tribulation saints (Woman and her other offspring-Rev 12) for the first 3.5 years of the 7 year Great Tribulation. After that— the protection lifts and you will most likely have to die for Christ to gain heaven.
That is correct, the vials/bowls of wrath in Rev. 16 will not be poured out until after the gathering of the saints. The tribulation and the pouring out of wrath are not the same thing.
When Jesus returns at the last trump, which is AFTER the Antichrist arrives, those believers who are still alive are transformed and brought into the air before the world is baptized by fire.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Revelation 20:1-4
1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
So those who are killed for preaching the Gospel will be judges. It's not God who's doing the beheadings...
The gathering of the saints (Rapture) and the second coming of Christ are 2 separate events. The Dragon is thrown down to reign for a short while (Rev 12). He and the Antichrist will be beheading the saints.
The two Scriptures you quoted are 7 years apart. They are 2 separate events.
Christ meets us in the sky the first time. He doesn’t come back and physically touch earth until the 1,000 year reign after the Great 7-Year Trib
No, those two scriptures aren't 7 years apart.
Daniel 9:20-27 was fulfilled by the rebuilding of the temple, the death and resurrection of Christ, and the 490 year prophecy ended, along with the nation of Israel, in 34 AD, when Stephen was stoned by the high priest.
Saul witnessed this martyr for Christ and became Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles.
The natural branch was cut off so that all mankind could be saved. Jesus wants to save ALL.
If you changed the words in a Dr. Suess rhyme, it would no longer rhyme. You can't move the 7 years from the 490 year prophecy into the future without breaking the chiastic structure of the passage.
You are right. The typology for the "rapture", or catching away of the saints is shown to us many places in the Bible. My favorite is Revelation3 the letter to the church in Philadelphia. Because we have kept the word of "patient endurance", He will "keep" us from the hour of trial which is coming on the whole earth, to those who dwell on the earth. In other words, keep the faith brother. According to Thessalonians the Restrainer has to be removed before the AC is revealed, and the mark is given by the AC. The Restrainer is the Holy Spirit, which dwells within us. Paul makes that very clear.