You are correct about the "rapture," people get this confused with the 1st resurrection of the martyrs and saints. We are are here until the Last Day, like it or not.
Were the days cut short? what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” Has the end of the age come about? “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. “Immediately after the distress of those days. Have the days been shortened yet?
“‘the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. Has this happened yet?
Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. Have you seen the sign of the Son of Man yet? You'll be in the Tribulation before you see any of this! All the people of the earth doesn't sound like just the Apostles and the Jewish people does it?
It never ceases to amaze me how people can just buzz over to Paul's writing, but just skip over what GOD himself said about the end when he was manifested here on the earth for our benefit!
Not Hardly!
You are correct about the "rapture," people get this confused with the 1st resurrection of the martyrs and saints. We are are here until the Last Day, like it or not.
Matthew 24:34 KJV Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
He was addressing the Apostles.
Were the days cut short? what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” Has the end of the age come about? “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. “Immediately after the distress of those days. Have the days been shortened yet?
“‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. Has this happened yet?
Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. Have you seen the sign of the Son of Man yet? You'll be in the Tribulation before you see any of this! All the people of the earth doesn't sound like just the Apostles and the Jewish people does it?
It never ceases to amaze me how people can just buzz over to Paul's writing, but just skip over what GOD himself said about the end when he was manifested here on the earth for our benefit!
Now plug all that into the doing away with the Old Covenant and the ushering in of the New.