Sometime during the day of Pentecost, in the year 2024, a great shout is heard from the clouds. A worldwide shout. Suddenly, millions, if not billions of people are gone, vanished. An office worker looks into an adjacent cubicle, to ask his coworker what that was, and finds that the coworker is not there. He was there just a second ago. A guy riding in the backseat of an Uber, driver vanishes, nothing remains on the front seat but the driver's copy of the King James Bible. Luckily, the fare is able to climb in the front seat and steer the car to safety. And so on.
For the rest of the day, panic and mass hysteria set in. People flood the internet trying to find out what happened. Speculation begins. People begin to ask, "was that the rapture?" Other people answer by saying "it can't be the rapture because all the roman catholics are still here." (if you think Trump is several moves ahead in the chess game, wait until you see where satan is at.) The pope makes a special announcement from the vatican and guess what it is; It was aliens and we have made contact with them.
(All the recent news about aliens making sense now?)
Many are not deceived and start speaking out "my bruh was all about Jesus Christ, he never worshipped any idols, only confessed his sins to Christ and now he's gone, without a trace." But people do not hear or believe this witness, the Holy Spirit was taken out of the world with the Body of Christ, and now the antiChrist is no longer restrained (2 Thessalonians 2:7.) Great lying signs and wonders are now in play (2 Thessalonians 2:9.) An alien arrives, from the sky, right on cue, to "save the world." He proclaims that "those people that were taken away were evil and now the world is a much better place" (Daniel 11:21.) "You can abort whatever you want, including your bitchy parents. Does your racist neighbor have more stuff than you? Then we'll kill him and you can have it all." Covenants are made with the antiChrist and all the deceived will worship his image and take the mark of the beast.
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Sounds feasible and Biblical! I can't believe how many people never talk about or discuss Matthew 24! GOD himself walking this earth and sacrificing HIMSELF for our sins and then nobody ever brings up Matthew 24, but will always get into the Thessalonian's argument about we're not to suffer GOD's Wrath, etc. Even Paul states don't be fooled you won't even see any of this until the man of perdition is revealed. Back to Matthew 24: "The Coming of the Son of Man
29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His [d]elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Matthew 24 as spoken to the nation of Israel. Not to the church, it is tribulation scripture. The key verses are
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Noah, and his seed, were righteous in all ways.
They were rescued from the flood.
The rest of humanity partied on until the flood came.
This passage is a type of the pre tribulation rapture.
Believers in Christ are righteous in the blood of Christ.
They will be taken up into Heaven before the wrath begins (not appointed to wrath.)
The wrath will then commence.
Sons and Heirs: Galatians 3: 26-29
26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Romans 2:11-16 but in particular 11 For there is no respect of persons with God. and 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Tribulation is for everyone and the Tribulation is not GOD's Wrath it's the time the false Messiah is trying to set up his kingdom, prior to GOD's Wrath!
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek,
During the church age, this is all true. ANYONE can be saved by confessing of Jesus Christ. Those who do become the Body of Christ;
1 Corinthians 12:12 KJV For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
This is also the Bride of Christ and, as all Bridegrooms would, He protects her from troublesome times.
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
This is the great White Throne judgement. The books will be opened and sinners will be judged by them (the Word.) The sins of believers are washed away in the blood of Christ. Our works will be tried in the fire to judge their worth (the Judgement Seat of Christ) but our sins are already forgiven.
it's the time the false Messiah is trying to set up his kingdom, prior to GOD's Wrath!
This is a valid point, the timing of it. I believe the first seal is the antiChrist, being let loose to conquer. Riding a white horse as the fake Christ. But either way you see it, believers are gone before the first seal is opened.
I also appreciate the discussion. Believe in Christ is the key to Heaven, how we get there is the riddle.