This reminds me of 40 years ago when i was first saved and studying God's Word.
i vividly remember telling my Pentecostal Brethren that the Luke account and those "taken away" was not the Rapture.
This was quite evident as the LORD and yourself clearly pointed out that those taken away were to be destroyed.
But those scriptures do not say that His Church/Body/Saints will be 'Left Behind' = no not at all.
Neither do those scriptures say that Christ is coming FIRST for the Rapture and then Returns 7 Years later!
As a matter of FACT, the OT Prophets, the LORD, the Apostles and Revelation never once stated a 7 Year Tribulation period.
What Daniel did prophecy is that Messiah will be cut off in the 70th week(after the 69 comes 70).
And wouldn't you just know our Heavenly FATHER knew about this and therefore JESUS Ministry lasted 3.5 Years and
then HE was "cut off" just as the Holy Spirit prophesied thru Daniel.
Going back to being 'Left Behind', we SEE in scripture that when the LORD comes not one of His Saints are 'Left Behind'.
Hebrews 13:1-6
Marriage
is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Let your conduct
be without covetousness;
be content with such things as you have.
For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
So we may boldly say:
“The Lord
is my helper;
I will not fear.
What can man do to me?”
Furthermore our LORD said to us that the only 'christians' who are 'Left Behind' will be those found to be without the Holy Spirit.
Parable of the 10 Virgins in Matthew 25:1-13
“Afterward
the other virgins came also, saying,
‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’
But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
13“Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
Before we move forward PLEASE take note that no Saint gets 'Left Behind'.
My Brother
@Johann, (i will save Revelation ch19 for last.)
One thing you did do in your Post is exactly what every pre-trib theorist does =
A.) interject a rapture where no rapture is spoken of
B.) interject that there are 3 separate 'Comings' of the LORD = His First Coming, then the pre-trib rapture, then His Second Coming
Yet, when my my 'pre-trib' Brethren are pressed (i even offered a $1,000) to find the scripture(s) that DECLARE a rapture BEFORE His Second Coming they always end up EMPTY.
So, like what you did in your Post, they interject into scripture what it does not state/declare or say.
The EVIDENCE of the EXPOSURE of the fraudulent 'pre-trib' rapture begins in Genesis and Ends with Revelation.
But the MOST EVIDENT and DIRECT exposure is in the Gospel and in the Apostles Letters.
Believe JESUS = "and this Gospel will be preached in all the world and then the end will come" - Matt ch24
Believe JESUS = Luke ch13 - "And He said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from,’ then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’ But He will say, ‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’ There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out. They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God. And indeed there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.”
Believe JESUS = Matthew 13:36-43
Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house.
And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”
He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked
one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
Believe exactly the words of JESUS and not the words of men = JESUS never spoke of a pre-trib rapture = not even once!
Now let us listen to the Apostles Paul (1 & 2 Thess) and John(1 John)
Paul prophecies that there will be
NO Rapture until
AFTER the Resurrection that
ONLY occurs at His Coming
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.
14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
15For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive
and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.
16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
17Then we who are alive
and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
18Therefore comfort one another with these words.
NO Rapture until
AFTER the 'man of sin/Antichrist' is revealed = 2 Thess ch2
Now, brethren, concerning
the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for
that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
Apostle John said the exact same thing in 1 John 2:18
Chapter 2 - Little children, it is the last hour; and
as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but
they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
SEE first the Antichrist and AFTER his revealing comes the LORD and the Resurrection/Rapture = 1 John 3:1-3
Chapter 3 - Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of
[a]God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
Now Brother Johann, you have the LORD Himself and three Men of God(Daniel, Paul, John) ALL AGREEING and saying/prophecying that
there is the 'Man of Sin/Antichrist' comes BEFORE the LORD'S Second Coming at which the Resurrection is FIRST and LAST is the Rapture.
What do we SEE in Revelation ch19 = Exactly what is Posted here = the LORD'S Second Coming with the Saints AFTER the Antichrist.
Children's Bread my Brother = for Children only!
Scholars stumble and fall
where God's Children SEE it all
Never a mind was so smart
that it could lead them out of the Dark
Child like Faith in His Word
to smart men, this is absurd
Doctorite of divinity is for men's praise
The Holy Spirit, HIM i will raise
upon my heart and my mind
so that i will not be Blind
