I am of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture confidence and submit the following as my proof texts):
The church/Christians/bride of Christ will escape the wrath of God/seven-year tribulation because
1. The church, which is mentioned 19 times in Chapters 1-3 of Revelation, is not mentioned as being on earth during the tribulation, which is described in Chapters 6-18 of Revelation. Therefore, the church is significant by her absence in Rev 6-18.
2. The Holy Bible emphatically states that God will deliver and save His church/believers from the condemnation to come (John 5:24; Rom. 8:1), from the wrath to come (I Thess. 5:9; I Thess. 1:10; Rom. 5:9), from the evil to come (Isa. 57:1), and from the temptation to come (II Pet. 2:9); however, God’s wrath/ vengeance/indignation will be poured out on the unrighteous and ungodly, on those who know not God, and on those who obey not the gospel of Jesus Christ (Micah 5:15; Matt. 10:33; John 8:24; Rom. 1:18, 2:8-9; II Thess. 1:6-8, 2:12).
3. God will deliver His church via the rapture from His judgment/wrath to come as He delivered/saved righteous people of the Old Testament before He poured out His judgment, including having saved the following Old Testament saints: (1) He delivered/saved just Lot (II Peter 2:7-8; Luke 17:29) and his family out of Sodom before its destruction with fire and brimstone (Gen. 19); (2) He took/raptured/translated Enoch, who walked with God by faith (Gen. 5:24; Heb. 11:5), before the earth was destroyed by flood; (3) He preserved/saved righteous Noah (along with his family), who walked with God by faith and found grace in the eyes of the Lord (Gen. 6:9, 7:1, 15:6; Heb. 11:7; II Pet. 2:5; Luke 17:27), during the destruction of the earth by flood (Gen. 7-8) (some Bible expositors believe the spiritual message of Noah’s preservation from God’s wrath is not for the church but for those He will seal during the tribulation and that Enoch represents the church that will be raptured before the tribulation begins); some Bible scholars believe the righteous living on the earth before the flood (including Methuselah, who died the year of the flood), were taken by death to save them from the flood; (4) Jacob and his sons died before the new Pharaoh, who knew not God, placed the Hebrews in slavery and abuse (“. . . merciful men are taken away. . . the righteous is taken away from the evil to come” [Isa. 57:1]; “the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation . . .” [II Pet. 2:9]; “in that day. . .I will spare them as a man spares his own son that serves him” [Mal..3:17]); and (5) Rahab and her family were saved/delivered before Jericho was destroyed (Joshua 6:22-25).
4. In addition, Jesus said to the church which “hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. . . and didst keep the word of my patience. . . I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth”(Rev. 3:10).
5. Further, the majority of the church (souls/spirits of believers) is already in heaven (over 2000 years of Christian souls are there; they will not come back to earth to go through the tribulation, nor will the Christians living on earth prior to the tribulation go through the tribulation).
6. God told Daniel that at the time the decree was issued to Nehemiah by King Artaxerxes to rebuild Jerusalem (Neh. 2:1-9) that “Seventy weeks (of years) are determined upon thy people (Israel) and upon thy holy city (Jerusalem) to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy” (Dan. 9:24); 69 weeks of years occurred from the decree to the week Jesus Christ was crucified (April 2, 30 A.D.); the seventy weeks of years were interrupted when Christ was “cut off” (crucified) (Dan. 9:25-26); at that time, God began His program for the church for which no definite time period is recorded in the Bible; Israel still has the 70th week (7 years/the tribulation/time of Jacob’s trouble) to go through to complete God’s program for them; the church was not part of the first 69 weeks and will not be part of the final 70th week (7 years) as the whole 70-week period (490 years) pertains to Israel/Jerusalem and not to the church—God will call the church out (rapture) before He begins His last week (7 years) of dealing with Israel.
7. Before the tribulation scene began, John saw in heaven all the heavenly creatures and the 24 robed, crowned elders. I believe all 24 elders represent the church as they believe the Old Test-ament saints will not be resurrected until near the end of the seven-year tribulation) giving glory, praise, thanks, honor, and worship to the Lord Jesus Christ; in addition, these elders were giving their crowns to the Lord Jesus Christ to honor and glorify Him (Rev. 4:4-11); this scene shows that the church/believers will be present in heaven with glorified new bodies that can wear crowns/robes and will have received these crowns/white robes of righteousness before the tribulation occurs.
8. Christ, the bridegroom, is preparing for His marriage in heaven to His beloved bride/church (Rev. 19:7-9); Christ is not preparing wrath for His bride/church whom He loves and “gave Himself for it (the church)” (Eph. 5:25); He will “sanctify and cleanse it (the church) with the washing of water by the Word” so “that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” (Eph. 5:26-27)—the church will be cleansed and sanctified by God’s love and His Word and not cleansed by God’s wrath.
9. There is salvation for the believers/church (II Thess. 2:13-14; Mark 16:16; John 3:36; Rom 1:16) but wrath for the unbelievers/unrighteous/
10. The church will not be subjected to God’s wrath, judgment, and indignation during the tribulation because of the church’s oneness with Christ; the church is the (1) body of which Christ is the Head (Eph. 1:22, 5:23; Col. 1:18); (2) bride of which Christ is the Bridegroom (Rom. 7:5; II Cor. 11:2; Eph. 5:25; Rev. 19:7-8); (3) branch of which Christ is the Vine (John 15:5); and (4) sheep of which Christ is the Great Shepherd (John 10:1-16)
11. Through James in Acts 15:14-17 and through Amos in Amos 9:11-12, God revealed that after He has visited “the Gentiles to take out (rapture) of them a people for His name (Christians/church). . .” that after this (the rapture) He will “return and will build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen down (throne of David will be reestablished during the millennium). . . that the residue of men (believing Jewish remnant that will come through the tribulation) might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called (Christians)”; these prophecy scriptures reveal that God will deal with Israel again after the church has been raptured.
12. In none of the epistles of the New Testament, from Romans to Jude, are the believers/church instructed/prepared by Holy Spirit inspiration how to act/live during the tribulation because the church/believers will have been raptured.
13. During the tribulation, God will seal 144,000 Jews to spread the gospel, send two witnesses to preach the gospel, and have an angel fly through the sky preaching the gospel as the raptured church will no longer be on earth preaching the gospel as it had done for 2,000 years.
14. According to II Thess. 2:7-8, the Antichrist will be revealed only after the Holy Spirit (Who indwells the believers) “be taken out of the way” (the rapture); this prophecy scripture reveals that the church/believers who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit will be raptured (taken out) before Antichrist is revealed at the beginning of the tribulation.
15. In Rev. 9, it is commanded that the tormenting locusts be allowed to sting only those who have not been sealed (during the tribulation, only 144,000 Jewish servants of God are sealed [Rev. 7:4]); the church/believers who were sealed by the Holy Spirit at the time of their salvation are not mentioned here as they have been raptured to heaven.
16. God will hide the believers/church in heaven at the rapture from His anger/indignation: “Come my people. . . hide thyself. . . until the indignation is past” (Isa. 26:20); “Gather yourselves together. . . before the day of the Lord’s anger. . . ye shall be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger” (Zeph. 2:1-3); some Bible theologians believe these scriptures refer to the tribulation Jewish remnant to be saved and hidden in Petra.
The church/Christians/bride of Christ will escape the wrath of God/seven-year tribulation because
1. The church, which is mentioned 19 times in Chapters 1-3 of Revelation, is not mentioned as being on earth during the tribulation, which is described in Chapters 6-18 of Revelation. Therefore, the church is significant by her absence in Rev 6-18.
2. The Holy Bible emphatically states that God will deliver and save His church/believers from the condemnation to come (John 5:24; Rom. 8:1), from the wrath to come (I Thess. 5:9; I Thess. 1:10; Rom. 5:9), from the evil to come (Isa. 57:1), and from the temptation to come (II Pet. 2:9); however, God’s wrath/ vengeance/indignation will be poured out on the unrighteous and ungodly, on those who know not God, and on those who obey not the gospel of Jesus Christ (Micah 5:15; Matt. 10:33; John 8:24; Rom. 1:18, 2:8-9; II Thess. 1:6-8, 2:12).
3. God will deliver His church via the rapture from His judgment/wrath to come as He delivered/saved righteous people of the Old Testament before He poured out His judgment, including having saved the following Old Testament saints: (1) He delivered/saved just Lot (II Peter 2:7-8; Luke 17:29) and his family out of Sodom before its destruction with fire and brimstone (Gen. 19); (2) He took/raptured/translated Enoch, who walked with God by faith (Gen. 5:24; Heb. 11:5), before the earth was destroyed by flood; (3) He preserved/saved righteous Noah (along with his family), who walked with God by faith and found grace in the eyes of the Lord (Gen. 6:9, 7:1, 15:6; Heb. 11:7; II Pet. 2:5; Luke 17:27), during the destruction of the earth by flood (Gen. 7-8) (some Bible expositors believe the spiritual message of Noah’s preservation from God’s wrath is not for the church but for those He will seal during the tribulation and that Enoch represents the church that will be raptured before the tribulation begins); some Bible scholars believe the righteous living on the earth before the flood (including Methuselah, who died the year of the flood), were taken by death to save them from the flood; (4) Jacob and his sons died before the new Pharaoh, who knew not God, placed the Hebrews in slavery and abuse (“. . . merciful men are taken away. . . the righteous is taken away from the evil to come” [Isa. 57:1]; “the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation . . .” [II Pet. 2:9]; “in that day. . .I will spare them as a man spares his own son that serves him” [Mal..3:17]); and (5) Rahab and her family were saved/delivered before Jericho was destroyed (Joshua 6:22-25).
4. In addition, Jesus said to the church which “hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. . . and didst keep the word of my patience. . . I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth”(Rev. 3:10).
5. Further, the majority of the church (souls/spirits of believers) is already in heaven (over 2000 years of Christian souls are there; they will not come back to earth to go through the tribulation, nor will the Christians living on earth prior to the tribulation go through the tribulation).
6. God told Daniel that at the time the decree was issued to Nehemiah by King Artaxerxes to rebuild Jerusalem (Neh. 2:1-9) that “Seventy weeks (of years) are determined upon thy people (Israel) and upon thy holy city (Jerusalem) to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy” (Dan. 9:24); 69 weeks of years occurred from the decree to the week Jesus Christ was crucified (April 2, 30 A.D.); the seventy weeks of years were interrupted when Christ was “cut off” (crucified) (Dan. 9:25-26); at that time, God began His program for the church for which no definite time period is recorded in the Bible; Israel still has the 70th week (7 years/the tribulation/time of Jacob’s trouble) to go through to complete God’s program for them; the church was not part of the first 69 weeks and will not be part of the final 70th week (7 years) as the whole 70-week period (490 years) pertains to Israel/Jerusalem and not to the church—God will call the church out (rapture) before He begins His last week (7 years) of dealing with Israel.
7. Before the tribulation scene began, John saw in heaven all the heavenly creatures and the 24 robed, crowned elders. I believe all 24 elders represent the church as they believe the Old Test-ament saints will not be resurrected until near the end of the seven-year tribulation) giving glory, praise, thanks, honor, and worship to the Lord Jesus Christ; in addition, these elders were giving their crowns to the Lord Jesus Christ to honor and glorify Him (Rev. 4:4-11); this scene shows that the church/believers will be present in heaven with glorified new bodies that can wear crowns/robes and will have received these crowns/white robes of righteousness before the tribulation occurs.
8. Christ, the bridegroom, is preparing for His marriage in heaven to His beloved bride/church (Rev. 19:7-9); Christ is not preparing wrath for His bride/church whom He loves and “gave Himself for it (the church)” (Eph. 5:25); He will “sanctify and cleanse it (the church) with the washing of water by the Word” so “that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” (Eph. 5:26-27)—the church will be cleansed and sanctified by God’s love and His Word and not cleansed by God’s wrath.
9. There is salvation for the believers/church (II Thess. 2:13-14; Mark 16:16; John 3:36; Rom 1:16) but wrath for the unbelievers/unrighteous/
10. The church will not be subjected to God’s wrath, judgment, and indignation during the tribulation because of the church’s oneness with Christ; the church is the (1) body of which Christ is the Head (Eph. 1:22, 5:23; Col. 1:18); (2) bride of which Christ is the Bridegroom (Rom. 7:5; II Cor. 11:2; Eph. 5:25; Rev. 19:7-8); (3) branch of which Christ is the Vine (John 15:5); and (4) sheep of which Christ is the Great Shepherd (John 10:1-16)
11. Through James in Acts 15:14-17 and through Amos in Amos 9:11-12, God revealed that after He has visited “the Gentiles to take out (rapture) of them a people for His name (Christians/church). . .” that after this (the rapture) He will “return and will build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen down (throne of David will be reestablished during the millennium). . . that the residue of men (believing Jewish remnant that will come through the tribulation) might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called (Christians)”; these prophecy scriptures reveal that God will deal with Israel again after the church has been raptured.
12. In none of the epistles of the New Testament, from Romans to Jude, are the believers/church instructed/prepared by Holy Spirit inspiration how to act/live during the tribulation because the church/believers will have been raptured.
13. During the tribulation, God will seal 144,000 Jews to spread the gospel, send two witnesses to preach the gospel, and have an angel fly through the sky preaching the gospel as the raptured church will no longer be on earth preaching the gospel as it had done for 2,000 years.
14. According to II Thess. 2:7-8, the Antichrist will be revealed only after the Holy Spirit (Who indwells the believers) “be taken out of the way” (the rapture); this prophecy scripture reveals that the church/believers who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit will be raptured (taken out) before Antichrist is revealed at the beginning of the tribulation.
15. In Rev. 9, it is commanded that the tormenting locusts be allowed to sting only those who have not been sealed (during the tribulation, only 144,000 Jewish servants of God are sealed [Rev. 7:4]); the church/believers who were sealed by the Holy Spirit at the time of their salvation are not mentioned here as they have been raptured to heaven.
16. God will hide the believers/church in heaven at the rapture from His anger/indignation: “Come my people. . . hide thyself. . . until the indignation is past” (Isa. 26:20); “Gather yourselves together. . . before the day of the Lord’s anger. . . ye shall be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger” (Zeph. 2:1-3); some Bible theologians believe these scriptures refer to the tribulation Jewish remnant to be saved and hidden in Petra.
2 comments:
everything is made up of combinations of atoms, and atoms are not mindless, this is a scientific FACT.
our space families are real, there is way too much proof to say it is not FACT.
THE PROBLEM WITH THE MANY SO CALLED HOLY BOOKS i.m.h.o. IS THAT IT IS MIXED WITH BRAINWASHING TACTICS OF BEING A GOOD OBEYING SLAVE FOR THE ELITES WHILE ALIVE, THEN YOU WILL GO TO HEAVEN or have 72 VIRGINS IN LOVE WITH YOU, WE JUST HAVE TO SUFFER IN GOOD BEHALVIOR WHILE BEING THE SLAVES, THE HUMAN RACE HAS THE KING AND SLAVE MODE OF LIFE, THE CHURCH HAS BEEN IN THE CUSADES OF SLAUGHTER AND RAVAGING THOSE IN THEIR PATH FOR THOUSAND OF YEAR NOW, AND IN THE NAME OF GOD MANY OTHER KILLINGS OF THE HUMAN RACE ARE THE FACTS THAT CANNOT DENY.
THERE IS TRUTH IN THOSE SO CALLED BOOKS MIXED IN, OR IT WOULD NOT BE BELIVEABLE. THE FACT IS THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO COULD READ AND WRITE WHEN THOSE BOOKS WERE WRITEN WERE THE KINGS AND THIER GANG OF RULING THUGS.
blessings.
Amen Brother, and there is still alot more biblical proof than that but you are correct. Look up for your Redemption draweth nigh! Congratulations for being able to rightly divide the Word of truth and understanding the dispensational truth the bible teaches.
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