I hope no one wants to debate the topics in the vids. You are free to give your resources, too, but we are told to remember that this is not a debate forum.
Woah, not so fast huckleberry. People shouldn't post videos like this that would mock other people's theology and expect to get away with this by declaring this place a non-debate forum.
More importantly, let's review the errors in this video. The guy advocated a strong emphasis on "testing everything" throughout the video. Well, let's have a look at the verses he covered. Keep in mind the guy in the video is against a pre-tribulation rapture and is pro post-tribulation in his belief.
1) He used Matthew 24:29-31 extensively in the video and claims this is the rapture. Well let's have a look.
How can this be the rapture if the elects are gathered from heaven? I say again, how do you rapture someone already in heaven? How else did these people get there in the first place? This scripture refutes any possibility of a post-trib rapture. Check every translation, they all say HEAVEN in Matthew 24:31.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
2) He claimed Rev 20:4 is the resurrection of the church part of the rapture. How can this be the rapture if this resurrection ONLY involves those that did not take the mark of the beast nor worshipped the beast? This can only involve people that died during the tribulation, not outside the tribulation in the last 2000 years. This is not the resurrection part of the rapture. If it was, it would include everyone that died in Christ the last 2000 years.
Now here's a SERIOUS question to ponder. If you place the rapture at the end of the tribulation, that would mean TWO RESURRECTIONS AT THE SAME TIME: a resurrection of those that died during the tribulation (Rev 20:4) and the resurrection of those in the rapture (1 Thes 4:16). THIS IS COMPLETELY ILLOGICAL. And refutes any possibility of a post-trib rapture.
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.
3) In John 17:15, the guy completely took the verse out of context and twist the meaning around in his favor implying this as the rapture verse.
15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+17:15&version=NKJV
Now if you read all of chapter 17, you'll see from verses 6-19, Jesus was praying only for His disciples, not the world. The
them in verse 15 are His disciples. They lived 2000 years ago and already dead. How can this be the rapture?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+17:6-26&version=NKJV
John 17:6-26 NKJV
Jesus Prays for His Disciples
6 “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.7 Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. 8 For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me.
9 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
Jesus Prays for All Believers
20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me.26 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
4) He claimed there is only one Day of the Lord, and it happens at the end of the tribulation. Now he's correct there's a Day of the Lord at the end of the tribulation but it's not just one Day of the Lord because Christ's second coming involves two stages.
Notice in Luke 17:22, it said days. It's plural. There's an "S" at the end of days.
22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
The two witnesses in Malachi 4:4-5 comes on the day of the Lord. Here's another SERIOUS question. If the two witnesses comes on the day of the Lord at the end of the tribulation, that would mean they testify for 1260 days (Rev 11:3) after the tribulation. This is completely illogical too. And this absolutely proves another day of the Lord.
4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:
5) He tries to make Acts 3:21 look like a post-tribulation rapture by declaring that Christ must remain in heaven till all things are made new. Well his argument doesn't make sense. Christ returns to earth at the battle of Armageddon --- the darkest and worst time in the history of mankind.
Christ also comes in 2 stages. He never comes to earth in the 1st stage.
21 But Jesus must stay in heaven until God makes all things new, just as his holy prophets promised long ago.
6) He also mentioned Luke 17:30-35. I hear a lot of people with a post-tribulation view on the rapture claim that you can't survive unless you're prepared to enter the tribulation. Stock up on food, water, bomb shelter etc.
But I say read what God said in Luke 17:33.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
7) He covered 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 as the rapture against Pre-trib. Well surprise, the 7th trump is at the middle of the tribulation, not the end. This also refutes a post-tribulation belief.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
8) He claimed no one knows the day or hour based on Matthew 24:36.....which is correct. But later he claimed that we do know the day. What?!?!?!
Matthew 24:36 ESV "But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Here's another serious question to ponder. Matthew 24:36 is about the day and hour of the rapture, not the second coming.
Once the tribulation started, how can people not know they're in the tribulation with billions of people dying, huge natural disasters, the abomination of desolation, 100 pound hailstone dropping, etc.
Once the tribulation started, how is it possible that even Jesus Himself not know day and hour? Jesus returns to earth at 6PM Israel time, 1260 days + 1335 days from the day the antichrist confirms the covenant. Christ was crucified at 9AM, died at 3PM and resurrected 3 days later at 6PM.
Acts 1:11 KJV Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Daniel 12:12 KJV Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
Zechariah 14:7 KJV But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
The rapture and the second coming cannot be on the same day if no man knows the day or hour because the second coming can easily known once you're in the tribulation.
9) 1st Resurrection vs 2nd Resurrection. He just doesn't know the difference between the two.
The 1st resurrection is the resurrection of those obedient in-Christ being resurrected to Jesus (in multiple stages) to be rewarded before the millennium. The 2nd resurrection is the resurrection of unbelievers and disobedient to be judge at the Great White Throne before God (single stage) after the millennium.
http://www.gotquestions.org/resurrection-first-second.html
10) In John 6, there are several verses that say "I will raise him up on the last day." This is also completely taken out of context and had it's true meaning twisted. Read everything, all of John chapter 6 is about communion, not a resurrection in the end times.
John 6:35 KJV And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
If you read all the chapters in the book of John beyond chapter 6 all the way to the last chapter, you won't find anything about the resurrection in the end times. The only place in John about a resurrection is in the previous chapter, John 5:28-29. This resurrection already happened when Christ resurrected the OT saints that were taken up into paradise.
John 5:28-29 KJV
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Matthew 27:50-53 KJV
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
The last day Jesus spoke of was His last day on earth when he died.
Do you guys see how the guy in the video took all the scriptures out of it's context? And he had the audacity to tell us to test everything while he himself twisted and turned everything upside down to fit his argument, and not what the bible tell us.
