You are still unable to understand that the tribulation period who will include the 42 months reign of the Beast is not the Day that the Lord will come as a thief to pouring out His wrath and avenge the blood of the martyrs .The wrath of God will be poured during the 7 Vials of The Wrath of God Revelation 16....Jesus will come as a thief after the 6th vial...Revelation 16:14-17 for the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Note that i am not saying that Vial 1 to Vial 6 will be poured only in one day.
The wrath of God in the 7 Vials will not affect the Christians because the 7 Vials will be poured out AFTER that mostly all the Christians will have been slain by the Beast.
The wrath of Satan and the Beast [Revelation 12 Revelation 13 ] upon the Christians who will refuse to take the mark and worship the Beast is NOT the wrath of God.
Oh ,i see...Just for you to know that Dallas Theological Seminary teach the theology invented by John Nelson Darby in 1830.You will live and die by dreaming of a rapture to Heaven before the tribulation like thousands of people before you -since that doctrine was invented in 1830-...At your death you will realize that only your SOUL [as believer in Christ] will go to Heaven.
John Walvoord - Wikipedia
John F. Walvoord (May 1, 1910 – December 20, 2002) was a Christian theologian, pastor, and president of Dallas Theological Seminary from 1952 to 1986.
He was the author of over 30 books, focusing primarily on eschatology and theology including The Rapture Question, and was co-editor of The Bible Knowledge Commentary with Roy B. Zuck. He earned AB and DD degrees from Wheaton College, an AM degree from Texas Christian University in philosophy, a ThB, ThM, and ThD in Systematic Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a LittD from Liberty Baptist Seminary.
Walvoord earned a reputation as one of the most influential dispensational theologians of the 20th century and played a prominent role in advocating a rapture of Christians from the earth prior to a time of great tribulation, followed by a literal thousand-year millennial reign of Christ, and a renewed focus of God on the nation of Israel as distinct from the church.
Isn't that some wonderful credentials that you posted for Dr. Walvoord!!!!!! Since I was able to attend Dallas Theological Seminary, I am very aware of Dr. Walvoord's accomplisments, but I am very pleased that you have told everyone else.
That makes his teaching a lot more acceptable than yours.
The wrath of God is a fearsome and terrifying thing. Only those who have been covered by the blood of Christ, shed for us on the cross, can be assured that God’s wrath will never fall on them.
Romans 5:9....
“Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through Him!”.
I believe from my reading of scripture that the entire 7 year period (known as Daniel's 70th Week or the tribulation) is the wrath of God. This will most certainly intensify and even become more apparent that it is directly from God as the 7 year period plays out, but it is still His wrath from the start. This period of time is outlined in Revelation chapters 6-19.
Some try to say that the wrath of God doesn't begin until the 6th seal in
Rev 6:12 but I personally don't agree with that. You will note that all of the seal judgements originate in Heaven. They can't even start until Christ, and no one else breaks the seal to initiate them. This is straight from Heaven and is the judgement of God.
Each seal is opened by Jesus as seen in
Rev.6:1,3,5,7,9,12 and together constitute the 'wrath of the lamb'. Though this term is not used until the 6th seal doesn't mean that the first 5 seals are not His wrath. Clearly, as mentioned, the origin of each seals judgement is directly from Jesus in Heaven.
Even if we were to look at the type of judgment these early seals initiate we will see the hand of God. There is death by sword in
Rev 6:7-8, famine in 6:5-6,8, wild animals in 6:8 and pestilence and plague also in 6:8.
This is not new. Look at the judgement of God as declared in
Ezek 14:21 -
"For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when
I send against Jerusalem
my four dreadful judgments—
sword and famine and wild beasts and plague—to kill its men and their animals! "
Even if you were going to make a distinction between the Great Tribulation and the wrath of God, which as previously mentioned isn't valid in my opinion it doesn't eliminate a pre-Tribulation rapture. The fact is that John gives us a pretty simple guideline to the book of Revelation in chapter 1 vs 18. As I have written in a previous question, the threefold outline is:
'Write therefore the things (1) which you saw, and the things (2) which are, and the things (3) which shall come to pass after this.'
The things John had just seen is the vision of Jesus in
Rev 1:12-16.
The things which are is the messages to the churches in
Rev 2:1-3:22 and these give us an overview of the entire church age.
The things which take place after this is
Rev 4:1 onwards. From this point Revelation discusses that which happens after the church age as the Church appears to be missing from 4:1 onward.
To me, it makes perfect sense that John in chapter 4.1 would be told that he would now be shown the '
things which take place after this.' That is, after the church age and the Rapture. It makes sense that the church is not mentioned again after this point apart from being seen at the marriage of the lamb BEFORE the return of Jesus in
Revelation 19.
It also makes sense, to me at least, that there is such a focus on the Jews and Jerusalem again because God has got unfinished business there! The 144,000 Jews mentioned are even called the 'first fruits' in
Rev 14:4 which makes sense to me if
this is not the church age.
Otherwise, if the church goes through the tribulation, why would they be called 'first fruits' unto the lamb?
