The Spectacular Pre-Tribulation Rapture

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You're certainly correct. It's come from the Reformers, the Greeks, and the early Church.


The teachings of Jesus, Matthew, Luke, John and Paul about the coming pre-trib rapture of the church was buried and held hostage for more than 1,600 years by the RCC teachings of Amillennialism. That deny the 1,000 year reign of Jesus on the earth as well as the pre-trib rapture of the Church. Both of which are taught in the Bible. Those are the facts! Capiche?!


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The teachings of Jesus, Matthew, Luke, John and Paul about the coming pre-trib rapture of the church was buried and held hostage for more than 1,600 years by the RCC teachings of Amillennialism. That deny the 1,000 year reign of Jesus on the earth as well as the pre-trib rapture of the Church. Both of which are taught in the Bible. Those are the facts! Capiche?!


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It is a modern invention that spread like a virus through the modern Church, after John Nelson Darby and the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible.
"Capiche"?



PROPHETIC DEVELOPMENTS
with particular reference to the early Brethren Movement.
F. Roy Coad (Brethren Historian) pages 10-26
http://brethrenhistory.org/qwicsitePro/php/docsview.php?docid=418

Lacunza, Manuel, “Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty“
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Origin of the Pretrib Rapture Doctrine
Pastor Tim Warner
http://www.answersinrevelation.org/pretrib_history.pdf

Pretribulationist Revisionism
(Grant Jeffrey’s revision of early Church Posttrib viewpoints)
Pastor Tim Warner
http://www.answersinrevelation.org/Jeffrey.pdf





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It is a modern invention that spread like a virus through the modern Church, after John Nelson Darby and the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible.
"Capiche"?



PROPHETIC DEVELOPMENTS
with particular reference to the early Brethren Movement.
F. Roy Coad (Brethren Historian) pages 10-26
http://brethrenhistory.org/qwicsitePro/php/docsview.php?docid=418

Lacunza, Manuel, “Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty“
PDF Files

Origin of the Pretrib Rapture Doctrine
Pastor Tim Warner
http://www.answersinrevelation.org/pretrib_history.pdf

Pretribulationist Revisionism
(Grant Jeffrey’s revision of early Church Posttrib viewpoints)
Pastor Tim Warner
http://www.answersinrevelation.org/Jeffrey.pdf





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From my post you responded to above, I wrote that the teachings of the pre-trib rapture of the Church comes from Jesus, Matthew, Luke,John and Paul. Which you blatantly attribute to John Darby. Who restored the teachings from the heretic Amillennialism, taught by the RCC, who held the 1,000 year reign of Christ on earth and the pre-trib rapture of the Church hostage for more than 1,600 years. Darby had nothing whatever to do with the original teachings of the pre-trib rapture of the Church. The crutch you have been using him for in support of your own views is broken, and a dead issue. so you can stop posting

For your edification, review the following Biblical teachings of the pre-ytib rapture of the Church, by Jesus, Matthew, Luke, John and Paul:

The Biblical teaching of the pre-trib rapture of the Church - a deeper walk...

Attributing the teachings of Jesus to someone else is a dangerous practice, from which I suggest you stay away from.


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The words of Jesus debunks you. The word ELECT isn't Jews, IN EVERY INSTANCE THE WORD ELECT IN THE NT REFERS TO ANGELS, JESUS, AND ALMOST 20 TIMES TO CHRISTIANS...

ELECT...
picked out, chosen
chosen by God,
to obtain salvation through Christ
Christians are called "chosen or elect" of God
the Messiah is called "elect", as appointed by God to the most exalted office conceivable
choice, select, i.e. the best of its kind or class, excellence preeminent: applied to certain individual Christians

V. 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days....
V. 30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:...
V. 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.
Pre-trib debunked by the Words of Jesus ALONE.


Your above rhetoric is more meaningless opinion you can no more prove by the Scriptures than you can jump off a cliff and fly.

Yawn! You remain refuted.


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From my post you responded to above, I wrote that the teachings of the pre-trib rapture of the Church comes from Jesus, Matthew, Luke,John and Paul. Which you blatantly attribute to John Darby. Who restored the teachings from the heretic Amillennialism, taught by the RCC, who held the 1,000 year reign of Christ on earth and the pre-trib rapture of the Church hostage for more than 1,600 years. Darby had nothing whatever to do with the original teachings of the pre-trib rapture of the Church. The crutch you have been using him for in support of your own views is broken, and a dead issue. so you can stop posting

For your edification, review the following Biblical teachings of the pre-ytib rapture of the Church, by Jesus, Matthew, Luke, John and Paul:

The Biblical teaching of the pre-trib rapture of the Church - a deeper walk...

Attributing the teachings of Jesus to someone else is a dangerous practice, from which I suggest you stay away from.


Quasar92

If you would actually read the article in the link below you would see the post-trib viewpoints of the early Church Fathers, which refute your claims above.

Pretribulationist Revisionism
(Grant Jeffrey’s revision of early Church Posttrib viewpoints)
Pastor Tim Warner
http://www.answersinrevelation.org/Jeffrey.pdf


Even author Tim LaHaye admits in a quote from one of his books that the post-trib viewpoint is the oldest.
Therefore, you have been refuted by someone on your own team.



"It may come as a surprise to most pre-Trib prophecy students that the post-Trib position (in its primitive form) is the oldest point of view."

Tim LaHaye, "Rapture Under Attack", page 197, Multnomath Publishers, Inc., 1998

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Attributing the teachings of Jesus to someone else is a dangerous practice, from which I suggest you stay away from.
Nowhere is that more germane than the dispensational attribution of the finished work of Christ in Daniel 9:27, to antichrist.
 
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Nowhere is that more germane than the dispensational attribution of the finished work of Christ in Daniel 9:27, to antichrist.
jgr, please highlight the words in the Daniel 9:26 or 9:27 that state the messiah is resurrected.

Daniel 9:26 only addresses the messiah being cutoff. The resurrection is not revealed in Daniel 9. Daniel 9:27, the confirming of the covenant with many is not referring to Jesus, but the prince who shall come come.

Why does Daniel 9 not reveal the resurrection? Because the Jews do not believe the resurrection, and will go through the 7 years.
 
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jgr, please highlight the words in the Daniel 9:26 or 9:27 that state the messiah is resurrected.

Daniel 9:26 only addresses the messiah being cutoff. The resurrection is not revealed in Daniel 9. Daniel 9:27, the confirming of the covenant with many is not referring to Jesus, but the prince who shall come come.

Why does Daniel 9 not reveal the resurrection? Because the Jews do not believe the resurrection, and will go through the 7 years.

Dan 9:24  Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, 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. 



Act 10:38  How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. 


Heb 10:16  This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 
Heb 10:17  And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 
Heb 10:18  Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
 


Dan 9:27  And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. 


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From the 1599 Geneva Bible

Daniel 9:27
Dan 9:27
And he shal confirme the couenant with many for one weeke: and in the middes of the weeke he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the ouerspreading of the abominations, he shall make it desolate, euen vntill the consummation determined shalbe powred vpon the desolate.

And he (a) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to (b) cease, (c) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

(a) By the preaching of the Gospel he affirmed his promise, first to the Jews, and after to the Gentiles.

(b) Christ accomplished this by his death and resurrection.

(c) Meaning that Jerusalem and the sanctuary would be utterly destroyed because of their rebellion against God, and their idolatry: or as some read, that the plague will be so great, that they will all be astonished at them.

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Mat 26:28  For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 



Mat 10:5  These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: 

Mat 10:6  But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 

Mat 10:7  And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. 




Gal 1:14  And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. 
Gal 1:15  But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, 
Gal 1:16  To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: 
Gal 1:17  Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. 
Gal 1:18  Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.


3 1/2 years of earthly ministry to the lost sheep of the house of Israel commanded by Christ+ the time from Calvary to Paul's conversion+ 3 years from Paul's conversion to the time he began his ministry to the Gentiles= ?

How could the text be any more obvious?

Nobody can honestly deny the fact that the Gospel was taken to Daniel's people for about 7 years before Paul began his ministry to the Gentiles.

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jgr, please highlight the words in the Daniel 9:26 or 9:27 that state the messiah is resurrected.

Daniel 9:26 only addresses the messiah being cutoff. The resurrection is not revealed in Daniel 9. Daniel 9:27, the confirming of the covenant with many is not referring to Jesus, but the prince who shall come come.

Why does Daniel 9 not reveal the resurrection? Because the Jews do not believe the resurrection, and will go through the 7 years.
Dougg,

It is Christ who confirms the covenant with many:

Daniel 9
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week

Matthew 26
27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

The prince is Messiah throughout, Daniel 9:25-27. The people of the prince refers to the Roman armies which were Christ's vehicles and instruments to accomplish the destruction which He had prophesied. God's use of such instruments, and His characterization of them as "mine" even though pagan, can be found in several OT instances e.g.:

Jeremiah 25
9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 43
10 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

God characterizes the pagan Nebuchadnezzar as "my servant" in using him and his armies against Judah and Egypt. In the same way as Nebuchadnezzar, though a pagan, was God's servant in executing His judgment, so too were the pagan Roman armies Christ's people in accomplishing His purposes.

There is another legitimate sense wherein the Jews themselves, as the people of Prince Messiah, were equally responsible for the judgment that ultimately befell them. Their own actions in defiling the temple prior to the Roman invasion are described by Josephus:

The Lamentation of Josephus
War 5.1.4 19-20


The darts that were thrown by the engines [of the seditious factions] came with that force, that they went over all the buildings and the Temple itself, and fell upon the priests and those that were about the sacred offices; insomuch that many persons who came thither with great zeal from the ends of the earth to offer sacrifices at this celebrated place, which was esteemed holy by all mankind, fell down before their own sacrifices themselves, and sprinkled that altar which was venerable among all men, both Greeks and barbarians, with their own blood. The dead bodies of strangers were mingled together with those of their own country, and those of profane persons with those of the priests, and the blood of all sorts of dead carcasses stood in lakes in the holy courts themselves.
Oh most wretched city, what misery so great as this didst thou suffer from the Romans, when they came to purify thee from thy internal pollutions! For thou couldst be no longer a place fit for God, nor couldst thou longer survive, after thou hadst been a sepulchre for the bodies of thine own people, and hast made the Holy House itself a burying-place in this civil war of thine. Yet mayst thou again grow better, if perchance thou wilt hereafter appease the anger of that God who is the author of thy destruction.


As seen, Josephus recognizes the Jews as agents of their own destruction, and that destruction as divinely orchestrated.


Thus Daniel 9:25-27 is descriptive of historically fulfilled prophetic events in which our Lord confirmed His covenant, and fully accomplished all of His purposes as described by His prophet Daniel.
 
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You labor under false pretenses, Review the following teachings of Jesus, Matthew, Luke, John and Paul. on the coming pre-trib rapture of the Church:

The Biblical teaching of the pre-trib rapture of the Church

Beginning with Mt.24:31:


And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His ELECT from the four winds [Israel - on earth], from one end of the heavens to the other [The Church Jesus will rapture before the seven year tribulation begins]. How did those ELECT get into heaven? Read on to find out.

Lk.21:36:
"Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man."

Jn.14:2-4 and 28:
"In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you [See Jn.20:17]. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going." [Jn.14:2-4].

"You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I." [Jn.14:28].

The Scriptures tell us where we all go, who belong to Christ, after the death of our bodies:
"We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." As recorded in 2 Cor.5:8, confirming Ecc.12:7. Which is, in and of itself, conclusive to the fact that Jesus is not going to let the rest of His Church remain on earth to go through the seven year tribulation, when He returns for those of us who are still alive, waiting for His appearing, in 1 Thes.4:17. Since He raises all those who have died, to be with Him, immediately after their physical death, for more than 2,000 years.

1 Thes.4:13-18:
The Thessalonians were very concerned about those among them who had died, that they would not be gathered together with the rest of them when Jesus returned. Paul assures them in vs 13-14 that they will all be returning with Christ from heaven, where they have been since He raised them up to be with Him, the day they died physically, according to 2 Cor.5:6-8.

"We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him [Died physically]. Vs 14.

"According to the Lord's own word [Scriptural truth as to the fact that Jesus taught there was to be a pre-trib rapture of the Church, as recorded in Jn.14:2-4 and 28], we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep." Vs 15. An assurance by Paul to the Thessalonians that the dead in Christ had already been raised from the dead before, and were already with Christ when He returns for all those left on earth alive at His coming.

Because they have already been raised, each in his/her own turn, according to 1 Cor.15:23. That is the very reason it is not documented as a resurrection in the Scriptures.

"For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven [With all His saints [Church], according to vs 14], with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first" [Paul again assures them, as seen in verses 13-14, they were already previously raised once before, each in his/her own turn, as they died, for more than 2,000 years]. Vs 16.

"After that, we who are still alive and are left will be CAUGHT UP [raptured] together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the sky. And so we will be with the Lord forever." Vs 17. Where we proceed with Jesus to our Father in heaven as He promised us in Jn.14:2-4 and 28.

"Therefore encourage each other with these words." Vs 18.

2 Thess.2:1-8: The precise timing of the rapture of the Church:
"Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him, we ask you, brothers, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the Day of the Lord [The 70th and final Week/seven year tribulation of Dan.9:27] has already come." 2 Thes.2:1-2. Which is a direct reference to 1 Thes.4:17 and the theme of Paul's entire pre-trib rapture message in 2 Thes.2:1-8. When we will be CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR. [Parenthetics mine].

The "Day of the Lord" Paul refers to in vs 2, alludes to Dan.9:27, when God will intervene into the affairs of man for the last time, culminating in the second coming of Jesus to the earth. In that passage of Scripture, the Day of the Lord is triggered by the "he" who "confirms a covenant [An agreement] for one Week" [The Day of the Lord/ 70th and final Week/seven year tribulation], who is the antichrist. The second, and same "he," who stops Israel from the offerings and sacrificing in the temple of God, and the third, and same "he," who breaks his covenant in the middle of the Week [After 3.5 of the 7 year total], and sets up the abomination of desolation Jesus referred to in Mt.24:15, in His Olivet Discourse, about the sign of His second coming, and of the end of the age.

In vs 3: "Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that Day [The Day of the Lord, the 70th and final Week, the seven year tribulation] will not come, until the "apostasia" [Greek term in which the original translation was "to depart," or "departure," meaning, the rapture of the Church] occurs and the man of lawlessness [The antichrist, and all three of the "he's" in Dan.9:27] is revealed [Who triggers the Day of the Lord/ the 70th and final Week/ the seven year tribulation], the man doomed to destruction." Which reveals the "apostasia" [Departure] will take place before the antichrist is revealed, who triggers the 70th Week/seven year tribulation. Confirmed in verses 7 and 8 below.

Translation History of apostasia and discessio: By Thomas Ice, PhD.
The first seven English translations of apostasia all rendered the noun as either " departure" or " departing." They are as follows: Wycliffe Bible (1384); Tyndale Bible (1526); Coverdale Bible (1535); Cranmer Bible (1539); Breeches Bible (1576); Beza Bible (1583); Geneva Bible (1608) . This supports the notion that the word truly means " departure." In fact, Jerome' s Latin translation known as the Vulgate from around the time of 325 A.D. renders apostasia with the " word discessio, meaning ' departure.' Why was the King James Version the first to depart from the established translation of "departure" in 1611 A.D.? [It is more than likely due to overzealous RCC scribes who altered the original wording of vs 3. to accommodate their teachings of Amillenialism, which rejects both the pre-trib rapture of the Church as well as Jesus Millennial reign her on earth].

Theodore Beza, the Swiss reformer was the first to transliterate apostasia and create a new word, rather than translate it as others had done. The translators of the King James Version were the first to introduce the new rendering of apostasia as " falling away." Most English translators have followed the KJV and Beza in departing from translating apostasia as " departure." No reason was ever given.

"He [The antichrist] will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God." Vs 4. [The abomination of desolation, confirming Dan.9:27 and Mt.24:15]. See also 2 Thes.2:4.

The rapture of the Church and verse 3 confirmed:
In vs 7:
"For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so until he [The saints - Church] is taken out of the way."

The "he" who will be taken out of the way, is the one body of Christ, who bear the Holy Spirit within each of us [Eph.1:13-14], the Church of Jesus Christ. The very same as those who will participate in the "apostasia," the "departure," [the rapture] of the Church, in vs 3. Immediately following that:

In vs 8: "And then the lawless one [The antichrist] will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of His mouth and destroy by the splendor of His coming." Vs 8. [See Rev.19:17-21].

The antichrist is found in all three of the "he's" in Dan. 9:27, confirmed by Jesus in Mt.24:15; Mk.13:14 and by Paul, in 2 Thes.2:3, 4 and 8.

From the above Scriptural facts, there can be only one proper interpretation for the timing of the rapture of the Church, which will be immediately preceding the 70th and final/7 year tribulation, triggered by the antichrist, all three of the "he's" in Dan.9:27. Seen also as the first of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, riding the white horse, in the first of the seven seals, in Rev.6:2. There is no "pre-wrath" or post-trib rapture taught in the Scriptures.


Other verses pertaining to the rapture of the Church: 1 Thes.1:10; 1 Thes.5:9; Rev.3:10 and Rev.4:1-2. Of the saints [Church] returning with Christ from their marriage in heaven, in Rev.19:7, 8 and 14; Jude 14 and Zech.14:4-5!


The difference between the Second Coming of Christ and the pre-trib rapture of the Church:

http://www.pre-trib.org/data/pdf/Ice...eenTheRapt.pdf


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I dont know what to tell you if you cant see how your conclusions that those scriptures elude to a pretribulation rapture are conjecture and speculation.

The one taken out of the way is not the church as you claim, nor can you biblically uphold that without speculating and using conjecture. It is more like the Holy Spirit or an Angel.

The gathering of the elect will happen on the day of the Lord when Christ comes with the clouds. This is the second coming and every eye shall see him. read Zechariah 14. This event is the same event where the dead in Christ are with the Lord already. The lord comes with all of his holy ones with him. The elect are gathered and the battle won.

The marriage in heaven in revelations is not something that we will see as John had seen it. This does not mean that there isn't a marriage, it only means that God showed it to John in the way he did for John. This was not what we will see at the Lords coming. It is out of context to ascribe an earthly timeline to that specific part of Johns vision because it is only telling us about the marriage and it has nothing to do with any timeline.

The convoluted Apostia translation notion is speculative to ascribe the word departed to a rapture off of the earth. There is nothing besides speculation backing that up. Just because it says departed... It does not mean what you claim. Read deeper into the context... 2 Thessalonians clearly states that the antichrist will be destroyed at the coming of the lord. So the anti christ will set up the mark, the bowls of wrath going out to those with the mark etc, and after all that the antichrist destroyed. The false prophet and serpent thrown into the fire. There is only one coming, not a second coming and a third coming.

John 2 has nothing to do with the rapture per se. Its only Jesus promising to return. It makes zero inference to any timeline whatsoever, nor does Jesus go into more details about the end times during his consolation to his apostles in John.

Luke 21:36. This verse ends with "Pray that you have the strength to escape all of these things, but before that, the full context of his words do not infer in even the slightest sense that believers will not witness all of it. It is quite the opposite, and even more so if you look at Matthews account. For anyone to claim it does, is to add meaning through speculation to that portion of scripture. "Pray that YOU have the STRENGTH." God is referring to personal strength to endure and escape temptation and hardships, including being killed for his namesake.

Corinthians 5:8 and Ecclesiastes 12:7 have nothing to do with any of this and to devise a doctrine from those two passages especially when looking at their context is to suggest a secret hidden knowledge in between the lines that teaches things that the real Bible doesnt tell you.... You dig? Pretribulation rapture: A doctrine devised from "Reading between the lines." A doctrine that contradicts Jesus's words.

I have read all of those scriptures that you cite and NONE of them suggest a pretribulation rapture.

I also must say that the whole 70th week deciphering that pre tribbers do is incredibly fraught with speculation, assumption and conjecture.

Again, it is incredible to me that anyone could read the word and not see the conjecture and speculation behind the false doctrine of Pre Trib rapture.

It is so evident when you take the scenario of a man doling out the mark of the beast, contending with a christian saying; " Dont worry, this couldnt be the mark of the beast or you would have been raptured out already. Isnt that what your Bible says?"

NO! That isnt what the Bible says!!!!! The Bible says the opposite!!!!! I cant stress this enough. Dont be deceived by "secret knowledge and fanciful decoding of what the Bible supposedly really means or says...
 
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Luke 21:36. This verse ends with "Pray that you have the strength to escape all of these things, but before that, the full context of his words do not infer in even the slightest sense that believers will not witness all of it. It is quite the opposite, and even more so if you look at Matthews account. For anyone to claim it does, is to add meaning through speculation to that portion of scripture. "Pray that YOU have the STRENGTH." God is referring to personal strength to endure and escape temptation and hardships, including being killed for his namesake.

There's a lot wrong with this, but I'll pick on one point in particular, simply because I see this bastardized quite a lot on this forum.

The word translated 'strength' in the ESV is not translated as such in other versions, including the KJV, which uses the phrase 'accounted worthy'. Had you chosen that version, it would not have fit your narrative at all.

The word is used 4 times in total on the NT. Zero of them deal with personal strength or endurance. However, three of them do reference an individual's worthiness to participate in the resurrection and the obtaining of the kingdom of God (Luke 20:35, Luke 21:36, 2 Thessalonians 2:5).

Not only is Jesus describing and individuals worthiness, but He does so in the direct contest of escaping. The word used for escape means just that, escape. This flies directly in the face of the thought of some strength to endure. He doesn't say endure, He plainly says escape. You are adding endurance into the text that just simply isn't there.
 
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The words of Jesus debunks you. The word ELECT isn't Jews, IN EVERY INSTANCE THE WORD ELECT IN THE NT REFERS TO ANGELS, JESUS, AND ALMOST 20 TIMES TO CHRISTIANS...

ELECT...
picked out, chosen
chosen by God,
to obtain salvation through Christ
Christians are called "chosen or elect" of God
the Messiah is called "elect", as appointed by God to the most exalted office conceivable
choice, select, i.e. the best of its kind or class, excellence preeminent: applied to certain individual Christians

V. 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days....
V. 30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:...
V. 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.
Pre-trib debunked by the Words of Jesus ALONE.


Jacob/Israel and Joseph = the twelve tribes of Israel, are God's chosen/elect. Jesus and all of those who believe in Him = are God's elect!

In Mt.24:30-31, Jesus is addressing questions His disciples asked Him, pertaining to signs of His return. It pertains to His second coming, when He will do so with His Church, from their marriage in heaven, as recorded in Rev.19:7-8 and 14, confirming Zech,14:4-5.


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Meaning \less opinion...
The word ELECT...

1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Check also...

Matthew 20:16, John 13:18, 15:16, Acts 15:22, 15:25, Romans 8:33, 16:13, 1 Corinthians
1:27-28, Ephesians 1:4, Colossians 3:12, James 2:5, 2 Timothy 2:10, Titus 1:1, 1 Peter 1:2, 2:9, 5:13, Revelation 17:14.

I keep telling you Q.


If God wanted the elect of Mathew 24 to mean Jews, He would have used a different Greek word. Probably this one...

1445. Hebraios heb-rah'-yos from
1443; a Hebræan (i.e. Hebrew) or Jew:--Hebrew.


Review Mt.15:24 and 10:5-6, where Jesus made it crystal clear, His mission din His first advent was EXCLUSIVELY to Israel, who are all referred to as Jews today. Because remnants of every one of the ten northern tribes of Israel returned to Judah, the origin of the term Jew.


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Dougg,

It is Christ who confirms the covenant with many:

Daniel 9
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week

Matthew 26
27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

The prince is Messiah throughout, Daniel 9:25-27. The people of the prince refers to the Roman armies which were Christ's vehicles and instruments to accomplish the destruction which He had prophesied. God's use of such instruments, and His characterization of them as "mine" even though pagan, can be found in several OT instances e.g.:

Jeremiah 25
9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 43
10 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

God characterizes the pagan Nebuchadnezzar as "my servant" in using him and his armies against Judah and Egypt. In the same way as Nebuchadnezzar, though a pagan, was God's servant in executing His judgment, so too were the pagan Roman armies Christ's people in accomplishing His purposes.

There is another legitimate sense wherein the Jews themselves, as the people of Prince Messiah, were equally responsible for the judgment that ultimately befell them. Their own actions in defiling the temple prior to the Roman invasion are described by Josephus:

The Lamentation of Josephus
War 5.1.4 19-20


The darts that were thrown by the engines [of the seditious factions] came with that force, that they went over all the buildings and the Temple itself, and fell upon the priests and those that were about the sacred offices; insomuch that many persons who came thither with great zeal from the ends of the earth to offer sacrifices at this celebrated place, which was esteemed holy by all mankind, fell down before their own sacrifices themselves, and sprinkled that altar which was venerable among all men, both Greeks and barbarians, with their own blood. The dead bodies of strangers were mingled together with those of their own country, and those of profane persons with those of the priests, and the blood of all sorts of dead carcasses stood in lakes in the holy courts themselves.
Oh most wretched city, what misery so great as this didst thou suffer from the Romans, when they came to purify thee from thy internal pollutions! For thou couldst be no longer a place fit for God, nor couldst thou longer survive, after thou hadst been a sepulchre for the bodies of thine own people, and hast made the Holy House itself a burying-place in this civil war of thine. Yet mayst thou again grow better, if perchance thou wilt hereafter appease the anger of that God who is the author of thy destruction.


As seen, Josephus recognizes the Jews as agents of their own destruction, and that destruction as divinely orchestrated.


Thus Daniel 9:25-27 is descriptive of historically fulfilled prophetic events in which our Lord confirmed His covenant, and fully accomplished all of His purposes as described by His prophet Daniel.
Jgr, you referred to Jeremiah 25, 43. In both of those particular passages God specifically stated that he was sending the Babylonians as His instrument. Was God the God of the Babylonians? If not, why would you consider Jesus the prince of Romans?
 
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Dougg,

It is Christ who confirms the covenant with many:

Daniel 9
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week
The new covenant is not found in Daniel 9 because the new covenant includes the resurrection.

Start backtracking in Daniel 9 to find out what "the" covenant is. The messiah is cutoff, but that is not in itself the new covenant - because there is no new covenant without the resurrection. What Christian believes only that Jesus died for our sin? Christians 100% believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus.

The disciples did not go out preaching anything until after the resurrection.
 
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The new covenant is not found in Daniel 9 because the new covenant includes the resurrection.

Start backtracking in Daniel 9 to find out what "the" covenant is. The messiah is cutoff, but that is not in itself the new covenant - because there is no new covenant without the resurrection. What Christian believes only that Jesus died for our sin? Christians 100% believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus.

The disciples did not go out preaching anything until after the resurrection.

Based on your logic, the following verses cannot be about the New Covenant because it does not discuss the resurrection.

Mat 26:28  For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 


Heb 8:6  But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. 

Heb 8:7  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 

Heb 8:8  Because finding fault with them, He says: "BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD, WHEN I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH— 

Heb 8:9  NOT ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT THAT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS IN THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT; BECAUSE THEY DID NOT CONTINUE IN MY COVENANT, AND I DISREGARDED THEM, SAYS THE LORD. 

Heb 8:10  FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR MIND AND WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. 

Heb 8:11  NONE OF THEM SHALL TEACH HIS NEIGHBOR, AND NONE HIS BROTHER, SAYING, 'KNOW THE LORD,' FOR ALL SHALL KNOW ME, FROM THE LEAST OF THEM TO THE GREATEST OF THEM. 

Heb 8:12  FOR I WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEIR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE." 

Heb 8:13  In that He says, "A NEW COVENANT," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. 



Heb 12:22  But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 
Heb 12:23  to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 
Heb 12:24  to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. 


Who Confirmed The Covenant?
James Lloyd
http://christianmediaresearch.com/node/1023

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There's a lot wrong with this, but I'll pick on one point in particular, simply because I see this bastardized quite a lot on this forum.

The word translated 'strength' in the ESV is not translated as such in other versions, including the KJV, which uses the phrase 'accounted worthy'. Had you chosen that version, it would not have fit your narrative at all.

The word is used 4 times in total on the NT. Zero of them deal with personal strength or endurance. However, three of them do reference an individual's worthiness to participate in the resurrection and the obtaining of the kingdom of God (Luke 20:35, Luke 21:36, 2 Thessalonians 2:5).

Not only is Jesus describing and individuals worthiness, but He does so in the direct contest of escaping. The word used for escape means just that, escape. This flies directly in the face of the thought of some strength to endure. He doesn't say endure, He plainly says escape. You are adding endurance into the text that just simply isn't there.
Yes, the KJV does say "That you be counted worthy to escape all these things." Yet it is a moot point because both versions infer a similar thing which lines up really well with the rest of the Bible. Specifically I am thinking of the beginning of Rev 9 and 16, where believers are spared the plagues, rev 22 (hold fast till the end) as well as where it speaks about fleeing into the mountains. I dont see it as possible to conclude any pre tribulation rapture with the information given in that passage alone at all. My main point is that it could fit into any of the three rapture timeline views and one has to speculate on meaning and use conjecture to line it up to a pretribulation rapture doctrine. There arent any passages that specifically say that believers will be taken out before any tribulation begins. None, zero. So the pre trib doctrine is forced to latch onto certain ones that might be construed as inferring such a thing. The doctrine relies on convincing inferences rather than what the Bible actually says. If you read what the Bible actually says, you have to admit that it says that we will suffer Tribulation and be beheaded for our testimony. That Christ wont come till after the man of lawlessness is revealed. The antichrist will be destroyed when Christ returns. Christs warnings to hold fast until the end. To he that overcometh I will give to drink freely from the water of life etc... Christ is very clear about it. There is no secret to the last day. The bible refers to it often. There is no inferred messages that we have to decipher...
 
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I would also like to point out something when it comes to prophecy and studying prophecy, and it ties into something slightly disconnected with our main discussion, but still is an element of it.

Jewish scholars in Jesus's day believed that the messiah was going to be the physical king of Israel. They poured over the prophecies and this is what they came up with. All of their wisdom and learning ended up being revealed as nothing more than the conclusions of unspiritual minds. They had everyone convinced of this as well. King Herod killed all of the children under 2 years old to protect his crown from the coming messiah!

What is interesting to me, is that going back, reading the old testament prophecies, it was knowable that the Messiah would be put to death and that his kingdom would be a spiritual kingdom. The fact that the messiahs kingdom was referred to as eternal. That it would last forever and ever was a huge clue. They knew that the earth wasnt going to last forever. The only thing that will last forever and ever is Gods eternal kingdom. The spiritual kingdom.

This is what I see going on today with so much eschatology. I think people are losing the sight of what we as believers are actually promised as Gods gift to us. Flesh and bone cannot inherit the kingdom of God. What is sown a natural body is raised a spiritual body.

Read the descriptions of the new heaven and new earth. There is no more day or night there. No cold or heat. The streets of gold like transparent glass. A city filled with light at all times. Filled with the immediate presence of God in the company of innumerable Angels.

This is not a physical inheritance. The new heaven and new earth are one, and they are not in any physical solar system, thats for sure.

Read Genesis 8:22 and then 2 Peter 3:10. and finally the descriptions of the new heaven and new earth. there are several.

Our inheritance is a spiritual inheritance, not a physical one.
 
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