They are genuinely deceived and are unable to discern that the earthly body is not going anywhere and it will return to the dust of the earth. Death of this earthly body is certain, for all are destined to biologically die (1st death). The soul is not earthy, it is within the soul repository of God and we as users have been given account privileges, by the creation system administration who is God, to access the earthly bodies we are married to at conception, so to wield them like Avatars. The ones that are translated don't taste biological death, but none the less their avatar earthy bodies are destroyed and their soul is what is clothed in a twinkling of an eye with a heavenly body, as Lords (Holy Ones) from Heaven (3rd Heaven). Paul makes distinction between the earthy body and the something else that the soul is clothed by in the resurrection of the dead, that is fit for the heavenly habitation of many rooms (Father's house of many dimensions).
I do not believe in a pre-trib rapture. Tribulation must be faced by all faithful. A distinction needs to be made between tribulation of the faithful in Christ Jesus and the wrath of God that will be poured upon the unbelieving and unrepentant world.
I must give you credit for pointing to a useful connecting chapter in Isaiah concerning the Church, those who have th testimony of Jesus, that is the Gospel and what happens as far as tribulation of the Church, Rapture of the Elect (days of slaughter/wrath cut short) and the last trumpet.
17Like as a woman with child,
that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain,
and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
The woman is the Church and the child is the Gospel and the midnight call of Christ's bride is when she lets out bellowing cry, as she goes through the Tribulation of birth pains in the final hour before her deliverance.
18We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
The symbolic figurative language, portrays the we as those, within the Church who have the testimony of Jesus Christ, they being with the child (Gospel). They having been in pain, that is Tribulation, not wrath from God, but tribulation by the hands of the world and Satan who wields the enemy to prevent the truth of Christ from prevailing. Notice we, the Church members, have not put our hopes on having comfort lives on earth, but have traded them for Tribulation. Notice who they, the Church who has brought forth the Holy Spirit Wind as it bloweth upon the once fallen of the world, they the once enemies of Christ are no longer fallen, because they have embraced the child.
19Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew
is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Notice that the resurrection of the dead is spoken of here and you must not miss that the woman is the Church and the child is the Gospel, just like the pregnant woman mentioned in Revelation 12. The seed of the woman are those who hold the testimony of Jesus and who endure much tribulation, in order to bring forth the Holy Spirit wind, by their preaching to the once fallen world.
The poetic language also has a certain ambiance of Calvary, in that it is revealing that the dead men of the Church, the symbol of the two witnesses in Revelation of Jesus Christ, will
together with my dead body will rise. This is disclosing a world wide calvary of the Church, before the wrath of God is poured out. The Church does not escape, it gets slaughtered. Then the author throws in a poetic comforting poetic song to give hope that the martyrdom of the Church will bring her into life with Jesus, as his bride will arise as he dead.
The bride must die!
20Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
Now, this verse is no longer talking about the tribulation of the Church, as in the previous verse, highlighting the world wide calvary of the Church, as she is taken out and her testimony completed as declared in Revelation 11:7. Come my ELECT/PEOPLE, enter a place of protection prepared for you and shut those doors, as Noah shut he doors to the Ark, now wait a little while until my wrath has passed.
The distinction of before and after the wrath of God poured upon the world who martyred his Church is described below...
The Fire of God's Jealousy on the Days of Slaughter, the Great feast that God has prepared, on the Great Day of Battle, where the earth shall disclose her dead (Extinction Protocol = Extinction Level Event).
Joel 2:3
3Before them fire devours, behind them a flame blazes.
Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, behind them, a desert waste— nothing escapes them.
Before they entered the ELECT entered their Chamber of protection, the earth resembled the Garden of Eden. After God's wrath had passed and they exited their chamber (Noah like Ark), the earth becomes a desert waste that is totally emptied of life (Zephaniah 1:17-18)
21For, behold,
the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
This is the sequence of events....
- Church/Bride preaches in the last hour with the breath of the Lord's Mouth.
- Church/Bride is Martyred (World Wide Calvary of the two witnesses after their testimony has been finished)
- God sends angels to gather the ELECT from the four corners of Earth in chambers that will be their protection, when the Fires of God's Jealousy are unleashed upon the inhabitants of the world who killed his Son's Bride. (This is the gathering of the ELECT to the mountain of God, a safe haven before the Brilliant coming of Jesus Christ). This is the Final Stand. As God said least I cut those days short no flesh would remain alive, but for the sake of the ELECT I will shorten those days. Those days are vividly described in Joel 2 and other Old Testament books, including 2 Peter 3:10.
- The ELECT enter their Chamber on a secret location on Earth, called the mountain of God.
- God pours out his wrath and every is consumed by the Fire of his Jealousy.
- The ELECT re-emerge from their chambers to find a totally destroyed world, smell of death everywhere, thick clouds and pitch black darkness, the rains are heavy and the ground is like muddy quick sand.
- Then the last of the enemy, what ever they are, encompass the camp of the Saints, the mountain of God.
- A literal battle ensues between the forces held up on the Mountain of God and the forces of the enemy at the foot of the mountain.
- Then the Brilliant Coming of the Lord that will consume the enemy, is the Fire, possibly a supernova event that will disintegrate the fabric of time and space within our universe.
- The ELECT are translated into their heavenly bodies to be reunited with Christ, when Jesus sounds the Seventh Trumpet (Last Trumpet) and utters the Seven Thunders as the Word of God, in declaring "Time no more", and also the martyred bride before the wrath of God, who was immediately clothed and they are the Holy Ones that accompany Christ, when they come to get the ELECT on annihilation day of the fabric of space and time.
- The eternal Nexus of God will continue in the timeless realm of the Father's house of many rooms (dimensions). The books are finalized and biological death and Hell itself cannot continue past this point, as the final enemy death is destroyed forever. All that remains are the last Adams within the figurative new earth and new Heaven (singular) within the NEXUS of God.
Tribulation is not the Wrath of God. The Bride is murdered at the hands of the Beast of the Bottomless Pitt aka Satan, but the ELECT are gathered by Angels to somewhere safe on Earth to wait the wrath of God out in their Chambers of protection, just like Noah was told to do so. (Isaiah 26:20)
The Bride/Church is martyred by the Beast of the Bottomless Pitt and the ELECT are gathered in their Chambers by Angels (Isaiah 26:20) before the Wrath of God is poured.
The ELECT are taken post tribulation and martyrdom of the Church and pre pouring out of the Wrath of God.
Israel is the Church and when the Church is martyred in a world wide Calvary by the Beast of the Bottomless Pitt, then the remnant ELECT are protected by Petra, who is Jesus Christ, when he sends his Angels to gather them to a safe location on earth, within their Chambers of protection. The Last stand on the Mountain of God, that is the Camp of the Saints/ELECT.
The soul does not go anywhere, it is the ELECT who are gathered to safe place on Earth by Angels, post Tribulation, after the martyrdom of the Church/Bride by the hands of the Beast of the Bottomless Pitt.
The Church/Bride who is martyred as the symbol of the two witnesses in the Revelation of Jesus Christ, after she finishes her testimony is resurrected into her new heavenly body post Tribulation, but pre-wrath of God. She is the many Holy Ones who accompanies Christ in her white cloud like garments to come and get the remaining ELECT at the end of the old Earth and the old Heavens (plural) and the beginning of the new Heaven (singular) and the new Earth, when Jesus calls it an end, by blowing the last trumpet, that is the Trumpet of God, as he utters the Seven Thunders in declaring "Time no longer".
Yes and in the gathering of the ELECT to a safe location on Earth away from the Beast of the Bottomless Pitt.
The bride who was martyred post tribulation comes with Christ as the many Holy ones, they are the ones who were raised first in their resurrection heavenly bodies (symbol of the two witnesses), when they come for the ELECT.
They are the ELECT, the Bride comes with Christ.
Yes, they would be the armies of the Beast of the Bottomless Pitt who martyred the Church/Bride post Trib yet pre-wrath.