the sacredcowtipper,
1. I already debunked your nonsense and you have not tried to rebut the scriptural context I have given.
You have shown you are not hermeneutically and misquote me so the more you post the less credible it is.
2. Post tribbers believe basically that 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 will happen right before Armageddon.
They believe that Christ will bring back the righteous dead; which he will v 15.
Those who are alive and remain will be caught up at that time.
You have twisted that phrase alive and remain and make it for post trib position which is one thing even though it is wrong.
They are raptured in the same setting but you apply the rapture part to pre- trib and make it a separate context so you can prove they are wrong.
The dead in Christ and those alive and remain are one setting whether you believe pre or post.
3. There are 7 feasts and the last three are prophetic and have not happened.
They are the feast of trumpets, feast of the Day of Atonement, and the
Day of Tabernacles.
We are still in the time of the Feast of Pentecost.
Trumpets is the gathering of saints which is rapture.
The Day of Atonement which is about repentance which is tribulation as the time of Jacob’s trouble for the Jews.
The Feast of Tabernacles is the millennium.
This order cannot be changed.
Now I have debunked your twisting the scriptures in your favor to the truth which is not in your favor.
I have shown the order of the feasts can’t be changed and the feast of trumpets the rapture, comes before the Day of Atonement which is the time of Jacob’s trouble, the tribulation and the Feast of Tabernacles is the millennium. Jerry Kelso
Jerry,
1st Thess. 4:13-18 clearly teaches that the resurrection and the rapture happen at the same exact time with the dead in Christ rising first. Do you know what parousia even means? It means 2nd coming. Why are you ignoring the original languages that debunk the pre-trib rapture?
1. Who was Paul talking to?
Not JEWS. He was talking mainly to Gentile believers. Their may have been 1% Jews in those churches. The very text is given to GENTILE believers following Jesus. You took this totally out of its context.
2. When does Paul then say the parousia (2nd coming) happens?
Right after the harpazo (rapture).
3. What does remain (pereelipio) mean?
It means "survive". Survive what if we are not having to go through tribulation?
4. REMAIN: What does "remain" me Jerry? If you are gone, you didn't remain.
5. These Gentile believers thought they were already in the end time tribulation.
6. If as pre-tribbers teach that God is going back to the natural Jews to give them one last chance, there are three major problems with this thinking.
a. Jews have been being saved for 2,000 years already.
b. it sounds like these very Jews kill the last two prophets literally right before Jesus returns as the prophets are killed right at the end of the 6th trumpet in Revelation 11. Doesn't sound like any of them getting saved. When the earthquake hits, it only says that SOME fo them give God glory- it never says they come to Christ.
c. With pre-trib thinking, you are saying God is going to have a big wedding feast WITHOUT the final Jews coming to Christ during the great tribulation. Would they not also be part of the bride? There isn't two brides unless of course Jesus is a polygamist. Is Jesus a polygamist? I'm just going along with the teaching that is being taught. It makes no sense.
Your doctrine makes no sense. that's why none of you will attempt to answer the question. You just can't admit you are teaching something that the church never taught. It's a cult. there is NO logical fallacy if looking at the passage as a post-trib passage but a total logical fallacy if seen as pre-trib.
What pre-tribbers are doing is the same thing that false Baptist pastor William Miller did which caused the first falling away when the rapture did not take place in 1844. They believed it so bad and when it was wrong, some left Jesus. Other's went and formed cults. There is ZERO good fruit with this doctrine. Just think if these people in 1844 were plunged into actual tribulation when the rapture didn't happen. I think most would have left Jesus totally. Isn't it better to prepare people for persecution like the rest of the world goes through? It is a promise of Jesus to go through persecution.
You haven't read the passage yet in CONTEXT 1st Thess. 4:13-18. You have debunked nothing. You ignore the Greek words and what they actually mean. Your whole theology is based on the presupposition that the pre-trib rapture and dispensationalism is true and you go to the Word of God trying to prove it. This is not exegesis sir. You are doing eisogesis like Kenneth Copeland's false prosperity teaching and Klepto Dollar's "little gods" teaching. You are approaching God's Word the same way they do but just on another subject.
I don't think you realize I am teaching what almost every single teacher up to 1830 has taught including John Wesley and many others. You are full of pride thinking you have a teaching that only the elite learners can learn. Are you a freemason, one of the elite, one of the "initiates" as Origen and other false teachers talked about as they brought gnosticism into the church? Secret knowledge? Now it is an end time false teaching. The Bible says much of the church will follow teachers that have itchy ears in the end. People like Thomas Ice, Tim Lahaye and the others made a mega-million dollar lifestyle off this stuff. No different than Copeland and Dollar and Joyce Meyer. I am not jealous. I am well pretty well off which I gained from hard work and wise decisions in life.
SO ONCE AGAIN"
You haven't answered the question. "How can I be alive and remain and raptured and gone at the same time? You are throwing red herrings out and diverting from the question because you lost the debate. I think you need to quit listening to the Perry Stone type preacher/teachers that think they have a new revelation every month. You seem like a smart person but I was in the same boat as you. What youa re teaching what I was taught. I followed the Perry Stone's, Tim Lahaye's etc. That is all that was taught in America on Christian TV and all that was taught in Bible Colleges. I got an indoctrination instead of an education. 'm just trying to show you this teaching is very flawed.
This teaching also says the "he" in verse 27 of Daniel 9 is the antichrist. It was always taught that Jesus was the "he" in this verse and it is plainly Jesus. Satan must be laughing at the western church.
Jesus cut the covenant in the middle of the 70th week. There is no missing 7 year period yet to be fulfilled. You can count, can't you?
Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself:
Realize, how that the first 7 weeks (49 years) was completed so Jesus could not have died before the 70th week started. See that big word AFTER in verse 26?
doe the Words AFTER mean anything to pre-tribbers in that passage. 69 weeks had passed. No, they change that verse in their PRESUPPOSITION to fit their doctrine they want to believe and teach to fit that instead of what the text actually teaches. Once again, almost all great Bible commentators pre-1830 teach what I am teaching on this verse also.
another logical fallacy:
If pre-trib rapture teaching were true and there is an unfulfilled 7 years and this rapture took place 7 years before the end of the tribulation, every moron on the planet could set their watches and clocks to 7 years later and know the day and hour Christ returned which Jesus plainly said NO ONE knows, nto even Him.
Can I ask you this, "would you have come to Christ like a North Korean person who is warned that if they come to Christ they could be imprisoned, killed, tortured or put in a work camp the rest of their lives if they do?" People like jACK vAN iMPE IS MAKING A LOT OF FALSE CONVERTS promising them they won't have to go through anything as they can get caught up int he rapture before all hell breaks loose. Most Christians in America wouldn't. 98% don't even share their faith regularly with free speech still in place. They are living for their Joel Osteen better life now along with most Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists. etc. Jesus isn't coming back for the American church. It is worse than Laodicea so even if the pre-trib rapture teaching were actually true, Jesus is only coming back for the faithful on-fire bride of Christ who isn't ashamed of Him. And if you don't think 90% or more of Christians in America are lukewarm, I don't know what town you are living in but I may want to move there.