The un-indoctrinated Bible scholar must surely admit that this text oozes definite climactic detail. It first of all shows our Lord coming unexpectedly; it also reveals the fate that befalls all those on earth – both saved and unsaved. Whilst this is shown to be a day anticipated by God’s people, it is one that catches the wicked unawares. After the removal of the righteous all that awaits those left behind is total “destruction” (
1 Thessalonians 5:3).
Indoctrinated is a term a cult would use, not the church.
Indoctrinate: teach (a person or group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
Notice the word uncritically. That means without thinking or raising a thoughtful objection.
There is no objection to the fact the Second Coming will change the world.
It is the total disregard to many events listed in the book of Revelation. There is no rightly dividing the Word of Truth. It is combining many events into a single event that is the issue. The Second Coming is not post 7th Trumpet. Why does theology teach that lie? Yes all will be dead when the last second of the 7th Trumpet is heard. Adam's descendants will be no more. But the 7th Trumpet last for days, not nano-seconds.
Nano-second: one billionth of a second.
Also the 7th Trumpet has 7 Thunders and 6 Trumpets that precede it. If Satan gets 42 months it splits the days in half of the 7th Trumpet. Instead of 8 days, Sunday to Sunday, it goes an additional 42 months.
5 Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land
lifted his right hand toward heaven
6 and swore by the One who lives forever and ever,
who created heaven and what is in it, earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it: “There will be no more delay;
7 on the contrary, in the days of the sound from the seventh angel when he sounds his
shofar, the hidden plan of God will be brought to completion, the Good News as he proclaimed it to his servants the prophets.”
It does not say, nano-seconds. It does not say seconds. It does not say minutes. It does not say hours. It does not say years. It says days. Not the days after the 7th Trumpet. Not the days leading up to the 7th Trumpet. It says the days of the sounding of the 7th Trumpet.
The 70th week of years is the earthly ministry of Christ and the time Jacob is in trouble for not holding to a Covenant. The 7th Trumpet is a week of days celebrating the end of this earthly ministry and the completion of the Covenant. Unless the Covenant is not completed. The church did not hold up her end of the Covenant just like Jacob failed to hold up his part of the Covenant. That is the only reason why Satan would be granted 42 months. The vineyard was taken away from Jacob and given to the church. The church gave the vinyard to the Lord of the vineyard short of the harvest. Then Satan is granted the vineyard for the last 42 months. Actually time taken away from the church. Time the church will never get back. The battle of Armageddon is the last harvest of the vineyard. But not a harvest, only the pressing of the grapes in the winepress of God's wrath. If Israel faded away while the church took over, does the church really deserve to spend time with Satan in his months of control? How effective are foolish virgins that do not even have the Holy Spirit, but some unclean spirits guiding them? Is this really an endurance one wants, or victory in Christ at the Second Coming at the opening of the 6th Seal?
Christ will spend the last of His earthly ministry on the earth. It is the time of separation for the sheep and goats, the wheat and tares. But the gleanings not gathered are for Satan to sift. It was not the Lamb Who failed. It was the church and the falling away from Truth that failed.
No, we do not know when the time will be up. If the church had time during Satan's 42 months to earnestly win lost souls, they would know to the day and hour the time of the battle of Armageddon. Why is this hard to grasp? The church and Second Coming have to happen before The Lamb is on earth in the final harvest. Jesus Christ the Lamb has to come before the earthly ministry, not after already spending months already here in secret. Matthew 25:31-35 happens after the Second Coming in Matthew 24.
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, accompanied by all the angels, he will sit on his glorious throne.
32 All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates sheep from goats.
33 The ‘sheep’ he will place at his right hand and the ‘goats’ at his left.
Matthew 24:29 is the 6th Seal. Matthew 25 is the Trumpets. The Second Coming is an event that last many months, not nano-seconds.