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The Rapture is a New Mystery Revealed by the Apostle Paul:
• 1 Corinthians 15:51
"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,"
The Olivet Discourse event of the gathering up by angels is already revealed prior to Paul's revealing of a mystery. It's no longer a mystery Paul is revealing if Paul is merely giving more details about what Jesus already talked about. This suggests a Pre-Trib Rapture event being mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15:51, and it not being the same event in the Olivet Discourse.
Incorrect. The rapture shows up in Isaiah 26, as well as John 14 and the Olivet Discourse.
The mystery that Paul was revealing was not the rapture itself, but rather that even without dying, someone who is raptured is given a glorified body like those who are resurrected. You should also understand that mystery often does not mean "totally new information" but something that was eluded to in previous scripture, now it is revealed in a more clear manner. The Messianic prophecies begin in Genesis 3, but at that point it's a mystery. The Doctrine of the Trinity begins in Genesis 1, it is also a mystery.
Admonishes about being ready for the Rapture:
(In order to miss out on the 7 Year Tribulation):
• Matthew 25:13
"Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh."This only works with a Pre-Trib Rapture if we are to be true to what these words plainly say. For a person can pinpoint the hour and the day by saying that Jesus is only going to come for His saints in the Middle of the Tribulation. So then a believer can be lazy and beat their fellow servants as Jesus says because He is coming at a later time (in the middle of the Tribulation). Note: I have seen this beating (verbally speaking of course) done by other believers (and they were strongly against a Pre-Trib Rapture). They were so insulting with Pre-Tribbers that they made it sound like Pre-Tribbers were enemies of Christ.
This is also incorrect. A pre wrath position can anticipate within a few year window, but not the date or hour. We're told nobody knows the day or hour, but Jesus gives us the signs of the season relatively speaking.
It is Mid Trib and Post Trib that have the fatal flaw of being able to date set.
For mid trib, as soon as the covenant with many is confirmed count forward 1260 days, you have the day.
For post trib, as soon as the abomination of desolation takes place count forward 1290 days, or, 1335 days some people might say (getting both from Daniel 12). Either way because the midpoint and endpoints have clear date markers, it should clue people in that neither theory works.
Pre wrath does not have a set date. The abomination of desolation will happen and then SOMETIME during that 1290 days it'll happen but nobody knows exactly when. People can guesstimate that it'll be at least 5 months before the 1290th day after the Abomination of desolation because of the 5th trumpet, but that's still a 3 year window of anticipating but not knowing when.
Jesus also gives a warning to those who would eat and drink with the drunkards and beat his fellowservants. They'll be cut into pieces and their lot will be with the hypocrites.
We are told to pray so that we may escape all these things mentioned within the Tribulation:
• Luke 21:36
What things shall we escape if we pray?
"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."
• Luke 21:10
• Revelation 6:4
"Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom"
"...and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another..."• Luke 21:11
• Revelation 6:12
"And great earthquakes..."
• Luke 21:11
"...and, lo, there was a great earthquake;"
"...and famines..."• Revelation 6:5-6
Jesus says we can escape all these things, and in context this would include famines, and yet Revelation we learn that the third seal describes famine. So this suggests a Pre-Trib Rapture because we can escape the third seal. This does not bode well for a Mid Trib only Rapture view.
"And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine."
Escape doesn't always mean rapture. Being preserved in the wilderness escaping the persecution off the grid is still escaping.
From Luke 21
12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
The same passage of scripture saying to pray that you'll escape all these things, also says that YOU will face all these things, it is addressed to the same audience. If Jesus was teaching pretribulationism, He would not be addressing this to believers who would escape from all these things.
This means you either believe in a partial pre trib rapture, or are cherrypicking which verses are addressed to believers and which verses are addressed to unbelieving Jews (hint, He's talking to 4 apostles knowing the words will be written down for future believers, none of them are unbelieving Jews)
To me, it means that not every Christian will be captured and martyred or starve. Some will be provided for by God and aided through these times by God to preserve them until Jesus returns.
I suppose that's almost the post trib stance, except I don't also have God pouring out His wrath on any believers.
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