Copperhead said in post #235:
Noah was locked into the ark by God 7 days before the flood came.
If you think Noah's Flood is analogous to the future Tribulation (instead of Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming), and that days are analogous to years, are you saying the rapture of the Church will occur 7 years before the Tribulation? If so, why would that be, instead of the same day the Tribulation starts, like how Noah went into the ark (for the last time) "in the selfsame day" the Flood started (Genesis 7:11-17)? Luke 17:27 similarly shows the Flood started the same day Noah entered the ark (for the last time).
Or, if you think Noah's Flood is analogous to Jesus' Second Coming, then why can't the rapture (the gathering together of the Church) be the same day as the Second Coming, "immediately after" the future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24 (Matthew 24:29-31; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8; 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, Revelation 19:7 to 20:6)?
Genesis 7:2-10 shows Noah spent the 7 days before the Flood gathering all the different animals into the ark. So Genesis 7:11-17 simply means the entering of the animals was completed the same day the Flood started. Since the analogy in Luke 17:26-37 and Matthew 24:37-41 compares the Flood to Jesus' Second Coming (Luke 17:30, Matthew 24:37b,39b), which Jesus had just finished saying won't happen until "immediately after" the future Tribulation (Matthew 24:29-30), Genesis 7:2-10 could have typified the "fulness of the Gentiles being come in" (Romans 11:25b) to salvation by the end of the (possibly 7-year: Daniel 9:27) future Tribulation which will immediately precede the Second Coming (Matthew 24:29-31), the Second Coming being when all the still-living, unsaved elect genetic Israelites will become saved (Romans 11:25-29).
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