DavidPT
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God hasn't told me when the rapture is, I mean He didn't even tell His Son so some of you guys are really privileged.
While this is true, there still cannot be a rapture without it involving Christ coming back. The question is, is the rapture meaning before the great trib or after?
Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming(parousia) of the Son of man be.
If verses 22-26 are meaning during the great trib, doesn't it stand to reason that the coming in verse 27 is meaning after the great trib, then?
1 Thessalonians 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming(parousia) of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
Should one wrongly assume that the Son of Man and the Lord, that these are not referring to the same person? Where does Matthew 24:27 logically place the timing of 1 Thessalonians 4:15? Before the great trib, or after?
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