What do you think?

I believe that potential exists.

GospelS said:

Could something similar to that happen during the time of great tribulation? God's children miraculously transported to a safe place?

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Could that be the rapture?

GospelS said:

So the angels took Lot, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city. Genesis 19:16

And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more. But Philip found himself at Azotus. Acts 8:39

Could something similar to that happen during the time of great tribulation? God's children miraculously transported to a safe place?

Revelation 12:6 and 12:14 tells that the woman who bore the male child, whom the dragon is after, will be given wings to fly away to a place prepared by God.

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Blessing in Christ Jesus! It is a physical moving. I was taken off the coast line long ago, to a place prepared, in the same way Abram(Abraham) was. It is in the wilderness that true understanding(nourishment)(training) comes. If I were to tell you that you have already given birth to The Man Child, and you go back and read that again, you will understand who The Woman clothed with the sun is. It is not what others say. I did not know it, until I unfortunately had to live it, just as written.

GospelS said:

...Could something similar to that happen during the time of great tribulation? God's children miraculously transported to a safe place?

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I believe so, but it may be something different than you think. Anyway, I think we should remember this in difficult times:

...fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Matt. 10:28-31

"Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
Luke 12:22-31

GospelS said:

Well, in Matthew 24:31, Jesus tells that angels will be sent to rescue and gather His elect. This seems to picture what happened with Lot and his family when God destroyed that city with fire. Angels came and took them out to safety. And we know that once again the earth will be destroyed by fire at the end of the age when God pours out His wrath.

And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

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29"Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; then will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory; and He will send out his angles with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

This is describing The Lords return. It is then that the harvest will occur. The angels are around us everyday. In the same way that Lot was warned and moved, so are we for what is about to happen. Most will not see it coming, for it will come out of nowhere. If The Lord is about shake the earth with tribulation does it not seem right that He would prepare us for it. When the time comes, you will know, and you will be exactly where He wants you to be. Even if you can not see these things now, then you will. Have a Blessed day!

GospelS said:

So the angels took Lot, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city. Genesis 19:16

And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more. But Philip found himself at Azotus. Acts 8:39

Could something similar to that happen during the time of great tribulation? God's children miraculously transported to a safe place?

Revelation 12:6 and 12:14 tells that the woman who bore the male child, whom the dragon is after, will be given wings to fly away to a place prepared by God.

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We are living in the Tribulation, and God has promised us suffering.

"Whom will He teach Knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?
Nay, but by men of strange lips and with an alien tongue The lord will speak to this people"

"Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past. For behold, The Lord is coming forth out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her, and will no more cover her slain."

"Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God upon their foreheads."

GospelS said:

So the angels took Lot, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city. Genesis 19:16

And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more. But Philip found himself at Azotus. Acts 8:39

Could something similar to that happen during the time of great tribulation? God's children miraculously transported to a safe place?

Revelation 12:6 and 12:14 tells that the woman who bore the male child, whom the dragon is after, will be given wings to fly away to a place prepared by God.

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I see no reason to believe otherwise.

GospelS said:

So the angels took Lot, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city. Genesis 19:16

And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more. But Philip found himself at Azotus. Acts 8:39

Could something similar to that happen during the time of great tribulation? God's children miraculously transported to a safe place?

Revelation 12:6 and 12:14 tells that the woman who bore the male child, whom the dragon is after, will be given wings to fly away to a place prepared by God.

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How this passage in the Apocalypse is interpreted depends so much on how one approaches the Apocalypse in general.

I see in this passage a mirroring of the Flight to Egypt.

But then I also don't believe that the Apocalypse is about "the end times". It is instead a series of visions, not of a chronological order of events, but of differing things which serve the purpose of giving hope to the Church to keep her eyes on Christ and to endure the trials of this world.

I am somewhere between a preterist and an idealist in my reading of the Apocalypse, rather than a futurist.

-CryptoLutheran

No it can't happen. Well in Lots case it was those cities but during the great tribulation Gods wrath is on the whole world. There is not "safe" places.

Christ told us He went back to the Fathers house to make us a home and will come get us/take us/receive us unto Him self so where He is we will be. Paul through the sweet sweet Holy Spirit told us Christ will come in the air and dead rise and we change go up together to meet Him in the air and to be with Him forever.

This is written this will happen. God children will never see His wrath.. Again Lot had to be gone "as long as you are here I can do nothing". Gods wrath will never come as long as the righteous are here. So I look up always knowing today is when He is coming. He will keep His word. When? I live in this moment

Blade said:

No it can't happen. Well in Lots case it was those cities but during the great tribulation Gods wrath is on the whole world. There is not "safe" places....

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It would be good to remember also this:

and he said, Yahweh is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine; God, my rock, in him will I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge; My savior, you save me from violence.
2 Sam. 22:2-3 (Ps. 18:3)

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, For you are my stronghold. Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
Ps. 31:4-5

So, for those who are loyal to God, there is always safe place.