Your view needs a lot of work. The weeds are taken first, not the wheat.
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Sorry... Revelations 18:4 makes it CLEARY that the Saints are "
taken"
out of Babylon BEFORE the "
tares" are destroyed.
And Matthew 25:10 CLEARLY shows the "
Wise Virgins" are "
taken" into
the "
Marriage" and the "
Door was Shut" BEFORE the "
Foolish Virgins"
were destroyed.
The problem (for traditional eschatology) is that the Great Tribulation
is shown from MANY different perspectives and we do not find Truth
with the harmony of only two or three perspectives... before you can
even PRETEND to have Truth you must be able to harmonize ALL the
related passages.
For example: In the Bible the Great Tribulation period is shown from (at least)
Seventeen different perspectives. We cannot PRETEND to have found Truth
when our theory can only harmonize with two-or-three-or-four of the 17.
From the perspective of a
SINGLE KINGDOM - the Great Tribulation is shown as:
(1) Daniel's Fourth Beast, (2) the 7-Headed Revelations Beast, (3) Satan's "
Little Season",
(4) the Reign of the "
Little Horn", (5) the "
Ten Virgins" prophecy, (6) the "
Ten Kings",
(7) the Kingdom of "
Ten Horns" and (8) the "
Ten Toes" of iron and clay.
From the perspective of a
DUAL KINGDOM - the Great Tribulation is shown as:
(9) Two separate Trumpet Judgments, (10) Two separate and distinct "
Woes",
(11) Two separate Beasts - the First Beast, then an "
image" of the First Beast and
(12) Locusts that "
torment" those in the 4th Kingdom for a period of "
five months".
To understand Truth about Daniel's (4th) Great Tribulation we must first be able to harmonize all Scriptures
related to the passages above - because each prophecy represents a different perspective on the Great Tribulation Kingdom.
All these prophecies represent the same people experiencing the same events -just from different perspectives.
When we THINK we understand something about the (4th) Great Tribulation Kingdom we must TEST
that idea against ALL SCRIPTURE. If we find that we can only harmonize SOME of the passages
... then we KNOW that we have not found Truth.
From the perspective of
FOUR PERIODS - the Great Tribulation is shown as:
(13) Four (4) separate "
Watches of the Night".
(14) the "
days" when Saints "
dead bodies shall lie in the street".
(15) the "
times" when the Saints are nourished in the "
wilderness" and
(16) the "
times" when the "
Little Horn" rules Daniel's 4th Kingdom and
(17) the "
forty and two months" (representing 3.5 "years") when the "
Holy City"
is being "
tread under foot".
In order to understand the Biblical Truth about Daniel's (4th) Great Tribulation
we must FIRST harmonize all Scriptures related to that Beast - because the Bible
provides several different perspectives of the Kingdom.
It's not significant, and there's no Biblical validation and, therefore,
there is no spiritual "
authority" in harmonizing two-or-three passages
out of SEVENTEEN (17) related passages.
Likewise, it's not significant, and there's NO spiritual "authority" to harmonize
only five-or-six-or-seven of the SEVENTEEN (17) related passages BECAUSE
if even ONE PASSAGE contradicts your eschatological "theory"... then if is PROVEN
to be un-Biblical and false.
Most doctrinal error in both Jewish and Christian Eschatology is the result
of not being able to harmonize ALL Scripture. Before we can even begin
to claim Biblical Truth about Great Tribulation prophecies (events) we must
FIRST be able to harmonize at least these seventeen (17) related passages above.
Because, if even ONE PASSAGE of Scripture does not harmonize
... that PROVES we have not found Biblical Truth.
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