It's not good biblical practice to base a doctrine on a parable.
if I were to take something away from that description in Luke, it would be aimed at those who look at Jesus returning on a white horse for Armageddon, you know, your post tribbers. Because that's what happens in Revelation 19. The wedding supper of the lamb, and then Jesus coming down on His white horse with his bride following to see Him destroy the people that killed many in the bride.
OBVIOUSLY the rapture took place before that.
I see 2 places within revelation where the rapture takes place because I see 2 parallel narratives in Revelation. They are very clear to me. It seems that you do not see the break in narrative and see the second narrative.
The first narrative is Chapters 6-11. The 7th trumpet is the end, and it fast forwards to final judgement after the millennium.
You have the beginning of sorrows and great tribulations in the first five seals of chapter 6
The darkening of the sun and moon and coming of Jesus in the clouds (and rapture as described in 1 Thessalonians 4 and Matthew 24) starting in verse 12, and just as in Matthew 24, the tribes of the earth mourn, and they give a very clear demarcation of events Revelation 6:17 The wrath of God did not begin with the seals (after the 5th seal the souls ask why God hasn't started His wrath yet), it begins now.
Then you have the 144,000 sealed to protect them from the wrath, and a great multitude in heaven (those redeemed in the rapture that took place in chapter 6, they weren't there before, they are there now) in chapter 7
Then you have the 7 trumpets, the wrath of God in chapters 8, 9 and 11, which end in a great earthquake and Israel being saved. Understand that chapter 10, reveals to us that the 7th trumpet is the end, the mystery of God revealed, it is prefacing that God's wrath doesn't continue after the trumpets IE the vials are not after all the 7 trumpets have finished, the 7th trumpet is the end.
Then earth is delivered as the Kingdom of our Lord and His Christ (Millennial Kingdom) in chapter 11
Finally you have final judgement of all the dead in chapter 11
The second Narrative is chapters 12-20
First you have the great tribulations, back half of chapter 12 and chapter 13
Then you have the 144,000 sealed, followed by the Return of Christ in the clouds, the harvest (the rapture), and the beginning of the wrath of God in chapter 14
Chapter 15, like chapter 7, shows the result of the rapture, a ton of people praising God in heaven.
Chapter 16, is the wrath of God
Chapter 16 also has a great earthquake, just as in chapter 11
It also gives more details on the final destructions of the wicked vs the first narrative, such as Babylon being destroyed, the wedding supper of the lamb, and Armageddon. Followed by the millennial kingdom, and final destruction of the world in fire, followed by final judgement chapters 18-20
I see no place of a pretrib rapture in any of that. John being invited up in Revelation 4:1 is not the rapture, it's not a resurrection or return of the Lord in the clouds, context says that it is only John taken up in order to witness the visions.
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