You said...…………
Major1 said: ↑
I believe personally and it is my opinion that animal sacrifices will resume in Israel after the Rapture but will end at Armageddon and will not be instituted in the New Heaven and New earth.
Then YOU said...……..
well that gets into eschatology -- the Bible says that at the rapture the wicked are destroyed and the saints taken to heaven "I looked and behold there was no man". An empty desolate earth for 1000 years. But that is another topic area.
That statement is completely in error and I disagree completely with it.
You are of course welcomed to your opinion.
The Bible does not say that the wicked are destroyed and the saints are taken to heaven.
Yes it does.
Wicked all destroyed at second coming.
11 And I saw
heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. 12 His eyes
are a flame of fire, and on His head
are many diadems; and He has a name written
on Him which no one knows except Himself. 13
He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and
His name is called The Word of God. 14 And
the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white
and clean,
were following Him on white horses. 15 From H
is mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and
He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. 16 And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds which fly in midheaven,
“Come, assemble for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them and the flesh of all men, both free men and slaves, and small and great.”
19 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth
and their armies assembled to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.
20 And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone. 21
And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.
And of course Matthew 24 and 1 Thess 4 both say that after the tribulation the saints taken to heaven - raptures "the dead in Christ rise first then we who are alive and remain caught up in the air" -- all saints taken to heaven at the 2nd coming.
Leaving no one alive on earth for that 1000 years.
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YES, ible says and teaches in many places that the saved will be removed and calls them the church. But then the Bible says that there will be SEVEN (7) years of God's wrath, known from the Scriptures as the TRIBULATION PEROID.
No it does not.
The Bible DOES NOT in any way say that the earth will thenbe desolate for 1000 years!!!!!!It says just the OPPOSITE.
Not true.
Ez 32:4-8
4 ""I will leave you on the land; I will cast you on the open field. And
I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you, And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.
5 ""I will lay your flesh on the mountains And
fill the valleys with your refuse.
6 ""I will also make the land drink the discharge of your blood As far as the mountains, And
the ravines will be full of you.
7 ""And when I extinguish you,
I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud And the moon will not give its light.
8 ""
All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you And will set darkness on your land,'' Declares the Lord GOD.
Jer 4:23
I looked on the earth, and behold, it was formless and void; And to the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I looked on
the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, And all the hills moved to and fro.
25 I looked, and behold,
there was no man, And all the
birds of the heavens had fled.
26 I looked, and behold, the
fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were pulled down Before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
Jer 25:33
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Those slain by the LORD on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be lamented, gathered or buried; they will be like dung on the face of the ground.
Zeph 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold Will be able to deliver them On the day of the LORD'S wrath;
And all the earth will be devoured In the fire of His jealousy, For He will make a complete end, Indeed a terrifying one, Of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Isaiah 24
1 Behold,
the LORD lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.
2 And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.
3
The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled,
It is obviously a World Wide Calamity – world wide catastrophe
Isaiah 24
17
Terror and pit and snare Confront you, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 Then it will be that he who flees the report of disaster will fall into the pit, And he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare;
For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake.
19 The
earth is broken asunder, The earth is split through, The earth is shaken violently.
20 The
earth reels to and fro like a drunkard And it totters like a shack, For its transgression is heavy upon it, And it will fall, never to rise again.
