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The Rapture is not about flying in the air...It is to be caught up in the air...To be raised...

 
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and possibly the Dead in Christ could of been raised between the 27th and 30th of September

COSMIC RAYS DURING THE LUNAR ECLIPSE:

[link to www.spaceweather.com]

The Shroud of Turin has shown Cosmic Rays were the cause of the resurrection...

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i'm sorry, you are wrong. we are at the 3rd seal, 3rd trumpet, and about to experience the 3rd vial....

fiancial collapse around the world is the 3rd vial.

what you are discussing happens at the 7th seal, 7th trump and 7th vial......Christ returns

the signs in the heavens are only signs...yes we are to watch these signs, but also be aware of the seals, trumpets, vials...their meaning...once you understand we are just at the black horse.....then you'll better discern the heavens.
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Matthew 24:22

"If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: Ecclesiastes 3:1
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Believe it or not but the emerging hurricane's name Joaquin means "lifted by God"...We're on the edge of eternity folks..We fly SOON!!!


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it's called, HAARP...and it's active since he just received fnding through the end of this year.

haarp isn't strong enough to cause a huricane to pass over the corexit/oil spill that has lowered the temperater of the gulf/atlantic....it has destroyed the gulf stream causing a barrier for all hurricans to turn and go back out to sea.

haarp is a weapon of mass destruction, obozo would love to destory usa, americans who he loaths...haarp isn't going to help him get what he wants.
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and possibly the Dead in Christ could of been raised between the 27th and 30th of September

COSMIC RAYS DURING THE LUNAR ECLIPSE:

[link to www.spaceweather.com]

The Shroud of Turin has shown Cosmic Rays were the cause of the resurrection...

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i'm sorry, you are wrong. we are at the 3rd seal, 3rd trumpet, and about to experience the 3rd vial....

fiancial collapse around the world is the 3rd vial.

what you are discussing happens at the 7th seal, 7th trump and 7th vial......Christ returns

the signs in the heavens are only signs...yes we are to watch these signs, but also be aware of the seals, trumpets, vials...their meaning...once you understand we are just at the black horse.....then you'll better discern the heavens.
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Matthew 24:22

"If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

 Quoting: christian

Matt 24:29-31
He comes for the elect after the tribulation......after means after, when the sun and moon do not give off their light.
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and possibly the Dead in Christ could of been raised between the 27th and 30th of September

COSMIC RAYS DURING THE LUNAR ECLIPSE:

[link to www.spaceweather.com]

The Shroud of Turin has shown Cosmic Rays were the cause of the resurrection...

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i'm sorry, you are wrong. we are at the 3rd seal, 3rd trumpet, and about to experience the 3rd vial....

fiancial collapse around the world is the 3rd vial.

what you are discussing happens at the 7th seal, 7th trump and 7th vial......Christ returns

the signs in the heavens are only signs...yes we are to watch these signs, but also be aware of the seals, trumpets, vials...their meaning...once you understand we are just at the black horse.....then you'll better discern the heavens.
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Matthew 24:22

"If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

 Quoting: christian

Matt 24:29-31
He comes for the elect after the tribulation......after means after, when the sun and moon do not give off their light.
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The second coming is after the tribulation.
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caught up - harpazo in greek, to Meet the Master at His Coming,

after the Great Tribulation.

at the last trump

when the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Adonai and Messiah Yeshua haMashiach

and He will reign from Yerushalayim for One Thousand Years.

then the heavens and earth will melt with fervent heat.

He makes all things new

and those that overcome will inherit the New Heavens and Earth and enter into the New Jerusalem by one of the gates, named for a tribe of Israel into the city of the Living God.
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As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.

WAITING FOR IMPACT: Four days after it left the sun, the CME of Sept. 30th has still not hit Earth's magnetic field. This could mean that the cloud has missed our planet. NOAA forecasters say the tardy CME might yet arrive during the late hours of Oct. 4th, with a 65% chance of geomagnetic storms if and when it hits. RAPTURE? PERHAPS?

This could mean that the cloud has missed our planet.

Acts 1:9

After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

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You got the meeting place it seems, so long as youre saying that it is spiritual bodies right here on the earth. Spirit is what it is meant by the air. Clouds are large groups of the same.

It will not happen though until satan is cast into the earth and emerges in his own spiritual body claiming to be God. Causing the great falling away of those the aren't armed with the truth.
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and possibly the Dead in Christ could of been raised between the 27th and 30th of September

COSMIC RAYS DURING THE LUNAR ECLIPSE:

[link to www.spaceweather.com]

The Shroud of Turin has shown Cosmic Rays were the cause of the resurrection...

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i'm sorry, you are wrong. we are at the 3rd seal, 3rd trumpet, and about to experience the 3rd vial....

fiancial collapse around the world is the 3rd vial.

what you are discussing happens at the 7th seal, 7th trump and 7th vial......Christ returns

the signs in the heavens are only signs...yes we are to watch these signs, but also be aware of the seals, trumpets, vials...their meaning...once you understand we are just at the black horse.....then you'll better discern the heavens.
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Matthew 24:22

"If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

 Quoting: christian

Matt 24:29-31
He comes for the elect after the tribulation......after means after, when the sun and moon do not give off their light.
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Which is the Word of GOD and the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Sun and Moon...

Susie

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.....Matthew 6:21
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: Ecclesiastes 3:1
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and possibly the Dead in Christ could of been raised between the 27th and 30th of September

COSMIC RAYS DURING THE LUNAR ECLIPSE:

[link to www.spaceweather.com]

The Shroud of Turin has shown Cosmic Rays were the cause of the resurrection...

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i'm sorry, you are wrong. we are at the 3rd seal, 3rd trumpet, and about to experience the 3rd vial....

fiancial collapse around the world is the 3rd vial.

what you are discussing happens at the 7th seal, 7th trump and 7th vial......Christ returns

the signs in the heavens are only signs...yes we are to watch these signs, but also be aware of the seals, trumpets, vials...their meaning...once you understand we are just at the black horse.....then you'll better discern the heavens.
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Matthew 24:22

"If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

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yep, and if you can discern Rev 9 the season of a locust is 5 MONTHS....and this is the fifth trump (sounded)

9 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
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i'm sorry, you are wrong. we are at the 3rd seal, 3rd trumpet, and about to experience the 3rd vial....

fiancial collapse around the world is the 3rd vial.

what you are discussing happens at the 7th seal, 7th trump and 7th vial......Christ returns

the signs in the heavens are only signs...yes we are to watch these signs, but also be aware of the seals, trumpets, vials...their meaning...once you understand we are just at the black horse.....then you'll better discern the heavens.
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Matthew 24:22

"If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

 Quoting: christian

Matt 24:29-31
He comes for the elect after the tribulation......after means after, when the sun and moon do not give off their light.
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The second coming is after the tribulation.
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Correct and may God keep you and your family well and use you in these coming dark days. The stage is being set ladies and gentlemen, do we want to be a part of these awesome days or are we going to focus on the flesh and desire to leave?
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caught up - harpazo in greek, to Meet the Master at His Coming,

after the Great Tribulation.

at the last trump

when the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Adonai and Messiah Yeshua haMashiach

and He will reign from Yerushalayim for One Thousand Years.

then the heavens and earth will melt with fervent heat.

He makes all things new

and those that overcome will inherit the New Heavens and Earth and enter into the New Jerusalem by one of the gates, named for a tribe of Israel into the city of the Living God.
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We should warn also that satan has his own harpazo event still yet to come. Same word below, and it happens before the last trump. The 6th trump actually, claiming that he is God.

""When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.""
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i'm sorry, you are wrong. we are at the 3rd seal, 3rd trumpet, and about to experience the 3rd vial....

fiancial collapse around the world is the 3rd vial.

what you are discussing happens at the 7th seal, 7th trump and 7th vial......Christ returns

the signs in the heavens are only signs...yes we are to watch these signs, but also be aware of the seals, trumpets, vials...their meaning...once you understand we are just at the black horse.....then you'll better discern the heavens.
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Matthew 24:22

"If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

 Quoting: christian

Matt 24:29-31
He comes for the elect after the tribulation......after means after, when the sun and moon do not give off their light.
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Which is the Word of GOD and the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Sun and Moon...

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I just handed out scripture that crushes your lala land pretrib rapture, but the fear and the pride get all mixed up with your type.
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and possibly the Dead in Christ could of been raised between the 27th and 30th of September

COSMIC RAYS DURING THE LUNAR ECLIPSE:

[link to www.spaceweather.com]

The Shroud of Turin has shown Cosmic Rays were the cause of the resurrection...

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i'm sorry, you are wrong. we are at the 3rd seal, 3rd trumpet, and about to experience the 3rd vial....

fiancial collapse around the world is the 3rd vial.

what you are discussing happens at the 7th seal, 7th trump and 7th vial......Christ returns

the signs in the heavens are only signs...yes we are to watch these signs, but also be aware of the seals, trumpets, vials...their meaning...once you understand we are just at the black horse.....then you'll better discern the heavens.
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So the seals trumps and vials all happen in unison???

Crap, I thought the seals of the scroll of wrath had to be broken prior to the scroll being opened by Jesus. Then according to chronological order in revelations the seventh trump contains the final 7 vials of Gods full 100% wrath (trumps were 1/3rds or not full wrath)

Hooked on Ebonics worked for me...
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So yellowstone goes off,great earthquake launches people into the air.
The men in the field see the ash cloud and one goes to get jacket because its going to get cold.he ends up suffocating.the man who stays in place and doesnt panic ,survives.
Then the ash cloud creates three days of darkness.

Do you bible thumpers realize all the world is a stage and your being played.yellowstone is being primed as we speak.
Armageddon is a fight for final resources but israel will create the bad situation that stirs the big actors.

Most of you old time cters should see this is obvious.
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Matthew 24:22

"If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

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Matt 24:29-31
He comes for the elect after the tribulation......after means after, when the sun and moon do not give off their light.
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Which is the Word of GOD and the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Sun and Moon...

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I just handed out scripture that crushes your lala land pretrib rapture, but the fear and the pride get all mixed up with your type.
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The next time you disrupt this thread I am going to ban you from it...

Disagree all you want, be a troll and your gone.

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I just handed out scripture that crushes your lala land pretrib rapture, but the fear and the pride get all mixed up with your type.
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no, you handed out your faulty and very flawed interpretation of scripture that shows your.....

the pre-tribulation rapture event is true and accurate.
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I just handed out scripture that crushes your lala land pretrib rapture, but the fear and the pride get all mixed up with your type.
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no, you handed out your faulty and very flawed interpretation of scripture that shows your.....

the pre-tribulation rapture event is true and accurate.
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clappa
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Op are you saying imminent nuke attack???!!!
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Matthew 24:22

"If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

 Quoting: christian

Matt 24:29-31
He comes for the elect after the tribulation......after means after, when the sun and moon do not give off their light.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25804924



Which is the Word of GOD and the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Sun and Moon...

 Quoting: christian

I just handed out scripture that crushes your lala land pretrib rapture, but the fear and the pride get all mixed up with your type.
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Yeah all scripture says and the end or at the last day
All scripture says two comings of Christ, once to fulfil prophesy (Jesus at the cross) then His second return which signifies the last day as He comes to claim His bride. It's pretty hard the have a pretrib, midtrib or whatever rapture when that would require Jesus returning 3 times by the pretribbers misguided words of Him returning on the clouds to rapture them.

Some people would rather believe a false pastors teachings than the Word of God. The best part is they can take this to the Lord in prayer and He will tell them the truth if they surrender themselves to Him.

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Op are you saying imminent nuke attack???!!!
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No...?
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Matt 24:29-31
He comes for the elect after the tribulation......after means after, when the sun and moon do not give off their light.
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Which is the Word of GOD and the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Sun and Moon...

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I just handed out scripture that crushes your lala land pretrib rapture, but the fear and the pride get all mixed up with your type.
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The next time you disrupt this thread I am going to ban you from it...

Disagree all you want, be a troll and your gone.

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Ban the one telling the truth. I see your true colors
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ufo56 <----- This is what is meant. Those are your gods.
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Which is the Word of GOD and the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Sun and Moon...

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I just handed out scripture that crushes your lala land pretrib rapture, but the fear and the pride get all mixed up with your type.
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The next time you disrupt this thread I am going to ban you from it...

Disagree all you want, be a troll and your gone.

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Ban the one telling the truth. I see your true colors
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Your telling your truth and you are making things personal by being insulting, mocking and being disruptive..
That is why I would ban you from my thread...


Be Christlike and your welcome to stay...

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I just handed out scripture that crushes your lala land pretrib rapture, but the fear and the pride get all mixed up with your type.
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The next time you disrupt this thread I am going to ban you from it...

Disagree all you want, be a troll and your gone.

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Ban the one telling the truth. I see your true colors
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Your telling your truth and you are making things personal by being insulting, mocking and being disruptive..
That is why I would ban you from my thread...


Be Christlike and your welcome to stay...
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In 1 Corinthians 15:51-57, I’ve been taught that this passage is clearly a Rapture passage. Verse 51-52 states that:

“…we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”

The first issue I have with this passage is the word “last” trump. The word “last” means in Webster 1828, “that comes after all the others; that follows all the others; beyond which there is no more.” It’s the same Greek word that is used for Christ in Revelation 1 where it says that He is the first and the “last.” So when verse 52 says that the Rapture will happen at the “last” trump, it means that there are no more trumpets that can follow after it. There can’t be two last trumpets, only one. So if we are raptured before the 7 years begin with the “last” trumpet sounding, then why does Jesus mention a trumpet “immediately after the tribulation of those days” in Matthew 24:29-31. It says that:

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light…And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

Wouldn’t this be the “last” trumpet, otherwise we would be talking about two separate “last” trumpets, one in this passage and the pre-trib one happening before the 7 years. Grammatically this doesn’t make sense to me especially since it doesn’t agree with the Webster definition. Also if “last” doesn’t have to mean “the very last” and we can interpret that loosely, can the same loose interpretation be given to Revelation 1:11 where the same Greek word is given for Jesus, where he says He is the first and the “last?” It doesn’t make much sense to me.

Also on a side note, I noticed that the same trumpet in Matthew 24 talks about a great gathering of the “elect.” The Gospel of Mark even fills in some of the details that Matthew left out of the Olivet Discourse. Jesus says in Mark 13:27, “And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.” This doesn’t seem like a smaller “Jewish elect” gathering in the land of Israel; it seems like a huge gathering from the entire earth, and from all of heaven. (Aren’t all the saints, Jews and Christians who have died throughout history living in the “uttermost” part of heaven waiting to be gathered together for their resurrected bodies? Why would Jesus say this “gathering” includes not only the extreme extent of earth, but also the extreme extent of heaven, if the “Jewish elect” are only located on earth?) The details in Matthew 24:30-31 also seem to match the details of 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17. Where both passages mention Jesus coming in the clouds, they also describe a large gathering together, they both refer to the presence of angels, and both mention a trumpet. Also 1 Thessalonians 4 doesn’t sound like a secret rapture. It is described as a very loud event. Even the Greek wording is like that of a triumphant battle cry, like a king calling his army to battle. Couldn’t this be the same event, since Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4 doesn’t even say that the Rapture, which he is describing, happens before the Tribulation begins, anywhere in that chapter?

A similar point can be made about the word “last” in John 11:24. When Jesus told Martha that her brother would rise again, Martha responded by telling him that she knew that he would rise again in the resurrection (1 Thess 4:16) at the “last” day. She probably heard Jesus say the same thing in John 6 verse 39, 40, 44, and 54. He says the same thing repeatedly 4 times in that chapter. “…every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the “last” day (John 6:40).” Notice that Jesus doesn’t say “in the last days” (plural), but He says “at the last day” (singular), noting a specific day. Even the Greek word for “day” in these passages means a specific 24 hour day, and not a series of days. So this seems to point to the very last day in history when Jesus comes down to earth to slay the wicked at the battle of Armageddon, establishing His kingdom on earth. Am I interpreting “at the last day” wrongly? Can there be two last days, a pre-trib one prior to the 7 years, and one at the end of the 7 years? Can “last” be translated loosely in this case too?

Another thing I noticed was the phase that was used in Revelation 20:5-6. In verse 20:4 John describes the saints that were beheaded during the great tribulation. It says they did not worship the beast, or his image, and did not receive his mark in their hands or foreheads. The question I have is why does it say that this group of believers took part in the “first” resurrection? “First” in the dictionary means “Preceding all others in the order of time”, or “before any thing else in the order of time.” If the “first” resurrection actually means “first,” and the object is on believers, then why would it not say the “second” resurrection, if the “first resurrection” really occurred 7 years earlier in the pre-trib rapture? But this passage makes it clear that these believers were the same ones that lived and died during the great tribulation, and who had resisted the Antichrist. Yet they are the ones who took part in the first resurrection, not the second.

The final thing I want to mention for the specific passage of 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 is that Paul tells us exactly when this “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye” Rapture will take place, where “the dead shall be raised incorruptible“. It says in verse 54,

“So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”

So Paul is clearly saying that the rapture will happen “when” this Old Testament prophecy is fulfilled. The problem is that the prophecy is a passage in Isaiah 25:8 which seem to me to be the clear start of the “Millennium.” The passage reads,

“He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth…”

In the two verses before it in that passage in Isaiah, it is talking about the great Millennial feast. How could this prophecy apply to a pre-trib rapture? Death will continue to go on for God’s people through the 7 years. Tears won’t be wiped away completely until the beginning of the Millennium, and the ending of rebuke of God’s people off “all the earth” won’t happen till the very end. I don’t understand why Paul would tell us that the Rapture will happen at the fulfillment of a Millennial passage?

So in conclusion to this specific issue, I am having trouble reconciling these verses with a pre-trib rapture scenario because if these words really mean what they mean in the dictionary, then why does the passage make a point to call it the “last” trumpet and not the 2nd to last or more? And why does Jesus say “at the last day” and not “in the last days?” And why does Revelation 20 make a point to tell us that these tribulation believers took part in the “first resurrection” and not the second resurrection? And lastly, why does Paul tell us that the Rapture will happen at the beginning of the Millennium? If I am in error in any way and am interpreting these passage incorrectly, please show me how these passages are being misinterpreted. Though these passages appear to point to a post-trib Rapture, I want to be open to any error and misinterpretation of these passages on my part. For personally I would rather be Raptured in a pre-trib scenario rather than a post-trib. But I know I need to believe truth rather than error no matter what scenario it is, pre-trib or post-trib.
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I just handed out scripture that crushes your lala land pretrib rapture, but the fear and the pride get all mixed up with your type.
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The next time you disrupt this thread I am going to ban you from it...

Disagree all you want, be a troll and your gone.

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Ban the one telling the truth. I see your true colors
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Your telling your truth and you are making things personal by being insulting, mocking and being disruptive..
That is why I would ban you from my thread...


Be Christlike and your welcome to stay...
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In Matthew 13:24-30 Jesus give a parable about the tares and the wheat. His disciple later come to Him asking Him to interpret the parable to them in verses 36-43. In the former passage I have put Jesus interpretations in parenthesis to give more clarity to His parable.

“Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man (JESUS) which soweth good seed (TRUE BELIEVERS) in his field (THE WORLD):
But while men slept, his enemy (SATAN) came and sowed tares (CHILDREN OF SATAN) among the wheat (TRUE BELIEVERS), and went his way.
But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares (CHILDREN OF SATAN) also.
So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed (TRUE BELIEVERS) in thy field (THE WORLD)? from whence then hath it tares (CHILDREN OF SATAN)?
He said unto them An enemy (SATAN) hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares (CHILDREN OF SATAN), ye root up also the wheat (TRUE BELIEVERS) with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest (END OF THE WORLD): and in the time of the harvest (END OF THE WORLD) I will say to the reapers (ANGELS), Gather ye together first the tares (CHILDREN OF SATAN), and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat (TRUE BELIEVERS) into my barn.” ( Matthew 13:24-30)

Notice that the harvest is interpreted by Jesus as the “end of the world” in Matthew 13:39. It is the same Greek phrase that is used by Jesus disciples when they asked him in the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24:3, “what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” Jesus gives them many signs prior to his coming, leading up to the main sign right before He comes, with the sun and moon being darkened and the stars falling from heaven. His coming in the Olivet discourse comes “Immediately after the tribulation of those days.” So the “end of the world” that Jesus describes is the one immediately after the Great Tribulation. Also Jesus makes it clear when the “end of the world” occurs in Matthew 13:40. He says, “As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.” The eternal fiery punishment of the wicked occur at the end of the Great Tribulation, so this seems to show that the “end of the world” is really at the end of the 7 years and not during or before those 7 years. We know this because Jesus mentions that there will be many false prophets and Christ’s during those 7 years, according to the Olivet discourse, who will not be destroyed until the end.

So to this understanding, we know that the children that Satan sows will not be gathered and burned until the end of the world according to Jesus parable. The servants of Jesus wanted Him to gather up these evil tares before the wheat were gathered allowing a separation of time to be occur between both the bad and the good so that they wouldn’t be mixed together. Look carefully at what Jesus decides to do. He tells his servants that He wants both the wheat and the tares to “grow together,” without any prior separation before the “end of the world.” Jesus never said that He wanted the wheat to be gathered sometime prior to the tares being gathered. For if He had made that distinction it would have been consistent with a pre-tribulation rapture. It would be proof that true believers would be gathered together 7 years prior to the time when the tares would be gathered and burned. But it doesn’t say or imply this at all.

Not only does it say that both will be gathered at the “end of the world,” but it even goes as far as saying that the gathering and binding of the children of Satan happen “first,” right before the true believers are gathered at the end of the world. If true believers are gathered/raptured “first” before the tares are gathered for their punishment then it would seem that Matthew 13:24-30 would be a direct contradiction to what is taught with a pre-trib Rapture. The wheat can’t be gathered first before the tares and at the same time the tares being gathered before the wheat. This would make no sense. The only way I can reconcile this issue is through a post-trib perspective. The tares will continue to live through the 7 years without punishment until they are gathered with all nations at the Battle of Armageddon. It is at this point that Christ comes back with the saints that have died throughout history, and at the last trumpet their bodies are raised and changed into immortality along with those Christians that are “alive and remain” on the earth. Jesus then destroys the wicked with all His saints at this last battle. So the point I’m making here is that this parable seems to make it clear that the wheat and the tares will grow together until the end of the world, and when the end of the world comes, the tares are the first to be gathered before the wheat is gathered. I don’t understand how this parable could make sense in a pre-trib scenario. Is there a better way to explain this passage?
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First Fruits= Jesus Christ

The Barley harvest- The church that does not go through the time of testing

Wheat-Those who are tested and purified by the fire of the spirit.

Tares- Those who go to the Lake of Fire


The Harvest of GOD..

Susie

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.....Matthew 6:21
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: Ecclesiastes 3:1
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IN clouds not, in (the) clouds

To meet The Lord in the air (aera)

Area is the local air, nor (ouranous) Heavenlies
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NO rapture... at least nothing pre or mid pertaining to the great tribulation.

Jesus Witnesses in John 17, in a Prayer To HIS Father, that HIS People should remain in the world and that they are Preserved against all evil.

Pretty plain Witness, only one in form of a Prayer ever Given By Jesus:
9. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
10. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

11. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
12. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.


14. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

15. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

16. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.



Might really want to consider your alienation from God...

Jesus Also Witnesses "YE MUST BE Born-Again!" in John 3:7

Unless HE KNOWS you, per Ezekiel 36:26-27, you face HIS Rejection; no matter how many wonderful works you did In HIS Name...


Claim HIM, but never Came Unto The Father and made your surrender? HE ain't gonna respond to your expectations.

Matt 7:21-23
-Got to Have that New Heart Of Father's Flesh to Be Enabled To DO Father's Will (verse 21 reference)
-Got to be Born-Again to be Delivered from your "stony heart" and Given Victory over your iniquity....

Can't say you remember making your Leap Of Faith?

Gonna hear The Lord Say: "Depart from ME, you who work iniquity; I KNOW You NOT!" Matt 7:23
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and possibly the Dead in Christ could of been raised between the 27th and 30th of September

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We the living are caught up TOGETHER WITH THEM, those in Christ who have died. We all go up at the same time.





GLP