Revelation 6:9- Is John who sees the *RAPTURED SAINTS* before Jesus opens up the 5th Seal.

The Tribulation and the Rapture

In some of his last words of the 1st Epistle to the Thessalonians,(5:23) the apostle Paul prays, “And may the God of peace sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” His teaching of the coming of Christ was imminent as he taught the church to be blameless in their body as well as the spirit anticipating his appearance.


God has not appointed the Church to the Lord’s wrath. Instead the Church is appointed to obtain salvation, deliverance from that wrath (the tribulation) that is coming on the world culminating in Christ’s coming.


Because of unbeliever’s nature and relationship to the kingdom of darkness, they will experience the darkness and wrath of the Day of the Lord. By contrast, because of the believer’s nature and relationship to the kingdom of light, the Church will experience the coming hope, the blessed hope. The darkness and wrath period covers the entire 70th week that is withheld for the finale of mans government. The Church will be removed from earth before or around the 70th week beginning. It is the righteous that are taken, the Bride of Christ may have to endure some but not the full impact of the Wrath of God...

God’s wrath are for those who do not repent, not the repentant.

The Biblical principle is that God will not judge the righteous with the unrighteous. He did it with Noah, he took out Lot out of Sodom, and He will do it for us.

In 1 Thess.5:4 Paul writes that the Church is removed before the day of darkness so that the Day of the Lord will not overtake them like a thief in the night. Since it initiates the judgment, God will remove the Church from the darkness not keep them through it.

The Thessalonians already had an understanding concerning the future Day of the Lord before Paul wrote 1 Thessalonians to them but they were ignorant concerning the Rapture of the Church before receiving this letter (4:13-18).

This indicates that the Rapture was not part of the subject of the Day of the Lord and therefore will be a different event from the Day of the Lord.

WHEN JESUS OPENS THE 5th SEAL- IT IS THE RAPTURED SAINTS.

The opening of the 6th Seal


I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,


The Apocalypse of St. John (REVELATION)Chap 4-5

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