Subject: Tribulation before rapture? |
Bible Note: zach, the coming of the Lord in the Greek isn't a verb but a noun, it isn't an action but an event. Just emphasizing the words (the last trump in this event) and how the trump plays out, in other Scriptures and you will see it is what we commonly call the rapture. Check out the trump!! Matthew 24:31 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. 1 Cor. 15:51-52 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52In 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. 1 Thes. 4:15-17 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. This sure sounds like the rapture to me no matter which way you slice it. CDBJ |