Subject: The Rapture in Revelation |
Bible Note: Yoshua, I am pre-wrath in my position when it comes to the time, when the dead in Christ will rise and the living believers will be changed. I think that the period of time called tribulation, starts with the Abomination of Desolation Matt. 24:15 and is also spoken of by Paul in II Thess. 2:3,4. The period of time that starts Daniel's 70th week, and runs for three and one half years before this, is merely the beginning of birth pangs. The last half of Jacob's trouble starts with the devil being cast down to the Earth, Rev. 12:12, thus showing that the tribulation spoken of by Christ is from the wrath of Satan not God. Christ went on to say that those that endure till the end of the tribulation, will be delivered. I.e. the rapture. Note that Daniel's 70th week must continue on for it's full term though. Thus, we, the believers will come out of the great tribulation by Christ cutting the great tribulation short, for the elect's sake: this He will do by the rapture. Look at Rev. 7:9-17 Right after all this takes place, God starts to pours out His wrath, Rev. 8:--------- Notice, rapture before wrath; thus the pre-wrath position. CDBJ |