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NASB | 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain [on the earth] will simultaneously be caught up (raptured) together with them [the resurrected ones] in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord! [John 14:3; 1 Cor 15:52; 2 Cor 5:8; Phil 1:23; Col 3:4] |
Subject: Which saints will be left behind? |
Bible Note: Greetings M.Royal, Why do people assume that the tribulation and the wrath of God are one and the same? The book of Revelation clearly shows that God's wrath doesn't start until after the breaking of the sixth seal. Rev. 6:15-17 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? Compare the previous verses plus the beginning of Rev. 7 with what Paul taught in Thes. 1:7-9 2 Thes. 1:7-9 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; Paul said rest with “us”, he meant living saints i.e. the living believers alive when it happened. The book of seals containing the wrath of God is held in check until the conditions of each seal it met and when the last seal is broken then God’s wrath will be unleashed by angles at the first part of chapter 7 the seals designate what must first take place on earth before God’s angles are turned loose for God’s onslaught, which will start with fire. God’s Wrath is against unbelievers that have be making God’s Children miserable. and troubling them under the dictates of antichrist. CDBJ |