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NASB | Revelation 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 4:1 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a [war] trumpet speaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things." |
Subject: What's this about the Rapture? |
Bible Note: Interesting. I take it that there is a Rapture, referred to in I Corinthians 15:51,52 and in 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17. I take it that the church is in heaven in Revelation 4, not because John is there (Revelation 4:1) but because the twenty-four elders are there (vv. 4,8; Revelation 5:6,8). I understand that in Matthew 24 Jesus is talking about the Jews and not the church, and in Revelation 6 John is seeing the Jews and not the church. The tribulation is the time of Jacob’s trouble. Jews will go through the Great tribulation and out of it some 144,000 will be saved, but during all of this the church is in heaven. I imagine that the subject of the rapture has been discussed elsewhere, but it seems appropriate that the post above be answered here. Meanwhile, I will look for other discussions on this topic. |