Bible Question:
Greetings Elijah! Thanks for the clarification! I consider myself a pre-wrath rapture person. So, I have no particular attachment to a pre-tribulation rapture. However, there is enough uncertainty that I am willing to allow lots of wiggle room. For instance, in your exegesis of 2 Thes. 2:1-3, it could be that the "Day of the Lord" is different from the events described in verse one. It seems that the Thessalonians were being exposed to some false teaching that basically said (v. 2) that the "Day of the Lord" had already come. This caused concern among the new Christians because if the "Day of the Lord" had already come then that would mean that they had missed the rapture (v.1). Therefore, Paul argues in verses 2 and 3 that the "Day of the Lord" cannot come until certain things happen, as you pointed out it your post. The problem though is does "Day of the Lord" refer to the rapture or does it refer to the Day of Judgement which takes place after the tribulation and the millenium? I will try to do a word study on that phrase a little later! The best advice I have ever heard concerning the rapture is: Pray for Pre, but be prepared for Post! The important thing is that we live for Him everyday and in everyway, until He comes. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
Bible Answer: Is rapture and Day of the Lord the same? The answer is no. The Day of the Lord is described in Joel 2......... Joel 2:1-2 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. (KJV) We, as Gentiles, forget that the Jews are still God's chosen people. Jesus himself said ....... Matt 15:24 24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. (KJV) John 4:22 22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. (KJV) It is because of their unbelief that we have been grafted in....... Rom 11:11-12 11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. 12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? (KJV) The Jews look to the Day of the Lord as a time of rejoicing. Joel says it will be a time of trouble.Daniel says it will be a time of trouble (Dan. 12:1). The seven year period we call the Tribulation is known to the Jews as the Day of the Lord. It is the final week of the seventy week prophecy of Daniel (Dan. 9:24-27). The Rapture takes place first (Luke 21:24,Rms. 11:25-32,1 Thess. 1:10, 1 Thess. 4:13-18,1 Thess. 5:9-11,2 Thess. 2:6,7, Rev. 4:1) and then the the Day of the Lord begins in which "all Israel shall be saved (Rms. 11:26)"............... |