Revelation 20:12 tells us plainly when the Bool of Life will be opened. AFTER the Millennium.
Revelation 5 is all about a book that is sealed with 7 seals. It deals with those ransomed by the blood of the Lamb. Heaven is waiting to see what has been sealed from before the creation of the world. The Trumpets cannot sound until the 7th seal is opened. Why would the seals not pertain to the church, the body of Christ? Who have been sealed, redeemed, and ransomed with the blood of the Lamb? Why would they not meet the Lord in the air, when the 6th seal is opened? Why cannot the Lamb's book of life, open during this half hour of silence? Why would names not be removed as the harvest of sheep and goats commences? Names have not been added for thousands of years. It has been sealed. The only thing that can happen will be names removed, period. God says He will blot out people's names.
8 When he took the scroll, the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down in front of the Lamb. Each one held a harp and gold bowls filled with pieces of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people;
9 and they sang a new song,
“You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals; because you were slaughtered;
at the cost of blood you ransomed for God
persons from every tribe, language, people and nation.
10 You made them into a kingdom for God to rule,
cohanim to serve him;
and they will rule over the earth.”
The 7 Trumpets are punishments onto the ungodly. See Revelation 8 and 9, 11:15
So there is no rapture, yet the Trumpets are not for the church and the 144K?
There is no 'rapture to heaven' for the Church. You have made that up.
Jesus, Paul, and John made it up also.
Matthew 24:27-31
27 For when the Son of Man does come, it will be like lightning that flashes out of the east and fills the sky to the western horizon.
28 Wherever there’s a dead body, that’s where you find the vultures.
29 “But immediately following the trouble of those times,
the sun will grow dark,
the moon will stop shining,
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the powers in heaven will be shaken.
30 “Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky,
all the tribes of the Land will mourn, and they will see
the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with tremendous power and glory.
31 He will send out his angels
with a great shofar; and they will gather together his chosen people from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
15 When we say this, we base it on the Lord’s own word: we who remain alive when the Lord comes will certainly not take precedence over those who have died.
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a rousing cry, with a call from one of the ruling angels, and with God’s
shofar; those who died united with the Messiah will be the first to rise;
17 then we who are left still alive will be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we will always be with the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53
51 Look, I will tell you a secret — not all of us will die! But we will all be changed!
52 It will take but a moment, the blink of an eye, at the final
shofar. For the
shofar will sound, and the dead will be raised to live forever, and we too will be changed.
53 For this material which can decay must be clothed with imperishability, this which is mortal must be clothed with immortality.
Revelation 6:12-17
12 Then I watched as he broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, the sun turned black as sackcloth worn in mourning, and the full moon became blood-red.
13 The stars fell from heaven to earth just as a fig tree drops its figs when shaken by a strong wind.
14 The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
15 Then the earth’s kings, the rulers, the generals, the rich and the mighty — indeed, everyone, slave and free — hid himself in caves and among the rocks in the mountains,
16
and said to the mountains and rocks, “
Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the One sitting on the throne and from the fury of the Lamb!
17 For the Great Day of their fury has come, and who can stand?”
The half hour is in heaven. Is time in heaven the same as it is on earth? NO.
The OT has plenty of prophesies that detail the period between the Sixth Seal world changer and Jesus Return. Isaiah 35, Ezekiel 34:11-16, Zechariah 8:1-13
Revelation 6:14-17
14 The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
15 Then the earth’s kings, the rulers, the generals, the rich and the mighty — indeed, everyone, slave and free — hid himself in caves and among the rocks in the mountains,
16
and said to the mountains and rocks, “
Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the One sitting on the throne and from the fury of the Lamb!
17 For the Great Day of their fury has come, and who can stand?”
This says God on the throne, and the Lamb appear in the sky. This is the time we meet the Lord in the air. The Second Coming is when we return with Christ. The seals, trumpets, and thunderings is only a 3.5 year period. If there is another 3.5 year period, it will be controlled by Satan. We do not want that period to happen. It is not God's Will. If you all want it, you want millions or billions of lost souls to die and go to hell. The Calvinist listened to Satan and think it will happen, because they claim those people were never meant to be saved, God wills some to everlasting fire to be with Satan. 1/3 rd of the angels followed Satan. Calvanism is the doctrine where 1/3 rd of humanity will be dammed in hell with Satan. God so loved the whole world, not willing that any should perish, but all should come to repentance. Now the church is just willing to give up on 1/3rd of humanity?
Time in heaven is the same time on earth. You will have to provide scripture to prove otherwise. There is a Lord's Day. The verse says, there was "silence in heaven". It does not say, a half hour of the Lord's silence.
"When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for what seemed like half an hour."
What rubbish! Your fanciful ideas are just that.
The 144k are selected out of the people from every tribe, race, nation and language. They will proclaim the coming Kingdom to the world. Isaiah 66:19
Revelation 7:4
4 I heard how many were sealed — 144,000 from every tribe of the people of Isra’el:
There is an issue with who is and who is not in the Lamb's book of life. Prove to me when people still walking on earth, after the Second Coming, just happened to not have their names written down. Some here think they can persevere, even after the Second Coming. Your proof just stated that those who persevere to the end, never had their names written down ever. They were never going to be saved anyways. So why pray to persevere through the time when Satan and the Mark of the beast 666 is demanded? Can you explain your delima? If you are around when Satan, the False Prophet, and the antichrist are here, your name is not in the Lamb's book of life. You all were never predestined, forenew, nor called. If you are in that crowd, your interpretation sent you to hell. The only hope is having your head chopped off.
The alternative interpretation, is those who received the mark, will have their names removed. What is your interpretation?
I have been accused of spewing rubbish, yet you all preach it is ok for billions of humans to go to hell. Would that not be rubbish instead?