Where’s the rapture in the Bible?

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Timtofly

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Tribulation is tribulation. INi th epast 5990 years most of the tribulation if not over 99.9% of it is simply caused by us living in the fallen world.

But teh 7 year tribulation is a specific God caused period of judgment and woe upon the earth.
It has been 10+ months of the seals. It will get worse after Jesus starts His earthly ministry in the 6th seal.
 

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Jesus does not distinguish that the tribulation is of God.

Disagree.

Rev.1
[1] ...Revelation of Jesus Christ...
[2] ...record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ...

Rev 6
[16] ...wrath of the Lamb:

Rev 12:
[12] the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath...

Rev 16
[1] ...wrath of God


The Gospels do not paint the Romans as Sunday School peace keepers. We have more peace today than the Roman Pax.

I said no such thing. Comment Irrelevant-

God judges the earth. That is a given. That His judgment is the Greatest Tribulation is not as cut and dried.

This is a public forum allowing space for short quips.
I never indicated a short quip was the extent of The Great Tribulation.

God was Angry in the OT- at men Professing to Do as He said...Then they Did Not.

Men Continue to Cause God to Be Angry-
And God IS NOT SILENT- that When His Anger is Directed AT ANY particular Individual-
That Individual (less he be Ignorant), should Know EXACTLY How God Intends, to Deal With His Anger.
Gods Anger Shall Be intense, and Shall be Revealed BY HIS intense WRATH.
When Gods WRATH "waxes" (increases) HOT,
None Shall Escape the Consequences.

Leading up to: Gods First Great Tribulation...
Men were WARNED...
Most Scoffed...Partied...made fun of Faithful Noah.

Leading up to: Gods Second and Last Great Tribulation...
Men Are WARNED...
Many scoff...Partying...make fun of the Faithful IN Christ, the Power of the Living God.

It will be greater than "World Wars and 2 nukes dropped on cities" is all we can know. The 1900's was not the tribulation period.

No kidding. As I stressed, Tribulations caused OF Men are sporadic. Gods Tribulation Shall Effect the Whole Earth.

No seals of Revelation were opened prior to a year ago.

No Seals, of the Book of 7 SEALS Have YET been Opened.
 

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That is not what this version states:

"They were given authority to kill one-quarter of the world by war, by famine, by plagues and with the wild animals of the earth."

Being killed is being killed, no?

The point is it could be a geological 1/4 and not a total body count. The verse doesn't make that distinction and it's possible it was translated wrong. You didn't say what version it was but many of the more modern versions translated by inserting their opinion of what it should mean rather than actual wording.
 

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There is nowhere that the Bible says the Lord will remove His people from the earth to heaven.

People- are Earthly Body's and Gods Souls.
Earthly Body's do Not go to Heaven.
Saved souls go to Heaven!

Rapture is Calling UP an Earthling...
MADE WHOLE (body, soul, spirit) IN Christ...
TO the Clouds...Not Heaven...as you have been told and shown IN Scripture.
 

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Matthew 24
[36] But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
[37] But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
[38] For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
[39] And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
[40] Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
[41] Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
[42] Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Have you not read the Luke 17 version of that?

Luke 17:33-37
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto Him, "Where, Lord?" And He said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

KJV

Matt 24:28
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

KJV

The real meaning of that first one taken idea our Lord Jesus spread out in His Word. It's apparent He did that so that only those who listen to Him in HIS WORD, and not to man, would understand. Amazing! That word "carcase" in the Matthew 24:28 version means exactly that, a dead corpse (Strong's no.4430). That drives home the real meaning of Luke 17:37.

So the real meaning is the 1st ones taken are like a dead 'carcase' wheresoever the fake eagles are gathered, meaning the fowls eating on their dead corpse. That of course IS NOT about being gathered to Christ Jesus! It's just the opposite!

And afterall, this is what Jesus is also pointing to in the above Luke 17:33 verse, that those who seek to SAVE their life will lose it. That is pointing to those who wish to be the 1st one taken, instead of those who stay in the field working.

So I can see you smiling real big, ignorantly thinking your are preaching comfort to our brethren in Christ, but really brother, you are doing the opposite if you think those 1st ones taken are the saved.
 

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Pre- Trib-
Mid- Trib-
Post- Trib-

Each HAS a PLACE in Scriptural Teaching.
It Precisely is Dependant...
On an Individual's "Standing"...
With or Without- God
With or Without- Lord God
And WHEN...Pre Trib- or During Trib the Individual "Declares" his "Standing".

* Understanding; OT
God has Divided From the Beginning:
Divided- Earth and Heaven
Divided- Night and Day
Divided- The Earth (dry land)
Divided- The Nations
Divided- People- Tribes- Jews- Gentiles
Division- Those WITH "God"- From those WITHOUT "God". .
**Division-
**Those "WITH" God, Lifted Up, Above Water.
..............(8/ Noah)
**Those "WITHOUT" Destroyed.

* Understanding; NT
Jesus Continued DIVISION (Luke 12:51)
Jesus' Division among men (John 7:43)
Jesus' Division- Those WITH the "Lord God"- From those WITHOUT the "Lord God".
** Division-
** pre-Trib
Those "WITH" Lord God, Lifted up.
WHOLE, body, soul, spirit, TO Clouds.
.............1 Thes 4: 16-17
** mid-Trib
Those "having Come to the Lord God"...
(During the Trib)
BODY Killed, Body remains ON Earth.
"Soul" rises Up, To Heaven.
...............Rev 7:14
...............Rev 6:11 (more souls 2 B saved)
** post- Trib
Those "having Later come to the Lord God"
(During Trib) Saved Souls Raised UP to Heaven, Body's Killed.
After 1,000 years...Rest of "IN the Lord God",
"Dead Body's" Raised up To Living.

Utter Destruction- during Judgement For those Who Chose TO "Stand Against" God, and The Lord God.

Judgement ...
Final "Separation of The Divided"...
" Without the Lord God " Separated FROM
the Lord God...
and
the people WITH the Lord God
and
The Face of the Earth.

Glory to God,
His WAY is Perfect,
Taken
 

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The Rapture of the Church has two major competing positions, Postrib and Pretrib. I have friends who are Midtrib, as well. Many are "Pantrib." The argument for Pretrib is based on John Darby's theology called Dispensationalism, in the vicinity of 1830 and passed on by the Schofield Reference Bible, Prophecy Conferences, Dallas Theological Seminary, Hal Lindsey, the Lahaye books, etc.

The Postrib position is the major historical position of the Church, based on the Olivet Discourse and 2 Thes 2. The Pretrib position is largely an argument from symbolism. The Postrib position is supported by explicit biblical doctrine, if it is interpreted as such.

The purpose of the "Rapture" is to be glorified, ie transformed into immortality, like Christ's own immortality. That way we can all reign in the Kingdom of God. To participate in Christ's Coming we must first go to him in heaven to be transformed, and then return with him, all in a second of time.

The dead believers are currently in heaven with Christ. We will ascend to them in a second of time, and return with them within the same second. It is instantaneous. The Church is not going to reign in heaven but over the earth. I don't personally know where the glorified saints will reign over the earth from--heaven or earth?

"...in the twinkling of an eye." ;)
 

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The point is it could be a geological 1/4 and not a total body count. The verse doesn't make that distinction and it's possible it was translated wrong. You didn't say what version it was but many of the more modern versions translated by inserting their opinion of what it should mean rather than actual wording.
So if you are going by geography then 6 billion could die. God could only qualify the land where most population was. Human population centers take up less geography.
 

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It has been 10+ months of the seals. It will get worse after Jesus starts His earthly ministry in the 6th seal.

Would you please in a shortened version show us all the fulfilment of every seal you think has been opend? and teh approx. date when the seal was open?
Thanks
 

Randy Kluth

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Uh...

* Body's do not come from Heaven or Go to Heaven.
* Saved souls & Quickened spirits of Dead Body's go to Heaven.
* Dead body's are buried or left in the open to be eaten by animals/and rot.

Pre- Great Trib- IS for those "IN Christ".
Body, soul, spirit. (Rapture- Called up to Clouds)

During Trib - IS Saving of souls & quickening of spirits, (Carried- to Heaven by angels)...Body's killed, Remain on Earth.

See a Difference?

Late Trib - unsaved souls, Sent- to Hell, to wait Judgement. Their Body's killed, rot on Earth, also eaten by birds.

Called-
Carried-
Sent-

Glory to God,
Taken

I really can't follow that very well. But I will say that yes, bodies do not come out of the grave. That did happen at Christ's death, but that resurrection was a purely temporal resurrection--those people had to die again!

The spirits of the departed saints are with God in heaven. Their bodies have been reduced to the elements, and are irretrievably mixed into the material world, sometimes reused by new bodies. The old bodies are forever gone.

The "rising" of their bodies from the dead is, I think, figurative language indicating that the spirits of the dead are given new bodies, which in effect causes their old physical beings to live again on earth. Same spirits, and new glorified bodies.
 

Randy Kluth

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Well we know that you are post trib.

And you are wrong about how each view is viewed.

Brother, I've been studying this since the early 70s! I know these views upside down and forwards! ;) Lest you think I'm totally jaded in my views, I'll tell you that I was indoctrinated in Pretrib through the church I initially chose as a young adult. I had no bias against it whatsoever. And the church I presently attend is committed to the Pretrib position. So it's not a hostile issue to me. But I am very motivated, if anybody is willing to discuss it amicably.

It is the pre-trib position which stands based on the Bible as written!

I've read several times Pretrib authors admit they have no explicit doctrinal statement defending Pretrib. They instead claim it is a "mystery" revealed to Paul that we also should receive by "revelation," ie in mysterious fashion. That is hardly "explicit doctrinal support!" Sadly, these same people falsely claim that the Postrib position likewise lacks explicit biblical doctrine, which I believe is untrue.

The post trib view is based on convenantalism and the allegorical method of interpretation which was popularized by Augustine in the church and then became the theology of the church of the dark ages!

Not at all. Both the Olivet Discourse and 2 Thes 2 explicitly teach Postrib. And the coming of the Son of Man in NT doctrine originates from the coming of the Son of Man in Dan 7, which is Postrib in context. The Son of Man comes to bring God's Kingdom after the destruction of the Little Horn, aka the Antichrist.

YOur all in a second of time is a twisitng of 1 Cor. 15.

How so?

Yes dispensational theolgy was recovered in the church with Darby and Miller. After the reformation had brought SCriptures to light to the masses again, the first order of business was the most improtant doctrines to be straightened out that were promulgated byt the Church state of Constantine and His successors and then the Roman Church.

Church Doctrine was never lost, once established as Christian Orthodoxy by the Church Fathers. But reform and revival both became necessary, as Christian Civilization wandered, and true Christianity emerged within the Christian States. Pretrib was not "revived"--it never existed. It was never taught in the Early Church, though there was claim that it existed marginally in some quarters, without any lasting legacy.

This took time and sadly much bloodshed! Then with the Biblical truths for the far more important doctrines having gained a foothold and liberating believers, Eschatology became a subject God wished also to straithen out.

We do need to straighten out the Postrib/Pretrib debate! I'd like to return to historic Postrib Doctrine, which will be needed during these times of Christian apostasy and Antichristian sentiment.

A pre trib rapture is the only view that can fit all the biblical passages concerning believers, the church and what happens during the tribulation period.

If there is explicit doctrine in support of Postrib, it is *impossible* that Pretrib fit all passages!

I do wish to remind you that it is the post trib people (as well as the rest of teh covenantal and allegorical holders) who mocked and said Israel would never be regathered as a nation again as dispensational believers predicted right from Scriprure! 1948 it happened

You're conflating Postrib Doctrine with Covenant Theology People.

Also it is dispensational believers who declared Israel would regain Jerusalem and ultimately rebuild the temple. They have Jeruslaem and are preparing to rebuild. They have to wait for God to OKAY IT.

It's easy to predict something that hasn't happened yet. I don't believe the temple will be built, though I could be wrong. But as a Postrib I do agree with Darby that Israel maintains its promises from God. That's something that's right about Dispensationalism, although I don't believe the entire system is correct in all ways.

It is dispensational believers using the bible as written that have declared that there is a coming invasion of Israel with Russia as the major player and other nations as allies word for word from Ezekiel 38-39 to take a spoil and prey!

Well ISrale now has billions of barrels of oil and trilions of cubic feet of natrual gas and is on their way to untold wealth! And the allies of Russia are all aligned with Russia now!

We are also declaring since the 1800's a 1 world govt. a 1 world super church, ten kings coming out of the one world govt and then the antichrist as written in Scripture!

Given the biblical reasons God gives for the tribulation period of 7 years, the promises to the body of Christ and the destruction of believers in the tribulation the only biblical conclusion one can draw with re-interpreting the Scriptures is a pre trib rapture.

Not at all. Dispensationalists don't own Futurism. That kind of eschatology has been around since the Early Church, and the Early Church was *not* Pretrib!
 

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I would add pre-wrath into the mix as it blends both of those positions together perfectly when one understands that while the great trib is in the context of the 70th week it has nothing to do w/ the times mentioned in the bible. It is a short term event that will be in the midst of the first half and end before the end of the first half. It will be much shorter than 3 1/2 years.

I have a different interpretation of the Great Trib--it is the NT Jewish Diaspora, and at the end of the age trouble coming upon the whole world. But a good pastor friend of mine is Pre-Wrath, and I'm supportive of that position--not much different from Postrib. That's not a difference worth fighting over! ;)

Thanks brother.
 
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Would you please in a shortened version show us all the fulfilment of every seal you think has been opend? and teh approx. date when the seal was open?
Thanks
The seals have been centered around the Corona virus and the disruption of work. There is no time frame. The judgments started 3.5 years prior to April 2023AD. There will be no Antichrist until after that date. Satan will be exposed in the 6th seal. The 5th seal is the first half of the rapture. The only noticeable seal as a judgment will be the fourth seal. The 6th seal is not judgment. The earth and heavens will be changed. All left on earth will know and be afraid. This will signal the end of the church on the earth.

Why do modern prophets downplay this virus? The church today has lost a great deal in this event. Does the church even notice what is happening? It is not about laboring in the field, as much as waking up and realizing God is at work. When did the members in the pew stop winning lost souls? It was not this year. But those who have been faithful will remain faithful.
 

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What will He do for us, we who bear His Name?
The Prophesies of Ezra:


2 Esdras 3:17-22 Lord, You rescued Jacob’s descendants from Egypt and led them to Mt Sinai. There You made the heavens bow down and by Your glory, gave the Commandments to the Israelites. But You did not take away their evil hearts and thus enable Your Law to bear fruit in them. For as Adam sinned, so all his offspring are inveterate sinners and the good of the Law came to nothing.

2 Esdras 4:23-37 Why has Israel been scattered among the nations? Why are Your people, those whom You love, living in the godless nations? Why has the Law of our fathers and our Covenant with You, been discarded? Our lives are short, are we even worthy of Your pity? What will He do for us, we who bear His Name?

[those who bear His Name; are every faithful Christian, the Lord’s people. John 15:16]


Those who are living at the end of the age will see and marvel. This present age is full of sorrow and weakness, people are unable to grasp what is promised in due time for His godly people. Until the full crop of evil has been reaped and the ground on which it was sown has been cleansed, there will be no room for the place where the good will be sown. Terrible will be the harvest, one seed of evil has produced a great crop of godlessness!


But when? How long must we wait? The reply: Do not be in a hurry for yourselves alone, the Most High is concerned for the many. The same question is asked by the righteous in the storehouse of the souls: How long must we stay here? [Revelation 6:10-11] As soon as the tally of those like yourselves is complete. The Lord has measured and numbered the ages, He will alter nothing, the appointed time must be reached.

2 Esdras 6:17-28 The time draws near when I shall come to judge the earth’s inhabitants, a time when I shall enquire into the wickedness of the wrongdoers and the time when Zion’s humiliation will be over. All will see this judgement at the same moment – a loud trumpet blast will strike terror into all who hear it. Whoever is left after all that will be saved and will see the salvation that I bring. Wickedness will be blotted out, but faithfulness will flourish and truth will be revealed.

2 Esdras 9:1-12 Watch carefully, when you see earthquakes, insurrections, unstable governments and panic among the leaders, then you will understand that the time is near for the Most High to begin to judge the world. The times determined by the Most High are marked; the beginning by portents and miracles, the end by manifestations of power. All who come safely through, thanks to their good deeds or the faith they have shown, will survive the dangers I have foretold and will witness the salvation I shall bring to My Land, the special area set apart for eternity as My own. Isaiah 35, Ezekiel 34:1-16, Romans 9:24-26

Then those who have neglected My ways, will be taken by surprise, their contempt for their Maker will bring them to destruction. All who disdained My Laws while freedom was still theirs, who scornfully dismissed the idea of penitence while the way was still open, all these must learn the truth through torments after death. The just will be saved, the world is theirs and for their sake it exists. Reference: REB Apocrypha. Some verses condensed.
 

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There is nowhere that the Bible says the Lord will remove His people from the earth to heaven.
PHILIPPIANS 3:20
New International Version
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
New Living Translation
But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior.
English Standard Version
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Berean Study Bible
But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Berean Literal Bible
For our citizenship exists in the heavens, from whence also we are awaiting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
New American Standard Bible
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
New King James Version
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
King James Bible
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Christian Standard Bible
but our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Contemporary English Version
But we are citizens of heaven and are eagerly waiting for our Savior to come from there. Our Lord Jesus Christ
 

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I really can't follow that very well. But I will say that yes, bodies do not come out of the grave. That did happen at Christ's death, but that resurrection was a purely temporal resurrection--those people had to die again!

The spirits of the departed saints are with God in heaven. Their bodies have been reduced to the elements, and are irretrievably mixed into the material world, sometimes reused by new bodies. The old bodies are forever gone.

The "rising" of their bodies from the dead is, I think, figurative language indicating that the spirits of the dead are given new bodies, which in effect causes their old physical beings to live again on earth. Same spirits, and new glorified bodies.

Disagree- impart.

Humans do not "Receive", a "Different" Body.
Their "same body" is "raised".

* Some Body's Shall be "raised" changed...
From mortal to immortal, (which means, once raised, that Body can never Again Die.)

* Some Body's Shall be "raised" unchanged...
Still mortal, (which means still subject to death).
Here...requires "understanding DEATH", in the Spiritual Understanding.

Death- in common understanding, means no longer Alive..

Death- in Spiritual Understanding, (whether or not a body, soul, spirit- IS Alive- ) it is separated From (NOT WITH), the Lord God.

A Human body's Life is its Blood.
BLOOD is Never "returned" to a "raised Dead Body".

A dead Body is "Raised", by the Power of God, RETURNING a "Living soul" To the Body.

Those IN Christ- Bodily Raised, IN Glory, are Raised in "their own Same Body", (that IS MADE perfected). No Blood, No Diseases, No deformities, no heartache memories, depression, etc.
Their saved Living soul....AND Born Again spirit, IS "imparted INTO", their Same, but Perfected Body.

Those Physically Dead Body's (NOT) IN Christ, (are those WHO Knew of Christ Jesus.../while Alive in their Flesh/...and "Chose" TO REJECT Christ Jesus.)

(And there IS an "Exception" to THAT ^ for the Jews/Tribes of Israel).

Regarding "Gentile's"...(not having the "Exception"),
They who chose to Reject Christ Jesus...
Shall be Bodily Raised, (in their own body, as it was when they Physically Died), by the Power of God, Returning their Living soul to their Body.
They stand before the Judge, Become Judged (according to the Evidence.
The Evidence is Whether their Their Name Appears in the Lambs Book of Life or Not).
If Not-
The LIFE in their soul, returns TO God.
Their Body and soul...IS Then Life-less.
Their Body and soul...IS then DESTROYED.
(Burned, IN Hell. The "the remaining ASH", is NOT ever spread on the Earth's Surface, to be under foot of the New Earth)

ISRAEL- (Tribes), Have an "Exception", as mentioned....Because God "intentionally"...
BLINDED them from Accepting Christ Jesus.
(Temporarily)
The Purpose was Expressly to Give Gentile's, Opportunity to Become Believers, IN the Lord God.
The Temporary...BLINDNESS, is Removed During the Tribulation...and ISRAEL becomes Saved Then, (during the Trib).

Same Body (it) is raised-

1 Cor 15:
[42] So also is the resurrection of the dead. "It" (Body) is sown in corruption; "it" (Body) is raised in incorruption:
[43] It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
[44] It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Israel Temporarily Blinded-

Romans 11:
[25] For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this "mystery", lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that "blindness" in part is happened "to Israel", "until" the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Glory to God,
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Those IN Christ- Bodily Raised, IN Glory, are Raised in "their own Same Body", (that IS MADE perfected). No Blood, No Diseases, No deformities, no heartache memories, depression, etc.

Paul says changed. Not made better.

When you change clothes you do not put the same ones back on. At least not immediately. Nor do you stand naked waiting for them to be cleaned. That is not changing clothes. That is just waiting for the same clothes. There is a big difference in change and waiting for the old. Paul did not say we will wait for the end to get the same old flesh. Nor did he say the old flesh can go to heaven period. Paul claims an incorruptible body, a change, a new body, immediately with the Lord at physical death.
 

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Matthew 24
[36] But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
[37] But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
[38] For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
[39] And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
[40] Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
[41] Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
[42] Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Pretty funny! -- Ummmmmmmmmmmmm, you missed Verse 28, which gives the context of what is ACTUALLY happening to the "two in the field"; and Lke 17 even paints a more accurate picture:

Lke 17:34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

And so the one who is "taken" simply DROPS DEAD, and the "eagles" feast on that dead body, -- which presumably is a person who had accepted the Mark of the Beast and will NOT ENTER the Millennial Kingdom.


Funny indeed! :)
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@Nancy The point is to be ready, right? by God's grace...

That's what my wife says when I'm doing something she disagrees with, and she warns me: -- Jesus could come at any moment, if you don't knock it off ...

... and so I stop what I'm doing. But we WILL (or at least SHOULD) know when Jesus will Return, at it isn't at "any time", but a KNOWN time -- down to the WEEK.

1 Thess. 5:2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape. 4 But you are not in darkness, brethren, for that day to surprise you like a thief.


But of course the "rapture" isn't until the END of the Millennial Kingdom when Jesus ascends to the New Jerusalem with HIS church, to be with the LORD forever in the air.

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