keras said:
There will be many years between the Sixth Seal and the commencement of the Great Tribulation. This allows for the establishment of a One World Govt and the rise of the Anti-Christ.
rabbi keras says so. He also says the sun will supernova and burn a third of the earth...
on a day when God heals! yeah right.
So what does the Bible say?
First of all, rabbi keras directly contradicts the Bible when he says the Sixth Seal happens many years before the Great Tribulation. rabbi keras actually has the not only the timing wrong but the order! The Great Tribulation happens before the sixth Seal. No less an authority establishes this prophetic fact after the Great Multitude show up in Heaven before the Throne of the Father.
The Great Multitude come OUT OF the Great Tribulation.
Rev 7:13
Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are clothed in the white robes, who are they, and where have they come from?" 14
I said to him, "My lord, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15
For this reason, they are before the throne of God; and they serve Him day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them. 16
They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any heat; 17
for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."
In the Olivet Discourse Jesus said:
Mt 24:21
For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. 22
Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
Now it is important to note that "no life" to be saved does not mean all life. For the wicked have not eternal "life". Their life on this earth is forfeit. The only ones with "life" are those who believe in Jesus. As Jesus said, 'He is not the God of the dead, but of the
Living.' God is not concerned with all human life at this point because in a very short while He and His Army, backed up with Angels are about to take a whole lot of human life in His Wrath.
Thus, not only DO the Elect go through the Great Tribulation, that time is abruptly cut short, chopped off as in docking an animal's tail so it is but a nub - which is the actual word in the Greek Matthew uses to convey what Jesus said - by the sudden appearance of the sun/moon/star event which heralds the Day of the Lord - but some of them are still living when Jesus comes! Paul gives an "observer-true" perspective of one of the Elect seeing Jesus come on the clouds with those He has resurrected from Paradise in 1Th 3:13 -
at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.
And remember, unlike what old rabbi keras says, every eye will see Him coming!
So rabbi keras is wrong once again... not surprising there.
Now as to his second erroneous point: that some time happens after the sixth Seal to the formation of the one world government two things:
1. In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus starts at the midpoint abomination in Mt 24:15. This precedes the Great Tribulation.
2. In Rev 13-16, (the detailed parallel account to the Seal/Scroll chronology of chapters 4-11,) the one-world government arises first in chapter 13, verse 1. The beast of a man is introduced in verse 5. He is given authority to act for the first half of the one 'seven' (by God, He allows this to happen because it is necessary). The false prophet is introduced in verse 11. THEN the second sets up
a talking image of the first in verse 13!
This is the midpoint abomination!
3. AFTER that, is the part where God responds in chapter 14.
Hallelujah!
So the Bible presents the correct order with the rise of a beast of a nation, the fourth terrible beast, the rise within that of a beast of a man, the anti-Christ, his accomplice in his evil: the false prophet (
and both are captured alive later at Armageddon and they are the first thrown while still alive into Hell...) and THEN comes the abomination - and then comes our rescue!
The theme of Rescue and then Wrath is also found in the Bible here which matches what Jesus said in the Olivet Discourse about Noah and Lot. Both were rescued before God's Wrath came upon the wicked left behind.
The Harvest, i.e., Rapture = Rescue.
Rev 14:14
Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like a son of man, having a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand. 15
And another angel came out of the temple, crying out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, " Put in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe." 16
Then He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.
God's Wrath: i.e., the first Trumpet.
Rev 14:17
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle. 18
Then another angel, the one who has power over fire, came out from the altar; and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, " Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, because her grapes are ripe." 19
So the angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into the great wine press of the wrath of God. 20
And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses' bridles, for a distance of two hundred miles.
What this shows is a sequence: one-two.
First there is Rescue, our Redemption; there there is Wrath.
Now you can lean on the Bible and bend your ear to discern what God has said, or you can follow rabbi keras who can't even present Isaiah 30:26 truthfully.
