More lies against God's Word is what the Pre-tribbers offer.
Isaiah 26:19-21 (NKJV) Your dead shall live;
Together with my dead body they shall arise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust;
For your dew is like the dew of herbs,
And the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
And shut your doors behind you;
Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment,
Until the indignation is past.
21 For behold, the Lord comes out of His place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
The earth will also disclose her blood,
And will no more cover her slain.
There's the abuse of Scripture the Pre-trib Rapture school does, adding something to Scripture that does not exist. There is no evidence of a pre-tribulational rapture in those Isaiah 26 verses. It is an evidence for a Post-tribulational gathering of the Church at Christ's coming if anything, simply because that is the actual Bible witness Jesus gave for the timing of His gathering of the saints...
Matt 24:29-31
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
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In 2 Thessalonians 2, Apostle Paul also showed that the coming Antichrist must first be revealed sitting in the "temple of God" in Jerusalem prior to Christ's coming to gather the Church, and that Jesus will destroy that false one with the "brightness of His coming". When that false one is setup in Jerusalem for the end, that is the time of great tribulation Jesus forewarned of in Matt.24:15-26.
John 14:2-3 (NKJV) In My Father's house are many mansions [ chambers ]; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
Pre-trib abuses that John 14 Scripture too, adding their secret rapture idea into it where it is not written there at all. Firstly, they show they are not familiar with The Father's House written of in the last nine chapters of the Book of Ezekiel, which is for after Christ's return. The Greek word for "mansions" means 'abodes'. Our Lord Jesus is talking about the abodes of His priests in the future Millennium sanctuary of Ezekiel 40 thru 47. That sanctuary will be on earth, which Rev.5 tells us also on earth is where the saints will reign from.
The Pre-tribbers also get drunken on that "I will come again..." idea, adding their pre-tribulational secret rapture to it also. Jesus was standing on earth with His disciples when He said that. That "I will come again" is about His return to... Heaven?? No, of course not. It's about His return to this earth at His 2nd coming! The Scripture is simple, but because of the Pre-trib Rapture doctors adding to Scripture, it completely turns the direction of Christ's 2nd coming around, and points Him back to Heaven. The actual Scripture does no such thing...
1 Thess 4:14
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.
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1 Thess 4:16
16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
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Where is Jesus going to bring those 'asleep' saints with Him to like Paul says? It's in the next verse.
Our Lord Jesus is going to DESCEND FROM HEAVEN, to the earth of course when He comes, as Apostle Paul said. And did you notice the dead in Christ are raised then, which is the resurrection at the end of this world? That puts this event of Christ's coming to gather His Church on the very LAST DAY of this world...
John 6:39
39 And this is the Father's will Which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
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Do you see anywhere what Jesus said in the above a rapture prior to the tribulation? No, of course not, simply because the Pre-trib Rapture school claims their rapture of the Church happens prior... to the tribulation, which definitely is not... the 'last day' of this world like Jesus said there.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 (NKJV) For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
The Pre-tribbers cannot read that simple Scripture. They are drunken on their secret rapture idea of being taken out of this world prior to the tribulation, which is not written anywhere there. Notice how their focus on that 1 Thess.4 Scripture is simply on that idea of being "caught up" in the clouds to meet The Lord in the air. And they bypass that Scripture evidence for where Jesus is coming to (i.e., the earth), in order to gather His Church, and also that resurrection of the dead saints that rise first which Jesus brings with Him!
Moreover, Pre-trib teaches lies against our Lord Jesus' Olivet discourse in Matthew 24 and Mark 13, saying that's not about the Church, but about the Jews. In reality though, Jesus gave the SAME event of His coming to gather His saints as Apostle Paul did in 1 Thess.4. In Matthew 24:29-31 Jesus gave the evidence for the asleep saints being gathered from Heaven. And in the Mark 13:24-27 example He gave the evidence for His saints still alive on earth being gathered. In both examples He gave direct evidence for that happening immediately after the tribulation of those days! That means Apostle Paul in 1 Thess.4 was teaching the SAME gathering event our Lord Jesus taught in His Olivet discourse. It's no wonder too, because of this earlier evidence He also gave in the Old Testament prophet Zechariah...
Zech 14:1-5
14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle.
4 And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with Thee.
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Now the pre-trib school tries to put a stopper in all that by saying the rapture of the Church and Christ's 2nd coming are two separate events at two separate times. Scripture evidence I've already shown reveals Christ's only time of coming the gather the asleep saints on the last day of this world, which is when the resurrection of the dead saints will happen. This is yet another Scripture evidence that shows our Lord Jesus when He comes, He DESCENDS to earth like Paul said, and it's on His way to Jerusalem there when He gathers His faithful Church, both from Heaven (asleep saints), and His saints still alive on earth.
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