Noah was in the ark 7 days before the flood, even as the Church will be in heaven during the 70th week of Daniel.
Not a thang written about the Church being raptured to Heaven at any time during that final "one week" of Daniel 9:27. You are confusing men's pre-trib rapture fragmented traditions over what is written in God's Word.
Interesting. However, those not in the ark die and those that are stung will seek death and not find it. Therefore, I don't see the correlation.
Must have been quite a church service you had. Did you ever think to tell the preacher that there is quite a difference between God flooding the earth in His wrath and the dragon sending a flood after the woman. No correlation whatsoever.
The correlation is what I showed with the Revelation 12:15 event of what the serpent casts out of his MOUTH after the woman, "water as a flood". What comes out of one's MOUTH? In Satan's case, it is LIES. Jesus is comparing those lies out of the serpent's mouth like 'waters as a flood'. And then... in the next Revelation 12:16 verse, what does it show the earth does? That's a direct link to the idea of the flood of Noah's day.
That is what the 'stinging' of Revelation 9 is about, LIES causing 'spiritual' death to one's soul, not physical death. And that is actually what the coming "great tribulation" is going to be about, LIES causing deception into false worship of the coming false-Messiah in Jerusalem.
My mention of it to you here is enough. If God wants you to understand that, then it will be in His time, not mine.
The woman is Israel. Period. The seed of the woman are the 12 tribes across the earth who keep the commandments of God and now have the testimony of Jesus Christ as part of Israel has it's eyes opened when the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.
Yeah, it is about the children of Israel. I never denied that. But so is a HUGE portion of the children of Israel ALSO members of CHRIST'S CHURCH today. The Gospel of Jesus Christ was actually first preached to Abraham, like Apostle Paul said in Galatians 3. That Gospel then continued all throughout God's elect Israelites of the seed that He chose, even from Old Testament times all the way down to Christ's Apostles. So thinking that the name ISRAEL only means un-believing Jews is just Biblical ignorance.
And further, since you mention the 12 tribes of Israel, the majority of the seed of Israel was made up with the ten lost tribes that God scattered out of the holy lands first, and have NEVER returned to this day. And this even the unbelieving Jew scholars admit about the ten lost tribes. They don't know where they are today, neither does the world, but God knows, because He promised in final to gather those ten lost tribes of Israel.
So by the time one reads down to that old serpent being cast out of Heaven down to this earth, and going after the symbolic 'woman', that is about both the literal seed of Israel that are members in Christ's Church today, and also the spiritual seed of Israel that Paul said have become part of the "commonwealth of Israel", i.e., Christ's Church (Ephesians 2). Thusly...
Rev 12:17
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
KJV
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.
Why do you find it necessary to make things up? The stinging has nothing to do with Satan. You are making the wrath of God out to be the wrath of Satan. No correlation. Again. The woman is Israel and the seed of the woman is the 12 tribes across the earth.
I didn't make anything up, I simply understand when The LORD is using symbols and metaphors in order to teach a deeper Truth in His Word. His use of that "waters as a flood", and the "serpent" casting it out of his mouth, is metaphorical speech. It's analogy we are supposed to understand. So why are you trying... to make excuses for your not understanding it and instead try to slander me because I do understand it?
I have no pretrib teachers. However, you are correct that the pretrib model that is taught is incorrect. That's what gives those in blindness, like yourself, confidence that they are correct. In other words, you understand that the TRIBULATION IS OVER BEFORE THE WRATH OF GOD BEGINS. Most of those that believe in a pretribulation rapture think and teach that the tribulation and the wrath of God are the same thing. They are not. So the fact, that you understand this makes you think that there is no pretribulation rapture. You are in error. He is coming in a time that you think not.
I do not heed man's Pre-trib Rapture theory. So no sense you bearing false witness by saying I do believe such a thing. By your own words, you show that do believe it, or that you are at the least confused about the events of the end.
Anyone who believes that the "wrath" of 1 Thessalonians 5:9 happens 'during'... the great tribulation is pushing a pre-trib rapture theory, simply because those say we are not appointed to wrath, thinking that means Satan's wrath, when it's not. Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-9 was pointing to the 7th Vial cup of God's wrath upon the wicked with that "sudden destruction".
Vials 1 through 6 are for during... the time of "great tribulation", the latter 1260 days of Daniel's symbolic "one week". God's two witnesses are to appear in Jerusalem and prophesy for 1260 days and then killed by the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit (i.e., Satan himself). During that period of their Testimony, they will have power to issue plagues upon the earth like in the days of Moses and Aaron in Egypt, and that is about God's wrath upon the wicked for 'during' the tribulation.
But the final cup of God's Wrath only happens on the final 7th Vial, and that is the day of Christ's only future coming to gather His Church. That is when the "day of the Lord" events happen on that same day that Jesus comes to end the "great tribulation".
Your understanding in Christ's Book of Revelation is like how many wrongly interpret it, by trying to make the given events flow in the same order that John was given to write them down. The Seals, Trumpets, and Vials, are about ONLY 7 Signs of the end, the same Signs that Lord Jesus in His Olivet discourse of Matthew 24 and Mark 13. This is why the Revelation 6 signs are in parallel to the signs Jesus gave in His Olivet discourse. It also means, the events on the 6th Seal, 7th Trumpet, and 7th Vial are all correlated about the day of Jesus' future coming.
In summary, you see the error in what is taught about the pretribulation rapture, but you don't see your own error. You don't see that Jesus comes at the 6th seal. You don't see that all the trumpets are the wrath of God. You can't let them be the wrath of God because if you do, your timeline doesn't work. Well, get this. Your timeline doesn't work.
I do see Jesus coming on the 6th Seal, but there's actually TWO PARTS to the 6th Seal in Revelation 6. The "untimely figs" part is about the events of Revelation 12:7-9. But the Revelation 6:14-17 section is about the day of Christ's future coming.
Concerning the last 3 Trumpets, Jesus attached 3 Woe periods with each one of those last 3 trumpets, so that means He was emphasizing them, those are most important to understand. The 5th trumpet is just prior to the tribulation; the 6th trumpet is the start of the tribulation; and the 7th trumpet is Jesus' future return. And look at what God's two witnesses have power to do WITHIN THE 6TH TRUMPET TIMING. They are given power of plagues upon the earth, and that is PRIOR to Lord Jesus' future return! So don't try to tell me there's no wrath upon the beast during the tribulation period. Thus once again, you err in The Scriptures, and also about what I believe.
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