You said: I told you I could answer, and it is simple. Because they were expecting to be gathered to Jesus before that Day. What other reason could there be?
Did you want to offer a different answer?
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The answer to your question is the following, which includes 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4:
Rapture at second coming, and day of the lord
The key timelines in establishing the mid trib rapture are: 1. the son of perdition, aka the abomination of desolation and 2. the Day of the Lord.
The son of perdition is revealed in the middle of the 70th week, per Daniel, (mid trib) - and then scriptures show that the second coming of Christ and the day of the Lord occur together, such as
Zechariah 14:1the day of the Lord comes, and so does Jesus with all the saints, in 14:5. (Day of the Lord, then rapture)
WOW - No one said the Thessolinicans were troubled by 'being gathered together to Christ' - WOW
Where is your brain my brother - get it out of the gutter of pre-trib lies.
Are you unable to read and understand 1 Thess chapter 1 ????
WOW
In
Matthew 24we have the son of perdition in verse 15, the day of the lord in verse 29, and the second coming of Jesus in verse 30. (Mid trib rapture)
In Luke 21 we have the abomination of desolation in verse 20, the Day of the Lord in verse 25, and the rapture in verse 27. (Mid trib rapture)
In
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4, Paul states:
2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and byour gathering together unto him,
2Th 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come,except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Paul states that the second coming of Christ and our being gathered to be with Him, can’t happen until the son of perdition is revealed.
Note: the Day of the Lord is part of His second coming, not a separate event - so Paul isn’t talking about two separate events there, as many think.
This puts the rapture AT His second coming, AFTER the son of perdition is revealed - which happens in the middle of Daniels 70th week, per Daniel - right smack in the middle of the tribulation.
Now, for all those those who don’t accept that the Day of the Lord is simultaneous with the second coming of Christ, when we back up one chapter to 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 under the heading THE JUDGMENT AT CHRIST’S COMING - it shows unequivocally that at His coming, He comes with flaming fire, taking vengeance, and with destruction - which is what happens at the Day of the Lord.
Then there’s corroborating fact that Jesus warns us that BOTH the Day of the Lord, and His return, will come suddenly, as a thief in the night.
1 Thessalonians 5:2 ; Revelation 16:15
Therefore scripture establishes that 1. the rapture is at His second coming, after the son of perdition is revealed, and 2. that the Day of the Lord is simultaneous with the rapture.
The rapture is mid trib, pre mark, pre great tribulation, pre wrath, and premillennial, IMO.
Shalom Aleichem