IS THE RAPTURE BEFORE THE TRIBULATION?

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Maybe this copy/paste will help you wake up from your delusion..

"What the Catholics Get Right

Salvation Plan: One covenant, fulfilled in Christ — not two tracks for Jew and Gentile

Rapture: Rejected; Christ returns once, publicly, at the end of the age — not in secret phases. This was the belief of the early Church Fathers.

Israel: Fulfilled in the Church. There is no separate, ongoing plan for ethnic Israel apart from the Gospel.
If someone calls themselves a Jew but rejects Jesus as the Messiah, they are outside the covenant of salvation — just like anyone else who refuses Him. Catholic teaching, like Scripture, is clear: no one is saved apart from Christ.

Covenant History: Progressive revelation fulfilled in Jesus — not cut into dispensations

Prophecy: Interpreted through typology, Christological fulfillment, and the Church Age


Where the Catholic Church Goes Off the Rails

Vatican Power Structure: Corrupted hierarchy; functions more like a political empire than a spiritual body

Idolatry and Ritualism: Veneration of saints and Mary can cross into worship territory

Works-Based Legalism: Overemphasis on sacraments and tradition as necessary for salvation

Mystery Religion Symbols: Pagan architecture, serpent imagery, and globalist interfaith compromises

Scripture Access: Historically limited lay access to the Bible; elevated papal authority above scripture


What Dispensationalist Evangelicals Get Right

Authority of Scripture: The Bible is the final and highest authority, not popes or church councils

Born Again Doctrine: Emphasis on personal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ

Evangelism: Urgent focus on spreading the Gospel to all nations

Rejection of Ritualism: Values relationship with Christ over empty tradition

Role of the Holy Spirit: Acknowledges the active presence and power of the Holy Spirit in believers


What Dispensationalist Evangelicals Get Horribly Wrong (Thanks to Scofield Heresy)

Two Plans of Salvation: Claims Jews have a separate covenant path — undermines the sufficiency of Christ

Pre-Trib Rapture: Teaches an unbiblical two-phase return of Jesus based on cherry-picked verses

Political Zionism as “God’s Will”: Confuses modern secular Israel with the true, biblical people of God — even though the nation as a whole rejects Jesus Christ. It doesn’t even dawn on most brainwashed Dispensationalists that over 98% of modern “Israelis” are Ashkenazi — descendants of Eastern Europeans and Russians who have no historical or genetic connection to Abraham whatsoever. They're about as related to Abraham as Hulk Hogan, SpongeBob and Genghis Khan.

Church as Parenthesis: Treats the Church Age as an interruption instead of the fulfillment of prophecy

Artificial Bible Division: Uses Scofield’s man-made footnotes to override clear New Testament teaching


The Bottom Line:

The Catholic Church preserved covenant theology and rejected the blasphemous, Scofield circus — but compromised it with institutional corruption, idolatry, and works-based tradition.

The Evangelical world rediscovered Scripture and the born-again life — but got seduced by Scofield’s dual-covenant, Zionist distortion that fractures the Gospel.

Both systems need to be reformed by the authority of Christ and the clarity of His Word.

To the lost Dispensationalists, I'll leave you with this...

The true Israel is the Body of Christ — one people, one covenant, one King. If you're a so-called "Christian" and you don't know that; you're beyond misled.

You’re not just lost — you’re way out in the wilderness of Nod, stumbling through darkness and delusion.

There’s a veil over your eyes and a bewitching on your soul
and honestly, it might be the most biblical level of deception the modern Church has ever witnessed.
Jesus and the Apostles are looking down from heaven — eyebrows raised, faces in their hands — stunned at how far off the path you’ve wandered.

“But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Covenant, because the veil is taken away in Christ.” — 2 Corinthians 3:14

You’re clinging to the shadows of a covenant that was fulfilled 2,000 years ago —
propping up a U.N.-sanctioned, Rothschild-created political state,
as if salvation lives in dirt and barbed wire - totally ignorant to the fact that the Body of Christ is Israel.
Paul saw it coming. He warned us.

The veil still lies over your heart because you refuse to turn fully to Christ.
You’re not reading prophecy — you’re reading it wrong.
And until you stop exalting the letter over the Lord,
you’ll stay exactly where you are:
veiled, bewitched, and wandering east of Eden."
Catholics draw from the church father's.
The same source you use.
 

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You said Noah was “taken” — as if being lifted in an ark means raptured to heaven?
If I did then I was mistaken....the wicked are taken
The main points I was making was that it was NOT the rapture and it was saying the unbelievers would be taken in judgement and believers into the salvation of the millennial kingdom
I think we discussed this particular item enough
 

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Just think of it like this.

You have the "Apostle to the Gentiles", in the "time of the Gentiles'.

So, that is not the Old Testment, as God didnt deal with Gentiles in the OT.

But He's dealing with them now.......and has Paul as the "Apostle to the Gentiles'....."in the TIME of the Gentiles".

This "time", began with The Cross and will end.........and when it ends, the TRIB will start., as the "time of the Gentiles"" is not going into the Trib" as the TRIB is all about God dealing mostly with the JEW, once again., specifically.
...and it is called "Jacob's trouble ".
....(Israel's trouble)

(Just to add to your point)
 

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Yes .......whether they know it or not, saying we are spiritual Israel negates God saying in Romans that he has not cast away his people Israel (Romans 11:1-2)
In Hosea those replacement theology adherents rewrite it to say he never went after Gomer.
Gomer is a vivid unmistakable picture of the wayward wife ( the covenant Jew) repurchased.
Hosea obsessed with his wife ,and pursuing her ,INSPITE OF her wicked sin.
The jew grafted back in.
Depicted vividly in Rev
And romans
 

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Revelation’s temple is measured too — and it’s filled with symbolic imagery (Revelation 11:1–2).
That argument collapses fast.
The temple is literally measured .....you cant say everything is imagery and symbolic .....for example the lake of fire is imagery then
 

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As for Noah being “high above the Earth,” and that representing heaven?
The ark didn’t float into the stratosphere — it landed on Mount Ararat.
He was still on the planet — just like the saints who endure to the end will be (Matthew 24:13).
I never said that....why are you appealing to statements I didnt make?
If others in the right division movement made statements like this I never heard them or If I did I wouldne follow their teaching anymore
 

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“How much worse punishment... for the one who has trampled the Son of God underfoot... and insulted the Spirit of grace?” — Hebrews 10:29

Going back to blood rituals after Calvary isn’t obedience.
It’s blasphemy.
During the tribulation they were not to go back to the sacrifices and the Levitical priesthood
 

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[Eph 1:4 KJV] 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
The church is not plan B ....we were chosen to be in Christ before the world

Exactly — we were chosen in Him before the foundation of the world.
So why do you talk like God’s promises failed, and the Church is Him stalling for time?
So now the Cross is Plan B, and the Temple gets a sequel? That’s blasphemy.
The Church — bought with His blood — is not a timeout until the Pharisees get their act together. That’s not the Gospel — it’s denial.

The Evangelicals say they're Christian, yet deny that Christ is the fulfillment? That’s not faith — that’s open rebellion.
You think the Son of God conquered death, disarmed principalities, sat down at the right hand of the Father —
only to wait around for a third temple with blood soaked floors and a red heifer?

You insult the Cross when you treat the Church like a detour.
You trample the blood of the Lamb when you preach two covenants.
You call yourself a Christian while denying that Christ is the fulfillment?
That’s not faith.
That’s apostasy wearing a Jesus T-shirt.


He said "It. Is. Finished."
Those were His words.
Not “To be continued.” Not “Pending Israel’s response.”
Finished.

The veil was torn.
The temple was judged.
The sacrifice was made once for all — not to be repeated, not to be paused, not to be overridden by some end-times real estate deal in the Middle East.

And yet they dare call it a postponement.
You teach that the Cross was a speed bump, that the resurrection launched a Plan B,
that the Bride of Christ is a temporary insert —
a parenthesis
until the Sanhedrin gets their act together?

You exalt a political nation that crucified the Lord of glory
and then turn around and say the Church must decrease so ethnic Israel can rise?

That’s not the Gospel.
That’s not prophecy.
That’s spiritual treason.


You twist the New Covenant into a waiting room.
You trample the blood of Christ beneath the footnotes of Scofield.
You deny the very One you claim to preach, while waving the flag of those who still reject Him.

He said “This cup is the new covenant in My blood.”
Not in U.N. borders.
Not in genealogies.
Not in a rebuilt temple that He Himself destroyed.

You preach like the Cross failed.
Like Pentecost wasn’t enough.
Like God’s Spirit in His people is somehow inferior to brick and stone in Jerusalem.

You grieve the Spirit of Truth.
You resurrect the shadows He died to fulfill.
You call yourself a Christian — but deny Christ at every turn.

Paul said:

“If righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.” — Galatians 2:21

And here you are —
preaching that righteousness will return through the law,
through animal sacrifice,
through a rebuilt temple,
through a national False Israel™ — a Rothschild & U.N. creation propped up by political Zionism and Christian ignorance.

Do you hear yourselves?
You are saying:
“Yeah, the blood of Jesus was powerful… but just wait until the Levitical priesthood comes back!”

You are shouting:
“Yeah, the veil was torn… but we’re gonna stitch it back together with red heifers and a third temple covered in blood!”

That’s not theology.
That’s blasphemy dipped in Scofield’s ink.
It’s Anti-Christ doctrine in a suit and tie, waving a dual-covenant chart.

You speak of the Church like a detour —
but she is the Bride.
The Body.
The very temple of the Holy Spirit.
Not a placeholder — the plan.

This isn’t a debate.
This is a warning.

Repent.
Turn from the lies of Dispensationalism.
Tear down your Zionist idols and return to the Gospel that saves.

The kingdom is not of this world.
The true Israel is not dirt or a flag.
And the Messiah will not return to a temple He already judged and left desolate.

He is coming again — but not to restart what He finished.
He is coming in glory to receive His Bride.
And if you’re not in it — you’re not ready.
 

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“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” — John 2:19
“But He was speaking of the temple of His body.” — John 2:21
It is clear here that he was speaking metaphorically because we are told so
BUT his body was physical
 

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...and it is called "Jacob's trouble ".
....(Israel's trouble)

(Just to add to your point)

Yes.

"the time of".


In the OT, God was dealing with the Jew, and Jesus the "GodMan" came down to the "house of Israel"........so, that is still GOD dealibg with the JEW.

After The Cross........God is now specifically dealing with the Gentiles......not by the Law, but by The Gospel of Grace.....and this TOO will end, once God resumes His dealing with the JEW.......as the Trib starts.

The "Gospel of the Grace of God" is for the "Time of the Gentiles".........and this "time" is going to end, and so will that Gospel of 'Faith" alone, as "Justification by faith".
 

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The same folks waving the Israeli flag while shouting “Thank you, Jesus!”
…are doing it to support a people who deny the Son, reject the Gospel,
and mock the very covenant you claim to believe in.
Israel today is not believing Israel........Israel has fallen as we learn from Paul that it is for Gentile salvation [Rom 11:11 KJV] 11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but [rather] through their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
 

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Israel today is not believing Israel........Israel has fallen as we learn from Paul that it is for Gentile salvation [Rom 11:11 KJV] 11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but [rather] through their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

Most of the Jewish Population in Israel is secular, not religious.

The Religious Jews, the "Black Coats".......are described by Paul, like this......tho in Paul's day, they didnt wear black coats....(thats another history lesson).

However the Religious Jews, in Paul's day, and the same you find in Israel today. .....

= "Are Ignorant of God's Righteousness", going about to establish their OWN".. = SELF Righteousness.

And that is the same as a : Legalist, who you find on forums.....trying to keep themselves saved....as they rant about "osas" and "losing salvation" and "keeping commandments"...........as their idea of Salvation is : SELF Righteousnes.........and that is to try to make yourself right with God, by ..........whatever you are trying to do to get there.. of yourself.

And this proves that this person is "IGNORANT of God's Righteousness"""", as they are going about to try to establish their OWN"... = by SELF EFFORT....

Reader........JESUS on THE CROSS........is "God's Gift of Righteousness".........and when you trust in HIM.......you are given "The Gift of Righteousness" by God.
 

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“The temple is measured in Revelation — it must be literal!”

Really?

The very next verse says it’s given to the Gentiles to trample, and then we’re plunged into prophecy where two witnesses breathe fire and beasts rise from the abyss.
Revelation is soaked in apocalyptic imagery.

So let’s ask:
Do you take the seven-headed dragon literally?
Do you believe Jesus literally has a sword sticking out of His mouth?
Is the lake of fire a volcanic lava pit somewhere on Earth?
Is the woman clothed with the sun actually orbiting the planet in a dress made of solar flares?

No — because you know better.

But when it comes to the temple, suddenly everything is wooden and literal again —
because your system needs it to be.

This isn’t biblical faith.
It’s Scofieldian programming
selective literalism designed by Darby, Scofield, and their handlers at Oxford to hijack prophecy and rewire the Church into waiting for a sequel God never wrote.

“I never said Noah represented Heaven.”
Maybe you didn’t — but I wasn’t addressing just you.
This is about the system you defend.
If you're breaking ranks with others in the “right division” crowd, great.
But own that — don’t pretend these doctrines aren’t connected.

“They won’t return to sacrifices in the tribulation.”
That’s not what Dispensationalism teaches.
Scofield’s whole system is built on the idea that temple worship and Levitical sacrifices resume during the “tribulation.”
So what is that?
Worship?
Obedience?
You can’t offer blood sacrifices after Calvary and call it anything but blasphemy.

"Jesus was using a metaphor — but His body was physical.”
Correct — and that proves my point.
He was the temple.
He is the temple.
And when you preach that God will return to a physical building in Jerusalem, you deny what Christ fulfilled in Himself.

“But the New Covenant is with Israel and Judah — you can’t just say that means the Church!”

Actually… Paul does.
Word for word.

In Hebrews 8, he directly quotes Jeremiah 31 — the very prophecy you’re clinging to —
and applies it to the Body of Christ.

Not future.
Not postponed.
Fulfilled.

You think God is gearing up to write the Law on stone tablets again?
To drag us backwards into shadows He already fulfilled?
No — He’s writing it on hearts, not granite.

The Church isn’t hijacking Israel’s promises.
The Church is the Israel of God — born of the Spirit, not the flesh.

If you reject that, you’re not defending prophecy —
you’re denying the Gospel.

You think He’ll gather a nation by bloodline?
Or is He gathering a people by the Spirit?

If Jesus is the fulfillment, then the Church is Israel — not by flesh, but by faith.

“Jesus isn’t the covenant.”
Isaiah 42:6:
“I will give You as a covenant to the people.”
That doesn’t symbolize a covenant.
That is the covenant.
He is the New Covenant.
It’s not a scroll. It’s not a location. It’s a Person — the Son of God.

“God is done with Israel — for now — and will resume dealing with them after the Church Age ends.”
You are preaching two gospels, two peoples, and two destinies.
And Paul calls that anathema. (Galatians 1:6–9)

God doesn’t “pause covenants.”
He fulfills them in Christ — or you’re still in your sins.

Romans 11 doesn’t say Israel will return through animal sacrifice and temple worship.
It says some branches were broken off… and can be grafted in again — into the same tree, which is Christ.

Not a separate tree.
Not a separate gospel.
Not a Levitical rerun.

Let me say it plain.
If you preach that the Church is a “parenthesis,”
If you say the Gospel of grace will “end,”
If you believe righteousness will come back through law and sacrifices,
If you deny that Christ is the fulfillment of every promise —

You are not defending the faith.
You are rejecting it.
You are trampling the Son of God underfoot
and insulting the Spirit of grace.
(Hebrews 10:29)

Jesus isn’t coming to build what He already tore down — He’s coming to raise what He already redeemed.

He’s not coming back for rituals, relics, or temples soaked in animal blood —
He’s coming back for a radiant Church, washed in His own.
 

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Most of the Jewish Population in Israel is secular, not religious.
Here are the "official figures":

  • Secular:
    Around 45% identify as secular, meaning they do not strictly adhere to Jewish religious laws.
  • Traditional:
    Around 33% identify as traditional, meaning they may observe some aspects of Judaism but not all.
  • Religious/Orthodox:
    Around 12% identify as religious or Orthodox, meaning they adhere more closely to Jewish religious laws and practices.
  • Ultra-Orthodox:
    Around 8-10% identify as ultra-Orthodox (Haredim), meaning they strictly adhere to Jewish religious laws and customs.
 

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Here are the "official figures":

  • Secular:
    Around 45% identify as secular, meaning they do not strictly adhere to Jewish religious laws.
  • Traditional:
    Around 33% identify as traditional, meaning they may observe some aspects of Judaism but not all.
  • Religious/Orthodox:
    Around 12% identify as religious or Orthodox, meaning they adhere more closely to Jewish religious laws and practices.
  • Ultra-Orthodox:
    Around 8-10% identify as ultra-Orthodox (Haredim), meaning they strictly adhere to Jewish religious laws and customs.

Now here’s the other official figures — the one no one dares mention:

Nearly 100% of them are not ethnic Biblical Jews.
They are not descended from Jacob.
They are not Biblical Israelites.
They are not related to Abraham.
They are not Semitic.
And they are absolutely not “the chosen people of God.”

These are Khazars, Russians, and Eastern Europeans — a warlike, pagan people who were force-converted to Talmudic Judaism in 740 A.D., under pressure from King Bulan, not out of reverence for Moses or the prophets, but at the edge of King Bulan’s sword.

Ask their ancestors back then to walk to Israel in 740 A.D?
They wouldn’t even know which direction to start.
They’d probably wander out of the Caucasus and end up in Siberia.

And yet today’s Evangelicals wave the Star of Remphan over their churches, plaster Zionist symbols on their pulpits, and dare to call it “biblical prophecy.”
No — it’s not prophecy. It’s delusion.
A deception so deep, it trades the Gospel of Christ for the gospel of geopolitics, and bows to a flag that mocks the cross.

The Khazars didn’t embrace the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
They didn’t fall to their knees in repentance before the God of Israel.
They were absorbed — forcefully — into a man-made religion,
not rooted in the Torah, but built on the Babylonian Talmud:
a blasphemous tome that's so anti-Christ,
it makes Roman paganism look tame by comparison.

The Torah in their system? It’s a prop. A backdrop. Not the foundation.

And yet modern Christians — especially Scofield-drunk Evangelicals — dare to call these people “God’s chosen”?

It’s not just wrong.
It’s theological madness.
It’s spiritual suicide.

And here’s the most twisted part…

They know.

The Rothschilds know.
The globalist elite know.
And they laugh
As Christians bow before a Christ-rejecting state,
wave its flag like it’s holy,
bless a machine built on deception,
and celebrate the very Zionist engine that would crucify Christ again — and again — and again — if given the chance.

Satan basks in the sun of Dispensationalist ignorance.. He is well-fed from churches where Scofield’s lies are preached — for every ‘Israel-first’ sermon is a feast of betrayal, served warm from the pulpit.
 
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