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The Jews, who are living in Judea are told to flee the area when the antichrist steps into their temple and desecrates it and commits the abomination of desolation by claiming to be God, since that’s the start of the great tribulation, and by claiming to be God, the Jews realize He’s not their messiah as they thought he was, but the false Messiah, the counterfeit Christ aka the antichrist, and things are going to get deadly.If the rapture is mid trib then why are people told to flee Jerusalem? It wouldn't matter where they physically are on earth at the time of the rapture
The Jews, who are living in Judea are told to flee the area when the antichrist steps into their temple and desecrates it and commits the abomination of desolation by claiming to be God, since that’s the start of the great tribulation, and by claiming to be God, the Jews realize He’s not their messiah as they thought he was, but the false Messiah, the counterfeit Christ aka the antichrist, and things are going to get deadly.
Because if you go to Judea, you don’t find a Christian city, you find Jews who keep the sabbath and will be involved in sacrifices of animals under the law of Moses in the temple that the antichrist goes into and stops the sacrifices in - thus they wont be raptured, because they aren’t Christians.But then the rapture happens according to you. So why go to the trouble of moving out of Jerusalem if they are just going to be raptured anyway?
He'll be back, that's about as far as I go there. As far as the distinction between Israel and the church goes, it's almost like there's two covenants. I see like a fat, white Y, two branches of one thing. I'm describing something I saw in the Spirit.That's very interesting to me!
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My idea is that someone who holds a strong distinction between the church and Israel will be pre-trib, while someone who considers them one and the same will see a later rapture, either pre-wrath or post-trib. So you hold still a partial distinction between the church and Israel, that they are somewhat the same, and somewhat different, and are somewhat pre-trib but somewhat not.
Does that make sense?
Am I on the right track?
Much love!
The key of understanding is the fact that there is general tribulation for 3.5 years, then great tribulation for 3.5 years, and Jesus uses both terms in Matthew 24.
Jesus says, that after THE tribulation of those days, the day of the Lord and rapture will occur- confirming that the rapture is after the first half of the tribulation.
Then, Jesus also says that AFTER the mid trib event of the abomination of desolation in verse 15 occurs, there shall be GREAT tribulation - confirming that the last half of the tribulation, called the great tribulation, occurs after that mid trib AOD event.
So the account is THE tribulation - the first 3.5 years - followed by the DOL and the rapture: then the GREAT tribulation starts, right after the AOD/SOP mid trib event, the DOL, and rapture occurs.
That puts the son of perdition/abomination of desolation, the Day of the Lord, and the rapture right smack in the middle, between THE tribulation, and the GREAT tribulation.
He'll be back, that's about as far as I go there. As far as the distinction between Israel and the church goes, it's almost like there's two covenants.
So when I say "church", I mean as opposed to "Christendom". Church for me = ecclesia, the assemply.First off...the word church, carries a duo meaning.
I see Israel, to whom anyone could join, and the church, as one continuous congregation that had a change in the covenant with God.
I happen to have the idea that there will be a pre-trib rapture. I also think that Israel is a distinct nation chosen by God, and that God will continue to fulfill His promises to Jacob's children.
I know a number of people who are not pre-trib in their understanding of when the rapture will occur, and who also see in some fashion that the Church is now Israel.
Is there anyone who sees Israel and the Church separately as I do, and who is not pre-trib?
Much love!
That ignorance just shows more of how many Christian brethren are very lacking in Bible study and in Christian history!
Actually, you did miss what I was doing.It's not hard to decipher what you're up to, which really is just looking for a chance here to push false ideas
Then there is the lack of good manners, of cogent arguments, stuff like that.Yes. Everyone except you, apparently
Yes. Everyone except you, apparently
Actually, you did miss what I was doing.
No matter.
You've answered my question in spite of yourself. You blend the church and Israel, and you are not pretrib. That holds to the pattern.
Much love!
You got something real to say, or do you just go around running your mouth like an idiot, thinking others that study for themselves like I do might be impressed with your smart remarks?