The purpose of the rapture is to remove believers from the land of Israel, so they may avoid the coming bowl judgments.
Hmmm. Then explain why those in Jerusalem are told to flee when they see Jerusalem surrounded by armies.
There is no rapture for those in Israel. They are to flee to a place of protection and remain on the earth during the 7 trumpets and 7 vials of Gods wrath.
The two raptures are for the for the rest of the world, not Jerusalem.
The rapture occurs at the midpoint of the seventieth seven, where a "seven" is seven 360-day years.
Could you explain how that is possible when there is currently only 3.5 years remaining in the 70th week of Daniel.
The rapture is accomplished by Jesus, who will descend from heaven and take up believers back to heaven.
There are two raptures. The first rapture is the Gentiles. After the fullness of the Gentiles comes in at the rapture before the great tribulation, then we start over. First fruits and then they that are Christs at His coming. The first fruits are 144,000 from twelve tribes. The second harvest will be of the 12 tribes and it will occur at the 6th seal.
The rapture will occur at the seventh trump:
o. 1Thessalonians 4:16-17
I see no 7th trumpet here. The trump of God is the voice of God.
I see no rapture here. Please quote the verses where we can see a rapture.
The is the 2nd harvest which occurs at the 6th seal before the wrath of God.
Which of these verses can we find a rapture?
Daniel 9
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.