What does 1 Thess. 1.4 have to do with what we are talking about?
'Chosen' is the same word as 'elect' which proves that 'eklektos' is always talking about 'Christians.'
Not Jews! But you don't care! You're going to go on believing they're Jews regardles of this and regardless that Jesus say's the gathering occurs "after the tribulation." That contradiction required pre-tribulationist to fabricate "another gathering" only for Jews! Mt. 24 is clear that the gathering occurs after the tribulation.
I did address the verses you quoted. You're not listening.
How do you come up with the idea that Mt. 24:30 implies it's before the tribulation? The verses previous to verse 40 imply this occurs at the end when Christ returns and not 7 years before.
How was it in the days of Noe? The floods came and the end came quick! Not 7 years later. The verse also implies at the time of "the consumation." When things are fulfilled!
Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass,
till all these things be fulfilled. There is no indication that this passage speaks of a time 'before' the tribulation'. It actually implies just the opposite..."after the tribulation when all things are fulfilled."
Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
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And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew 24:40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
I have already told you about the elders around the throne. They are very likely the Old Testament patriarchs/saints. They are not raptured New Testament saints. There's no way you can prove that any of these verses are pre-tribulational.
I have also already answered your question about verse 40. It isn't talking about the rapture. The rapture in mentioned in verse Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds...
Verse 40 is an event that occurs after the rapture and at the end of the tribulation. The very first thing that happens at the second coming is the rapture. Then the battle begins and then judgements come. In Verse 40 the ones who are taken are destroyed, the ones that are left populate the Millennium. This is the judgement of nations. The elect that's gathered in verse 31 is removed for safety sake. These are the ones who prayed that they be "accounted worthy to escape all these things." They were spared the viles of the tribulation and raptured, removed and protected from Armageddon friendly fire. They are also exempt from the judgement of the sheep and goats.