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The two videos below
motivated me to research the rapture, whether it is pre-mid-or
post Trib. The first video I saw was by a prepper and his wife,
which ended in a testimony that the author of this video had
been a pre-trib believer for some years and researched the Bible
and came to the conclusion that the pre-trib rapture was wrong.
Listening to him carefully, it sounded like there was no rapture
at all since he insisted that the Church would go up post-trib
and come back down with Jesus' Second Coming. He was so emphatic
that he knew what he was talking about, that it was easy to follow
his advice.
Of course his followers
were very upset with his conclusion and the video producer came
back to the second video the next day and apologized that he
didn't really explain himself very well and insisted that the
rapture would occur mid-trib. His wife read from the Bible what
is meant by the wrath of God to convince every one that her husband
was correct.
 The Coming Central Bank Digital
Currency (CBDC) - 37,596 views We are not Appointed unto
Wrath
Following is what my research discovered:
1 Thessalonians 5:2-5
For yourselves
know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief
in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety;
then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon
a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye,
brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake
you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children
of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
The Day of the Lord holds
an important place in prophecy. Amos declared that the "Day
of the Lord" signified judgment for Israel (Is. 2:12-24,
Eze. 13:5; Joel 1:15; 2:1, 11; Zeph. 1:14; Zech. 13:1).
Several prophets refer
to it as God's "day of judgment" upon individual
nations as well such as Babylon (Is. 13:6-9); Egypt (Jer.
46:10). Edom (Obad. 1:8) and many other nations (Joel 2:31, 3:14;
Obad. 1:15) Thus the Day of the Lord represents the occasion
when Jehovah will actively intervene to punish sin.
During the time period
of the Day of the Lord, there will be those who fully repent
and are saved, but those who remain enemies of the
Lord, whether Jews or Gentiles, will be punished.
In the NT, the Day of
the Lord is related to the Second Coming of Christ. So also is
the phraise "the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ"
(1 Cor. 1:8; 5:5; Phil. 1:6, 10; 2:16; 2 Thess. 2:2). Both
expressions, the Day of the Lord and the Day of Christ, refer
to time periods of judgment by Christ. The Day of the Lord
will include the time of the Great Tribulation
(Rev. 6-20). It also refers to the liberation by Christ of
His Church. Zechariah 14:1-4 explains that the events of
the Second Advent are included in the program of the Day of the
Lord.
Thus the Day of the
Lord and the Day of Christ occur simultaneously.
For the Church it is the rapture, and for the unbelieving
world, it is the beginning of judgment and the Tribulation.
If the Day of the Lord began after the Second Advent, it would
not come as a "thief in the night," unexpected
and unheralded, since that particular advent is preceded
by signs (1 Thess. 5:2; 2 Pet. 3:10). Consequently, the only
way these events could occur unexpectedly would be for them to
begin immediately after the rapture of the Church.
The Day of the Lord,
therefore, is that extended period of time when God begins to
deal with Israel after the rapture of the Church. It also continues
through the Second Advent and the millennial age preceding the
creation of the new heaven and new earth.
- Scripture References:
Judgment for Israel:
- Isaiah 2:12-22 "For the day of the LORD
of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and
upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted
up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, And upon all the high mountains,
and upon all the hills that are lifted up, And upon every high
tower, and upon every fenced wall, And upon all the ships of
Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. And the loftiness
of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men
shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted
in that day.
- And the idols he
shall utterly abolish. And they shall go into the holes of
the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD,
and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake
terribly the earth. In that day a man shall cast his idols
of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each
one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the
ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his
majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. Cease ye
from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he
to be accounted of?"
Ezekiel 13:5 "Ye have not gone up into the gaps,
neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in
the battle in the day of the LORD."
Joel 1:15 "Alas for the day! for the day of the
LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty
shall it come."
Joel 2:1 "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and
sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of
the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh
at hand;"
Joel 2:11 "And the LORD shall utter his voice before
his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth
his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible;
and who can abide it?"
Zephaniah 1:14 "The great day of the LORD is near,
it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of
the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly."
Zechariah 13:1 "In that day there shall be a fountain
opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
for sin and for uncleanness."
Day of Judgment for
individual nations:
Isaiah 13:6-9 "Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is
at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Therefore
shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: And
they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them;
they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall
be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. Behold,
the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce
anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the
sinners thereof out of it."
Jeremiah 46:10 "For this is the day of the Lord GOD
of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries:
and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made
drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice
in the north country by the river Euphrates."
Obadiah 1:8 "Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD,
even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out
of the mount of Esau?"
Joel 2:31 "The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before the great and the
terrible day of the LORD come."
Joel 3:14 "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of
decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision."
Obadiah 1:15 "For the day of the LORD is near upon
all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto
thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head."
The Day of our Lord
Jesus Christ:
1 Corinthians 1:8
"Who shall also confirm you unto the end,
that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus
Christ."
1 Corinthians 5:5 "To deliver such an one unto Satan
for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved
in the day of the Lord Jesus."
Philippians 1:6 "Being confident of this very thing,
that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform
it until the day of Jesus Christ:"
Philippians 1:10 "That ye may approve things that are
excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence
till the day of Christ;"
Philippians 2:16 "Holding forth the word of life;
that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run
in vain, neither laboured in vain."
2 Thessalonians 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."
Great Tribulation
(Rev 6-20) includes the liberation by Christ of His Church:
http://religions.go-cephas.com/index_10.html
Second Advent included
in the Day of the Lord:
Zechariah 14:1-4
"Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall
be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations
against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken,
and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the
city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the
people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the
LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought
in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day
upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the
east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof
toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very
great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the
north, and half of it toward the south."
The Day of the Lord
is preceded by signs:
1 Thessalonians 5:2
"For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord
so cometh as a thief in the night."
2 Peter 3:10 "But the day of the Lord will come as
a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent
heat, the earth also and the works that are therein
shall be burned up."
(Source: AMG Hebrew Greek Key Study Bible, KJV- bold letters
added by editor)
7/26 Rapture?
8,082 views Jun 24, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyimd85GHI0
THE 7 YEARS TRIBULATION
FULL MOVIE
1,232,024 views Nov 23, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7a4g9nmJzQ
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