I must go back to Matt....In the 24th chapter Christ tells us everything that must and will happen before His return....Now rapturist teach that this is the 2nd coming,which they say is different from the rapture....
My question,why would Christ go through all the trouble telling us the signs to watch for,if we're not going to be here?
If this is not the case can one of you(rapturist)show me where the rapture is in that chapter?
You know I agree with you about the timing of the Lord's parousia and our gathering to Him ( the 2nd advent IS the rapture/harvest) and we both know the working of satan must happen before the Lord's return. aka the pre trib rapture=coming of false
We agree with others that rapture means a catching up, plucking , which is what the reapers do to "the crop".
Jesus says (in matt 13) NAY to early harvest least the wheat be uprooted with the tares, Jesus says the reapers are the angels and the harvest is the end of the world and makes it very clear the tares will be harvested
first NOT the church as some claim.
(purging of tares = false Christs claiming to be Jesus, satan claiming to be God).
You and I are prepared to stand for Jesus Christ NOT fly away. satan tries to confuse our "gathering together to Jesus
Christ" with the coming of him and his false Christs by mistiming and adding pre trib to pauls words to create another coming of Jesus Christ which believers had better reject.
By satan creating a false "early rapture/harvest" as if to Jesus many will fall for satan's false Christs:
Matthew 24:21-31
this first gathering/harvest/rapture is for tares who fall away to pre trib rapture mistiming and think one of these false
is Jesus come to fly them away:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
this is the gathering/harvest/rapture of wheat after the tribulation to Jesus Christ returning to the mount in
Jerusalem, we don't fly away but endure betrayal beatings and deliverance to death allowing the Holy Spirit to speak through us:
29 Immediately
after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And
then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
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, from one end of heaven to the other.
by making out that paul's quote of matt 24:30-31 is "pre trib" instead of post trib as Jesus Christ said many will fall away to satan's false Christs coming prior to the 2nd advent.
we who are alive and remain AFTER the tribulation will join them in the spirit
AER =g109 breath g4151 =spirit NOT up up and away as some lie and make out as if paul used the word g3772=sky by using the english meaning of air as if sky
paul NEVER says the church of believers is gathered before the tribulation!
paul does say we are sown a natural body and raise a spiritual body. I cor 15
zech 14,acts 1 says Jesus Christ returns to the mount and splits it , that's where we'll be gathered to as the saved dead return WITH Jesus not Jesus coming for them to fly anyone away as we know that's a lie added to scriptures to lead many astray.
good to talk to you as your one of few preparing to stand FOR Jesus not fly away with some false Christ.