{"id":1541,"date":"2014-07-28T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T19:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realbiblestudy.com\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2014-07-28T20:02:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T00:02:04","slug":"the-pre-tribulation-rapture-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"The Pre-Tribulation Rapture Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/fb:like>

I am borrowing Mr. John Little’s title from his July 28, 2014 article I just received in his “The Shock Letter,” http:\/\/www.omegashock.com\/2014\/07\/28\/the-pre-tribulation-rapture-lie\/<\/p>\n

I trust the title alone is shocking enough.<\/p>\n

In part, Mr. Little states we must start with the truth.<\/p>\n

When judging a lie, you must always start with the truth, and you will find it in the Bible. It\u2019s really quite simple, as the truth often is, and it won\u2019t require lots of verbal gymnastics to say what is\u2026 the truth.
\nLet me summarize the points first:
\n\u2022\tTruth ALWAYS trumps THEORY \u2013 ALWAYS
\n\u2022\tThe Antichrist must come before the Rapture
\n\u2022\tThe Tribulation must come before the Rapture
\n\u2022\tThe Sun and Moon Must be Darkened before the Rapture
\n\u2022\tThe Lord Must descend from Heaven with a Shout before the Rapture
\n\u2022\tJesus Must Return before the Rapture
\n\u2022\tThe Resurrection must happen just before the Rapture (or, at the same time)
\n\u2022\tThere is only one resurrection for those who are God\u2019s people
\n\u2022\tGod promised that Christians would suffer
\n\u2022\tThere IS a Place of Safety on this Earth<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(1) That truth always trumps theory is certainly true. Notice it is John Little who is calling the Bible doctrine of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture a theory.<\/p>\n

Every time the Rapture is mentioned in the New Testament, it is always mentioned BEFORE any reference is made to the Day of the Lord, therefore it takes place before the day of the Lord and before the Great Tribulation.<\/p>\n

PROOF:<\/p>\n

The Rapture is mentioned in 1 Thessalonians 4:17. The Day of the Lord is not mentioned until 1 Thessalonians 5:2. As surely as chapter 4 of 1 Thessalonians comes before chapter 5, so most certainly the Rapture comes before the Day of the Lord. Since the Great Tribulation takes place after the Day of the Lord begins, the Rapture takes place before the Great Tribulation. Therefore, the Rapture is called the Pre-Tribulation Rapture. This is not theory. This is direct Bible fact.<\/p>\n

The Rapture is mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2:1 under the term “our gathering together unto Him,” which is mentioned before the reference to the Day of the Lord found in 2 Thessalonians 2:2. As surely as verse 1 comes before verse 2, so most certainly the Rapture comes before the Day of the Lord and its accompanying appearance of the Apostasy and the Antichrist. This order of events is the point of Paul’s argument: the Thessalonians could not have then been in the Day of the Lord because the Rapture had not taken place yet, and the Day of the Lord could not have started because the great apostasy had not taken place, nor had the Antichrist yet appeared, both of which events Paul states come first before the Day of the Lord begins. This is directly stated Biblical fact.<\/p>\n

(2) The tribulation must come before the Rapture.<\/p>\n

Wrong. The Great Tribulation (Revelation 7:14; Revelation 6:17) takes place during the Day of the Lord, and the Day of the Lord takes place some time after the Rapture, as proven in my point (1) above.<\/p>\n

(3) The Sun and the Moon must be darkened before the Rapture.<\/p>\n

Not so. Those events come before the Second Coming of Christ in power and great glory in the Day of the Lord. Signs in the heaven are a mark of the Day of the Lord, and therefore take place after the Rapture which comes before the onset of the Day of the Lord.<\/p>\n

(4) The Lord must descend from Heaven with a shout before the Rapture.<\/p>\n

Actually, the Lord descends from heaven with the shout of the archangel at the Rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17).<\/p>\n

(5) Jesus must return before the Rapture.<\/p>\n

Indeed He does, because He comes to take us to be with Himself (John 14:3) at that time, when all those who are dead in Christ and those alive in Christ at His return will meet Him in the air, the saved dead receiving their resurrection bodies at this time (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17; 1 Corinthians 15:51, 52), the living receiving their glorified bodies without experiencing physical death (1 Corinthians 15:51; Philippians 3:21; 1 John 3:2, 3).<\/p>\n

(6) The resurrection must happen just before the Rapture (or, at the same time)<\/p>\n

This is true for all the living and dead who are in Christ at the time of the Rapture, but note this is the resurrection of the righteous (Luke 14:14; 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17; 1 Corinthians 15:22, 23, 51, 52; John 11:25, 26) of this age. This is the only resurrection which is accompanied by a Rapture.<\/p>\n

(7) There is only one resurrection for those who are God’s people.<\/p>\n

This may be labeled “the first resurrection” (Revelation 20:5, 6). Yet this “first resurrection” contains separate components which take place at different times, but always pertains to the resurrection of the righteous at those times. It is the unsaved dead who experience the “second resurrection,” or as Jesus called it, “the resurrection of damnation” (John 5:29). The “first resurrection” includes these four components: (a) The resurrection of Christ Himself, the “firstfruits,” 1 Corinthians 15:23; (b) The resurrection of saints or believers of this church age at the Pre-Tribulation Rapture, 1 Thessalonians 4:16; (c) The resurrection of the saints saved during the Great Tribulation period after the Pre-Tribulation Rapture, Revelation 20:3-5; together with (d) The resurrection of the Old Testament saints (Daniel 12:2; Isaiah 26:19). Isaiah 26:20 places the resurrection of Isaiah 26:19 at the time after the indignation is past. The “indignation” is the day of wrath, the Great Tribulation. These four components constitute the First Resurrection. So while “there is only one resurrection for those who are God’s people,” that one resurrection, the “first resurrection” (Revelation 20:5) has the indicated four separate components which take place at different times.<\/p>\n

(8) God promised that Christians would suffer<\/p>\n

That is certainly true (Acts 14:22; 2 Timothy 3:12), but that is not equivalent to saying all Christians will suffer the Great Tribulation. There is a clear difference! No Christians alive during this Church Age will be involved in suffering during the Great Tribulation, for they will all have been raptured to be with Christ at the Pre-Tribulation Rapture which takes place before the onset of the Day of the Lord. To suggest otherwise is to fall into the error, even heresy, that Paul wrote the book of 2 Thessalonians to address (2 Thessalonians 2:1, 2, 3).<\/p>\n

(9) There IS a place of safety on this earth<\/p>\n

Mr. John Little brings up a most interesting point in Bible prophecy. There is a place of safety for those who become believers on this earth after the Pre-Tribulation Rapture has taken place. These believers are never spoken of in the book of Revelation as the Church. The book of Revelation does not mention the Church throughout all the chapters depicting the events of the Day of the Lord and the Great Tribulation–chapters 4 through 18 or so, as I recall. How account for this strange omission? I believe the best explanation is that this proves the Church as we know it today is not present, but believers surely are. There are many interesting passages of Scripture which may apply to this time: Zephaniah 2:3; Habakkuk 3:16; Isaiah 16:3, and numerous other passages which may be readily found by consulting the cross references I have furnished in either The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/em> or Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible<\/em>. They make for a most interesting study.<\/p>\n

Note that I have addressed in full Mr. John Little’s mistaken stance about the Rapture in what is so far a seven part series under the category “Bible Prophecy” just to the right on this page.<\/p>\n

To get more truly Biblical answers about the Pre-Tribulation Rapture that address Mr. John Little’s claims read more there. You will learn more about Bible prophecy than you may ever have thought there was to learn.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am borrowing Mr. John Little’s title from his July 28, 2014 article I just received in his “The Shock Letter,” http:\/\/www.omegashock.com\/2014\/07\/28\/the-pre-tribulation-rapture-lie\/ I trust the title alone is shocking enough. In part, Mr. Little states we must start with the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[2455,2992,2993],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-prophecy","tag-john-little-answered-about-the-rapture","tag-the-pre-tribulation-rapture-lie","tag-the-pre-tribulation-rapture-proven-from-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}