Post-trib rapture

Agreed

peace to youraying:

 

Hey, you asked us to defend it and then you gave away all the best ammunition!!

Here's one more logical argument to add:

The events described above all occur when the sun goes dark and the moon turns to the color of blood, which are the signs of the Day of the Lord. I could give an extensive scriptural proof, but I think it's obvious that the Day of the Lord begins after the great tribulation (see the Matt 24 quote you used above). With that in mind, read what Paul says to the Thessalonians:

Even most pre-tribbers would place the abomination of desolation (when the antichrist is revealed) in the middle of the 70th week, which is what ushers in the great tribulation. Notice in the above quote that the day of the Lord does not come until sometime AFTER the antichrist is revealed.

Now here's the logical part. Paul tells the Thessalonians that they can be sure that the day of the Lord hasn't come because it won't come until after the antichrist is revealed. What would be the point in telling them that if Paul assumed they'd be raptured 3 1/2 years before the antichrist would be revealed? He's giving them a landmark sign which they can use to recognize that the day of the Lord can't have arrived and gone -- but how can they use it if they're not there to see it? What's the point in telling them what they would have to see first if they won't see it because they've been raptured?

 

That's cool. I was just kidding with you anyway.

By the way, I have my doubts that there is a remaining 70th week of Daniel. But since most pre-tribbers assume there's a delayed 70th week (and then they dub it the tribulation period, which does not have any support whatsoever in the Bible), I still used it as a reference point in my post.

 

Npetreley: //The events described above all occur when the sun goes dark and the moon turns to the color of blood, which are the signs of the Day of the Lord. I could give an extensive scriptural proof, but I think it's obvious that the Day of the Lord begins after the great tribulation (see the Matt 24 quote you used above).//

Exactly, Amen even.

Do recall a DAY OF THE LORD already happened
(before the Great Tribulation Period):

On the day of Pentacost 33AD (some say 30AD so the
destruction of the Temple/Jerusalem in 70AD is 40
years later EXACTLY):

Act 2:16 -21 (KJV1611 Edition):
But this is that which was spoken by the Prophet Ioel,
17 And it shall come to passe in the last dayes
(saith God) I will powre out of my Spirit vpon all flesh:
and your sonnes and your daughters
shall prophesie, and your yong men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dreame dreames:
18 And on my seruants, and on my handmaidens,
I will powre out in those daies of my Spirit,
and they shall prophesie:
19 And I wil shew wonders in heauen aboue,
and signes in the earth beneath:
blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke.
20 The Sunne shall be turned into darkenesse,
and the Moone into blood,
before that great and notable day of the Lord come.
Act 2:21 And it shall come to passe,
that whosoeuer shall call on the Name of the Lord, shalbe saued.

BTW, which of the two following major theories of the
post-tribualtion only theory will you* be presenting?

1. the a-millinnial (i.e. figurative or spiritual)
Millinnial Messanic Kingdom
2. the pre-millinnial (physical) Second Coming of Jesus

*"you" here can be anybody who wants to answer the
question

 

FWIW, I believe Jesus returns for real immediately after the signs of His coming. When (in the timeline) does His foot actually touch the earth? I don't recall if I even thought about that - it's been a long time since I studied it.

I'm just *guessing* because I'm not intimately familiar with the terms, but I guess you'd call me pre-millenial. I used to know that stuff (back when I read Things to Come, Dwight Pentacost) but like I said, it's been a long time...

 

Comparative time-lines of the future (the correct one is bolded
here, but discussed somewhere else):

Pretrib pre-mill outline of time forward:

0. church age continues -- you are here
1. rapture/resurrection
2. Tribulation time
3. Second Advent of Jesus event
4. literal MK=millinnial kingdom
5. new heaven & new earth

Post-trib pre-mill outline of time forward:

0. church age continues -- you are here
2. Tribulation time
3. Second Advent of Jesus event
(same 12-hour day as: 1. rapture/resurrection
4. literal MK=millinnial kingdom
5. new heaven & new earth

Post-trib a-mill outline of time forward:

0. church age continues -- you are here
(same as 2. Tribulation time)
3. Second Advent of Jesus event
(same 12-hour day as: 1. rapture/resurrection
4. spiritual MK=millinnial kingdom, in heaven
5. spiritual new heaven & new earth

Done-did preterist a-mill outline of time forward:

0. church age continues -- you are here
1. rapture/resurrection -- already happened
2. Tribulation time -- you are here
3. Second Advent of Jesus event -- already happened
4. spiritual MK=millinnial kingdom -- already happened
5. new heaven & new earth -- you are here


(Caveat: the milage of others will vary)

 

Ed Edwards:

Dwmoeller1: //I have yet to see how it matters as arguments
for either are basically the same. Can you give an example
of where the two would have essentially different
arguments for the posttrib rapture?//

It makes a difference in how the discussion goes.

I believe in a post-trib ressurection/rapture.
However, I do have some figures BASED ON SCRIPTURE
and LOGIC, that the pre-tribulation rapture would
(if held today) in excess of 200 Million persons.
The post-tribuation rapture (7 years after the pre-triubualtion
rapture) will only be of a few hundred people, if the Antichrist
is a reasonable threat.

So really among pretribulationist pre-millinnialists,
and post-tribulation onlyist pre-millinnialists -- the point
of discussion is ONLY if there is a pre-tribulation rapture/resurrection
or not.

But between a-mills and pre-mills, there is a world-view
of differences.

 

Act 2:16 -21 (KJV1611 Edition):
But this is that which was spoken by the Prophet Ioel,
17 And it shall come to passe in the last dayes
(saith God) I will powre out of my Spirit vpon all flesh:
and your sonnes and your daughters
shall prophesie, and your yong men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dreame dreames:
18 And on my seruants, and on my handmaidens,
I will powre out in those daies of my Spirit,
and they shall prophesie:
19 And I wil shew wonders in heauen aboue,
and signes in the earth beneath:
blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke.
20 The Sunne shall be turned into darkenesse,
and the Moone into blood,
before that great and notable day of the Lord come.
21 And it shall come to passe,
that whosoeuer shall call on the Name
of the Lord, shalbe saued.

Wait a sec. The Scripture never says that
the day of the Lord has occured.
It says these things will happen before
the day of the Lord and that they are already
in the process of happening (the point of Acts 2
unless one takes the preterist position),
but Scripture never once says that
the day of the Lord occurs. Only if one argu
e the preterist position would one be able to say that it has.

I respectfully disagree.

Act 2:12-16 And they were all amazed,
and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
14 But Peter standing vp with the eleuen,
lift vp his voyce, and said vnto them, Ye men of Iudea,
& all ye that dwell at Hierusalem,
be this knowen vnto you, and hearken to my words:
15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose,
seeing it is but the third houre of the day.
16 But this is that which was spoken
by the Prophet Ioel,

What is happening (each hearing one person's message
in their own language) was spoken of by Joel
INCLUDING:
Acts 2:20 (KJV1611 Edition):
The Sunne shall be turned into darkenesse,
and the Moone into blood,
before that great and notable day of the Lord come.

Two different days, each with the sun turning into
darkness & the Moon into blood:

1. The Great Day of the Lord
2. The Notable Day of the Lord

IMHO (in my humble opinion)
The Great Day of the Lord = The first coming of Jesus
The Notable Day of the Lord = The second coming of Jesus

 

........except that the church doesn't go through the Tribulation. Yea! We know from II Thessalonians Chapter 2 that after the Church is gone, raptured, caught up, the antichrist is going to make his appearance. The church age ends, the Tribulation begins. Christ's 2nd Coming is post-trib, pre-millinial, the church --- who? --- the church coming with him (at which point a super whup-up on bad guys takes place. Whoa!)

:tonofbricks: <---- post-trib theory collapses......... (finally found a use for those bricks!)

 

From Ed Edwards:
"Wait a sec. The Scripture never says that the day of the Lord has occured. It says these things will happen before the day of the Lord and that they are already in the process of happening (the point of Acts 2
unless one takes the preterist position), but Scripture never once says that the day of the Lord occurs. Only if one argue the preterist position would one be able to say that it has. I respectfully disagree".

Two different days, each with the sun turning into darkness & the Moon into blood: 1. The Great Day of the Lord. 2. The Notable Day of the Lord.
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Ed Edwards, the Pre-Trib, Post-Trib Fence Sitter:

In Post #41 of the Thread on 2 Thess.2, EE claims:

“The above scripture denotes the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; the gathering of Church Age Saints (AKA: elect, born-again, bride of Christ,
body of Christ, regenerated, etc.)” [EE believes Jesus taught this in
Mt.24:31 which Jesus Himself states will occur "after great tribulation"]!

"The rest of chapter 2 concerns the events between the gathering (i.e. Rapture/Resurrection) and the Second Coming of Christ in power and jugement: to destroy Antichrist and set up the Millinnial Messanic Kingdom”.
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Now, in Post #6 of the Thread on the Post-Trib Rapture, EE claims: “I think it's obvious the Day of the Lord begins after the great tribulation. Exactly, Amen even”. [But he also accepts Pentecost as another Day of the Lord so he can argue for TWO Raptures].

In Post #12 EE shows his confusion:

“IMHO the Great Day of the Lord = The first coming of Jesus.
The Notable Day of the Lord = The second coming of Jesus”.
[But Pentecost was after the first coming of Jesus].
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EE sits on the fence, unable to choose a single Rapture; but holds to two Raptures because of two Days of the Lord. He fails to grasp that the SIGNS begin the final Day of the Lord “BEFORE" the events of that Day occur! The 6th Seal is not even called the “Day of the Lord”!! Seven classes of men, hiding in the hills, call it “The GREAT (NOTABLE) DAY of God’s and the Lamb’s WRATH"!!! Rev.6;16-17.

It doesn’t take 7 years for God’s Wrath after 7 Plagues exhaust His anger!

It doesn’t take 42 months for His Wrath after Great Tribulation “completes God’s Mystery”...3 1/2 or more days remain after the 1260 days of "God's Mystery was finished"!! Rev.10:6-7; Rev.11:6-7.

It doesn’t take the full "Hour of Trial" to “destroy earth’s destroyers” at the 7th Trumpet where "God’s Wrath has come"!!! Rev.3:10; Luke 21:34-35; Rev.11:18. [That Day is coming "suddenly, like a snare; like a thief” according to both Jesus and Paul. Paul agrees with Jesus that it happens on the same Day Jesus appears "like a thief". I Thes.5:3 agrees with Rev.16:15 which is after the G.T.].


Is there any hope for you, my well meaning friend?! You need to settle on
the one Rapture that Jesus describes by stating: “In the days after that tribulation, the Son of Man will send the angels and (He) will gather (3rd
person singular) His Elect from the end of EARTH to the end of the SKY”!!
The Holman Christian Standard Bible endorsed by Lifeway!!! Pub. 1999.

Mel

 

Mel Miller: //The Holman Christian Standard Bible
endorsed by Lifeway!!! Pub. 1999.//

Note that in several of your sentences in post #17
of this thread the subject is 'Ed'.
Thank you, Sir Mel Miller, for the publicity.

The HCSB as a whole is copywrited in 2003.
It was 2004 before they shared a whole HCSB
Bible (OT & NT) with me, even though they
sold it to me in 2003.

 

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Ed Ed,

My dear brother, it seems nothing I write will change your conclusions!
I admire your steady, stalwart, unflinching devotion to your convictions!!
I guess no amount of publicity can move you to reconsider the premises!!!

Mel

 

Thank you father Mel ...