Hello DiscipleDave,
Scriptures please? Where in Scriptures does it teach they are NOT the same event? Scriptures please? Thanks.
As we have shared with you many time, the event of the gathering of the church vs. the Lord's return to the earth to end the age, are two separate events. This truth can be deduced from cross-referencing and comparing scripture.
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Gathering of the church) --------------------------------
(Second Coming) ----------------
Meets the Lord in the air ---------------------------- The Lord returns to the earth to end the age
Taken back to the Father's house ----------------- Follows the Lord out of heaven to the earth
Is imminent ------------------------------------------- Requires many signs that must take place prior to
Occurs prior to God's wrath ------------------------ Occurs after the completion of God's wrath
People, God told me that when Jesus comes back the second time, He is here to STAY
God did not tell you that, because it contradicts His written word which says that he went to prepare places for all believers and is coming back to take us to those places that he prepared, which are in the Father's house.
When Christ comes back a second time it is at that time He gathers up the Church.
Jesus will not gather the church at the second coming, because God's wrath via the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments must take place prior to the Lord's return to the earth to end the age, which would put the church through the entire wrath of God, and which we not appointed to suffer:
"They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—
Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath." - 1 Thes.1:10
"Since we have now been justified by his blood, how
much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! - Rom.5:9
The church is not appointed to suffer God's coming wrath:
"But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. - 1 Thes.5:9
The Lord promised through the letter to the church of Philadelphia and all believers who endure patiently, to keep us out of that hour of trial, the time of God's wrath:
"Because you have kept the word of My patient endurance,
I also will keep you out of the hour of the trial being about to come upon the whole inhabited world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.
It is at that time that the Holy City comes down WITH Jesus Christ. It is at that time that the Father is here on Earth in the Holy City
Man, your chronology of end time events is way out of whack! According to scripture, the New Jerusalem never comes down upon this present earth. Below is the scriptural order of events:
* The Lord Gathers the church meeting them in the air - John 14:1-3, 1 Thes.4:13-18, 1 Cor.15:51-53
* The day of the Lord (God's wrath) - Revelation 6 - 18
* The Lord's returns to end the age and establish His millennial kingdom - Matt.24:29-31, Rev.1:7, 19:11-21
* Beast and false prophet cast into the lake of fire, alive - Rev.19:20
* Satan is seized and thrown into and restricted in the Abyss for a thousand years - Rev.20:1-3
* Great tribulation saints resurrected - Rev.20:4-6
* Thousand year reign of Christ
* At the End of the thousand years Satan is release and then thrown into the lake of fire - Rev.20:10
* Great white throne judgment takes place, heaven and earth flee from God's presence - Rev.20:11-15, 21:1
* New heaven, new earth, new Jerusalem
* Eternity ................................................................>
That is the order of events given in scripture. This current heaven and earth passes away after the great white throne judgment, then the Jerusalem comes down out of heaven from God. This present earth will never see the new Jerusalem.
In addition, do you actually believe that God would bring the holy city new Jerusalem down to this sin tainted planet? NO! It will come down in all its glory after the new heaven and new earth have been created.
The Saints do NOT go to HEAVEN after being Raptured
Scripture says differently:
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.
In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that
I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.
Jesus told his disciples and all believers, that he was going to the Father's house to prepare places for us. And that he was going to come back and take us to the Father's house to those dwelling places that he went to prepare, so that where He is we may be also. Therefore, I don't know how you can say that we are not going to heaven, when the scripture is very clear on this. And since this has not yet taken place, it is then a future event which must be fulfilled.
UGH!
Jesus comes back at the 7th Trumpet sounding.
At the 7th Trumpet all kingdoms of the world then belong to Jesus.
At the 7th Trumpet the dead are raised.
The 7th trumpet is not the "last trumpet" of 1 Cor.15:52.
The last trumpet is the blessed event of the church being gathered, where the 7th trumpet is a plague of wrath, which the church is not appointed to suffer. All you're doing here, is misapplying these trumpets as being the same in order to support your belief.
There is nothing in the scripture in or around the 7th trumpet that mentions or even hints at the gathering of the church.
The "last trumpet" and the 7th trumpet, are two different kinds or types of trumpets.
i challenge any person, learned or otherwise, to find one verse that is contrary to anything that i say below, ONE VERSE.
Consider yourself challenged and debunked with not just one, but many scriptures.
If you believe what God has told me, and reread the whole Bible front to back with this knowledge, then you will see and understand all prophesies fit into what God has told me, you will absolutely be amazed how Scriptures plainly teaches what God has told me, but until you discard what you think is the TRUTH, the TRUTH will elude you.
I have read the Bible front to back and many times in between, and will not discard what I have learned and know to be the truth, because what you are teaching is false and therefore, God did not tell you this. Regardless of what you think, your teachings do not line up with scripture.