Super. Thanks for clearing that up!
Don't let Ahwatukee fool ya. He has sold completely into man's doctrine of the pre-tribulational rapture. The Matt.24 example I gave is our Lord Jesus speaking to His disciples upon the Mount of Olives, which is where Zechariah 14 declares His feet will touch down at His 2nd coming.
In 1 Thessalonians 5 and 2 Peter 3:10, both Apostles Paul and Peter declared the "thief in the night" timing to happen on the "day of the Lord". Per the OT prophets, and NT revealing, especially that 2 Peter 3:10 verse, the "day of the Lord" is to occur only... on the very last day of this present world. It ends the great tribulation is what that means.
Ahwatukee has been wrongly taught that the "day of the Lord" event occurs during the tribulation, as if... it were the tribulation of 3.5 years. It is not. The "day of the Lord" events recorded in OT Scripture for the end of this world occur very rapidly; in the Book of Isaiah God even shows it will occur "suddenly, at an instant" (Isaiah 29).
Here is what occurs on that "day of the Lord" per Scripture:
1. Christ's coming on the "last trump", the 7th trumpet (Rev.11; 1 Cor.15)
2. Jesus brings the "asleep" saints with Him (1 Thess.4; Matt.24:29-31)
3. The saints on earth still alive are 'changed' "at the twinkling of an eye" (coupled with the "suddenly, at an instant" burning event of Isaiah 29:5 and 2 Peter 3:10).
4. Both groups of saints gathered to Jesus as He comes down to the earth upon the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, where we are gathered to (1 Thess.4; Matt.24:31; Mark 13:27).
5. Christ and His angels fight the battle of Armageddon, an event coupled with the burning fire event of Isa.29 and 2 Pet.3:10 (Rev.16).
6. The beast and false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire; the devil is locked in his pit prison, and Christ's 1,000 years reign with His elect, on earth, begins (Rev.19; Rev.20; Rev.5:10).
God's consuming fire burns man's works off the surface of this earth, at an instant (2 Pet.3:10; Isaiah 29:5).
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