Mat 24 has one taken,one left.
The rapture.
That concept of the ones taken up to the clouds,then doing a u turn is nowhere in Gods plan.
Totally out of step.
No purpose or even sanity in it. No examples either.
The uturn is a glitch in doctrine. A patch job.
Jesus used Job and Noah as prejudgement models.
NO UTURN,AND BOTH PREJUDGEMENT DYNAMICS.
Postribs have a post judgement removal with uturn .
Jesus went out of his way to give us a pattern and red flags against a notion of a post trib rapture.
That postrib doctrine is toast.
NOTHING,POINTS TO IT.
ZERO
Well, considering Jesus is DESCENDING, it would seem that it is a description of the change from terrestrial to celestial. But not only is there NO UTURN there is also NO "ON TO HEAVEN" for 7. (yeah, yeah, yeah, not appointed to wrath. Where is it said that "Rapture" is how God solves the "not appointed to wrath"? Pretty sure the Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego event should open eyes on a bit of His capability.
Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Matthew 24:29 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:
Matthew 24:30 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.
Matthew 24:31 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.
DO you see an order of events here? AFTER THE TRIBULATION, the Son coming with power and great glory, gather together HIS ELECT
The 2nd Advent, or coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is Post Tribulation. as Jesus descending, AFTER the man of sin IS revealed, Commencing the Lords Day when we are changed into our celestial bodies, and receive our immortality, the 1st resurrection and for the next 1000 years, also called the Millennial Reign, while Satan is bound, we are to reign and be Priests with Christ. There is NO leaving earth to go anywhere, He is coming here, The Throne is coming here. The lake of fire is here. The New City is here. HERE, IS GODS FAVORITE SPOT IN THE UNIVERSE and heaven is where ever God is.
Just like Noah made it THROUGH the flood, here ON EARTH, SO DO WE make it through the Tribulation of Satan, here on earth.
Just like Lot was led out of harms way, STAYING here on earth, so will we.
Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
WHO is going to be revealed? JESUS CHRIST. To WHOM? His SERVANTS. Who are His servants? The Church.
Who is it sent to? .... What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches also known as the BODY OF CHRIST
WHAT FOR? to shew THEM what is coming.
WHY? because they are going through it.
Are they appointed to wrath? No.
Tribulation? Yes.
Are we told to put on armor? is it to withstand the fiery darts of Satan? Are we told some will have 10 day trials?
Revelation 1:9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
What is the patience of the Saints?
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRIBULATION AND WRATH?