That's a false statement. You have see all the post-trib evidence but you go on and claim you haven't seen it. That's a dishonest tactic.
https://christianchat.com/threads/h...ular-in-the-modern-church.201091/post-4706201
Here you claim Apostasia means a physical departure and I correct you using the actual definition which means a defection from the truth. Still want to claim you have seen no evidence??
https://christianchat.com/threads/h...ular-in-the-modern-church.201091/post-4706065
https://christianchat.com/threads/h...ular-in-the-modern-church.201091/post-4705972
Here you posted a verse you think supports pre-trib but I explain that the verse has Christ coming to the Earth and nothing at all about returning with people back to heaven. Want to say you never saw that?
https://christianchat.com/threads/h...ular-in-the-modern-church.201091/post-4705994
Here you claim Jesus can return for the rapture at any time but scripture I posted refutes that false teaching! You didn't see that huh?
https://christianchat.com/threads/h...ular-in-the-modern-church.201091/post-4705932
And here I once again provide you with very clear and concise post-trib scripture which you claim didn't happen. This is typical dishonesty by pre-tribbers. And these are conversations just between us. It doesn't include all the post-trib posts by some many others that you claim never happened. You should apologize for the false things you say in this post.
https://christianchat.com/threads/h...ular-in-the-modern-church.201091/post-4706201
Here you claim Apostasia means a physical departure and I correct you using the actual definition which means a defection from the truth. Still want to claim you have seen no evidence??
https://christianchat.com/threads/h...ular-in-the-modern-church.201091/post-4706065
https://christianchat.com/threads/h...ular-in-the-modern-church.201091/post-4705972
Here you posted a verse you think supports pre-trib but I explain that the verse has Christ coming to the Earth and nothing at all about returning with people back to heaven. Want to say you never saw that?
https://christianchat.com/threads/h...ular-in-the-modern-church.201091/post-4705994
Here you claim Jesus can return for the rapture at any time but scripture I posted refutes that false teaching! You didn't see that huh?
https://christianchat.com/threads/h...ular-in-the-modern-church.201091/post-4705932
And here I once again provide you with very clear and concise post-trib scripture which you claim didn't happen. This is typical dishonesty by pre-tribbers. And these are conversations just between us. It doesn't include all the post-trib posts by some many others that you claim never happened. You should apologize for the false things you say in this post.
That's a false statement. You have see all the post-trib evidence but you go on and claim you haven't seen it. That's a dishonest tactic. No, I made a true statement. I have seen the gathering in Matthew 24 over and over, but so far no one has offered any proof at all that it is Paul's rapture. I see only rhetoric that it is, with no proof.
https://christianchat.com/threads/h...ular-in-the-modern-church.201091/post-4706065
From Strong's:
ἀποστασία apostasía, ap-os-tas-ee'-ah; feminine of the same as G647; defection from truth (properly, the state) ("apostasy"):—falling away, forsake.
Please show us what part of this compound word shows us WHAT is being departed FROM? I think Strong was ad libbing when he wrote "from the truth." He ended with "falling away, forsake." I can buy those because he does not add anything. I don't think "from the truth" is included in apostasia - only a forsaking or a departing. That is proven by several of the first translations into English put it as a departing - nothing more added.
Acts 21:21 And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake G646 Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs. Notice here the writer has to state what is being forsaken: in this case moses. Paul added nothing in 2 thes. 2, so no one can say WHAT was being departed from. One could only GUESS it was from the truth.
However, Strongs goes much farther, showing us what EACH of the words that makes up the compound word apo-stasia. So you believe Strong here, but don't believe him there. Do you think each word of a compound word loses its meaning when compounded with another word?
I can readily agree that the common use for apostasia is to forsake, or a falling away or a departing. Any one of those words will work. But WHICH ONE fits the context of Paul's passage when translated from Greek to English?
If we insist on a falling away (from what is not stated) we are left with a major problem. You see, because Paul ended verse 3 with the man of sin revealed, and told us that he could not be revealed until the restrainer was taken out of the way, then whatever Paul meant by apostasia MUST BE the restraining power taken out of the way. So what we have is a falling away restraining the revealing. How in the world can that make sense? If anything it would HASTEN the revealing.
Then we have Paul writing "and now you know who is restraining..."
So there can be no doubt that Paul's intent for "apostasia" is the restrainer being removed. This is why I think "departing" is a better choice than a falling away.
https://christianchat.com/threads/h...ular-in-the-modern-church.201091/post-4706065
There's at least 2000 years inbetween his mansion building in heaven and his second coming which he speaks of. Plus, the second coming does not stop at the clouds. He descends to the Earth and will step on the ground at some point.
I think building mansions has been ongoing since He ascended. Every time someone gets born again, another mansion must be built.
the second coming does not stop at the clouds. He descends to the Earth and will step on the ground at some point. Now you are adding to Paul's scripture There can be no doubt that Paul's "coming" in 1 Thes. 4 will be His NEXT coming, and Paul mentions NOTHING about Jesus not stopping but continuing on down. You find that (or a strong hint of that) in Rev. 19 when He comes to Armageddon. It appears very much like you are trying to FORCE two comings into one. Many people have made lists showing the differences between the two comings. Frankly, I don't see how anyone can mash them together.
Jesus does not say when he comes, that he takes anyone to heaven. You add that into the passage Paul does not say, but John does. Remember the homes He went to prepare. John 14 does not give us any timing for His coming to get us, but Paul does. I see no problems with putting John 14 with Paul's rapture. It seems to fit together easily. I cannot think of any scripture it would go against.
So far your posttrib scriptures are not - simple as that. Maybe in your mind they are.
https://christianchat.com/threads/h...ular-in-the-modern-church.201091/post-4705972
So where is Christ and all the saved Christians? Earth.
We have been over this one before. Where is Christ? You did not answer the question as to WHEN since He is in different places at different times. Let's look: ""I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." At the moment He receives the church, He will be IN THE AIR and IN THE CLOUD - so your answer fails. The truth is, Neither John nor Paul tell us where He goes after we meet Him in the air. HOWEVER, the general theme of John's passage is that he has gone and made homes for us, so the reasonable answer is that He will return to heaven with the church, TAKING us to the homes prepared.
So far you have batted Zero. I don't see anything so far as a very good proof of a posttrib rapture. I see you inserting your believe into scripture just the way most people do.
I am quitting for the night.