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Now to build further upon my previous post we that are pretrib do not believe that his wrath in earthly form will come upon us so we will escape it by God's divine hand, the rapture.
Two examples of his wrath falling in a earthly form are the flood and Sodom and Gomorrah. As Abraham said prior to Sodom be it far from God to judge the righteous with the unrighteous.
Christ said that those days before his return would be like the days before the flood and the days before Sodom. Peter breaks down the distinct protection or escape that God provides for the righteous when his wrath falls in that earthly fashion.
II Peter 2:4-6 says For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast
them down to hell, and delivered
them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth
person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned
them with an overthrow, making
them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
God saved Noah, saved is phulassó in the Greek.
5442 phylássō (akin to
5441 /phýlaks, "a military guard") – properly, preserve by "having an eye on" (J. Thayer), referring to the uninterrupted vigilance shepherds show in keeping their flocks (see Lk 2:8, used with
5438 /phylakḗ, "a military guard," i.e. exercising unbroken vigilance as a military guard).
5442 /phylássō ("keep watch over, keep secure") emphasizes the needed vigilance to keep what is entrusted. Thus
5442 (
phylássō) is often used in the NT in the Greek
middle voice meaning, "
Personally be on guard against," stressing the constant,
personal interest involved with the guarding.
https://biblehub.com/greek/5442.htm
That is what God did he shut the door of the Ark then watched out over them. He saved Noah.
II Peter 2:7-9 says And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed
his righteous soul from day to day with
their unlawful deeds;
9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
God delivered Lot. Delivered is rhuomai in the Greek.
4506 rhýomai (from
eryō, "draw
to oneself") – properly, draw (pull)
to oneself; to rescue ("snatch up"); to draw or rescue a person
to and for the deliverer.
https://biblehub.com/greek/4506.htm
So God snatched up Lot or raptured him prior to his wrath falling.
Luke 21:34-36 says And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and
so that day come upon you unawares.
35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
I Thessalonians 5:1-10 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6Therefore let us not sleep, as
do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
It is the world that will not escape that wrath but we will escape as God has not appointed us to wrath and that wrath is the tribulation as both are working hand in hand.
We find that God will deliver us as he did Lot prior by snatching us away or rapturing us, he will deliver us.
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