The Lord Jesus said that it is only false prophets who would teach a (secret) pre tribulation advent and rapture, and that He would come IMMEDIATELY after the great tribulation with great glory (at the 7th Trumpet) and every eye would see Him, to deal with the wicked, take His people home and set up the Millennium Kingdom! Matt 24v23-31, 1Thess 4v13-18, 2Thess 2v1-12, Titus 2v13, Rev 19v11-21, Rev 1v7, Rev 11v15-18.
Jesus never said no such thing, you telling fibs on what Jesus said are in real danger sir. Just because you post that scripture, with ZERO UNDERSTANDIG of how to rightly divide the meaning of it, just proves your lack of spiritual understanding in these matters. We understand that Jews will come to repentance during the 70th week, you evidently do not understand this, and if so, then its really lame to ever cite this scripture, a 5th grader could figure out that if Jesus is sent ONLY unto the Jews and if they repent during he 70th week after the Pre Trib Rapture, then when those Raptured return with Jesus as Rev. 19 shows(you will dodge this), then Jesus will return to earth to save the Jews AFTER the 1260 days of tribulation, with the Church who can be visibly seen in Rev. chapters 4, 5 and 7 in Heaven, and no one goes to heaven until the Rapture, as 1 Cor. 15:50-52 shows us, the Dead are raised at the exact same time as the living are taken, thus there would be no one in Heaven in Rev. 4, 5 and 7 unless the Pre Trib Rapture happens.
If course you have a mental block, you cant understand the simple facts because you have a predetermined, erroneous understanding, Jesus was speaking unto the Jews in Matt. 24 and thus in Rev. 14, where we see the Three Harvests, Jesus is shown Harvesting the Wheat (Jews at his return) then he is shown harvesting the Wicked Grapes in verses 17-20, and in a FLASHBACK, from upon a cloud, he is shown harvesting the Barley or Church, the Barley is ALWYS HARVESTED FIRST !! Each has a first-fruits. Some Jews, like Peter and Paul are a part of the Barley Harvest, they do not need crushing in order to be sifted, Wheat does need crushing before it can be sifted. The very word Tribulation comes from a Greek word TRIBULUM, which was a tool used to CRUSH Wheat with. Wheat had to be crushed, Barley didn't.
Three Main Harvests Of Souls
I will give you rains at the right season; the land will produce crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will continue until it is time to plant. Then you will have plenty to eat and live safely in your land. ~ Leviticus 26:4-5, NCV
God can use a metaphor better than the most gifted writers. For example, He takes the Old Testament’s annual two grains and one fruit agricultural harvests and develops them into well-defined metaphors that describe the New Testament’s spiritual harvests of souls—those saved believers who enter into the Kingdom of God (see the rich harvest imagery in Matthew 9:36-38; John 4:35-36).
Now, in order to understand His metaphors, the three spiritual harvests of souls, believers first need to understand the significance of God’s three mandated major festivals that He situates within aforesaid agricultural harvests. The three agricultural-related mandated feasts that all Jewish men who, more than likely, are 20 years of age and older, had to attend are the Passover Feast, the Feast of Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles (cf. Exodus 23:14-17; Deuteronomy 16:16). Moreover, the two different grain harvests and the one fruit harvest that are compared to three spiritual harvests of souls are the Barley Harvest, Wheat Harvest, and Grapes Harvest—these harvest metaphors depict God’s harvest times as a time of opportunity in the here and now, and a time of final judgment.
It is important to note here that every crop of grain and fruit will have firstfruits (the grain and fruit of every crop that ripens early), and every crop of grain and fruit will experience a
time of separation. When the crop is ripe, it is harvested by separating the chaff or the refuse.
Thus, mature barley goes through a time of separation or winnowing. Using a wooden fork or “fan,” winnowers throw the gathered barley against the wind so that the wind can separate the chaff (husk) from the grain. On the other hand, mature wheat goes through a time of separation or crushing/threshing. Using a tribulum, a wooden board with holes in it, or using a wooden sled, both of which oxen often pull, threshers stand or sit on the board or sled as it is drawn over the grain that is laying on the threshing floor, causing the grain to be separated from the husk (chaff) and straw.
Because barley and wheat still will have certain amounts of chaff, little stones, and/or some tares mixed in them, these grains must go through an additional time of separation or sifting (sieving). The sifters sit on the floor and shake the sieve, which contains the grain, until the chaff begins to appear on the top. Then the sifters blow away the chaff by using the power from their breath. Shifting, thus, is necessary before the grain can be ground into meal.
Lastly, the mature grapes also go through a time of separation or crushing (treading). Using a winepress, treaders crush the grapes until the grapes’ juice is separated from the grapes’ skins, which results in the pressed juice running into the vats.
Having said that, here, in a nutshell, are the three main spiritual Harvests of Souls:
FIRST HARVEST — BARLEY HARVEST (@first FRUITS FEAST)
See ~ Ephesians 5:27; ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:23, NCV; ~ 2 Peter 3:14, NCV
The Barley Harvest represents the overcomers. These are the saints whose hearts are tender—the repentant on-fire believers, whose body, soul and spirit are without spot or blemish; completely sanctified unleavened lives driven by the Wind of the Holy Spirit. Like Christ Jesus, they too are Firstfruits; they are the Bride of Christ; they are the redeemed, resurrected, never-to-die again, glorified sons and daughters of God, and they are the
FIRST PHASE of the spiritual Harvest of Souls who participate in the 1st resurrection. Furthermore, some of them will be the resurrected dead in Christ AND some will be the raptured alive in Christ (see 1 Corinthians 15:51- 54; 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17).
More important, these overcomers have been winnowed, which means they did not need to be harvested by using a “TRIBULUM” (Latin word from which comes the English word, Tribulation). In other words, the Barley Harvest of Souls will NOT have to go through the seven-year TRIBULATION, of which the last 3½ years are going to be the time of great distress and great pressure that this world has never seen before, and will never see again.
SECOND HARVEST — WHEAT HARVEST (@FEAST OF PENTECOST)
See ~ Matthew 3:11-12; ~ Matthew 13:38-39; ~ Revelation 14:14-16, NCV
The Wheat Harvest represents all the rest of the believers—the left behind hardhearted and/or carnal believers who were not ready when the Bride of Christ was raptured.
These believers must endure the seven-year Tribulation, and for them the Great Tribulation (the last 3½ years) is a judgment that can be compared to the most severe action of Wheat threshing that is done in order to make the Wheat easier to separate (easier to winnow) away from the chaff. The Wheat Harvest, thus, represents those believers who are asleep, in the spiritual sense (see Matthew 13:25). Furthermore, the Firstfruits of this Wheat Harvest will be the martyred (beheaded) saints who are the SECOND PHASE of the spiritual Harvest of Souls who participate in the 1st resurrection, and the remaining mature Wheat will be those surviving Tribulation saints—the left-behind believers who have been thoroughly purged; see Revelation 7:13-14).
If you can't rightly divide the word, its on you and no one else. The LAST TRUMP refers to the Feast of Trumps 100th Trump which always ENDS the Harvest (THINK Church Age), not the 7 Trumps of Judgments.
