Which Bible Verses Will Prepare You for the Post-Tribulation Rapture (and the Great Tribulation Before That?)

I was thinking this morning about post-tribulation believers. Are they preparing sanctuary cities right now for the Saints to join together in order to survive? They can learn to live off of the grid while they have time to prepare. In the Book of Acts, all of the followers of Jesus sold their possessions and had all things in common. Are post-tribulation believers doing the same? They will need each others support, desperately.

During such times, and even now, our focus must be on the well-being of our Brothers and Sisters in Christ, not unsaved kin. We love and pray for them, but our commitment must be to the family of God.

Luke 14
[25] And there went great multitudes with him [Jesus]: and he turned, and said unto them,
[26] If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
[27] And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
[28] For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
[29] Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
[30] Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
[31] Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
[32] Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
[33] So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
[34] Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
[35] It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

This verse you have posted is not primarily about Christians, but about Jews. (Although some gentiles will come to Christ at this time.)

Although some "Trib Saints" will be present, The Trib is known to be "The time of Jacob's trouble." That is a reference to Israel. The Lord shall lead them to the wilderness and protect them there.


No.
It is we who are conquerors through Christ.
Romans 8:37
“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”

The Church has been enduring hardships ever since it's inception, but it will never come under God's wrath. The Church will be raptured out pre-trib and Israel will be protected in the wilderness. No post-trib rapture is spoken of in the Bible.

The church is mentioned well after the tribulation has started.

Yes, she is. She is in Heaven getting married during the 7 years of Trib on Earth. She shall come down after trib, not go up. Lots of people have the elevator buttons mixed up. Study Rev 19.

Revelation 22
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.

These churches are not in heaven. If they were, there would be no need to send a angel to testify to them.

Absolutely. The names of these Churches make that very clear. They are letters to us who live in the Church Age. Do you understand what the Church age is and when it ends?

Yes, however I also realize the term “church age” is not biblical.

It is very biblical. Where did you get the idea that it was not Biblical? Perhaps you are just trying to say that the actual phrase Church Age is not in the 1611 KJV? That would be a rather pedantic tack, but you can go there if you so choose.

It is very biblical. Where did you get the idea that it was not Biblical? Perhaps you are just trying to say that the actual phrase Church Age is not in the 1611 KJV? That would be a rather pedantic tack, but you can go there if you so choose.

Revelation 22
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.

These churches are not in heaven. If they were, there would be no need to send a angel to testify to them.

When you mention "Revelation 22"... consider:

--Revelation 1:1-3 is the prologue to the book;

--Revelation 22:6-21 is the epilogue to the book


... and therefore is not suggesting that "the church" is still on the earth [as if chronological in these sections, like even "after the NH&NE"]







Another thing to consider, which I've put in past threads:

--having it say "unto the churchES" (7x in chpts 2-3) is not the same thing as saying "unto the Church WHICH IS HIS BODY"; because...


--in the "churchES" there are both believers AND those who come in His name but who are not vitally connected to Christ (i.e. they are NOT saved / they are UNsaved)--ex. the church of the Laodiceans, where He calls them "lukewarm," He is not suggesting they are "lukewarm CHRISTIANS" (i.e. milquetoast 'believers' etc... NO), but is rather saying they are not at all connected to the SOURCE (Jesus Christ), that is, they are NOT SAVED--and they are counseled to "buy of Me gold TRIED IN THE FIRE *so that*...";

--by contrast, "the Church WHICH IS HIS BODY" (Eph1:20-23 etc) is made up of ONLY BELIEVERS (believers/all those saved of "this present age [singular]" [i.e. not OT saints, nor Trib saints, nor MK saints])








Chapters 2-3 speaks of "the things WHICH ARE" (1:19b);

Starting in chpt 4, it covers "AFTER THESE THINGS" (meaning, AFTER "the things WHICH ARE" which themselves [chpts 2-3] were never said OF THEM that they are "things which must come to pass IN QUICKNESS [NOUN]" like the things "AFTER THESE" are said to, per 1:1 / 1:19c / 4:1 and which are described from 4:1 in the bulk of the book, to Rev19 and early parts of Rev20 [to Christ's Second Coming to the earth])

Eph1:20-23 etc) is made up of ONLYBELIEVERS (believers/all those saved of "this present age [singular]" [i.e. not OT saints, nor Trib saints, nor MK saints])

The church is made up of believers in Christ.
OT saints, Trib saints etc… You added all these labels.

but the implication of a church age does not fit in the chronological order of events that would consummate the end of the age.

The tribulation has started.

And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

Who are the people on earth with the seal of God? I’m assuming they are not part of the church either.

Revelation 22
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.

These churches are not in heaven. If they were, there would be no need to send a angel to testify to them.

The Churches were presented the prophecy of Revelation before all of the events unfold.

I hope you mean, in the context of the following passage...


The "144,000" -- "12,000" of each of the tribes of Israel named in the text (Rev7)... same persons being referred to in Rev14;

but in chpt 7 "the 144,000 servants of our God" (of ONE NATION--the tribes of ISRAEL) are set in contradistinction to the [numberless / uncountable] "a great multitude... of all the nationS" in 7:9-17... though both sets of these persons are on the earth in / during / within the Trib years;



It is "the 144,000" who will be sealed in the forehead" for protection during the aspect of it being spoken of in the text.

The 144,000 witnesses [Note, they are not referred to as 144,000 "witnesses" in Revelation 7, but there are 2 Witnesses in rev 11.] are not touched by the scorpions, while the rest of men are [Rev 7:3, ) The rest of the men includes all men, less those who received the seal of God…. I believe that the 144,000 are martyrs, and they are killed by the first beast (the NWO―i.e., men on this Earth) some time after being sealed in Revelation chapter seven (perhaps their sealing is at their last end); for, we see them in Heaven in (Rev 14:2-5), BEFORE the Second Advent. I arrive at this conclusion based on several chronological facts: They are sealed before the Locust Army arrives, thus are untouchable to the supernatural army of antichrist (the 'Locusts'); and they are in Heaven before the Second Advent. There is only one way to get to Heaven before the Second Advent--that is to die. And since the Locust Army can't kill them, but they were in fact killed, therefore―men killed them.]