What did Noah need to build the Ark and to move into it with his family? “By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen [such as a global deluge of water], moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith” (Hebrews 11:7). What is faith? It is “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). It is not faith in what anyone might say, but what God has said!
Today, we have an infinitely greater Ark—the Lord Jesus Christ! He said, “I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved” (John 10:9). Friend, do you know Him as your Savior? Trust Him today.
Brother music master, I assure you there's no weakness in me only Christ Jesus. Perhaps you should pray more to be like Him and less off self. Good day and may God continue to bless us both.
This all sounds like it is originating from you personally since you still have not shown, from scripture, the parallel you have drawn.
There will indeed be a rapture of the body of Christ from this earth prior to the tribulation. If that were not the case, then the Bible has lied to us on the basis of what it actually says. Why do I say that?
Simply this:
Ephesians 1:9-14
9 Having made known unto us
the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
10 That
in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him:
11 In whom also we have obtained
an inheritance, being
predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
12 That we should be to the praise of his glory,
who first trusted in Christ.
13 In whom ye also [trusted], after that ye heard the
word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were
sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
See that? We today are SEALED by Holy Spirit. The antithesis to that is what Jesus spoke to those in Matthew who were under the Kingdom Gospel:
Matthew 10:21-23
21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against [their] parents, and cause them to be put to death.
22 And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake: but
he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Matthew 24:13-14
13 But
he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And
this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
What Jesus spoke to those people at that time was not meant for us today, just as what Moses wrote of the Law to Israel was not written TO us today.
Many today refuse to observe the difference between being sealed by Holy Spirit unto salvation, and having to endure unto the end to be saved in the future. We have it now, those under the Kingdom Gospel must endure to be saved. Unless one is willing to claim that the Holy Spirit is too weak to seal us absolutely unto salvation, they are not followers of what is stated in scripture.
So, what preacher taught you there is no rapture? If so, why believe such a man who teaches falsehoods that are verifiably false from within the very scriptures I quoted here and many others that exist in Paul's epistles and other writings throughout?
As for me, I'm going with scripture rather than the many false teachings of men.
MM
