OKEY, I will mention it.
The Bride and GROOM go to the Father's House in HEAVEN For the Wedding of the Lamb. A WEEK LONG WEDDING, but it would not surprise me if that is a WEEK of YEARS. One Week (of years) Ceremony, followed by the Traditional, WEDDING SUPPER in the Father's House. After that we all mount up on White Horses and Follow CHRIST as HE wants to make WAR on the Nations that Attacked ISRAEL.
That is the Same WEEK OF YEARS, THAT ANTICHRIST STARTS A WEEK OF COVENANT WITH ISRAEL. ONLY TO BREAK THE PEACE TREATY. YES, A COVENANT IS A PEACE TREATY. HE BEGINS EXECUTING PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO BOW TO HIM, and starts WWIII. BY THE TIME HIS SO-CALLED PEACE TREATY IS ONLY 3.5 YEARS old, he marches into the TEMPLE, and announces he is god, and starts to excecute anyone who refuses to bow to him as god.
At the same time GOD POURS OUT ON THE WHOLE EARTH, HIS WRATH. That is why GOD had to limit it to 7 years only, as there would not be any Survivors. Yes, the 144,000 SEALED, from harm are all JEWS, to repopulate ISRAEL. So with WWIII going on, followed by GOD's WRATH, and JESUS RETURNS splitting Mount of Olives in two, and MAKING WAR ON every country that Attacked Israel, therefore Jerusalem; Israel's population is ZERO, with the 144,000 who fled to JORDAN. THUS the 144,000 will be needed to REPOPULATE ISRAEL with Mortal Human Beings.
Now I have to WONDER why do you want to talk about what is going on in ISRAEL, when the TITLE OF THIS THREAD is,
50 Reasons For a Pretribulational Rapture By Dr. John F. Walvoord ? ? ?
Isn't your efforts, just to try to DERAIL this thread, into what YOU WANTED TO TALK ABOUT ? ? ?
Seems to me, just talking about the RAPTURE, is the Original Poster's intentions.
May I suggest that if you want to talk about END TIMES, you start your own THREAD,