The Lord's discourse in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 has nothing to do with the church, but with the generation of national Israel living at the time of the end .... this is who the Lord is speaking to regarding the time of the end .... His early followers were all Israelites .... He just would not reveal the beginning date of the time of the end to them and when He would restore the kingdom to the nation
This date will not come until the fullness of the Gentiles is added to the church .... and no one knows the time .... no one
Those who attempt to mix the church and Israel in these passages will never render them correctly
The "elect" spoken of in these passages and specifically in Matthew 24:29-31 and Matthew 25:31-46 are the Lord's "brethren" [His kin] .... the believing remnant part of national Israel
He is an Israelite by His humanity and He is the Messiah and King of national Israel .... Gentiles must not forget this truth .... do not boast against the branches
Volumes of the O.T. passages of the Bible prophets reveal this truth and the Lord is not yet finished with His nation .... for His purposes
Those of Christian replacement theologies error on this issue and either do not understand the Lord's position regarding Israel, and or they ignore it
The professing church [of both Jew and Gentile] is revealed in Matthew 25:1-13 [the kingdom of heaven] and in Revelation chapters 2 and 3
The evidence of the pre-tribulation "rapture" is given in Revelation 4,5, 7:9-17, 11:1, 12:12, 13:6, 17:14, 19:1-14, .... those that dwell in heaven and are already in the Lord's temple and around the throne
These will observe the tribulation period from the state of immortality
They are the ones on thrones [symbol of the Lord's government] seen in chapter 20:4 who are given the judgment
Those who will become believers during the tribulation period and martyred are seen in 6:9-11, 15:2-3, and 20:4 .... the ones beheaded for their faith .... these will have to wait under the alter until the end of the tribulation period for their resurrection
Their experience will be totally different than that of today's church [both those asleep and those living at the time of the Lord's "harpazo" action] who will be caught up to meet the Lord and immortalized in the process in an instant of time just before He brings His coming wrath against a world of intransigence and unbelief
Revelation 6:12-17 is the beginning of the tribulation period .... not the ending of it
Matthew 24:29-31 is the ending and the astute reader will note the distinct differences recorded in these two very significant passages of scripture
The gatherings immediately after the tribulation period are not resurrections, but gatherings of mortals
These who survive the tribulation period will be gathered from one end of the earth to other by the Lord's angels and He will separate them
The believing "elect" of Israel and the believing sheep of the nations [Gentiles] will enter and populate His millennial kingdom on the earth ... the unbelieving goats will not
The 24 elders and great multitude of the church and the martyrs of the tribulation will rule with the Lord as immortals over His millennial kingdom on the earth for 1,000 years
Then the Lord will judge all of the spirits of the human unbelieving dead and destroy them in His lake of fire .... their names will not be found in His book of life
Next ..... the renovation of the heavens and earth and the beginning of eternity
Only the "wheat" [believers] will be gathered therein and inhabit the Lord's eternity .... the "tares" [all unbelievers] will burn in the lake of fire
This date will not come until the fullness of the Gentiles is added to the church .... and no one knows the time .... no one
Those who attempt to mix the church and Israel in these passages will never render them correctly
The "elect" spoken of in these passages and specifically in Matthew 24:29-31 and Matthew 25:31-46 are the Lord's "brethren" [His kin] .... the believing remnant part of national Israel
He is an Israelite by His humanity and He is the Messiah and King of national Israel .... Gentiles must not forget this truth .... do not boast against the branches
Volumes of the O.T. passages of the Bible prophets reveal this truth and the Lord is not yet finished with His nation .... for His purposes
Those of Christian replacement theologies error on this issue and either do not understand the Lord's position regarding Israel, and or they ignore it
The professing church [of both Jew and Gentile] is revealed in Matthew 25:1-13 [the kingdom of heaven] and in Revelation chapters 2 and 3
The evidence of the pre-tribulation "rapture" is given in Revelation 4,5, 7:9-17, 11:1, 12:12, 13:6, 17:14, 19:1-14, .... those that dwell in heaven and are already in the Lord's temple and around the throne
These will observe the tribulation period from the state of immortality
They are the ones on thrones [symbol of the Lord's government] seen in chapter 20:4 who are given the judgment
Those who will become believers during the tribulation period and martyred are seen in 6:9-11, 15:2-3, and 20:4 .... the ones beheaded for their faith .... these will have to wait under the alter until the end of the tribulation period for their resurrection
Their experience will be totally different than that of today's church [both those asleep and those living at the time of the Lord's "harpazo" action] who will be caught up to meet the Lord and immortalized in the process in an instant of time just before He brings His coming wrath against a world of intransigence and unbelief
Revelation 6:12-17 is the beginning of the tribulation period .... not the ending of it
Matthew 24:29-31 is the ending and the astute reader will note the distinct differences recorded in these two very significant passages of scripture
The gatherings immediately after the tribulation period are not resurrections, but gatherings of mortals
These who survive the tribulation period will be gathered from one end of the earth to other by the Lord's angels and He will separate them
The believing "elect" of Israel and the believing sheep of the nations [Gentiles] will enter and populate His millennial kingdom on the earth ... the unbelieving goats will not
The 24 elders and great multitude of the church and the martyrs of the tribulation will rule with the Lord as immortals over His millennial kingdom on the earth for 1,000 years
Then the Lord will judge all of the spirits of the human unbelieving dead and destroy them in His lake of fire .... their names will not be found in His book of life
Next ..... the renovation of the heavens and earth and the beginning of eternity
Only the "wheat" [believers] will be gathered therein and inhabit the Lord's eternity .... the "tares" [all unbelievers] will burn in the lake of fire
