I have a question for you. At what point will you know , for certain , that the rapture does not take place .
When they give the command to build the third Temple because from what I understand so far, that is the beginning of the 7 year great tribulation. And since it is a 7 year great tribulation, and the saints are being hunted down to kill by the sword and hunger since they need the mark of the beast to buy & sell to survive in this new world order, I cannot see how Jesus can come like a thief in the night as the King of kings when no one will know the day npr the hour let alone the year of His return as the Bridegroom for why He is warning the 7 churches to be ready or else in that Book of Revelation.
Everyone is so bent on the great escape to take place before the antichrist . As if you are so " worthy " to escape the sufferings the rest of the world must endure.
If you consider that Jesus is warning believers not to be "overcharged" by the cares of this life wherein these temptations can occur for believers living in that time before He comes which has to be His appearing as the Bridegroom, it cannot apply to believers at the end of the great tribulation when at the end of the 7 years, all the world's armies are marching unto Jerusalem. So how can Jesus warning about coming as a thief in the night for saved believers to be abiding in him to go? Here is one warning that signify that very escape before the fiery calamity comes that destroys one third of the earth that will set up the New World Over for the rest of the world with the mark of the beast system to survive.
Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
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Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Can a saved believer buy & sell to be ensnared for surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life when being jobless, and hunted down by the beast during the great tribulation, let alone at the very end of it? No.
So then there is an escape and Jesus said so but saved believers are to be praying for His help to be found abiding in Him as well as being willing to go in leaving our lives and treasures behind when the Bridegroom comes.
Have you never bothered to listen to the Lord speaking . When the servants find an enemy has sown weeds into the field, what does the Master say. Allow the weeds and wheat to grow together , then at harvest time the two will be separated.
So now, at what point will the false teaching expire . When the Great Day of the Lord comes ( 6th seal ) . Because as scripture states, it wont be till that time when people will know exactly where they are. " Run and hide for the Great Day of His wrath has come, who will stand against it"
The rapture event is when God will judge His House first for why many saved believers will be left behind for being found in iniquity. Jesus is faithful to keep the souls of His saints that gets left behind & the new believers after that.
1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
No my friend , there will be no escape . You and all the Christians of this day and age are already walking in the days of Revelations. When the Six Seal finally breaks, you will know too.
Let's discern with Him why He is even bothering to warn the churches in Revelation.
Revelation 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
If these saints do not repent of her spiritual fornication, they will be cast into the bed of the coming great tribulation for not being ready but found in iniquity still.
Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
The hour of temptation is to take the mark of the beast to buy & sell or not in order to survive. The only way they can be kept from it is to be raptured from the earth before that fiery calamity comes that destroys the third of the earth.
Because like it or not, those saints left behind are to die, even though their spirits will be with the Lord in Heaven awaiting for their resurrection after the great tribulation as vessels of dishonor in His House for not being ready thus the vessels of wood & earth, to serve the King of kings on earth in raising up the generations following them in the 1000 year reign of Christ.
So that race to be run is not for obtaining salvation since those left behind are still saved, but the high prize of our calling, that incorruptible crown by His grace & by His help so as to avoid becoming a castaway.
Hebrews 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 Corinthians 9:
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible
crown; but we an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a
castaway.
So there is an escape but not every saved believer will be ready nor willing to go because they treasure their loved ones and their lives on earth than to leave it behind when the Bridegroom comes. Some will be tempted to go back and get their treasure from their homes, but like Lot's wife, it will be too late for why we should pray that Jesus has our hearts on the treasures above because the days we are living in now, is why Jesus is warning us, not at the end of the great tribulation.
Luke 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
