Why The Pre-Trib Rapture Is Correct. Part 6.

Why pre-trib. rapture is correct. Edited 4/15/20.  

Part 6:

There are many aspects of various events, places and personalities that must be understood and connected together in order to understand the unfolding of the seven years of tribulation. The characters and personalities are many. The events over-lay each other from chapter to chapter.

It becomes easy to dismiss certain verses that do not fit our personal thoughts on the subject. Pier-pressure is a hard thing to overcome, especially when it comes from those we love or trust.

It also appears that those with opposing views will point fingers at those who teach this subject, and with whom they disagree in order to win their case. Yet their own evidence is weak at best, and confusing for the most part.

I admit that understanding Revelation can become difficult. At times I feel like a stranger going down a yellow brick road not knowing if my destination is to a place called reality or fantasy.

Yet we must make every attempt to understand this end time prophesy because it is given to us by God for our benefit. Many books of the Bible are connected to it, and add information that will bring truth to this subject.

Let’s begin with a summary of a few of my earlier posts. Before the tribulation begins, the church has been taken up to be with the Lord into heaven. The next scene, Jesus is in heaven approaching the Father’s throne and given a book having seven seals. As Jesus stands in the midst of His Father’s throne, He opens the book.

The first four seals of this book introduce the four horsemen. They have not begun their work of destruction on the earth. Four angels are told to hold back the four winds, meaning the judgments of God.

In this quiet period, 144,000 Jews representing the 12 tribes of Israel are given God’s mark upon their forehead. Each of the 12 tribes is named, and each tribe represented by 12,000.

These are saved Christian Jews, meaning Jewish by birth, having come to Christ, also meaning they are Christians. They have been left behind in the rapture, NOT for a judgement from God, but for a work for Christ during this period of years.

Now the two witnesses are introduced. The power of the Holy Spirit is given them. They represent two olive trees and lampstands that had once stood in Solomon’s temple, thousands of years before

The olive trees typifying the two oil supplying branches; the two candlesticks or lampstands representing the tabernacle lamp stands that were constantly filled with an endless supply of oil from the Holy Spirit. In other words, these two witnesses have the power of the Holy Spirit in them.

They will testify and confirm the Abrahamic covenant concerning Abraham’s seed, and the land, and the covenant of Christ. The two witnesses can not be hurt until their testimony is finished, that period of time being, 3 1/2 years, and after their testimony, they will be killed. Their dead bodies shall lie in the street for 3 1/2 days, then they will be raised up alive, seen by the world, and taken up into heaven.

A great earthquake will ensue, 7000 Jews will die in Jerusalem. The Jewish and Gentile people that remain will give glory to God, and flee to the wilderness. Revelation 11:13.

There now lies ahead a period of 3 1/2 years of great destruction; the players are Satan, the beast, the image of the beast, the Jewish people who now give glory to God, those Jews who still reject God, and the pagan Gentile nations.

Let’s flip over to Revelation 13. We are introduced to a man having great power and authority. He is called the beast, or antichrist the man of perdition.

His goal is to kill every Jew that remains, and take the land by force. With Satan’s power in him, if he were to accomplish this, he would have defeated Christ; his work, his goals, and His promises. In this he can set himself up as God and establish his throne above the throne of God.

The Jews and Gentile that come to worship God after the great earthquake, Revelation 11:13, will flee to the wilderness of the mountains, and be kept safe by the earth, Revelation 12:16. The people of the earth now begin to worship the beast that came from the sea, Revelation 13:1, crying out, “Who is able to make war with him?” Revelation 13:4.

This man is given power to reign for the next 3 1/2 years, in a period called the ‘Great tribulation.” No one shall be able to stand against him, as he blasphemies against God, his name, and his tabernacle. Revelation 13:6.

He is given to make war with the saints, (the two witnesses) and to kill them, Revelation 13:7. Now, with the two witnesses dead, and out of his way, the power of Satan and of the nations is magnified. Every man, woman, and child whose name is not written in the book of life shall worship him, and receive his mark, or die by beheading. 

Those who now give glory to God have fled into the mountains. Also remaining on the earth are the 144,000 having the name of God in their hand and forehead. They have not received the 666 mark of the beast.

Phil LaSpino www.seekfirstwisdom.com