It will be a post tribulation rapture
1 Thessalonians 4:16KJV
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and
the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
There are Christian denominations and well-known men of God, who have
advanced the message of a pretribulation rapture, a message that says that the
church will be raptured before the great tribulation. They mean that the church
won’t be on earth during the great tribulation because they will be raptured before
then. They quote Scriptures from Revelations and all other parts of the Bible to
support this claim. I wish they were right but they are not.
When I teach post tribulation rapture, it is not because I want it to be so but its
because this is what the Word of God says. And what we do is to submit ourselves
to whatever His plan is because He is God, the decider not us.
There are many ways I can prove to you that the rapture is post tribulation but this
morning I want to show a simple one of what the Holy Spirit taught and showed
me.
The Scripture they refer to, as a pretribulation rapture is our introductory
Scripture, where Paul says,
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise
first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the
Lord”
This is gleaned from the first letter that Paul the Apostle wrote to the church at
Thessalonica. Now if you believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, what you are saying
is that you will come from heaven with the Lord on that day He comes to execute
judgment on the earth, a day popularly known as the Day of the Lord. This means
that what they call the first flight church wont be on earth on that Day of the Lord
because based on their teaching, they come with Jesus from Heaven on that day to
execute vengeance on the anti-christ and his army but lets observe what Paul goes
on to tell this same people regarding the Day of the Lord. Mind you, we are talking
about the same letter and the same people. We want to observe what Paul goes on
to tell the same Christians that he has just in some minutes told,
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise
first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the
Lord”.
Paul goes on to say to them,
“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto
you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a
thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden
destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they
shall not escape..... 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 KJV”
Paul tells them that the day of the Lord will come upon the world as a thief in the
night, not to them but to the world.
Now if you are a pre-tribulation rapture believer, you wont be on earth that day
because you are supposed to be descending with Jesus from heaven but lets see
what Paul says to them regarding that day, the Day of the Lord’s vengeance.
“But you, believers, [all you who believe in Christ as Saviour and acknowledge
Him as God’s Son] are not in spiritual darkness [nor held by its power], that
the day [of judgment] would overtake you [by surprise] like a thief; for you are
all sons of light and sons of day. We do not belong to the night nor to
darkness. So then let us not sleep [in spiritual indifference] as the rest [of the
world does], but let us keep wide awake [alert and cautious] and let us be sober
[self-controlled, calm, and wise]...1 Thessalonians 5:4-6AMP”
Discover more @ lightembassy.org
Contact us anytime on 0903 9562280
Discover more about Light Embassy at lightembassy.org
Get in touch with is at info@lightembassy.org [info@lightembassy.org]
Spotify t.ly/EiAdU [https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ft.ly%2FEiAdU%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExU2l3T1c1c3padnN4cUNIRAEeYxAlmHAML2ehVX5tTnNhYnrndjJXmwMeWf-nVIlm72xX-YxERd5pYWq9mTU_aem_CrEqZV7pAIIVkMN-u1n0WA&h=AT0mDBNygG2-UUD9T8RXCq1MP5RNknELGbOAdFkNdiyYyx9YIxwXtVhv4KIptFt81cxmEHQVq3cg1ePYr86LpJocRELVmiLQRlcLtrTk8rkQ16Kpy2ABFnH7vkWebMxTxr4SFTc7wx15wEUB&__tn__=-UK-R&c%5B0%5D=AT09HvvXyLEf5_GaUnqWfO8v3gOOi1r-aiIysvlKzoqbe7O2By12HJbnbD_L8oA8_o4RiflZIwipPJC4it4gsJh-fFbQv5zNUW5QoLQk-DF3dkw-FvNWpas44RTL9GDbC66h-Ni7ugeW5jhfec493bw7m2r3xzObC0XHIzOVbWfDHxb5mynRBLIqs4g4onFXgC_c4riK0snEsKk7RsoMcEiFqlbo]
Apple t.ly/nj3ws [https://t.ly/nj3ws?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExU2l3T1c1c3padnN4cUNIRAEezDb2cndZur7HSK3f0y_f0n8geZoE5r0-mNiEvc6cwDkdYi4748doDTJMR48_aem__2Ob95uO4XPl2bbglpVpvg]
Amazon t.ly/oUwEg [https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ft.ly%2FoUwEg%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExU2l3T1c1c3padnN4cUNIRAEeiTaZa0NEAxNMdgxntHvOU9qSnk2t8r-KhAm7kNjS1_lgL14IhAoh_ibAqSU_aem_XLdyofm0lqMsvgLrPQfSSQ&h=AT3sCuahqwU4bEhjY2QSN52avOsK5cymercmBM2lVIQ9XD-V0jjy9Fmp2QlMtcSosSzdrWpW4UHVekXfU9cgrzhsxbVs0vXi4QmjMjdpMqd52KpxeJb_Z27Ft4yaUy_9IByH7K7pDVa8lWar&__tn__=-UK-R&c%5B0%5D=AT09HvvXyLEf5_GaUnqWfO8v3gOOi1r-aiIysvlKzoqbe7O2By12HJbnbD_L8oA8_o4RiflZIwipPJC4it4gsJh-fFbQv5zNUW5QoLQk-DF3dkw-FvNWpas44RTL9GDbC66h-Ni7ugeW5jhfec493bw7m2r3xzObC0XHIzOVbWfDHxb5mynRBLIqs4g4onFXgC_c4riK0snEsKk7RsoMcEiFqlbo]
Youtube t.ly/JRB9G [https://t.ly/JRB9G?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExU2l3T1c1c3padnN4cUNIRAEeYxAlmHAML2ehVX5tTnNhYnrndjJXmwMeWf-nVIlm72xX-YxERd5pYWq9mTU_aem_CrEqZV7pAIIVkMN-u1n0WA]
Web t.ly/spQMl [https://t.ly/spQMl?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExU2l3T1c1c3padnN4cUNIRAEeYxAlmHAML2ehVX5tTnNhYnrndjJXmwMeWf-nVIlm72xX-YxERd5pYWq9mTU_aem_CrEqZV7pAIIVkMN-u1n0WA]
