Rapture versus Revelation 20:4
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4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto
them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of
Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast,
neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in
their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
My question is if there is a rapture then why did God put this in this verse
in the Bible?
Don't confuse the church with tribulation saints.
See:
Re 6:10,
20:6 McGee
Our souls are raptured after we are beheaded for our
faith.
No. The bride of Christ is raptured. The
unbeliever and the make-believer will not be raptured.
I'm still confused. I thought the tribulation saints are
the church saints in end times.
No, the bride is raptured.
How does the church escape beheading if we're all here at
the same time.
We aren't all here at the same time. The unbeliever
and the make-believer remain.
See:
What are tribulation saints?
...[I]f your faith isn't strong
enough to be raptured why would it be strong enough to not deny Jesus and die
for him.
I'd recommend being prepared sooner rather than later (Matt.
25:1–13).
It's also the idiom for the feast of trumpets. Jesus is
telling us that it is in September around the feast of trumpets. “No Man
Knows The Day or Hour!” is a Jewish Idiom for Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of
Trumpets!
Could be.
One more question. Christians are being martyred in Syria
and Iraq. Why aren't they raptured?
They're dead.
1 Thess. 4:15,
17
Lazy afternoon
[Difference between the church and tribulation saints, pre-trib rapture]
Made up. There is no rapture before the 3.5 years of Rev.
1 Thess 5:9
As a reminder Lazy afternoon is number 11 on
Satan, Inc. (TOL Heretics list) in "The 'Jesus is not God' people (Non-trinitarians)
category.
steko
Now, there's somethin' to look forward to!
"So comfort one another with those words." - the Apostle Paul
Right. And those who believe we go through the
tribulation usually come from work-based false religions (Jas
1:26).
1 Thessalonians 4:17–18 (NKJV): Then we who
are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to
meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Therefore comfort one another with these words.
I know that part of the
world is facing major persecution and beheadings.
Man afflicting man is persecution (this is to be expected [Matt. 13:21; 2
Tim. 3:12]).
I believe we are almost two years into the
tribulations.
You're
wrong.
Matthew 24:6–8 (NKJV):
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See
that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the
end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various
places. All these are the beginning
of sorrows (emphasis mine).
2 Thessalonians 2:1–4 (NKJV):
The Great Apostasy
Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon
shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if
from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any
means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and
the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition who opposes and exalts
himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits
as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
The falling away has occurred. Let's see what
happens on 15 Jan 16--if Syria sends a representative there (Psalm 83:5–8
(NKJV).
Related:
Threats To Watch In 2017
I guess I just don't think I will be alive. Probably because I evangelize so
much. It will make me an early target.
The church is raptured before the Great
Tribulation (See:
Dreams & Visions).
Rapture
versus Revelation 20:4