Sounds like two Second Comings.
Sounds like two Second Comings.
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Good argument. Plenty of Bible scholars argue He came already. In 70 AD.
Exactly. Absolutely nobody believed this pre-trib nonsense until the last couple of centuries. There is one return of Christ and both Matthew 24 and Revelation teach that believers go through the tribulation. There is not a single verse that teaches that the rapture happens at any other time than the highly visible return of Christ. Believers are caught up in the air to meet the Lord and arrive back on earth with him as he continues his descent to judge the nations.
Evidence of a rapture is like the wind in the bible it is there but never see the word rapture. much like second thessalonians’s those gentiles left behind will fall under the great delusion, the tribulation is for the house of jacob, israel to be saved. All gentiles left behind will be handed over ro the anti christ.
“Sounds like two Second Comings.”
Correct. When Christ returns to earth at Mount Olives, at that time according to scripture he separates the sheep from the goats from the four corners of the earth. If that’s the same event as the gathering in the air of the Church, the sheep would be gone in the air already, there wouldn’t be any left on earth to gather. Clearly the gathering in the air is for the saints of this age/administration and is a separate event from Christ’s return to Mount Olives. Plus, the date of Christ’s return to Mount Olives will be calculated and well known, 1260 days from the Abomination of Desolation, or halfway through the great tribulation, which is hardly like the “thief in the night” or the “twinkling of an eye” description of Christ’s return in Thessalonians and Corinthians.
Nope, the Rapture happens when Jesus comes ONLY to the first Heaven to get His Bride. The second coming will be as the first, a touch down on planet Earth.