Revelation 7: 9, 13, 14
9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
13 Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?”
14 I answered, “Sir, you know.”
And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Thank You, Bob!
Instead of looking for the rapture...we should reread all those scriptures, and look forward to that great multitude that will be saved in the midst of tribulation!
You all do a magnificent job of turning the “Blessed Hope” into the “blessed hopelessness.” What do you care if someone believes in the Rapture? I certainly do. And I don’t apologize to any of you for it it.
The post trib philosophy is a nasty, toxic, angry series of rants founded on congratulating each other about theological purity and welcoming the painful suffering ahead. I’ve yet to meet a post-tribber that wasn’t a vicious egomaniac, inviting people to share in glorious suffering and death as part of Christian religion. Sound like anyone else you know?
I rarely engage in these food fights. But the bottom line is, you all can’t prove you are right any more than I can.
“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.” (Rev 3:10 KJV)
Enjoy your grim suffering. I’ll take my chances. Now get back to congratulating yourselves and attacking your fellow Christians who are at peace with you.
That reads like those are the ones that survived the Tribulation.