Yes, that is the passage that best demolishes any idea of a “pre-trib” rapture.
“those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus” would be the very people that the dispys strive to have removed before Satan is cast down to Earth.
Makes no sense at all, especially in light of Revelation 20, where only those resurrected at the last trump are said to be “blessed,” and not subject to the second death.
Hopefully the internet will educate those who are getting disinformation in church.
I view the rapture as occurring at an unknown time in the midst of the known occurrences to unfold prior to the events leading to the setting up of Christ’s kingdom. Matthew 24 points to an ingathering of saints. Job speaks of seeing God “in his own skin” despite the fact that he had died” in the “latter days”. We also know that the final 7 years is actually cut shorter which means that while we have the scenario laid out, God in the end will bring the whole process to a halt “lest no life should be saved”! Paul speaks of the ‘dead in Christ arising first and then those that remain alive will be caught up to meet with him in the air’.
In short....no one knows the exact time of His coming for his saints, we just know that they are caught up at some point...the dead first and then the remaining living!
IT COULD BE TODAY! The rascals may have the whole Beast System apparatus ready to go just as soon as the “spiritual atmospherics(as occultists may describe it)” allow them to move to take control....then the 70th week begins in earnest. In short...the last trump may be blowing now with the “mop up” action taking 7 years (minus what ever time God cuts short)....
I’m not pre-trib... I’m “trans trib” rapture...meaning it will happen at some point across that period! So we should prepare to stand strong and die or be imprisoned for our faith...but know that He is coming, sooner or later than we may expect!