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RAPTURE REVELATION V. TIMING OF THE RAPTURE. THE FOLLOWING CLUES REVEAL A PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE. 1. CLUE NUMBER ONE: THE CHANGE OF STRUCTURE AND CONTENT BETWEEN REVELATION CHAPTERS 3 AND 4. Rev 1:4
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RAPTURE REVELATION V TIMING OF THE RAPTURE
THE FOLLOWING CLUES REVEAL A PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE 1. CLUE NUMBER ONE: THE CHANGE OF STRUCTURE AND CONTENT BETWEEN REVELATION CHAPTERS 3 AND 4 Rev 1:4 4 John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne,
Rev 4:1 4 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this." NKJV
THE DOOR—LUKE 13:25 THE VOICE—1 THESS. 4:16-17 THE TRUMPET—1 THESS. 4:16-17 COME UP HITHER—REV. 4:1 AND 11:2 A THRONE—REV. 4:3
2. CLUE NUMBER TWO: THE 24 ELDERS ON THRONES IN HEAVEN Rev 4:4 4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads
WHO ARE THESE ELDERS? 12 SONS OF JACOB----12 APOSTLES OF THE LAMB Matt 19:28 28 So Jesus said to them, "Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
3. CLUE NUMBER THREE: THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN SEAL BOOK Rev 5:1 5 And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals.
HISTORY OF SEALS THERE ARE SEVEN SEALS AND SEVEN CHURCHES
4. CLUE NUMBER 4: THE NUMBER SEVEN AND ITS CONNECTION TO THE SABBATICAL CYCLES OF REST A. NUMBER SEVEN----GOD’S NUMBER THERE IS A REST FOR GOD’S PEOPLE
B. THE RAPTURE IS THE BEGINNING OF OUR REST IN THE LORD Heb 4:8-9 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
C. THERE IS A THIRD DAY PRINCIPLE Hos 6:2 2 After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.
COMPARE THE PROPHETIC VISIONS OF DANIEL AND JOHN FROM DANIEL 7 FROM REVELATION (7:7) (13:1) (7:8) (12 & 13) (7:9) (4:2)
7:9______________________________________4:4 7:10_____________________________________5:11 7:10_____________________________________5:11 7:10_____________________________________11:18 7:11_____________________________________19:20 7:13_____________________________________19:11-14 7:14_____________________________________20:4
FROM DANIELCHAPTERS 11 & 12 FROM REVELATION 11:45_________________________________________________11:42 12:1__________________________________________________12:7 12:1__________________________________________________12:10 12:1_________________________________________________14:1-2 12:2__________________________________________________20:12
COMPARING ZECHARIAH’S PROPHECIES TO JOHN’S VISION IN REVELATON FROM ZECH. 11 & 12 FROM REVELATION 12:2_________________________________________________11:2 12:11________________________________________________16:16 13:9_________________________________________________9:18 14:2__________________________________________________11:2 14:4_________________________________________________19:15 14:9_________________________________________________19:16 14:16________________________________________________20:4
THE ELECT AND THE SAINTS A. THE “ELECT” IS MENTIONED IN MATTHEW 24 Matt 24:22 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.
THE WORD “ELECT” HAS DIFFERENT MEANINGS B. THE QUESTION CONCERNING THE SAINTS IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION
WHO ARE THESE SAINTS? ANYONE WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
Rev 7:14 14 And I said to him, "Sir, you know." So he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. NKJV
Dan 12:1 12 "At that time Michael shall stand up, The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; And there shall be a time of trouble, Such as never was since there was a nation, Even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, Every one who is found written in the book.
Dan 12:10 10 Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.
C. THE ARGUMENT OF THE MARTYRS Rev 6:9-11 9 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" 11 Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed. NKJV
Matt 25:30 30 And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' D. THE ARGUMENT OF GOD PURGING THE CHURCH THROUGH THE TRIBULATION
2 Peter 2:4-6 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; 5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
THE CHASTISEMENT IS FOR THE BELIEVER------THE WRATH IS FOR THE SINNER