Tribulation vs. God's wrath

I have asked to receive a divine ability to make a summary of something that would have been a 300-page dissertation, while still retaining the thread of the story.

Most Christians have learned that there will be a period of seven years, split in half, which will end this world order. This is true. Similarly, it has also taught herself, that this entire seven-year period is "the great tribulation." This is untrue, and it is one of the biggest errors ever made against Bible-believing Christians. Here we are with an amazing truth, the result of a false premise, and the combination has created a lot of confusion in Christendom. Daniel's 70th week consists of two distinct periods of 1260 days (plus 75 days). The war against the saints (the Great Tribulation) lasts only 42 months (1260 days). Dan. 7:21, 25, Rev. 13:5. The last period is the wrath of God (Jacob's review). There is not one single scripture that refers to a "seven years of the tribulation."

In the third week of my presentation of the prophetic scriptures in chronological order, while I was day and night and prayed that the Holy Spirit would "teach me about everything," He spoke to me with a clear inner voice, and interrupted my presentation: "As it was in the days of Noah ... as it was in the days of Lot ... "I looked up Luke 17:26-29:

"When I return, the world will be as indifferent to God that the people were in Noah's day. They ate and drank and married - everything was as usual until the day that Noah entered the ark and the flood came and killed them all. And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People were doing their daily business - eating and drinking, bought and sold, worked on farms and built - to the morning when Lot left Sodom. Then it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and killed them all."

I went back to Gen. Chapters 6 and 19. Subsequently, I examined a biblical reference works, which was about the time of Noah and Lot lived. After many hours I came to this conclusion:

1. There will be food and drink until the day when Jesus comes again! In other words: no worldwide famine will proclaim His return, just "a famine here and there." Matt. 24:7
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2. People will fall in love and get married until the day when He comes again. It will not be a widespread idea that this age end is near. Marriage is a sign of long-term planning: get a home, have children ... expect that tomorrow will be like today.

3. It will to some extent be cultures (Sodom) eating and drinking, but not marriage in the culture, something that indicates a sexually perverse society.

4. It will precede the "purchase and sale", which suggests that there will be products and methods of buying them, quite to the day when He comes again. This is in stark contrast to the Ezek. 7:19 (you compare).

5. It will be planted until the day when He comes again; planting given to harvest a few months later.

6. It will keep on with building projects, construction, given that live in the houses for years. It will not be the slightest thought of a sudden "out of this age" of worldly people. But as both Noah and Lot knew what would happen, so will the congregation to know that.

7. For the world people will Christ come as "a thief in the night". Noah, who was a believer, knew that the time was out, but he could not convince the world. Water River came as a shock to the old world, even if they had heard the truth! As the Lot, a believer knew about "the end", will also put the Christians to be informed. But as Lot could not convince his sons - who taunted him in disbelief, not Christians are able to persuade even their own family members, who will fleer in disbelief entirely to the day when Christ comes again. He should therefore come as a thief in the night of the world (although they often have heard the truth), but not as a thief in the night for the faithful. 1st Thess. 5:1-4. "You know very well ... The day of the Lord will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. When the people (the world) say "all is well", (peace and security ...) to be incident upon them (the world) as suddenly as a woman's contractions start, when she will give birth to children. And these people (the world) will not get away somewhere. "" But you, dear brothers, you are not ignorant of these matters, and you will not be surprised as a thief, when the Lord's Day comes." Note: the thief in the night in verse 2, "the", while the believers in verse 4 are "you brothers".

8. ... "To the day that Noah entered the ark and the flood came and killed them all." This was the first major breakthrough in the studies. I had never seen it before, although I had learned a Bible verse, but for a long time ago! The date represents the return of Christ to download the Assembly, Noah (the believer) entered into the ark (the place is made ready for us). Flood came (God's wrath) and killed them all (a world that is doomed). Not a single person except Noah and his family was saved. The rest of the world was instantly under God's wrath, from which there was no rescue.

9. The morning when Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and killed them all. The morning (parallel to the day the Lord will come) Lot (parallel to the believer) went out of Sodom (the corrupt world), it rained fire and brimstone (God's wrath that is triggered from Heaven) and killed them all (a picture of the doomed world). There were no exceptions! No repentance. No one who "gave his life for his testimony"!

ASSEMBLY, beware! Jesus Christ gave only two past events photos on his return to retrieve his congregation. Noah and Lot.

CHRISTIANS, beware! Stop replacing the words Jesus Christ spoke in your own words: "As it was in the days of Enoch and Elias'! The punishment for "add something" or "subtract one" from God's truth is appalling' Rev. 22:18-19.

When this great concept was revealed to me, that when Christ comes again to fetch his bride, will no more be saved, I was so upset about the false doctrine of the millions who are being saved for "rapture", the numbers of people who would be won of the 144 000 Jews are sealed, that I literally tore myself from any teaching, any principle or belief I had previously embraced. As a raft floating on the sea, I was free to be blown hither and thither by the winds of Heaven, God's own Holy Spirit!

As I have asked so many times, I stop and ask again at this moment: "You Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, you are God's living breath, you wind from heaven, come and blow your servant until all untruth chaff is blown away, and continue to blow until only the mature kernel of truth remains, for the fan, hold in your hand, and you will be completely clean your floor, and the chaff, you will collect in your granary, but the chaff, you will burn in unquenchable fire. "
At this point in my studies I did not know about "rapture" would occur before, during or after the conclusion of its seven-year period. I knew that the Holy Spirit would show me, if I continued doggedly, for "He rewards those who seek Him."

God's wrath

The next big idea was revealed to me, was that the wrath of God is never transmitted over the believers. God chasten, allows sufferings, persecutions and trials to "examine, refine and clean like silver refined in a furnace," but we have been told, to "wait for His Son from heaven ...
Jesus, who saves us from the wrath to come."1 Thessalonians 1:10. The word "saves" in Greek is "rhuomai", which means to save. His coming is to save us from the wrath to come. One translation says it this way: "God did not appoint us to wrath, but to receive salvation ... to comfort each other because of this." 1 Thess. 5:9, 11. Why? Because we have received salvation from the "wrath of God".

After having spent many to the study of references to this phrase "wrath of God", I was able to establish its premise, which I will reduce to the minimum necessary:

1. That there is a specific period, which is still in the future, which refers to more than 100 times in different terms, both in Greek and Hebrew. It is translated in various ways, including the "Lord's day".

2. That it all will begin in Revelation 6:17, "for their great wrath has come, and who can survive it?"

3. That it should come after the Saints' great tribulation, that last "time" (1 year), "times" (2 years) and half time (½ year) = 3 ½ years (42 months).

"I had seen the horn is contrary to God's people and win", "He will defy the Most High God, persecuting the saints and try to change any laws, morals and manners. God's people will be helpless in his hands three and a half years. "Daniel 7:21, 25.

"Then asked the dragon beast to speak blasphemies against the Lord, and he had power to control the earth for forty-two months. Throughout this time he blasphemed the name of God and his temple, and all who live in heaven. The dragon gave him power to fight against God's people and to win them over and rule over all nations and peoples throughout the world." Rev 13:5-7.

From this we can conclude that God's wrath will take place during the last 3½ years of Daniels 70th week or the last 3½ years of this world order.

Tribulation

I now directed my full attention to a study of the Tribulation. The Greek word "thilipsis" literally means, and can be translated as, distress, misfortune, suffering, affliction and persecution. I marvelled at the discovery of that body had been in it in various degrees completely since the paralytic was healed at the Beautiful Gate in Acts 3rd Chapter.

Let's look up some references:
"Here on earth you will meet many sorrows and afflictions." John 16:33.
"The road to the kingdom of God through many difficulties." Rom. 5:3.
"We can be happy when we encounter problems and difficulties." Rom. 5:3.
"When we experience difficulties and misfortunes, when we are persecuted or annihilated ..." Rom. 8:35.
"... those who so wonderfully comforts and strengthens us in our difficulties and trials ... You can be sure that the more we suffer for Christ, the more he will give us his consolation and encouragement ... Dear Brothers, I think you should know a little about the difficult time we had in Asia. We were actually both crushed and destroyed, and we were afraid that we would not get through that time. We felt like death row, and saw how powerless we were when it came to help ourselves. But it was certainly good, because then we put in place everything in God's hands, he who alone could save us. He can even raise the dead. He also helped us and saved us from a terrible death, and we are confident that he will continue to help and save us time and time again. "2nd Cor 1:4, 5, 8, 9, 10.

"I have the greatest confidence in you, and I'm very proud of you. You have really encouraged me; you've made me so happy after all my suffering. When we came into Macedonia, we found no rest there. Around us, we had all kinds of difficulties and within us where our hearts full of fear and anxiety. "2nd Cor. 7:4-5.

"Do not be discouraged because of what you do to me here. It is for you that I'm suffering… "Eph 3:13.

"So that no one faltered under all these pressures. They belong to our lot, you know it yourselves. Even when we were with you before we said we would suffer, and how it has gone, as you know. When I could not stand it anymore, because I sent him to find out what it was like having your faith. Tempter might well have tempted you, that all our effort had been wasted." 1 Thess. 3:3-5.

Observe here, that the suffering is sent by Satan!

"We tell with delight of the other congregations for your patience and your dedicated faith in God, despite all the discouraging difficulties and trials that you must fight it through. This is just one example of how God is fair, because he uses your sufferings to make you ready for His kingdom. "2nd Thess. 1:4-5.

"I John, your brother in Jesus who share the suffering, the royal dignity and endurance with you, had come to the island of Patmos for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus." Rev. 1:9.

"These are the ones that come from the great tribulation." Rev.7: 14.
After Rev. 7:14, when the saints are in heaven, this phrase is not repeated in Scripture, but the wrath of God takes over and used 13 times from top. 6:16 to Rev. 19:15. The same section also repeats the phrase "they repented not" 3 times.

I have studied the systematic theological thinking about the 'tribulation', right from the early patristic period. Irenaeus (approx. years 140-202) who was bishop of Lyons, one of Polykarpus' disciples, who in turn was trained by the apostle John, reflects the early Christians thought, in the case of the last "great tribulation":

"And therefore, when to end in a hurry to be pulled up from the earth, it is said: It must be suffering, which has been unprecedented from the beginning, and that neither will be. For this is the just the last battle in which they, when they win, be crowned with immortality. "Irenaeus, The book against heresies V, chap. XXIX, page 558th.

Irenaeus in sync on "rapture" of the first resurrection in Revelation. 20:4-6, and he taught that the resurrection of the just will be after the coming of the Antichrist.

To summarize the historical theology of a topic, you have to come to one conclusion: The fundamental Fathers by year hundreds taught that the rapture would occur before the millennium Empire. They said that it would take place after the tribulation and certainly before God's wrath.

A few weeks after that the Holy Spirit had revealed the correct structure of Daniel's 70th week for me, that is, the first 3 ½ years of tribulation, and the last 3 ½ years as God's wrath - the Lord's rapture of the church after the tribulation but before God anger - I felt like an unwanted misfit creature. The truth was revealed to me, but the truth was that no one wanted to hear it. I went into my study room and cried all morning. I said to God: "Oh, if I could lose the knowledge I gained. No one wants to know what I know now, and I wish that I did not know it myself either. "The Lord reminded me of the countless times I had cried before him, and besought him on, the" obvious end-time secrets "for me. In the end I cried to the Lord: "Well, I know it now. But be so kind and never required that I should teach it. "

Here in my room, I wondered, what other the Holy Spirit had revealed these truths. "Let every word be confirmed by two or three witnesses." I had learned, that when the Holy Spirit's wind begins to blow in one direction, a lot of the chaff to bow to the wind. Then I stood up from the floor, where I had lain and wept, prayed and talked with the Lord about it, I was drawn as by a magnet against one of the bookshelves in the room, took out a book I had never opened, but as a pastor friend to me had put there, titled Explore the Book. It's written by a well-known contemporary theologian, Dr. J. Sidlow Baxter. I immediately hit it up to read his thesis of the book of Revelation, and almost in disbelief, I gazed on page 345, where the caption is: "The Great Tribulation" versus "God's wrath".

"In these parallel sections, it is a detail, which is especially striking as soon as it is detected, namely the small formal break between the Seven Seals and the seven trumpets in the first column, and the equally solemn recess between the seven personalities and the seven bowls of the wrath of the second column. (See the first col. VI. 17 - VIII. 1, and in the second XIII.18 - XV. 1.) Why this gap between seals and trumpets, and the wrath of the bowls? It is to notice a difference between the two stages of end-time crisis, therefore, between the so-called "Great Tribulation" and "God's wrath". We can not remind us of having seen the difference previously observed in expositions of the New Testament teachings about the end times. Yet there it there (not only of the Apocalypse, but also in other writings: see Matthew XXIV, 29-31) and it has an enlightening effect on the question whether the Assembly should be subjected to the "Great Tribulation" or not. Again, we meet people who have the opinion that the Assembly will be redirected to Heaven before the "Great Tribulation" evolve on Earth, but for us it seems their main arguments for such a belief very doubtful. They say: "We can not contemplate the possibility that the church would somehow be able to remain on earth during the few, terrible year, which ends this era, because that's when God's wrath is scooped over the earth. And how would the church be left on earth and undergo all this, when the cross of Christ has saved the believers from such a ruling? "

"Yet there are passages in the New Testament, as for our own part of security seems to say that the believers in the last time (there is only a small part of the whole congregation, who are on earth in such a given moment), will to remain on earth during the "Great Tribulation". 2nd Thess. II is one of those sections ... we find that it is a fact which has hitherto been overlooked, namely that the "Great Tribulation" and "God's Anger" are not identical. When Christians say that they can not imagine that the church would still be left on earth during the "Great Tribulation", because that's when, as the "outrage" will be poured out, all mingled together two different things. This "God's wrath" is the last terrible end time, which will "immediately after" (Matthew XXIV. 29) the "Great Tribulation". Of course, no blood bought, Spirit-sealed member of our Lord concealed body might be left on earth and undergo it. Yet it is very likely - and seen from some sections of the New Testament, it seems (to us) as a precondition - that the believers will still be here during the "Great Tribulation" when "man of sin" is here ... Remember that the "Great Tribulation" is essentially of Satanic origin by "man of sin", while "the wrath of God" fully is a party, who is sent by God. When you then deal with the "Great Tribulation" and "God's wrath" identical, this results in confusion."

In addition, the president of the Christian Missionary Society, John Sharrit 1978 published a book entitled: Events that will shake the world in the near future. Sharrit says in this book, that the Holy Spirit revealed these same fundamental truths for him.

The resurrection

Let me now, carry me a summary of some of the discoveries I made, which may shed light on a few other classic misinterpretations:

The theory of a rapture before the tribulation without a resurrection, the first resurrection in Rev. 20:4-6 is the only resurrection of the righteous, and are related to Christ's one coming to pick up his congregation. (When he comes back to earth is it with all the saints.) Zech. 14:5. Many have been making departures from the scriptures, by teaching the first Guidance collectors and harvest resurrection. Hear therefore what the Scripture says:

"Do not be surprised by this. The hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come forth, those who have done good will rise to life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation." John 5:28-29.
"... the reward you get at the resurrection of the just." Luke 14:14.
"... That God will bring both just and unjust stand up from the dead. Acts 24:15.

Paul taught here that there will be a resurrection of the righteous and a resurrection of the unrighteous. The indefinite article is correctly translated from Greek and is always in the singular - one of its kind!

When the principle of harmony is the basis for each parallel section, all say they are united. If you take an unabridged dictionary and look up each reference, you should find that there is a resurrection of the righteous and a resurrection of the unrighteous.

"Then I saw thrones, and those who sat on them got right to judge. And I saw the souls that were beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus, because they had word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or his statue and did not take his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They had come back to life, and now they reigned with Christ a thousand years. This is the first resurrection. The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were over." Rev 20:4 6.

NOTE: The saints who waged war against the Antichrist and won are in this first resurrection. The only resurrection that remains comes a thousand years later. Let us look at the resurrection in 1 Cor. 15:51-52:

"But I tell this wonderful and strange secret for you: We shall not all die, but we'll get new bodies! It will happen in a moment, when the last trumpet sounds. For it should sound a trumpet blast from heaven, and all the Christians who have died will suddenly become alive with new bodies that will never die."

When does this happen? "When the last trumpet shall sound". Because it just says the "last trumpet" that means that there will be others. Since only the case of a resurrection of the righteous, it must be when this "last trump". Some say that this rapture takes place at seven-year period. Then, the foundation has already exhausted the "last trumpet" and the only resurrection of the righteous. How can they fabricate a trumpet, coming after the last? How are they going to bring about a resurrection of the tribulation saints? Scripture teaches us that these are included in the first resurrection, I am not trying to be funny, but I must admit, that this theory of multiple resurrections are so forged together, that in one of the books I have, which is about "the doctrine of resurrection before the tribulation, "as the author suggests that this" last trumpet will sound twice." I have not yet succeeded in finding these two "chiming" in the Bible!

Let's continue to look at the resurrection. 1 Thess. 4:16-18

"The Lord himself will come down from heaven, and you should hear a roaring command cry and the sound of the voice of the over angel and God's mighty trumpet. And the Christians who have died will be the first to stand up and meet the Lord. Then we, who are still alive and are left on earth, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air and then always be with him. To comfort and encourage each other because of these glad tidings."

This return to retrieve the church will be accompanied by a cry, meeting from the angel and the trump of God (the last trumpet). The margin of almost any reference Bible (New Thompson's Chain Reference, Holman Reference Regal and even the small degree from Cambridge University Press), says, alongside Matt. 24:31 a reference to 1 Cor. 15:52, 1 Thess. 4:16. The last trumpet, which indicates that these three scriptures speaks of the same event, namely the return of Jesus to retrieve the Assembly.

"And I will send my angels with a mighty trumpet sound, and they will gather his elect from the earth and the heaven's ultimate ends." Matt. 24:31.

This sound and the trumpet is identical to the trumpet and the sound in 1 Cor. 15:51 and 1 Thess. 4:16. It is mentioned in detail in Thompson, that the trumpet mentioned in Matt. 24:31, means the same as the "last trump" in 1 Thess. 4:16! Actually does the Greek word "salpinx" that all these references are translated from both: "trumpet, trombone tone, cries and sharp voice." This is certainly a bit of a trumpet festival. Thus, the Assembly's rapture was sitting in an appropriate context, such as the Lord taught us in Matt. 24-29.

"Immediately after the tribulation of these days ... the Son of Man characters appear in the sky ... and he shall send his angels with a loud voice ..."

"The rapture" after these days of tribulation are synchronized with the "first resurrection" spoken of in Revelation. 20:4-6!

The 24 "elders"

In a further attempt to establish the modern "pre-tribulation" theory, these spokespersons make sure to get the congregation into the sky before the top. 7:9, where you meet the tribulation saints. They learn, therefore, that the Assembly are cut down in Up. 4:1, and can be seen in the sky in the form of the 24 elders of Revelation. 5:9. None of this may be true! This doctrine can not extend further than the King James Version translation without coming into disrepute because it is built on an error in this translation! Let us look at the 24 elders (who is supposed to be the church) in the King James translation:

"And they sang a new song: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open the seals thereof: for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and has made us kings and priests unto God: and we shall reign on earth."

The whole doctrine of "pre-tribulation" is founded on these pronouns: redeemed "we" made "us", "we" will reign. Each of these pronouns in the King James translation is wrong in the translation!

All subsequent translations, which are too numerous to be named, corrects this error, which was made in the King James version, and translate these pronouns in a correct way to either second or third person. A typical example is the Revised Standard Version, which says: "ransomed men", "gathered them" and "they" (not us) "will reign".

"And they sang a new song, saying, Worthy are you to take the scroll and to break the seals, for you were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. And you have made them kings and priests to our God: and they shall reign on earth." (New American Standard Version).

May God help us, when our teachings are so false, that the total collapse of a corrected translation is the consequence.

The sequence of events for his return to retrieve the Assembly is as follows in Revelation:

"And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw an altar, and there were souls of all those who had suffered martyrdom because they had preached the word of God and faithful witness to him. They cried to the Lord: "Almighty Lord, who is holy and true, how long will it be before you judge people on earth for what they have done to us? When should you take out revenge for our blood and require it of those who live on earth? "Each of them got the white robes, and they were told to rest for a short time, until their other brothers, Jesus' fellow servant, had martyred on the earth and united with them." Rev 6:9-11.

This is the crowd of people, who have become martyrs through the ages, right up until the Great Tribulation, but clearly not, yet would die a martyr during the Antichrist. Compare Revelation 6:9 to 20:4, where the first part of 20:4 includes the martyrs mentioned in 6:9. So follow the summary, which precipitates the martyrs from the Antichrist's time. This quantity of 6:9 to be told the wait yet a little while, to the martyrs from the 3 ½ years of Tribulation to be killed. Then Christ can come to retrieve his congregation.

Christ will come after the opening of the sixth seal of Revelation. 6:12; consistent with his origins in Matt. 24:30, Mark 13:24, Luke. 21:27, 1st Thess. 4:16, 1st Cor. 15:51, etc. and it all falls on the harmonious place.

Immediately after his birth in Rev. 6:16, people start asking the mountains to hide them from the wrath of the Lamb, "for his great wrath day has come, and who can remain standing?"

Tribulation has ended, the congregation is caught up. Wrath of God (flood / river from the days of Noah, which no one escaped) has been, and will destroy the doomed world.

If any of you have plans to be saved after the church is caught up, so forget it! "Today is the day of salvation."

Since there is no more to be saved, God provides for another method to preserve the 144 000 Jews. He gives them a seal of Revelation. Chap. 7th You can find them again on Mount Zion with Christ, in Revelation. 14:1, but their number has remained constant: There is no scripture that suggests that they become "passionate evangelists" and win the million dollars during this time. Only a few Jews (half of the third) will go into the thousand year kingdom in their physical bodies. Zech. 13:8 - 14:3, Ez.37.

The two witnesses, these last 3 ½ years, experiencing no conversions. You will find only "they repented not" repeated three times, after the congregation is removed.

The Assembly can be found in heaven for the first time in Rev. 7:14-17. Christ will return "with all his saints" 3 ½ years later (after God's wrath is completed, Rev.19, Jude verse 14 and Zech. 14:5). There have been no saints on earth during this time! There are no saints who meet him! He has "all the saints" with him back!

The Church in Philadelphia

Will the Church in Philadelphia be freed from the time of trial?

"Since you have been faithfully obedient despite persecution, I will keep you from the time of great pains and temptations that will come over the world to examine all living creatures." Rev. 3:10

Four times in the course of the first study period of 3 ½ months, the Lord gave me "supernatural apparitions" in visions and dreams while I slept at night. The first came about 4 weeks into the study, and for the sake of brevity I'll just mention that I was told that the seven churches have been a picture of the entire Christian world through the ages, and that they are of contemporary Christianity.

I have reviewed the theory of the so-called Ephesus-Laodicea-era. I have not found a single reference to it in Scripture. But if one could conclude that the Philadelphia Assembly, today's assembly, which will be torn away, so let's examine the words "keep you from the time".

Moffat says the following:

"It is impossible based on the grammar, and difficulty based on common sense to decide whether 'terein' means a victorious endurance (conservation of power as in John 17:15) or absolute immunity (cf. 2 Pet. 2:9), a secure relief from the trial or to sand it completely."

Kenneth Taylor says in his book "Living Prophecies":

"It is not possible to draw any clear conclusion from the Greek, this means 'preserved through' (tribulation) or 'preserved from'".

Salvation from all this is to come

This is our Lord's own words in Luke 21:36:

"Stay always prepared. And pray that you, if possible, to come before me without having experienced these horrors."

NOTE: "without having experienced" or "escape" in the encyclopaedia expository Dictionary of New Testament Words "is "ekpheugo", meaning "to flee from one place." Volume 11, page 40.
"That ye may be found to be worthy to escape (escape from) all these things to happen (God's wrath) and to be standing before the Son of Man." Compare this to the top. 6:17: "For his great wrath day has come, and who can be standing?" Who among us dares to say that the "blessed hope" has become a "damn hope," when there is one hope that millions of people with joy gave their lives for the past! And, it becomes all the more blessed as the world closer to God's wrath, which we must escape!

A favourite saying among the misled Christians is: "I will not wait for the Antichrist, I am waiting for Christ." To these I say: "Who should we believe, God or man?" Paul says clearly assumed that two things must happen before Christ comes to retrieve his congregation: waste and Antichrist prominent. 2 Thess. 2:3.

The selected

For those of us who are in doubt about who the "elect" in Matthew 24:31 is, let's see what expository Dictionary of New Testament Words says: "The word is "eklektos" and means "faithful" (Jews or Gentiles), Matt 24:22, 24:31, Mark 22:27, Luke 18:7, Rom. 8:33, Col. 3:12 and so on. "Volume II, page 21.

For each topic, or expressions that I have explained, there are many who I have been obliged to omit for the sake of brevity. Although this treatment has not given me enough time to be in a holy way to develop the four supernatural manifestations "was given to me in visions and dreams" at night during this study, I would like to briefly talk about the third. It was given to me during the third study month, long after the construction of Daniel's 70th week had revealed to me. Person of Jesus Christ came into my study room, ran to my survey of Daniel's 70th week, which was divided in half, and placed his finger on the line, which separated the week and said: "You stated it correctly, that is when I will . 'I answered: "But Lord, why you is not revealed to me a few weeks ago? I have spent hundreds of hours to be sure about this! "He said:" You could never have taught it! "It became apparent only to me through the Word, which I believed without a doubt, then became the spiritual confirmation.

Revelation deepens and complements the book of Daniel. Daniel saw the 70 weeks (one telescopic survey) while John saw the 70th week Daniel saw four great empires, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. John saw only the Roman Empire. You interpret Scripture with Scripture, Revelation of the Book of Daniel. The Bible is its own best reference book. Put away your books and get into the Book.

The Thessalonian problems

1 Thessalonians

No one can begin to interpret Scripture, if he is not only willing to place it in context, where you can not fake it, but that it instead can manipulate you.

In Matthew 24:3 we asked them specific questions to Jesus:

1. "Tell us, when shall these things happen, and
2. What will be the SIGN of thy coming, and
3. at age end? "

His answer came in a simple sentence structure that even a child could understand. Question No. 1 on WHEN the temple would be destroyed "when no stone would be left behind, and houses of Jerusalem would be desolate", he replied: "All this will affect YOU (this family), Matt. 23:35-38. Between 37 and 44 years later, the prophecy was fulfilled of the Roman general Titus.

On issue No. 2, he replied: "Soon after this tribulation of those days ... THIS is the Son of Man SIGN prove ... and they shall gather together His elect (the saved, both Gentile Christians and Jews) from the four winds ... "Matt. 24:29 (not when he comes back to Earth and all the saints are with him - Zech. 14:5). If this speech was all we had, and we were willing to let it be continuous it would be sufficient, for anyone would be able to place the coming of the Lord right.

In 1 Thess. tried to Paul was not primarily set up the sequence of events for the day of the Lord, for he had not received the specific questions, as Jesus was: "Where and what?" It was first and foremost a practical reason, which accelerated Paul's first letter, and it was only in passing, it was about Jesus' coming. Which bible comment at any time can tell you about the causes of this letter?

The Zondervan's Bible Dictionary says:

"Some church members were dead and prompted others to wonder about their departed friends would participate in the Second Coming." (4:13) "Others, who were waiting for the second coming, had stopped work and sat with hands crossed and waited for the Lord would come."(4:9-12)," Epistle were designed to encourage the Thessalonians GROWTH AS CHRISTIANS, AND FOR DETERMINING THE ISSUES that bothered them."

It seems as if it was far from Paul's thoughts, that he would give a comment on the Assembly would escape the Great Tribulation, namely because the Assembly was in so much distress, that many thought they were already where they were already in the Great Tribulation, and therefore had an exaggerated expectation of the return of the Lord to deliver them out of it and to "save them from the wrath to come" was imminent. 1st Thess. 1:10.

"You get the impression that the earliest believers identified the persecution they were in the prophesied tribulation period."
Thiessen's Lectures in Systematic Theology.

The PERSECUTION they went through and the RETURN they were waiting for, resulting in an exaggerated pattern of behaviour. More and more people remained sitting with hands crossed, in the absence of more wholesome employment, and were just waiting for his return.

"... and ensure that you do not become discouraged in all the difficulties you are going through. But of course you know that such problems are part of God's plan for us Christians. While we were still with you, we warned you that you soon would meet with sufferings - and so did you. "" It should be your goal to live a quiet life, manage your own affairs and manage your work, just as we have previously told you. As a result, people who are not Christians to trust you and respect you and you do not need to depend on others to pay your bills. "
1 Thess. 3:3-4, 4:11-12.

Paul's intention was to:

1. Gently try to persuade them to return to work, and to persevere in the certainty that God has called them to wrath, but to salvation. (1 Thess. 5:9.)

2. Encourage them not to mourn their loved ones, who were dead, because God would also take with them when "he comes down from heaven ..."

The purpose of this letter was to care for a very practical and delicate problem, which would have "blow" in this faithful group's viability, if not corrected; the intention was not to place the events before the day of the Lord in the right order.

2 Thessalonians

Instead of receiving Paul's first letter in context, they took as many others in recent times, like a sentence from 1 Thessalonians. 4:15:

"I can tell you this directly from the Lord: WE WHO STILL ARE ALIVE WHEN THE LORD COMES BACK are not caught up to meet him before the dead ones, who are in their graves."

Those who had the responsibility to read the letter, 1st Thess. 5:29, decided to "edit" it. They said that Paul said: "We shall not die! Some of us should live and be here when the Lord comes. Here it is! Paul said it was the Lord's word to us." A classic example of a text without context - just a preface. In the months that followed, were the conditions that Paul had tried to sort of, only worse. Unemployment grew, dependence on others increased; inactivity brought about gossip.

"Why would we build a house? We are just getting married and living with mother and father. Christ will surely again before we'll get it finished. Why should we plant a field in spring, he will come again before the fall anyway. "

The last state was worse than the first, and that made it necessary to have a second letter a few months after the first.

"How will it then go to where our Lord Jesus Christ will return and we will gather to meet him? Dear brothers, do not get excited and do not lose composure when you hear rumours that the Lord's day has already begun. If you hear of people see visions and receive special messages from God about this, or hear about the letter alleged to come from me, believe them not. Let s not get carried away and get ripped off, whatever they say. The day will not until two events have occurred. First, there may come a time of violent rebellion against God, and then have to revolt people come forward - hell's son." 2nd Thess 2:1-3.

Paul placed great importance on to explain that the day of Christ that he had spoken of in 1st Thess 4:16 could not come until two things had occurred, namely the waste and the Antichrist's appearance.

"He"

"Remember ye not that I said this when I was with you? And you know what it is that now prevents him, so that he can not come forward until his hour has come. Because lawlessness is already at work, as a secret, what remains is that he still prevents disclosure out of the way." 2nd Thess. 2:5-7.

George Milligan says of this "he", which is spoken of in Paul's letter to the Thessalonians:

"This is a veiled description of the restrictive power which lies in law and order, especially as this was organized during the Roman Empire and its rulers."

James Denney says in the Expositor's Bible:

"There is no reason to doubt that the Fathers who identified with the Roman Empire and its supreme ruler, was right."

Thiessen's Lectures in Systematic Theology:

"It is clear that the common perception has been that the barrier is the law and order, as represented by the Roman government and the governments that followed."

Systematic Theology by Charles Hodge:

"For the mystery of iniquity is already at work, only to have it, still holds back first mobilized out of the way ..." is usually interpreted as the Roman power ... There was almost complete consensus among the early Fathers on, to the Roman Empire was the obstacle to the Antichrist's development. As long as this temporal power was present, it was inconceivable that a religious person would be a dictator over the world."

The congregation experienced a terrible persecution in Rome, so Paul chose not to invite more suffering by naming the Roman power. He had personally identified the former. Rome was so powerful, that Paul knew of another "super" world dictator, who claimed to stand above all others, would not be able to take power before Rome was removed. Similarly, we know that this power, which has prevented the wicked appearance, have occurred in subsequent governments are run. As world governments lose their ability to maintain law and order (or "are removed") will permit to feed the revelation of this wicked world dictator, who should cause a semblance of law and order. He shall be revealed to the Christians in 2nd Thess. 2:3, at the beginning of the last seven years, but his wickedness will not be visible to the world by "midweek".

"Before-tribulation doctrine teaches that this" he "is the Holy Spirit. There is much inconsistency that gives this untruth. Let us look at one of them. If the church is raptures away before the tribulation, and "he", the Holy Spirit, will be removed at this time, how can the many Tribulation saints who wage war against the Antichrist (Dan. 7:21, Top. 13:7) become reverse? The word teaches us that the tool, which allows us to be born again, is the Holy Spirit. We must be born of His Spirit (Gal. 4:29); made righteous by the Spirit (1 Tim. 3:16). It could not possibly be any saints in the tribulation without the Holy Spirit!

Paul states his opinion in this second letter, by announcing how untenable it is to wait for Christ, before we have seen two things must happen first: (1) waste and (2) Antichrist's appearance. It is absurd, but true, that the conditions that Paul wished to address this letter, are still current, and a large part of Christendom still declares that Christ could come at any time, without these two prerequisites. It is no wonder that Paul began this verse by saying: "Let no man deceive you in any way." There are today millions of people, who believe that they suggest the Bible literally, but is equally seduced by the Thessalonians was, because they refuse to accept 2nd Thess. 2:3 as it stands.

When Paul placed the Lord's coming after these two events, he goes against those he calls "those who are doing unhealthy things, and do not fit their work", yet foolishly expects the coming of the Lord in his own lifetime. He instructs the Christians who work, not to socialize with them, who continue to "sit with hands folded."

"Here follows a command, dear brothers, I am giving in our Lord Jesus Christ, with his power: Stay away from Christians who are only loafers and not follow the ideals that we set for you - always working hard. For you know very well that you should follow our example. You never saw that we went and ran. We never accept food from anyone without paying for it. We worked hard day and night to get together the money we needed for our livelihood, so that we would not be a burden for someone of you. Admittedly, we had the right to ask you about food, but we wanted from the beginning to show you how you would work for your own livelihood. While we were still with you, we gave you too this rule: "Anyone who does not work shall not eat." Yet we hear that some of you are living in laziness, refusing to work and wasting time with rubbing cherries. The Lord Jesus Christ, we ask these people - yes, we command them - to live a proper life, start working and earn their own living ... If anyone refuses to obey what we say in this letter, so please note who it is and stay away from him so that he may be ashamed." 2nd Thess 3:6 14.

Translated from a Swedish origin by:
Mikael Lillieros