AOD Rapture?
My concern is that if some mistakenly believe that Jesus promised to rapture us shortly after the abomination of desolation, and then he doesn't, and then month after month continues to pass by without any rapture, some may begin to wonder if the Antichrist's and Satan's claims to be more powerful than Jesus might really be true, that they've somehow thwarted the rapture. But if we go into the tribulation believing that we must wait 1,335 days after the abomination of desolation for Jesus to rapture us (Daniel 12:11-12), then we'll be prepared to endure to the very end without our faith being shaken.
Note that Jesus doesn't say that we'll be raptured shortly after the abomination of desolation, but that we'll need to flee to the mountains when we see it (Matthew 24:15-16), and that the tribulation will be shortened precisely because we Christians will still be here (Matthew 24:21-31).
Note that Paul doesn't say that we'll be raptured shortly after the abomination of desolation, but that Jesus' coming (parousia) to gather us together must "destroy" the Antichrist (2 Thessalonians 2:1-8). I don't believe Paul taught a 3rd coming (parousia) of Jesus.
Note that Revelation doesn't say that we'll be raptured shortly after the abomination of desolation, but that we Christians must go through the reign of the Antichrist (Revelation 13:7-10, 14:12-13, 15:2, 20:4).
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Worst Time Ever
Note that Daniel 12:1 isn't referring to the time of the abomination of desolation way back in Daniel 11:31, but to the time of Daniel 11:45, which will be after all of the events and "days" of Daniel 11:32-44, during which days "some of the wise shall fall, to try them, and to purge and to make them white, to the time of the end: for it shall yet be for the time appointed" (Daniel 11:35).
If my father told me "When you pass those trees you'll begin climbing the highest mountain ever," and I remember that at another time he had told me "When you're on the highest mountain ever, I'll come and pick you up with a helicopter," would I be justified in thinking, "Hey, that means as soon as I pass those trees he'll pick me up with the helicopter," or should I be prepared to possibly spend many days arduously climbing to the top of that highest mountain before my father comes to pick me up?
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AOD on 1290th Day?
Some believe that Daniel 12:11 means there will be 1,290 days from the time the Antichrist takes away the daily sacrifice until he sets up the abomination of desolation. But I don't believe any verse suggests any such gap of time between the two events: "They shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate" (Daniel 11:31); "In the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate" (Daniel 9:27).
I believe that Daniel 12:11 shows there will be 1,290 days after the day the Antichrist takes away the daily sacrifice and sets up the abomination of desolation, and that Daniel 12:12 shows we must wait until the 1,335th day: "And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days" (Daniel 12:11-12).
From the time he commits the abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15; Daniel 11:31, 36), I believe the Antichrist is given 1,260 days to rule and persecute believers (compare Revelation 13:5), after which I believe vials 1-5 (Revelation 16) will be poured out on his kingdom over a period of 30 days, during which time we don't see him persecuting believers. On day 1,290 (Daniel 12:11), I believe the 6th vial will be poured out preparing the way of the kings of the east (Revelation 16:12). It may then take about 45 days for the Antichrist and all the kings of the earth to gather all of their armies to Armageddon (Revelation 16:14). I believe Daniel 12:12 and Revelation 16:15 are the same blessing, so that we must wait until the 1,335th day for Christ to return to us, when he will destroy the Antichrist (2 Thessalonians 2:8).
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The Saints In Revelation 15
I believe "them that had gotten the victory [nikao] over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name" (Revelation 15:2) are those who were faithful unto death under the persecution by the Antichrist (Revelation 14:11-13). Compare: "They overcame [nikao] him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death" (Revelation 12:11).
When their bodies die, I believe the spirits of believers go into heaven to be with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:6-8, Philippians 1:21-24, Luke 23:43, Luke 23:46, Acts 7:59).
I believe the "sea of glass" referenced in Revelation 15:2 is in the 3rd heaven (Revelation 4:6), and could be outside the temple (Revelation 15:8).
Note that some of us Christians can still be alive on the earth during the 7 vials of God's wrath (Revelation 16) without being appointed to wrath (1 Thessalonians 5:9) because the 7 vials aren't directed at us Christians. The 1st vial brings a sore only "upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image" (Revelation 16:2), and not upon us Christians. The 2nd vial kills only those creatures living "in the sea" (Revelation 16:3), and not us Christians. The 3rd vial turns to blood only "the rivers and fountains of waters" (Revelation 16:4), and not any stored water of us Christians. In the 4th vial it says only that "men were scorched with great heat" (Revelation 16:9), and not that any of us Christians sheltered from the sun's heat in our "chambers" (Isaiah 26:20) were scorched. I believe that the 5th vial will bring darkness and pain only upon the unbelievers in the kingdom of the beast (Revelation 16:10), and not upon us Christians who will have light sources in our chambers, just as the darkness brought upon the kingdom of Egypt did not come upon God's people who "had light in their dwellings" (Exodus 10:22-23). The 6th vial affects only the Euphrates river (Revelation 16:12), and not us Christians, and at the 6th vial Jesus addresses us Christians; he still hasn't yet "come as a thief" (Revelation 16:15). In the 7th vial, I believe that if the armies of unbelievers gathered at Armageddon can survive the earthquake and hailstones of the 7th vial in order for Jesus to slay them with the sword of his mouth (Revelation 19:19-21), and if there can be unbelievers "left" alive all around the world in bed and working in the field and grinding at the mill (Luke 17:34-36), then we Christians will survive the earthquake and hailstones as well.
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Luke 17:30-31
I believe Luke 17:31 refers to "the day when the Son of man is revealed" (Luke 17:30).
Note that no warning to flee into the mountains is given in connection with the 2nd coming in Luke 17:30-31, as it is given in connection with the abomination of desolation in Luke 21:21, Matthew 24:15-20, and Mark 13:14-18. I believe Luke 17:30-33 refers to the detachment from our worldly lives and the things of this world that we must have at the 2nd coming (compare Hebrews 10:37-38), just as Luke 21:21, Matthew 24:15-20, and Mark 13:14-18 refer to believers fleeing into the mountains without returning in any way to their regular homes to take anything out of them when they see the abomination of desolation.
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2 Thessalonians 2
I believe that the Antichrist is revealed at the abomination of desolation: "and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God" (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4).
Note that Paul doesn't say the rapture will be at the abomination of desolation, but simply says: "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition" (2 Thessalonians 2:3), that is, all he says is that the apostasy and the abomination of desolation have to happen at some time before the 2nd coming and rapture.
I believe "that day" in verse 3 of 2 Thessalonians 2 is the 2nd coming and rapture, for it is "the day of Christ" in verse 2, which is the day of "the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him" in verse 1, which is the coming and our gathering together in Matthew 24:30-31, which is after the tribulation (Matthew 24:29). So "that day" is after the tribulation.
Christ's coming to rapture us can't be at the abomination of desolation because it is the Antichrist whom "the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming" (2 Thessalonians 2:8). There's no 3rd coming.
I believe the day of the Lord (2nd coming) will be 1,335 days after the abomination of desolation (Daniel 12:11-12).
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AOD Not A Sign For The Church, But For Israel?
How are these mutually exclusive? "For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin" (Romans 11:1).
Note that Jesus is speaking to the same people in Matthew 24:15 ("ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation") that he is speaking to in Matthew 24:9 ("ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.") Unbelievers won't be hated for Jesus' name's sake. Matthew 24:9's "ye" refers to Christians -- Jew or Gentile -- as does Matthew 24:15's "ye," and as does every "ye" throughout Matthew 24.
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Destroyed At His Revealing?
I don't believe the Lord will destroy the lawless one when the lawless one is revealed, but that the Lord will destroy the lawless one when the Lord is revealed at the Lord's coming (parousia, 2 Thessalonians 2:8). We Christians must go through the reign of the lawless one (Revelation 13:7-10, 14:12-13).
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AOD At 6th Seal Rapture?
I think the rapture may not be at the 6th seal or close to the abomination of desolation, but will be "after the tribulation" (Matthew 24:29-31), after the 7 trumpets and 7 vials are finished, for when Christ comes to gather us the Antichrist is destroyed (2 Thessalonians 2:1-8). The Antichrist isn't destroyed at the 6th seal or close to the abomination of desolation, for he is still gathering his armies after the 6th vial (Revelation 16:12-16), and isn't destroyed until the 2nd coming (Revelation 19:19-20), after the vials (Revelation 16).
My concern is that if some mistakenly believe that Jesus promised to rapture us right after the cataclysm of the 6th seal or close to the abomination of desolation, and then he doesn't, and then month after month continues to pass by without any rapture, some may begin to think that something has gone wrong, that maybe Satan has somehow thwarted the rapture. But if we go into the tribulation believing that we must wait 1,335 days after the abomination of desolation for Jesus to rapture us (Daniel 12:11-12), then we'll be prepared to endure to the very end without our faith being shaken.