Question: Notice that Daniel 9:24-27 does in fact describe a Tribulation period but also notice what's missing; there's no so-called "Rapture". It just isn't there and it's because the "Rapture" occurs 'AFTER' the great Tribulation. There's only one "Rapture" described in the Bible and that occurs at the 7th and final trumpet blast. The great Tribulation occurs at the 6th trumpet.
Only one "Rapture" occurs in scripture and that includes "those who have fallen asleep (the dead saints), "God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus..... For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds....," Brothers and sisters, notice that the saints who are alive and remain rise meet the Lord in the clouds. What purpose would it serve for the dead saints to avoid the Great Tribulation? It doesn't make any sense at all. They're dead, raised to life and the saints who are alive and remain, shall rise up to meet the Lord in the clouds. Another major contradiction of the "Rapture theory" is.... God is not the author of confusion. Rapture theorists believe that people will suddenly be 'caught up' leaving buses, airplanes, cars, etc to crash and cause all kinds of chaos! Does this not sound like a Devilish idea, full of confusion and turmoil and chaos? "For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all churches of the saints" [1 Cor 14:33]. If this idea is in a church, one must consider that, that particular church is not one with the saints.
I think, your Rapture Anytime After Mid-Point is a fanciful story that doesn't align with the Bible. Nice try: "would deceive the very elect, if it were possible".
Answer: Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful name!
Russians are Scythian's of the warrior tribes from Europe are the one who invaded that part of the land of Magog, the Mongolian heritage nations, of which China is a main part in today's world. Russia have ever since its inception has extended its boundaries and have settled over, and controlled a huge chunk of land, which once used to be Soviet Union Of Russia, which has got disintegrated to become the Russia of what we see today in our times which is the actual Gog of the Bible.
The dominant communist leftists agenda of socialism is the religion of both Gog and Magog in our times. Where China the Magog with the help of USA has amazed wealth through trade with western countries, and other nations of the world, and have thus maintained that belief of socialism under the guise of capital materialism, with the communist agenda of dictatorship that has helped China become the huge economic mammoth of what it is today in our times. In Ezek 38:2, the land of Gog is identified by the warring prince of the end of end times, from the far north, whose identity comes from Russia of Moscow and Tobolsk, both the eastern and western ends of Russia which the Bible identifies so vividly.
So Gog and Magog are the spiritual entities who deny God as atheist, and want to make themselves as the King of the earth, the master of their own fate, and wanted to be the sole ruler of their own heart and soul as well as others without God, which is impossible. That is why Jesus rules a Millennium on earth to prove that man is man and God is God. Man cannot overpower or rule over God, or else any rule without Him in this earth will be temporary.
This attitude of Gog of Russia and Magog of China, will start a war with God and with His Son whose anger will burn and consume them before the Millennium during the Armageddon, and also this poisonous self exalting attitude of sin will sweep over the millennial unsaved of the earth, to take these godless in to eternal hell fire at the end of the Millennial rule of Jesus Christ and the Church. Hallelujah! Glory be to God!
This sinful attitude of wanting to deny the existence of God as atheist fools (Psa 14:1), and rule over the earth through Fabian socialism of humanism, God will deal with it right from the second half of the Daniel 70th week through the two prophets who are Elijah and Enoch, along with the 144000 Jews from the twelve tribes who will be a testimony of God's power to the world, and Jesus and the Church from the new earth will end such godlessness completely before the Millennium starts, which will be the beginning of the end of the Gog. Daniel 9:24-27 is missing the Rapture message because it was primarily intended for the Jews and not to the Church. 7th Trumpet extends upto Armageddon. 6th Trumpet prepares the worldly kings to prepare them at Euphrates for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and the change from earthly to heavenly government in the Armageddon. The Rapture will happen within the time of the first, at the max before the third Trumpet.
First of all, the Rapture and first resurrection at the time of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ with the saints are two different things and cannot be one and the same. At the time of Rapture, Jesus will stay in the air, and in a moment of time will resurrect the Church from the earth to himself, and take them all to his Father's home, the New Jerusalem. But at the time of the Second Coming, Jesus Christ will take the armies of heaven in white, which is the righteousness of Jesus clothed over the Church, back to the earth to rule and reign for a thousand years time (Rev 19:14-16). Glory to God!
The resurrection of the martyred saints is not the Rapture, but a separate event described by John the apostle at the time of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to the earth in Rev 20:4-6. This is called as the first resurrection by the apostle John, because he already knew that the Rapture resurrection had already happened at the end of the Church age in which the people of God will have been there in heaven at that point of time already (Rev 3:10, 15-22; 14:1-5), after which only the left behind offspring of the women which is the people of God on earth called "Tribulation saints" (Rev 12:15-17), will go through the rebuking and chastisement of the Lord and be purified to be part of the thousand years reign as priests alongside Jesus on this present earth (Heb 12:6-8; Rev 3:19-22; 7:9-17; 12:17; 6:11; 14:14-16; 20:4-6).
For example, if the Church were to be resurrected at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, where will be the martyred Tribulation Saints be resurrected as there is only one first resurrection of the Tribulation saints at Christ's Second Coming, as apostle Paul also has described of only the dead and living saints of the Church, and gave no room for Tribulation saints at the time of Jesus' coming secretly for the Church to Rapture, then when and where the martyred Tribulation Saints will be resurrected? So the illogical reasoning of the Church being present at the time of the Second Coming is a theological impossibility according to the revealed Scripture. Period. There can never be a possibility for post tribulation theory at the end of the Daniel 70th week regarding the Church at all! Hallelujah!
The purpose of avoiding the Great Tribulation is to attend the Wedding of the Lamb and the Reception of the Supper of the Lamb thereafter, so that the Church as the Bride of the Lamb can escape the Wrath of God which was actually sent by God towards ungodly sinners at that time, asking them to repent and turn from their evil ways, so that they might be Saved from hell fire and destruction of their souls. After the mid-point of Daniel 70th week, anytime the Rapture might take place, after which both through the Trumpets and Bowls of Wrath will be unleashed more and more intensively upon the whole wide earth, until Jesus Christ and his Church comes to rule for a thousand years by defeating the Antichrist, the False Prophet and all their followers (Rev 19:19-21). Hallelujah!
Yes indeed, "For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all churches of the saints" (1 Cor 14:33). Because the Church will be Raptured before the Great Unprecedented Worldwide Tribulation, the world will be pushed into confusion by the Antichrist implementing the mark of the beast upon all mandatorily, here will be the patience and faith of the Tribulation saints (Rev 13:10), who will be left behind but come to realise their folly and will become martyrs to rise up in the first holy and unique resurrection of the Martyrs at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the Church, to thus live for a thousand years time in their natural physical body for the Glory of God (Rev 20:4-6). Praise the Lord!
At the end of thousand years, after ruling the present earth as priests, these "Tribulation saints" will not partake in the second death and White Throne Judgment again, but instead in the second resurrection which will happen immediately after the thousand years are over, they will partake again to be transformed with a glorious body to enter into the New Heaven and New Earth, to live in the light of the New Jerusalem and serve God forever and ever, and worship Him forever as His dear children. Glory to God!
Much Blessings....
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