1stCenturyLady
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What in your opinion should the pre-trib catching up be called?
A myth. The GT is a time of testing. The "wrath" of God comes later. Also the GT is the time for the rest of the Jews to be unblinded and come into the Church; not their own church, but THE CHURCH. Pre-tribbers somehow are making the same mistake that Paul warned Gentiles about in Romans 11.
Revelation 12 shows the Antichrist (beast) coming after "the rest of her offspring." Who outside the Jews is Israel? I'll give you some hints if you know your Bible. Jesus is the Root, and the natural olive branches are the Jews, and who are the wild olive branches of Israel that are grafted into Israel.
13 Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child. 14 But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. 15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.