It's okay. I appreciate your effort to clear things up.
It's really hard to get my point across as I often forget you haven't heard much of what I say before.
Why not? I see no basis for that conclusion. It's clear to me that Matthew 24:29-31 (Mark 13:24-27) and 1 Thess 4:14-17 are the same event because both describe Christians being gathered both from heaven and from the earth at that time.
1 Thes 4 is about the rapture of the Church. The has already happened before the seals are opened. Thats why there are kings and priest in heaven in Rev 5 and 24 elders with crowns. You don't get crowns until Jesus comes.
Matthew 24:29-31 (Mark 13:24-27) are about the 12 tribes being raptured at the 6th seal before the wrath of God. They go through the great tribulation. This gathering from heaven and earth can be seen in 1 Corinthians 15
1 Corinthians 15
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Most think that 1 Thes 4 and 1 Cor 15 is the same event. It's not. In 1 Thes 4 the dead are raised first. Then the Lord returns for the alive that remained. In 1 Cor 15 the dead and alive are changed at the same time, the twinkling of an eye.
1 Thes 4 occurs at the trump of God or voice of God and 1 Cor 15 occurs at the last trump which is blown on the Feast of Trumpets.
1 Thes 4 will be like the days of Noah where Noah is in the ark 6 days before the flood. Whereas 1 Cor 15 is like the days of Lot where the very day Lot left Sodom destruction came.
Nah. There's no basis for that belief. Why would that be the case? Are you saying people who belong to Christ on the earth when Jesus comes after the tribulation are not in the church?
When Christ comes to the mostly Gentile Church, blindness has not been removed from the 12 tribes. Those in the Church at that time know His voice and are in the first fold. After the blindness is removed from part of Israel, many will become Christians. When Christ returns at the 6th seal (Matt 24:29-31) the harvest will be more of the twelve tribes than Gentiles. So when Christ comes, the second fold will be raptured and both are joined into one fold........the Church.
God forbid! All who belong to Christ are in the church. When you start dividing His people up despite the fact that the New Testament repeatedly talks about how Jesus joined all of God's people together as one, then you know you are going astray in your thinking.
They are divided into two folds as when Christ comes for His bride, those of the 12 tribes across the earth are still in blindness. The secret pretrib rapture will happen. Then the Lord will come back at the 6th seal. This is the second coming when all eyes see the coming of the Lord. And yet He remains in the clouds at this coming.
Rev 14
14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
So, you were mistaken about that. And that happens. We're all mistaken at times. But, if you can be mistaken about something like that, could you also be mistaken about some of these other things you're saying? I think so.
It's more about making things clear. When I think of the Church being raptured, I think of the mostly Gentile Church. Of course, after the Church is gone and part of Israel has its blindness removed, when they become believers, they are also the Church as there are two-fold into one.
It will have both Jews and Gentiles. It naturally would have more Gentiles since there are far more Gentiles than Jews. I don't see what you're saying here as having any relevance as to why there would be a pre-trib rapture.
I separate Jews and Gentiles because there are two different folds. The first fold will be mostly Gentiles as the Jews are still blinded. When the Lord comes for the second fold it will likely have more Jews. I would think that any Gentile that was not found worthy to escape all the things that will come to pass, will be in the hour of testing and will have to make a choice with their life. I would say those that are alive at the end of the great tribulation will be of the 12 tribes because they are singing the song of Moses.
Revelation 15
2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire:
and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
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And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Why are you making this division between Jews and Gentiles when Jesus brought them all together as one? It makes no sense. It contradicts the entire New Testament.
I agree that all will end up as the Church. But the Lord divides the timing of the two folds. And we can see it in the Word.
The two folds were made one by the blood of Christ long ago already. Do you not know that?
This is not correct. The two folds have to become believers and be sealed before they can become part of the Church. It is the mostly Gentile Church this is sealed first. They are then raptured. Then there are 144,000 sealed that become first fruits. The rest of the believers are sealed and are either killed during the great tribulation or are caught up alive. All go to heaven as the great multitude.
Please read this:
Ephesians 2:11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— 12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,
The two folds are NOW one fold according to Paul. Jesus accomplished that with His shed blood. Why do you act as if this has not yet been accomplished?
Again...
Ephesians 2:11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— 12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,
The two folds were already brought into one fold long ago.
Only when you believe are you sealed with the spirit. The mostly Gentile Church is the first harvest. What will the Jews say when they realize that the Church is gone?
Jeremiah 8
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
The Jew can only receive salvation and become part of one-fold
when they believe that Jesus is the Messiah and the Lamb of God that paid the price for their sins.
No one can come to the father but by Him.
There was not one stone upon another after the Roman armies destroyed the temple buildings in 70 AD.
This is not correct. There is currently one stone upon another at the Temple mount. This is unfulfilled.
That is not the same event as the global one that occurs before Christ returns in the future.
Read this please.
Luke 21
6 As for these things which ye behold,
the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
7 And they asked him, saying,
Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?
If you read these verses correctly, it says..............When will these things be.
What things? When there is not one stone upon another. And what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass.
What sign will there be when what things come to pass? When there is not one stone upon another.
The events of Luke 21, the Temple destruction when there is not one stone upon another, has not occurred. The old Jesus asks three separate questions in Matthew 24 is proven by Luke 21:6-7 to be three separate questions regarding the same era in time...........the last days of the age.