I appreciate your view, many might have it, just not me. I go against the grain of Pre-Tribbers and Post-Tribbers. I am Mid-Trib/Pre-Wrath Rapture adherent, It happens at the last trumpet (Rev. 11:15 - the 7th trumpet). From the Mellennial Kingdom on, your scenario sounds about right (the last paragraph). But that is another topic.
Disagreement is okay.
I stand in my position for several factors…
* Regarding the Second / Last Trib.
Pre - Mid - Post Trib…all plays a role of regarding “who is” raised up “when and why and how”.
* Historical Reference in Regard to the First Trib.
“Who was” raised up “when and why’.
8 humans believed.
8 prepared (built an ark) Gods order, way.
8 entered ark.
God closed the door.
7 days pass, rain begins.
Ark begins rising up.
Fountains of the deep rise up.
Ark rises above mountain tops.
Above mountain tops…CLOUDS.
Ark with 8 humans Above the face of the earth (dry land), being destroyed by water.
NEW testament “hint”…
Matt 24:
[37] But as
the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
[38] For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,
until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
The days of Noah…8 (few of the Then population believed, Prepared) according to Gods Order and Way.
The rest of the Population…were carrying on AS Usual…(not Believing, not Preparing)
Until Noah (8) entered the ark.
Irrelevant “WHEN” was first rain ever…but important … the Dry Land (God called Earth) was quickly being covered from WATER from above and below….EFFECTING “EVERYONE” WHO WAS on the face of the Earth….
AND the EFFECT of the “Believing
AND Prepared” 8 humans?
THEY were “RISING UP”.
How HIGH DID “the Believing
AND Prepared “. RISE UP ABOVE the Chaos and Destruction ON the Earth? To the Height of CLOUDS above the Mountain tops.
The NEW (better) Testament reveals A NEW OFFERING FROM GOD TO HUMAN MEN….
FOR: any willing man to TAKE Gods Offering and BE “PREPARED” and they as well “ESCAPE” …. The NEXT, SECOND, LAST….Tribulation God has Revealed HE SHALL SEND DOWN FROM Heaven…AGAIN upon the WHOLE Earth.
AFTER the FIRST Trib. The 8 prepared saved believers were RETURNED to the face of a (restored) Dry Earth.
OT… revelation…knowledge
Ecc 1:
[9] The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
The BELIEVING….
AND..PREPARED
(According to Gods Offering, Order, Way)
WILL NOT BE APPOINTED to suffer Tribulations AND Wrath SENT DOWN FROM HEAVEN
The RAPTURE….described IN 1 Thes…eing lifted up OFF the face of the Earth, UP to the CLOUDS…applies TO: the Believing
AND Prepared (who are MADE Prepared ….
By, Through, Of…the Lord God)…
By, through, of …human men WHO accepted the Lord Gods Offering, according to HIS Order and Way.
ALL OTHERS…ON the face of the earth, having NOT become
”PREPARED” SHALL suffer Tribulations AND Wrath SENT down from Heaven……
Until…IF, WHEN, during the Tribulations and Wrath sent down from Heaven…
“THEY WILLINGLY” “give, submit” their OWN…
Body…unto death, FOR their belief IN the Lord God Almighty.
THEN shall “such” individuals BE MADE, bodily physically dead, soul saved, spirit quickened…AND their departed saved soul and quickened spirit RISE UP to Heaven and Remain with God…”until”…
RETURNING TO THE FACE of the Earth…
The DAY of Judgement and their own Bodies Risen up IN Glory, to the face of the Earth…and their saved soul and their quickened spirit imparted INTO their glorious risen body.
Your comments welcome.
God bless you.
Glory to God,
Taken