That verse is talking about gathering the previously raptured Church from heaven. The Church is seen in heaven in Revelation 5 prior to the opening of the 7 seals.
You mean the event of Matthew 27:52 when Lord Jesus died on the cross, and the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints that slept arose?
Nah... that is NOT what the Matthew 24:31 verse is about. Or didn't you notice in Matthew 24:29 at the start of Christ's witness of that event, verse 31 happens AFTER... that tribulation, which is the
"great tribulation", an event that is STILL future to us today.
I hope you are not pushing Biblically illiterate stuff just to try and trap me. Good luck with that, if that's what this is about.
The alive will not precede the dead. That means the dead in Christ rise first.
That is correct, that's what Paul showed in the 1 Thess.4:13-16 Scripture, pointing to the time of the future resurrection. The asleep saints will be resurrected first on the day of Jesus' coming, and He will bring those with Him when He comes. The actual "caught up" event, what some call the rapture, is only about the saints still alive on earth being "changed" "at the twinkling of an eye", and gathered to Jesus on His descent to earth.
What happens to the alive believers? They remain on earth when the dead in Christ rise. When He comes for the alive that remain, He will bring the dead in Christ with Him who were already raptured to heaven in the barley harvest.
Only partially correct. There are none... that will be raptured to Heaven. Many do not understand the difference between flesh and Spirit. The asleep saints are already... in the heavenly dimension, present with The Lord, like Paul taught in 2 Corinthians 5. We each have a spirit body dwelling within our flesh, and it is not made of material matter. When our flesh body dies, it goes back to the earthly matter where it came from, but our spirit goes back to God. This is why Paul said to be absent from the body (i.e., flesh body) is to be present with The Lord. Have you never read the following...
1 Peter 4:5-6
5 Who shall give account to Him That is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
6 For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
KJV
Per the previous 1 Peter 3 chapter, Lord Jesus in His 'quickened' body went to the "spirits in prison" and preached The Gospel to them. That was prophecy in Isaiah 42:7 that Jesus would do that, and lead the prisoners out that pit prison house. So what the future resurrection event will be about these Scriptures point that it will involve something to do with the transition back to this earth to live in Christ's future Kingdom on earth.
The Church is gathered from heaven at the gathering from heaven and earth which occurs at the 6th seal. It is the 12 tribes across the earth that are gathered from the earth. They are the seed of the woman who have had their blindness removed when the fullness of the Gentiles comes in. We are warned not to be ignorant of this.
Only the asleep saints that had died in Christ are gathered 'from heaven', meaning from the heavenly dimension, which is where they are right now as those 'spirits' of 1 Peter 4:6. And only a 'remnant' of the seed of Israel will be gathered by Christ back to the holy land, and that involves His Church, some who will have been deceived, and others representing the Zadok (the Just, Christ's very elect). That fullness of the Gentiles only will occur on the day of Christ's future return, the "day of the Lord".
Those gathered from the earth at the 6th seal are mostly of the 12 tribes of Israel. They are the seed of the woman......which are the 12 tribes that are all over the world. When the dragon can't get to the woman, Israel, he goes after her seed which are the 12 tribes across the earth.
I disagree, Christ's Church is made up of BOTH believing Israelites of the seed, and believing Gentiles. Those together will be gathered by Christ to the holy land when He comes to setup His Millennial Kingdom there. The Rev.12:7-17 events are for this present... world time, the "great tribulation" time, not after Christ's future return.
I also admonish you to do a deeper Bible study on the ten tribes of Israel, which God scattered out of the holy land first captive to Assyria, never to return, even as it still is to this day. A majority of those were scattered to the west, and became the western Christian nations. Signers of the Scottish Declaration of Independence in the 1300's mentioned their migrations from the old nation of Israel.
You seem to think that the 70th week of Daniel is about Gentiles. It about God regrafting the Jews back to the olive tree. They keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ after the fullness of the Gentiles comes in. God will keep His promise to His Chosen. Why do you think that there are 144,000 first fruits from the 12 tribes?
About Gentiles? No, I don't think that Daniel 9 prophecy is about Gentiles; don't know where you got that idea from. It's about Jerusalem and her people; that's what the Daniel 9 Scripture says.
What makes you think that Rev.12:17 verse about that latter "
woman" is only about Israel? It's not, it's about Christ's Church of both believing Israelites and believing Gentiles, together as one body. Those events of Rev.12:7 forward happen to start the future "great tribulation" events, which is still future to us today. And those who have the Testimony of Jesus Christ is a reference to ALL Christians, not just Messianic Jews.
The 70th week of Daniel is about the people of Daniel. You make it about Gentiles because you have no understanding.
Well, you just told a LIE.
I do NOT make the 70th week events to be about Gentiles.
That 70th week of Daniel is about events that occur ONLY during the coming
"great tribulation" involving the
JEWS building their 3rd temple for the coming false-Messiah to sit in, and proclaim himself as Christ. That's about the area of JERUSALEM, not anywhere else.
I don't deny those scriptures. I deny that you understand them. Quite frankly you have no idea what you are talking about. You might study the Feasts of God, as they are a shadow of things to come. You are not acting wisely speaking against the truth of a rapture of the Church before the great tribulation.
It's the other way around; it is YOU... that fail to understand Bible Scripture, because if you did, you would never fall apostate to man's FALSE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE THEORY. Didn't you know that theory only began to be preached in a Christian Church in 1830's Great Britain by John Nelson Darby, and that the Christian Church for 1830 years prior held to Christ's coming to gather His Church AFTER... the tribulation??
So what are you, scared to face the coming
"great tribulation" for Christ's sake, to give His Testimony against the beast?? That's what Paul was talking about with his admonishing us to put on the Whole Armor of God so as to be able to stand in the "evil day" (Ephesians 6). So are you a COWARD, not willing to make that stand for our Lord Jesus Christ??