The Rapture Theorem; Proving the Blood Moon Rapture--The Proof

Here is the proof presented in chapter 5 of the new book entitled; The Rapture Theorem; Proving the Blood Moon Rapture.

 

Chapter 5

The Proof

 

And the winner is… Now that we have discussed prerequisite information necessary for our proof, summarized below, I will present you with a deductive biblical proof of which theory is the correct rapture theory. Will it be the pre tribulation, the mid tribulation, the pre wrath, or the post tribulation theory? You are about to find out. 

A Summary of the Facts

1. The moon is turned to blood before the Day of the Lord.

2. The sun will be darkened before the Day of the Lord.

3. The great falling away will occur before the Day of the Lord.

4. The antichrist will be revealed and the Abomination of Desolation will occur before the Day of the Lord.

5. The prophet Elijah returns before the Day of the Lord.

6. The Rapture is the first event of the Day of the Lord. 

Now that we have established those premises we can turn our attention to the Rapture Theorem and its proof. First I will present the proof in sentence form and then in formal symbolic form. 

The Proof

Since the moon is turned to blood and the sun is darkened before the Day of the Lord, and the Rapture is the first event of the Day of the Lord followed by the wrath of God, then the moon is turned to blood and the sun is darkened before the Rapture. Since we know the Moon is turned to blood and the sun is darkened after seal six is opened. 

 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; Rev 6:

Then seal six is opened before the Rapture. And thus the Rapture has to occur after seal 6 is opened, after the moon is turned to blood, and before God’s wrath is poured out upon the earth. This proves that the Pre Wrath theory is the correct theory.

Now I will present a formal proof of this fact. For purposes of our proof, we will use the following symbols and meanings.

 

R	Rapture
D	Day of the Lord
B	Moon turns to blood
S	Sixth seal
=	Means the first event happens during the second event
˂	Means that the first event happens before the second

 

Using those symbols, we can then create the following logic statements and proof: 

 

Statement	Reason
1. S ˂   B	Rev. 6:12
2. B ˂  D	Acts 2:20
3. S ˂  D	Transitive prop inequal.
4. D =  R	1 Thess. 4:15–5:2
5. S ˂  R	Substitution

 

This logically proves that the Rapture occurs after the sixth seal is opened. (Note: The transitive property of inequality states that if a ˂ b and b ˂ c, then a ˂ c. Example: 2 ˂ 4, 4 ˂ 6, then 2 ˂ 6.) 

Here is the same proof in expanded form:

 

Statement	Reason
1. S ˂   B	The sixth seal is opened before the moon is turned to blood. Rev. 6:12
2. B ˂  D	The moon is turned to blood before the Day of the Lord. Acts 2:20
3. S ˂  D	Transitivity: Since the first event happens before the second and the second happens before the third then the first happens before the third. Thus the sixth seal is opened before the Day of the Lord begins.
4. D =  R	The Rapture happens during the Day of the Lord time period. 1 Thess. 4:15–5:2
5. S ˂  R	Substitution: Since the sixth seal is opened before the Day of the Lord occurs and the Rapture occurs during the Day of the Lord, then the sixth seal is opened before the Rapture.

 

Statements 1, 2, and 4 are scriptural facts. Thus, the three scriptural facts (the sixth seal is opened before the moon is turned to blood, the moon is turned to blood before the Day of the Lord, the Rapture happens during the Day of the Lord time period) logically lead us to conclude that the Rapture occurs after the sixth seal is opened. Therefore the timing of the Rapture has been formally proven and the pre wrath rapture theory is biblically proven correct. Deductive reasoning has now formally proved this fact.  

Deductive reasoning is an argument to establish that a statement is absolutely certain. An argument is valid if the reasoning proceeds logically from the premises to the conclusion. An argument is sound if it is valid and the premises are true. [1]

 

We have used deductive reasoning to prove that the statement “the Rapture occurs after the sixth seal is opened” is absolutely certain. This argument is valid because it proceeds logically, as shown above, from the premises to the conclusion. The argument is sound because it is valid, and the premises are true. There is no way around it. The Rapture occurs after the sixth seal is opened. Thus, scripture clearly tells us that the Rapture will not occur before the start of the last seven years—the 70th Week—or what is commonly called “the tribulation,” nor will the Rapture occur mid tribulation or post tribulation. The Rapture will however, occur during the 70th Week, after the sixth seal is opened and simultaneous with the beginning of Day of the Lord and before God’s wrath is poured out upon the earth.[2]

Let’s state it one more time in a in a more concise format. 

6  B  D 

Sixth seal—Moon to blood—the Day of the Lord

 

The above symbols illustrate the scriptural facts that after the sixth seal is opened, represented by the 6, the moon is turned to blood, represented by the B, and after the moon is turned to blood, the Day of the Lord occurs, represented by the D. Realizing that scripture tells us that the Rapture occurs as the first event of the Day of the Lord, represented by the R below, we can then create the following illustration; 

 

6  B  D  R

 

Sixth seal—Moon to blood—the Day of the Lord--Rapture

 

This concise illustration puts all the facts together and clearly shows that the Rapture occurs after the sixth seal is opened and thus the pre wrath theory is the correct theory.  

The sixth seal is opened.

The Moon is turned to blood.

The Day of the Lord begins.

The Rapture occurs.

The pre wrath theory is proven true.

Will you accept it as true?

 

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come: Acts 2:20

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William Frederick is an end times Bible prophecy researcher who has written a must read prophecy book entitled The Coming Epiphany which is available in paperback and as an eBook on Amazon.com. 

In The Rapture Theorem Mr. Frederick presents a proof showing why the Rapture will not occur until after the moon is turned to blood on a very special day, which is available in paperback and as an eBook at Amazon.

He has also cracked the hidden codes on the dollar bill that have staggering implications, which are explained in his book The Dollar Code; also available in paperback and as an eBook on Amazon.com. 

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[1] Ron Tagliapietra and Kathy Pilger, Geometry for Christian Schools. (Greenville, S. C: BJU Press, 2000), 182–183.

[2] Many post-trib adherents agree with the logic and conclusion that The Rapture occurs after the sixth seal is opened. However, they place the occurrence of the sixth seal at the end of the 70th Week by claiming that the seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments overlap. This notion is easily shown to be false by realizing that scripture presents the seal, bowl, and trumpet judgments as proceeding chronologically. Also, Rev. 7:2–3: “And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads”—tells us that the earth and sea cannot be hurt (which happens in the trumpet and bowl judgments) until after the sealing of the 144,000. The sealing of the 144,000 happens after The Rapture and the sixth seal. Therefore the trumpet and bowl judgments cannot occur until after the sixth seal is opened. Thus the seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments cannot overlap. There are some pre-trib adherents that also agree that The Rapture occurs at the sixth seal but place the sixth seal at the start of the 70th Week. This notion is also shown to be false by realizing that one of the signs that must occur before the Day of the Lord—as previously discussed—is that the antichrist must set himself up as god, which occurs at the Abomination of Desolation, which happens near the midpoint of the 70th Week. Thus the opening of the sixth seal and the Day of the Lord must occur after the midpoint of the 70th Week. Joel 1:15,16 supports this fact and clearly shows that the Day of the Lord occurs after the sacrifices are stopped at the abomination of desolation. “Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?”

The Two Witnesses

The Two Witnesses

The two witnesses, discussed earlier in this book, have an important role to play in the end times and the span of their ministry provides us with another end times chronological parameter. Their ministry is described in Rev 11:3-15.

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Many over the years have debated their identity. My study of scripture has led me to believe that they may be Elijah and John. Elijah is the prophet who is to return to earth before the Lord returns (Mal 4:5,6), and John was told that he was to prophesy again (Rev 10:11).

These two witnesses--whoever they turn out to be--will prophesy and proclaim God’s message of salvation and repentance to the world from Jerusalem. They will also have power, like Moses before Pharaoh, to inflict the world with many judgments. The timing of their ministry has also been debated. However if you look to the end of Revelation 11, you will notice that right after the witnesses die and are resurrected, the second woe is past. The three woes are the last three trumpet judgments. Thus, their work on earth ends between the 6th and 7th trumpet judgment. (The last 30 days before Armageddon are for the seventh trumpet judgment, which consists of the seven bowl judgments.) Thus with their 1260 day ministry ending at the latest at day 2490 this would place the start of their ministry sometime before day 1230.

We also know that the 2 witnesses are to die and their bodies will lie in the street for 3½ days, which may be part of the 1260 they are allotted to minister or may be outside of it. If the 3½ days are part of the 1260 days and they are killed on day 2490 then their ministry would end on day 2494 and start on day 1234.

updated 3/15