Shocking Answers to Rapture Questions You Wish You Would Have Known a Long Time Ago Part 4

 

Continued from Part 3

What is the danger in having an incorrect rapture view?

The main danger I see in not having a correct rapture view is that a Christian could be caught unawares in the midst of the tribulations of Seals 1 to 5. Jesus warned against this;

Luke 21:34

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Being caught unawares would leave a person unprepared and subject to greater suffering.

Having an incorrect rapture view could also land someone in hell. Let me give you an example, suppose that the last 7 years has started, but a “Christian” person does not believe they are in the last 7 years because the rapture has not occurred yet. And then the government pronounces that in order to buy or sell you have to have a biometric identifier in your right hand or forehead. The “Christian” person does not believe it is the mark because they reason that the mark comes about after the rapture. So they take it and now they are damned to hell.

What is the danger in having an incorrect rapture view?

Answer: It would cause someone to be caught unprepared for the tribulations of seals 1 to 5 and it could land someone in hell.

In Review:

Question: Is the rapture in the Bible and if so what does the rapture entail?

Answer: The word rapture describes the end times Biblical event where the saints are taken up into heaven.

 

Question: What is the reason for the rapture?

Answer: The reason for the rapture is to remove Christians from the earth before God’s wrath is poured out upon the world.

 

Question: Where in the Bible is the rapture mentioned?

Answer: It is plain to see that the rapture is mentioned many times in the Bible.

 

Question: What specifically happens at the rapture?

Answer: Jesus comes to the clouds, a trumpet sound is heard, the dead in Christ rise, and the saints are caught up to heaven.

 

Question: What phrases or words in the Bible refer to the rapture?

Answer: “Caught up,” “our gathering together unto him,” “we shall be changed,” “shall gather together his elect,” “one shall be taken.”

 

Question: What other name is given to the rapture event?

Answer: The synonymous terms the Day of the Lord or the Day of Christ.

 

Question: What must occur before the rapture?

Answer: A falling away, the man of sin or antichrist revealed, the abomination of desolation, the sun darkened, and the moon turned to blood.

 

Question: Is the rapture imminent?

Answer: No, because several things must occur first, which have not occurred yet.

 

Question: When in the end times does the antichrist perform the abomination of desolation and take over the world?

Answer: Respectively just before and at the midpoint.

 

Question: When in the end times are the sun darkened and the moon turned to blood, etc.?

Answer: After the opening of the sixth seal.

 

Question: What else occurs after the opening of the sixth seal?

Answer: A great earthquake moving every island and mountain, a meteor shower, the sky splits open, men see Jesus in the sky, and God’s wrath begins.

 

Question: Considering all the previous scriptural facts, when in the end times do the facts tell us that the rapture will occur?

Answer: After the opening of the sixth seal.

 

Question: When in the end times is the sixth seal opened and the rapture occurs?

Answer: The sixth seal is opened and the rapture occurs at an unknown time after the midpoint.

 

Question: What are the most prominent objections to the sixth seal rapture and why are those objections incorrect?

Answer: One prominent objection states that God’s wrath begins at Seal 1 and thus the rapture must occur before Seal 1 is opened. This is incorrect because Seals 1 to 5 are tribulations; scripture succinctly tells us that God’s wrath begins after the opening of Seal 6.

Another prominent objection states that Rev 3:10 infers the rapture occurs before the last 7 years begin. This is incorrect because an examination of the Greek words in the passage tells us that the rapture removes Christians out of the midst of tribulation.

 

Question: If the rapture does not begin the last 7 years, then what does begin the end times?

Answer: A peace treaty made with the many.

 

Question: Will the antichrist be involved in the signing of the peace treaty?

Answer: He may be involved in the initial signing of the peace treaty with the many, but does not have to be.

 

Question: Are we in the last 7 years now?

Answer: If the Dan 9:27 treaty with the many was signed on October 13, 2025, then yes, we are in the last 7 years now.

 

Question: What will a Christian be faced with during the end times?

Answer: The tribulations of Seals 1 to 5 including not being able to buy or sell without the mark.

What is the danger in having an incorrect rapture view?

Answer: It would cause someone to be caught unprepared for the tribulations of seals 1 to 5 and if they take the mark, it will land someone in hell.

 

Conclusion: Here is the shocking truth; the rapture will not occur until after the opening of the sixth seal.  Thus, a Christian will be faced with living through the first five seals including not being able to buy or sell without taking the mark.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Jn 8:32.

It is the truths of God’s Word that gives us freedom. Aren’t you glad you know the truth about the rapture now and don’t you wish you would have known this a long time ago?

For a thorough and more scholarly explanation of the end times, the sixth seal rapture, and how to prepare for what lies ahead, I refer you to the end times prophecy book, The Coming Epiphany; Your Guide to Understanding End Times Bible Prophecy.

This song by Peace Light pretty much sums it all up.

 

 

"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." — Luke 21:36

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What if: A Question and a Warning for Pre-Tribbers

 

Hey pre-tribber, what if there comes a time that nuclear war breaks out on our planet. Will you, because of your pre-trib beliefs, fail to recognize that Seal 2 has been opened because you believe that Seal 2 happens after the rapture? 

What if there comes a time that famine comes upon the world. Will you, because of your pre-trib beliefs, fail to recognize that Seal 3 has been opened because you believe that Seal 3 happens after the rapture?

 

What if there comes a time that a pandemic breaks out upon the world and 1 out of 4 dies. Will you, because of your pre-trib beliefs, fail to recognize that Seal 4 has been opened because you believe that Seal 4 happens after the rapture? 

What if there comes a time that a world ruler comes to power, and to participate in buying or selling all are required to take some kind of RFID mechanism implanted into or on their right hand or forehead. Will you, because of your pre-trib beliefs, participate in the new financial system, thinking it is not “the Mark” because you believe the Mark comes about after the rapture? 

Those are some very important questions to ponder, aren’t they? From time to time I get harassed about why I am so focused on Christians having a correct rapture belief. As you can see from the discussion above, pre-trib beliefs have the potential to land someone in hell, because as you know, all who take the mark are doomed to hell. 

Having an incorrect rapture belief also causes someone to have to endure the first 5 Seals without any preparations. 

Most pre-tribbers have been brainwashed their whole Christian life into the easy believeism of the pre trib rapture theory. I admonish all pre-tribbers to take a careful look at what scripture says—the rapture happens after Seal 6 is opened. 

Warning: An improper rapture belief can land someone in hell and all who preach the unscriptural pre-trib rapture will be held accountable for their actions. 

"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." — Luke 21:36

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• The true nature and timing of the Day of the Lord.
• The key events that must precede the rapture.
• America's surprising end-times fate.
• Practical ways to prepare for what is coming.
• An end-times chronology reconciling the date parameters of 1260, 1290, 1335, and 2520.

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The Rapture: After Eliminating the Impossible We Are Left with the Truth

 

“If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth...” Sherlock Holmes. 

I guess that is how he figured out so many crimes, he reviewed the evidence and figured out who it couldn't be and was left with who it was.

Let's use that principle of deduction in regard to the various rapture theories and see what transpires. First, let’s recreate that statement and put it into a rapture timing perspective. 

If you examine all the prophetic truths concerning the timing of the rapture and compare the various rapture theories to all those prophetic truths and eliminate all the theories that contradict any of the prophetic truths, then whatever theory remains no matter how improbable, must be the truth. 

Ok, let’s do just that. First, let’s list all the parameters concerning the timing of the rapture seen in scripture, and then we will compare the rapture theories to see which one remains—that is, agrees with all the parameters. And remember, no matter how improbable that must be the truth. Here are the rapture timing parameters. 

1.  A Christian will not be subject to God’s wrath. 

And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. 1 Thessalonians 1:10

2.  No one knows the day or hour of Christ’s return 

But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. Matthew 24:36 

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 1 Thessalonians 5:2

3.  Jesus will only return to the clouds at the rapture, not to the earth 

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:17

4.  The rapture occurs after the antichrist is revealed and performs the abomination of desolation. 

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 

That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4

5.  The rapture is not imminent until all the prerequisites are fulfilled. 

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 

That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4

6.  During the end times Christians will be subject to sorrows and tribulations. 

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be… 

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 

And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Matthew 21:21, 29-31

7.  Christians are persecuted by the antichrist 

And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Revelation 12:17 

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. Revelation 13:7

8.  Christians are removed out of the midst of the great tribulation 

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be… 

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 

And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Matthew 21:21, 29-31

9.  The rapture occurs after the moon is turned to blood after the sixth seal 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; 

And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 

And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 

And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 

For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? Revelation 6:12-17 

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 

And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Matthew 21:29-31

Ok, so those are all the end times prophetic parameters concerning the timing of the rapture. So, now let’s see how each theory either agrees or disagrees with each parameter. Remember the one which remains—agrees with all the parameters, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

(Check mark = the theory agrees with this parameter

 X = the theory disagrees with this parameter) 

 

Prophetic truth/principle	Pre-trib	Mid-trib	Post-trib	Pre-wrath
A Christian will not be subject to God’s wrath	Ö	Ö	´	Ö
No one knows the day or hour of Christ’s return	Ö	´	´	Ö
Jesus will return only to the clouds at the rapture, not the earth	Ö	Ö	´	Ö
The rapture occurs after the antichrist is revealed and after he performs the abomination of desolation	´	Ö	Ö	Ö
The rapture is not imminent until all the prerequisites are fulfilled	´	Ö	Ö	Ö
During the end times Christians will be subject to sorrows and tribulations.	´	Ö	Ö	Ö
Jews and Christians are persecuted by the antichrist	´	´	Ö	Ö
Christians are removed out of the midst of the great tribulation	´	´	´	Ö
The rapture occurs after the moon is turned to blood after the sixth seal is opened	´	´	Ö	Ö

The only theory that agrees with all of the end-times scriptural principles is the Prewrath theory.

“If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth...” Sherlock Holmes. 

Why do so many reject the truth? 

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:36 

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