It has been claimed that I teach "no rapture". Also I have been called a post tribber. Neither of these is true.
I teach the simple truth that the catching up of the saints in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air will happen at the coming of the Lord as that timing is given in the passage (verse 15).
I teach the simple truth that the saints in the body of Christ will receive the adoption, the redemption of our body at the time when pre trib rapture theorists believe the 'rapture' will happen. Obviously, the rapture does not happen until the coming of the Lord.
I do not teach that the rapture will happen at the end of the 'tribulation'. I am not sure exactly when the tribulation starts and ends. And neither are you.
The time of Jacob's trouble is a one year time period. Daniel's 70th week is seven years. "To bring in everlasting righteousness" is one of the purposes or accomplishments of the 70 weeks determined upon Israel according to Daniel 9:24.That along with "to seal up the vision and prophecy" and "to anoint the most Holy" gives me the impression that the 70th week of Daniel will not end until after the Lord Jesus Christ is anointed and sitting on his throne in Jerusalem.
I teach that we, the body of Christ do not 'go through the tribulation'. I teach the simple truth that we will be in our spiritual body (the one in 1 Corinthians 15:44-46) during Daniel's 70th week and that the devil could not touch us if he tried.
(1 John 3:9-10) "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. {10} In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother."
(1 John 5:18) "We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not."
Now you all can calm down and stop the panic at the idea that you'll remain on the earth during Daniel's 70th week. Don't worry. You won't lose your salvation. You will not take the mark of the beast. And you will not be killed by the 'antichrist'. Also you will not miss the marriage or the judgment seat of Christ.
Enoch is commonly considered to be a 'type' of the pretrib rapture. This is really odd because Enoch does not fit the pretrib rapture theory; the bible does not teach the mythical raptured Enoch. Elijah is plainly said to have gone to heaven. The scriptures do not say that Enoch went to heaven when God took him. Hebrews 11:5 explains that Enoch was translated, not raptured, when God took him.
Enoch was translated into the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ and given a spiritual body. He did not go to heaven in Genesis. When he received his spiritual body, like unto the glorious body of Jesus Christ, he received the eternal life that is in Jesus Christ. He then became "Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God;" (Hebrews 7:3).
I teach the simple truth that the catching up of the saints in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air will happen at the coming of the Lord as that timing is given in the passage (verse 15).
I teach the simple truth that the saints in the body of Christ will receive the adoption, the redemption of our body at the time when pre trib rapture theorists believe the 'rapture' will happen. Obviously, the rapture does not happen until the coming of the Lord.
I do not teach that the rapture will happen at the end of the 'tribulation'. I am not sure exactly when the tribulation starts and ends. And neither are you.
The time of Jacob's trouble is a one year time period. Daniel's 70th week is seven years. "To bring in everlasting righteousness" is one of the purposes or accomplishments of the 70 weeks determined upon Israel according to Daniel 9:24.That along with "to seal up the vision and prophecy" and "to anoint the most Holy" gives me the impression that the 70th week of Daniel will not end until after the Lord Jesus Christ is anointed and sitting on his throne in Jerusalem.
I teach that we, the body of Christ do not 'go through the tribulation'. I teach the simple truth that we will be in our spiritual body (the one in 1 Corinthians 15:44-46) during Daniel's 70th week and that the devil could not touch us if he tried.
(1 John 3:9-10) "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. {10} In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother."
(1 John 5:18) "We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not."
Now you all can calm down and stop the panic at the idea that you'll remain on the earth during Daniel's 70th week. Don't worry. You won't lose your salvation. You will not take the mark of the beast. And you will not be killed by the 'antichrist'. Also you will not miss the marriage or the judgment seat of Christ.
Enoch is commonly considered to be a 'type' of the pretrib rapture. This is really odd because Enoch does not fit the pretrib rapture theory; the bible does not teach the mythical raptured Enoch. Elijah is plainly said to have gone to heaven. The scriptures do not say that Enoch went to heaven when God took him. Hebrews 11:5 explains that Enoch was translated, not raptured, when God took him.
Enoch was translated into the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ and given a spiritual body. He did not go to heaven in Genesis. When he received his spiritual body, like unto the glorious body of Jesus Christ, he received the eternal life that is in Jesus Christ. He then became "Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God;" (Hebrews 7:3).
The same basic statment with a slightly different wording that I present in my upcoming paper.
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