So the title for the sermon tonight is The Post-Tribulation Pre-Raph-Rapture Part 2.
The Post-Tribulation Pre-Raph-Rapture Part 2.
Now as you can see there on the screen, this is what Part 1 was all about.
We established what the final week of Daniel's 70th prophecy was all about.
And we're looking at this final 7-year period and we're using the Bible alone.
Not using the opinions of man.
Not using any major textbooks, Bible college textbooks, or anything outside of the Bible.
We're able to come up with this chronology of events.
And I told you that this is not according to scale.
Obviously when we look at the midst of the week there, that's meant to be in the
middle of the 70th week period.
So I had a few questions from some people about the timing.
What would it look like if we did it according to scale?
So brother Matt, if you can go to the next slide, I'll show you what it would look
like.
Alright, so if we did it by, you know, this is not, again, not perfect to scale, but it
gives you a picture a lot closer as to what this final 7-year period would look
like.
And if you notice that seals number 1 to 4, the beginning of sorrows, you know, is
that first three and a half years.
Alright, so that first three and a half years, those four seals occur.
And then obviously the midst of the week is just the midst of the week.
It's just a little sliver there.
And that's right there in the middle of Daniel's 70th week.
That's when the Antichrist, or the beast of Revelation, exalts himself, blasphemes
God, you know, wants to worship as God himself.
And then following that, because there are Christians that were not, you know, true
believers, you know, truly saved people, will not bow down, will not take the mark,
will not give worship to the dragon.
We see this final, not the final period, but we see this fifth seal take place at
the time of the great tribulation.
That's when the Antichrist will make war against the saints.
That's when many saints will lose their lives.
And I had mentioned that period will last about 75, or a maximum of 75 days.
But I believe Jesus says that he's going to shorten those days.
So it'll be anywhere between, you know, one day to 75 days.
You know, that time period of the great tribulation.
Then following the great tribulation, we have the sixth seal, the celestial dark
in, where the sun, moon, and stars all go dark.
The moon turns to blood as well.
And that's, again, a little sliver there, event that takes place.
Then we have what we believe is the post-tribulation pre-Raph-Raph, which I believe that's what
the Bible clearly teaches.
That will take place.
We'll see that shortly.
But then we see God's wrath, which is most of that final three-and-a-half-year
period that remains.
Not all of it, but most of that three-and-a-half-year period, God's wrath, day of the Lord.
That is what we read in Revelation, the seven trumpets, the seven vials taking
place, you know, where things are happening supernaturally on the earth.
You know, when it comes to the first four seals, nothing's really supernatural at
this point in time.
You know, there's always been wars, there's always been pestilences now, all right?
There's always been famines and these kinds of things.
The only time when things really go supernatural is when the Antichrist resurrects from the
dead, and then the sun and moon go dark.
At that point, once things are supernatural, you know God is stepping in, and God's
wrath are really supernatural events that are taking place.
Not things that can be explained by the natural world, but things that God is doing
on the earth, pouring out His wrath.
So that's what it would look like if we did it more according to scale, okay?
Now if you go to the next slide, brother.
Now when it comes to the Baptist world, you know, the independent Baptists, we talk
about the rapture, you know, the rapture, and most of our Baptist brethren believe
in the pre-tribulation rapture, don't they?
They believe in the pre-tribulation rapture, and so you see where the great tribulation
is in this period, where it's read, the great tribulation, they believe the rapture
will take place before the great tribulation.
In fact, the mistake they make is they call the entire seven-year period the great tribulation,
or the tribulation, or the great tribulation, whatever, all right?
Not only do they believe the rapture will be before the tribulation, but they believe
it'll be before Daniel's 70th week at all.
It'll be before the beginning of sorrows.
It'll be before any of that time, and that's why they call the entire seven-year
period the tribulation.
They believe they will be raptured before the tribulation.
You say, Pastor Kevin, where's the verse about the pre-tribulation?
Where's that verse?
Well, I remember I spent three sermons going through the pre-tribulation deception.
They've got no verses, okay?
They've got no verses.
It is just the intellect of man trying to come up with a system that will, I suppose,
you know, give comfort to those that are afraid of being persecuted for the name
of Christ, okay?
And this has become the popular teaching.
Any time anyone's saying peace and safety to you, that's going to be the popular
teaching.
And so the pre-tribulation rapture is the popular teaching, even though there are no
Bible verses to point to that position.
Now we believe, as I had mentioned in the post-tribulation pre-raft rapture, so you
can see that our rapture takes place at a very different time than what the pre-tribbers
believe.
We believe that it's post-trib, so it is after the great tribulation, but it is
also pre-raft.
So it is before God pours out his wrath, which is why the rapture, we believe, takes
place there shortly after the sun and moon is darkened, okay, and the stars fall from
heaven.
Next slide, if you go to the next slide.
Now if you were to compare these two positions on this chart once again, but in
reference to the scale or time, it gives you a better picture of our position.
Obviously the pre-trib rapture doesn't change all that much, but when you do it
according to scale, you'll notice that the post-trib pre-raft rapture is not toward
the end of that seven-year period.
It is close to the middle.
It is just a little bit.
It is only about a maximum 75 days after the mid-point, okay, because that's how
long the great tribulation was set in the book of Daniel, all right.
So what I want to do before we go to the next slides is, you know, obviously what
do we share in common with our pre-tribulation brethren?
What do we share in common?
Number one, they believe that they're not going to be here for God's wrath, okay,
but the mistake they make is they call the entire period that's tribulation, and they
also call the entire period God's wrath.
We saw that it's very clearly not correct according to Jesus Christ.
Christ gives us a chronology.
Those two things are on the opposite sides of the celestial darkening, okay,
the great tribulation before the celestial darkening, the wrath of God
after the celestial darkening.
So their mistake is to call that entire period the wrath of God, and they
believe that we, you know, that we've not been appointed to wrath as we saw
there in 1 Thessalonians chapter 5, that we are not appointed to wrath, and we
would agree with them on that, right.
We would agree we're not appointed to wrath.
That's why we're pre-wrath, but again, the mistake they make is to call the
entire seven-year period the wrath of God.
So you can see where their mistake is, but we do share some things in common.
We agree with them that we would not face the wrath of God.
Please go to the next slide, brother.
The next most popular position out there is the post-tribulation rapture, okay.
That sounds similar to ours, but when you look at it, the post-tribulation
rapture is right at the end of that seven-year period, okay,
the post-tribulation rapture.
Now, what do we share in common with people that believe in a
post-tribulation rapture?
Well, what we share in common is post-tribulation, okay.
They, like us, believe that the rapture will be after the great tribulation, okay.
Now, here's the mistake they make.
It's kind of similar to the pre-tribbers.
Remember how the pre-tribbers called the entire thing the wrath of God,
so they believe we're not appointed to wrath, so we're pulled out before that.
Well, the mistake the post-tribbers make is they call the wrath of God,
all of that period, the tribulation.
So not only is that God's wrath for them,
but the entire thing is the tribulation.
And so they agree with us that it's after the tribulation,
but they would term the entire seven-year period the tribulation,
so for them, it is at the end of the seven years.
So we agree it is after the tribulation,
but we don't agree how Jesus defines that tribulation.
We remember that Jesus says,
immediately after the tribulation of those days,
the sun shall be darkened, the moon shall not give the light.
Remember, those things were,
the stars shall be dark, oh, wait, no, however,
it was that Jesus Christ had phrased that,
so it was the social darkening brought the end
of that tribulation period.
So we do share some things in common,
but you can also see that even after our timing
of the rapture is still quite different.
All right, brother, if you can go to the next slide.
And then we have the other position,
which is known as the mid-trib rapture.
Why is it called the mid-trib?
Because they believe it's right there
in the midst of the week, right there in the middle.
Now, you'll notice that it's almost the same place
that we would put it.
So what do we share in common with the mid-trib believers?
Number one, well, they're the closest to us
as far as the coming of Christ,
the timeframe of where that would sit.
Now, the mistake they make, though, is,
oh, yeah, the mistake they make is
that they view the beginning of sorrows as the tribulation.
Now, they notice that it's sometime in the middle.
Like the verses we use to determine
that it's shortly after the middle,
they see those same verses.
They know it's not the beginning of the 70th week.
They know it's not right at the end of the 70th week.
They know it's somewhere in the middle.
But the mistake they make is they would differentiate,
they would call basically the beginning of sorrows
just the standard tribulation, okay?
And then they view when the Antichrist reveals himself
as the great tribulation, but because they're mid-trib,
so in other words, they're calling, again,
the entire thing, the tribulation,
but halfway, just regular tribulation,
the next half, great tribulation,
they believe that they are in the midst of that
before the great tribulation.
And they would refer to the great tribulation
similar to us as the wrath of God.
So they believe they'll also be raptured
before the wrath of God.
So when it comes to the timing, it's very close to ours,
but they don't believe they're gonna face
any of the great tribulation of what Jesus Christ speaks.
They believe they'll be raptured
before that great tribulation.
All right, so there's the similarities.
There's some differences.
I hope that kind of makes sense to you.
But if you go to the next slide, brother,
what I'll be focusing on tonight is that most of,
obviously most of the IFB world,
and I would say 95% of the IFB world
are pre-tribulation, probably even higher than that,
98% of the IFB world believe in the pre-tribulation rapture.
So what we're gonna be comparing
is the pre-tribulation rapture
with the post-trib pre-wrath rapture.
You know, in fact, I've never met anybody,
I've met post-tribbers, I've met pre-tribbers,
obviously, I've never met any mid-tribbers.
But apparently they're out there.
I've never crossed paths with them,
but apparently they're out there somewhere.
But I guess maybe many of those mid-tribbers
have come to a post-trib pre-wrath position.
I think that's what's happened.
Otherwise, they're just not very vocal
about what they believe.
All right, so we're gonna be comparing
the pre-trib rapture and the post-trib pre-wrath rapture.
Next slide, brother.
Now, we remember the chronology of events.
So what we're going to be doing now
is we're going to be looking at six.
We're gonna be looking at six major end-time passages.
We're gonna do a lot of reading of the scriptures.
Six major end-time passages.
And we're gonna see,
is it consistent with the pre-trib rapture position,
or is it consistent with a post-trib pre-wrath
rapture position?
And of course, you know where this is going to lead.
It's gonna be consistent
with the post-trib pre-wrath position.
But it's the first one that I wanna look at here
is 1 Thessalonians chapter five in verse one.
1 Thessalonians chapter five verse one.
It says here,
but of the times,
before I read that, I should just pause.
Obviously, 1 Thessalonians four
is the most famous passage on the rapture.
Everyone agrees that anyone that believes in the rapture
says 1 Thessalonians four is about the rapture.
So 1 Thessalonians five just continues, right?
But of the times and of the seasons, brethren.
See, what times and seasons?
What are you just finished speaking about
in 1 Thessalonians four, okay?
But of the times and the seasons, brethren,
ye have no need that are right unto you,
for yourselves know perfectly, look at this,
that the day of the Lord,
so cometh as a thief in the night.
Say, what's the day of the Lord?
We spent time on this last week.
It is the wrath of God.
It is the day of God's wrath, right?
So this is what Paul is teaching the Thessalonian church.
You know perfectly that the day of the Lord,
so cometh as a thief in the night.
Our pre-trib brethren going, yeah, it's a thief.
We don't know when it's gonna happen.
It can happen at any moment.
We don't know when the thief's gonna break in.
Well, hold on.
Is the thief coming in the night to the believers
or to the non-believers?
Well, let's read on.
You know, we don't need to come up with that decision.
Paul will tell us what he's talking about
in verse number three.
For when they shall say,
who's they?
Not us, all right?
Not Paul, not the Thessalonians.
When they, the unbelieving world,
when they shall say peace and safety,
then sudden destruction cometh upon them
as travail upon a woman with child
and they shall not escape.
What do we see?
They, them, they, not believers.
It's coming as a thief in the night
to the unbelieving ungodly world, right?
But then look at verse number four.
But ye, brethren, you, ye, right, believers,
you that make up the Thessalonian church,
you that make up New Life Baptist Church,
this is for you, but ye, brethren, are not in darkness.
The thief breaks in in the darkness.
The thief breaks in in the night.
But we're not in darkness.
The thief's not gonna break into us
because we're not in darkness, right?
What did it say there?
It says by ye, brethren, are not in darkness
that that day should overtake you as a thief.
It's not gonna happen to you.
You're not gonna be overtaken as a thief,
by a thief because you're not in darkness, right?
It says in verse number five,
ye are all the children of light
and the children of the day.
We are not of the night nor of darkness.
Is Jesus coming as a thief to us?
No.
We know it's gonna be like a thief
the night of the day of the Lord,
but not to us, to the unbelieving world, okay?
We're in light.
We have the light of God's word
telling us these things.
Next slide, brother.
Verse number six.
Therefore, let us not sleep as do others.
Look at this.
But let us watch and be sober.
What does it mean to be sober, to be serious?
You know, when it comes to end time study,
we need to take this seriously.
We need to ground ourselves with sound doctrine.
We need to believe doctrine that is sober,
not the imagination, the veiny imaginations of man, okay?
But what are we, look, it says let us watch.
You say, what are we watching for?
Well, what were we just reading about?
It said there in verse number two,
the day of the Lord, remember that,
the day of the Lord, the day of God's wrath.
We're to be watching for that event, okay?
But let us watch and be sober, verse number seven.
But let us who are of the day be sober,
putting on the breastplate of faith and love
and throwing a helmet at the hope of salvation.
Hey, the armor of God mentioned here.
Verse number nine, for God have not appointed us to wrath.
Why is it saying that?
Because he just finished speaking
about the day of the Lord.
What's the day of the Lord?
The day of God's wrath, right?
But God have not appointed us to wrath,
but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep,
we should live together with him.
Whether you sleep, whether you've passed on,
whether you're awake, you know,
you make it to the coming of the Lord,
alive in the flesh, hey, we're gonna live together with him.
We're gonna live together with Christ.
That's the rapture, right?
The dead and the alive believers
as asleep in Jesus will be taken up together.
That's what 1 Thessalonians 4 was all about, the rapture.
So let's just pause there for a moment.
What are we watching for again?
The day of the Lord.
What's the day of the Lord?
God's wrath.
Are we appointed to that event?
No.
All right, next slide, brother.
I mean, these are clear scriptures, right?
You know, if a preacher is listening to this,
I just don't, if this doesn't convince you,
I don't know what will.
I don't know how much clearer
God could have made it for you, you know, honestly.
But anyway, we're to be watching
for the day of the Lord, okay?
Now, if our pre-trib brethren are correct,
the rapture they believe is taking place
all the way over here,
when does the day of the Lord take place?
All the way over there, right, you know?
All right, and you know,
we're commanded to watch for the day of the Lord.
We're not in darkness, okay?
Look, they're gonna be,
according to them, they're gonna be raptured long before,
they're gonna be raptured at least
three and a half years before the day of the Lord.
How can they watch for something
when they're saying they're not even gonna be there?
Look how contradictive their teaching is.
How can they watch for it
if they're not even gonna be,
not even anywhere near that,
anywhere near that event?
But what is it consistent with?
If the post-tribulation pre-wrath rapture is correct,
can we watch for the day of the Lord?
Absolutely, it's right there.
Hey, the day of the Lord is the day we get raptured, okay?
We're gonna be raptured half an hour later,
God starts pouring out His wrath.
It's the same day, okay?
Now, we're not gonna be there.
Like I said, we're gonna be raptured half an hour
before that event.
We'll see that later on,
and then God will pour out His wrath.
So if you go to the next slide, brother,
you know, we're gonna put this chart together.
When it comes to this passage there
in 1 Thessalonians 5, 1 to 10,
we see that when it comes to the pre-tribulation rapture,
their position is inconsistent.
They would not be able to see or watch
or even care about the day of the Lord.
Why would they care about it
when they're taken away so long ago?
But when it comes to the post-tribular rapture,
it is perfectly consistent.
It is a day that we can watch for.
It is something that we can follow this command
that Paul has given us to be watchful and to be sober,
because we'll be right there when that time takes place.
We'll be raptured half an hour
before God pours out His wrath.
All right, next slide, brother.
The next passage that we're going to be looking at
is 2 Thessalonians chapter 2,
2 Thessalonians chapter 2 in verse 1.
Again, if this is a little bit hard to read,
please use your Bibles.
I don't wanna take your Bibles away,
but 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 1.
Now let's pay attention to this, verse number 1.
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the,
can you guys say it for me?
The coming, the coming.
Run of the rapture's not the coming.
Yes, it is, okay?
By the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
what is the coming?
And by our gathering together unto Him.
Hey, he's writing this to a New Testament church.
Our gathering unto the Lord, that's the rapture.
It is the coming of the Lord, verse number 2.
That ye be not soon shaken in mind,
or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word,
nor by letter, as from us.
Look at this, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
What is the day of Christ?
It is the day of the rapture.
The day of Christ, let me just,
a lot of people get this confused.
The day of Christ is the same day
as the day of the Lord.
Same day, all right?
Now we're gonna, like I said,
it's just half an hour difference.
For us, it's a day of Christ.
For us, we're looking forward to being gathered together
with Jesus Christ in the clouds.
But for the unbelieving world, those that are in darkness,
the ones that are overtaken by the thief,
to them, it's the day of the Lord.
To them, it's the day of God's wrath,
and we've not been appointed to that wrath.
Okay, it's the same day.
I mean, Christ is God, all right?
Christ is the Lord, the day of the Lord,
the day of Christ.
Christ is the Lord of Lords, amen?
Okay, so it's not, it's like the kingdom of heaven
and the kingdom of God.
It's just different ways of expressing the same events,
but just for different purposes.
For us, it's the day of Christ.
For the unbelieving world, it's the day of the Lord.
Verse number three.
Let no man deceive you by any means,
for that day shall not come.
What day?
The day of Christ, amen?
We just read.
Shall not come, except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
Boy, it can't be any clearer than this, can it?
That day cannot come until a couple of things
happen first, the falling away.
You know, I believe that is apostasy,
falling away from the truth.
Not only that, and that the man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition, and who's that?
That's the antichrist.
That's the beast.
Verse number four.
Who opposeth, look at it,
and exalts of himself above all that is called God,
all that is worshiped,
so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,
showing himself that he is God.
What does that sound like to you?
The antichrist exalts himself, you know,
saying that he is God,
showing himself that he is God.
What does it sound like to you?
You spent a lot of time on this
in the last couple of weeks.
The abomination of desolation is an art.
Isn't that the event that takes place
in the midst of the week,
when the antichrist is resurrected,
speaks blasphemies, speak against the God of God,
and wants worship, wants to be worshiped,
sets up that image, that idol, whatever it is,
wants to receive the worship of the world.
Hey, this must come first before the day of Christ.
Clear, right?
We'll give verse number three one more time.
Let no man deceive you by any means.
What did Jesus say in Matthew 24?
You know, not to be deceived.
What's Paul saying?
Don't be deceived.
What's my message to this church?
Don't be deceived.
Don't let me deceive you.
You go and check this with the word of God.
Now, I think I've got this nailed down.
More than nailed, I've got this slam dunk, brother,
this doctrine, okay?
But that's not good enough.
You need to go home and study this.
You can't be deceived.
Don't say don't let your pastor be deceived.
Hey, don't let you, you, you don't be deceived.
You go home, you study this,
you read the passages, you come up with a timeline,
you compare the passages,
and you work out what is consistent,
what lines up perfectly in the word of God.
You can spend time doing this.
This is instruction from Jesus and instruction from Paul.
So, brother, if we go to the next slide.
They believe the day of Christ,
the gathering together will take place at the beginning,
but there's a few things that have to happen first.
What was it?
The fallen away and the man of sin being revealed,
the son of perdition, right?
The one who exalts himself above God,
the abomination of desolation
that Jesus Christ calls it in Matthew 24.
So if that's meant to take place first,
but their rapture takes place before that,
is that contradictive?
Completely contradictive, right?
Hey, but if it's post-trib, if we're correct,
and it is a post-trib, pre-rap rapture,
do a few things have to happen first
before the day of Christ?
Absolutely, and is one of those things
when the antichrist exalts himself, the son of perdition?
Totally, yeah.
It is after the abomination of desolation.
So, brother, if you go to the next slide for me,
we keep building on this.
So when we look at the passage there,
in 2 Thessalonians 2, verses one to four,
we see that the pre-tribulation rapture position
is inconsistent, it's contradictive,
and then when it comes to the post-tribulation
pre-rap rapture, it is consistent.
Of course it's consistent, okay?
Man, I love the Bible, it's so consistent, so perfect.
Makes perfect sense, it comes together so well, you know?
And it's just the pride of man
when they can't work it out.
They've gotta twist the scriptures,
come up with things that aren't in the Bible,
make doctrines on things that,
on more Bible verses.
It's happening in our independent Baptist churches.
It blows my mind.
Because it's the same pastors that would stand up
and say, this is the perfect word of God,
make sure that everything I preach
lines up with this word.
That's what they preach, and when you do it,
and you come with a different position on the rapture,
how do they treat you, you know?
They put you down, they mock you, they mock your beliefs.
But brethren, don't be deceived, don't be deceived.
Don't allow people to mock you.
Don't let people discourage you.
The word of God is consistent.
Let's go to the next slide, brother, Matthew 24.
And this is, of course, a very common passage,
but I wanna show you some beautiful things here.
Remember the pre-tribbles will say, this is not for you.
Don't read this chapter, it's for the Jews,
the Christ rejecting Jews.
This is not about the rapture, many of them will say.
But then when they teach on the rapture,
they got no verses, though they go to Matthew 24
for themselves, right?
But they won't tell you that in verse number 29,
it says, immediately after the tribulation of those days,
shall the sun be darkened,
and the moon shall not give her light,
and the star shall fall from heaven,
and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
So what happens after the tribulation?
The celestial darkening, right?
Then what happens after the celestial darkening?
Verse number 30, and then shall appear
the sign of the Son of Man in heaven.
Notice that it says here, the Son of Man,
that becomes important later on,
when we look at Revelation.
The sign of the Son of Man in heaven,
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn,
and they shall see who?
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.
Hey, what did 2 Thessalonians call it?
Gathering together unto him.
They shall gather together.
It says here, he's elect from the four winds
from one end of heaven to the other.
Amen, hey, that's a rapture.
But your pre-trib reverend would say,
no, no, no, that is when Christ comes in Revelation 19.
But yet when you read Revelation 19,
how's Christ coming?
He comes on the white horse.
But according to Matthew 24, how is he coming?
He's coming in the clouds.
That's what I've got bolted up there for you.
The Son of Man coming in the clouds.
Now again, they'll say, no, no, no,
you've got it all wrong.
This is when Christ comes, this is Armageddon.
At the end of those seven years,
Christ is coming to establish his kingdom.
Well, we know when we put the chart together,
that cannot be true,
because we know that Christ
still has to pour out his wrath.
We know that God is still gonna pour out his wrath,
so it can't be that event.
It can't be when Christ is coming on the white horse.
That's one reason.
But brother, if you go to the next slide,
let me show you this.
Well, 1 Thessalonians 4 is the chapter
they all say is about the rapture.
No one debates that.
Now look at the consistency between these two passages.
We'll turn our focus to 1 Thessalonians 4.
We know that's the rapture, that's not the debate.
Look at verse number 16.
It says, and I've color-coded this for you
to make it easy for you to see the two things here.
It says here, for the Lord himself
shall descend from where?
Heaven.
Amen.
That's the first thing that I've got there in blue.
Notice then in Matthew 24, verse 30,
and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man,
where?
In heaven.
Hey.
Well, maybe that's a coincidence.
Maybe, you know, it's one thing.
You know, but maybe it's still not the same.
Like, he's coming from heaven anyway
on the white horse as well, right?
Well, let's keep reading.
On this side, he comes with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel.
What I've got there in red, the archangel.
Hey, are the angels gonna be present for this event?
Well, according to 1 Thessalonians 4, they are.
And then we will continue reading here
in Matthew 24, verse 30.
Actually, before I go there, let's finish up here.
The archangel, and with the trump of God.
Let's get that, we got that in green, the trump.
Is there gonna be a sound of a trumpet at the rapture?
Absolutely, the trump of God.
And the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together.
Hey, there's a gathering, all right?
There's a togetherness taking place here.
Caught up together, we got that in purple.
With them, where are we being caught up together?
That's important, where are we going?
In orange, we've got in the clouds.
To meet the Lord in the air,
and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4.
Hey, there's five characteristics
that make up the rapture.
What's that?
Christ in heaven, the appearance of angels,
the trumpet being caught up together,
and the location in the clouds.
Five major characteristics of the rapture, right?
So when we turn our attention to Matthew 24,
the one they, our preacher brethren say,
it's not about the rapture.
Well, let's see how clear God makes it for us.
All right?
It says here, and then shall appear the sign,
the Son of Man in heaven.
Hey, that's the first one, we talked about that.
And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn,
and they shall see the Son of Man coming where?
In the clouds.
That's the location, in the clouds.
Yeah, that's what 1 Thessalonians 4 said.
No problems there.
In the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory,
and he shall send his, what are the, the angels.
Hey, the angels are mentioned there as well.
They're getting involved in this rapture event.
And he shall send his angels,
with a great sound about,
what, the trumpet's there as well.
Man, God's even remembered to put the instrument
that's been played at the time, the trumpet.
And they shall gather together,
angels are gathering together,
gathering together,
he's elect from the four winds,
from one end of heaven to the other.
So the passage no one argues with about the rapture
has five major characteristics, right?
About that rapture,
and all five of them are found in Matthew 24,
verse 30 and 31.
Why?
Because the Bible's consistent.
Why?
Because the rapture is a poster in pre-ref rapture,
that's why, okay?
We've got it right.
No, no, no, it's when Christ comes riding on the white horse
and the armies of Christ are behind him,
and he's going to make war there,
right then and there with the Antichrist Armageddon.
Yet none of that's mentioned in Matthew 24,
but that's what they want you to believe.
What do they build their doctrines on?
On silence.
Things the Bible does not say
is what they build the doctrine on.
Now we wanna build our doctrines
on the things the Bible says.
And it's clear, these two things are the same event.
Again, if you can't see that as a free tripper,
I can't help you.
I mean, God's gotta open your eyes.
Maybe he's blind to them for a reason, I don't know.
But God's gotta open your eyes.
If the word of God doesn't convince you,
the Holy Ghost has to do a major work in your heart,
and in your spiritual understanding.
But brethren, before we look at the graph,
I do want to point one more thing here.
In red over here, we've got the archangel.
I want you to, this is something
that I've just sort of realized
as I was preparing this today.
We've got the archangel mentioned here, right?
Now this takes place, remember,
somewhere shortly after the midst of the week.
Shortly after, at least, you know,
less than 70 days after the middle of the week.
And the archangel is mentioned.
Who's the archangel?
Anybody remember?
The archangel?
Michael.
Michael, all right.
Well then, go to the next slide for me.
Now look at this, in Jude chapter nine,
sorry, Jude verse nine,
it says, yet Michael the archangel, okay?
Michael the archangel.
So there we have confirmation from the Bible
that the archangel mentioned at the rapture is Michael.
He's the only archangel in the Bible.
Michael the archangel.
Now look at Daniel chapter 12,
if you can maybe take your Bibles if that's too small,
go to Daniel chapter 12 and verse one,
Daniel chapter 12 and verse one,
and we did look at these passages before,
but again, we're taking other truths from these things.
Michael's mentioned a few times in the Bible.
You'll notice that he's mentioned
always in the midst of the week, okay?
Daniel chapter 12 verse one,
and at that time shall Michael stand up,
the great prince which standeth
for the children of thy people,
and there shall be a time of trouble,
a great tribulation,
there shall be a time of trouble.
When does the great tribulation take place?
Shortly after the midst of the week, right?
At the abomination of desolation, the great tribulation.
So he's standing up there.
Well, let's confirm that, is that true?
Such as never was since there was a nation
even to that same time,
and at that time thy people shall be delivered,
everyone that shall be found written in the book,
look at this, and many of them that sleep
in the dust of the earth shall awake,
some to everlasting life,
and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
So what is this period tied in with?
A resurrection, right?
The resurrection, those that sleep.
What do we see in 1 Thessalonians five and four?
Those that sleep in Jesus
will be there at the rapture.
What do we see?
We see that Michael the archangel will stand,
stand up, when does it take place?
At the great tribulation,
there shall be a time of trouble
such as never was since there was a nation
even to that same time.
This just takes place.
Michael's being mentioned shortly after
the midst of the week,
when the great tribulation is about to take place.
Why do you think the resurrection's mentioned next?
We know why, okay?
We know why.
Now look at Revelation chapter 12, verse six.
Revelation chapter 12, verse six.
It says here,
and the woman fled into the wilderness.
Now if you may remember,
I mentioned that the woman represents the entire world,
population, you know, children,
and the mother of all,
Eve being the mother of all living,
and so I believe this woman represents Eve
in that capacity as the mother of all living.
And the woman fled into the wilderness
where she have a place prepared of God
that they should feed her there
a thousand, two hundred and free school days.
That's interesting, what's these days?
They're just random days?
No, remember the Jewish calendar has 30 days in a month?
Well if you divide one thousand, two hundred
and free school, that's 60,
one thousand, two hundred and 60 divided by 30,
what do you end up with in months?
42 months, what's 42 months?
Three and a half years, okay?
So we know we're at this point
where God's going to protect this woman, okay,
for a period, and I believe, you know,
yes, there's the beginning of sorrows.
Yes, the devil's trying to harm the woman
as it were, the world,
but God keeps it protected.
And then in verse number seven,
and there was war in heaven,
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon,
and the dragon fought and his angels.
Notice again, Michael the archangel mentioned there
in Revelation chapter 12, okay?
Now this is, I thought it was just amazing,
I hadn't really thought about it before,
but just the consistency, once again, the word of God,
Michael the archangel.
The archangel we mentioned when?
First Thessalonians four, at the rapture,
everyone agrees with that, why is he mentioned?
We know that there's going to be other angels
gathering the elects,
but why is the archangel mentioned?
I believe, so God can go,
hey, remember Michael the archangel?
Go read about when he appears at the end times.
When does he appear?
Three and a half years later.
Three and a half years into that seven year period.
Why?
And then it's also tied in, in Daniel chapter 12,
to the resurrection, the resurrection, right?
Why?
Again, we know why.
So brother, if you can go to the next slide please.
The teaching was that immediately after the tribulation,
you know, Christ comes back, right?
So we know that something happens
after the great tribulation,
and it says here,
of those days shall the sun be dark
and the moon shall not give her light.
So yes, that's the celestial darkening,
that makes sense.
And then it said in verse number 30,
and then shall appear the Son of Man in heaven.
And then it says,
and they shall see the Son of Man come in the cloud.
Hey yeah, the post there is a rapture.
Christ is coming, right?
And we know that after the celestial darkening,
God pulls out his wrath.
Hey, that's consistent with a post-tribulation
pre-wrath position, is it not?
But the pre-tribbers will say,
no, no, no, no, no, no.
Matthew 24, that's Christ coming on the white horse,
even though it's not mentioned at all.
Again, they're building their doctrines on silence, right?
And it doesn't make sense
because we still have the day of the Lord
take place after this event.
And they're not given that time,
any time when they're saying that Matthew 24
is the coming of Christ on the white horse.
So it's even contradicted
to their own understanding of the Bible, okay?
Next slide, brother.
So when it comes to Matthew 24, verses 29 to 31,
we see that the pre-trib rapture
is contradictive in what they teach,
but the post-tribulation pre-wrath rapture
is perfectly consistent
with another major passage of end times, okay?
All right, next slide, brother.
So we're going to go to Revelation chapter six now,
Revelation chapter six,
and of course, this speaks of the sixth seal here
in Revelation chapter six, verse 12.
Now, we're going to read Revelation six, 12,
all the way to seven, 17.
That's a big portion.
So we're not going to read all those verses, okay?
If you've got your Bibles here, great,
but otherwise, you know,
hopefully you can read that and you can follow along.
But let's get the chronology here
in Revelation chapter six, verse 12.
It says, 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 air,
and the moon became as blood,
and the stars of heaven fell onto the earth,
even as a fig tree cast off her untimely figs,
when she was shaken of a mighty wind.
So we have the celestial darkening, right?
Verse number 14,
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 rocks of the mountains,
and said to the rocks and mountains,
fall on us, and hide us from the face of him
that sitteth on the throne.
Hey, we have the celestial darkening.
Now they're seeing Jesus,
the one that sits on the throne.
And then it says here in verse number 16,
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,
who shall be able to stand?
So what do we have again?
The celestial darkening.
Then they see Christ.
And now they're saying, hey, it's the day of Christ.
It's the day of the wrath of the Lamb.
The wrath, right?
Celestial darkening.
Christ appears, the wrath.
Now, go to the next slide, brother.
So we're going to go to Revelation chapter seven,
verse one, okay?
And after these things,
I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth
holding the four wings of the earth,
that the wind should not blow on the earth,
nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
Now we're gonna drop down to verse number nine.
After this, I beheld, and lo, a great multitude,
which no man could number, of all nations,
and kindreds, and people, and tongues,
stood before the throne, and before the Lamb,
clothed with white robes and palms in their hands,
and cried with a loud voice, saying,
salvation to our God, which sitteth on the throne,
and unto the Lamb.
And all the angels stood round about the throne,
and about the elders and the four beasts,
and fell before the throne on their faces,
and worshiped God, saying, amen, blessing, and glory,
and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power,
and might, be unto our God forever and ever, amen.
Hey, what great worship they're giving God there.
But you notice that this great multitude
just appears in heaven.
Why do I appear in heaven?
Shortly after the celestial darkening.
Why do I appear in heaven the day that's announced
that it's the day of Christ, of his wrath,
the wrath of the Lamb?
We know why.
We know why there's a great multitude
appearing in heaven, don't we?
Next slide, brother.
Verse number 13.
And one of the elders answered, saying unto me,
what are these which are arrayed in white robes,
and whence came they?
Where do they come from?
Who are they, and where do they come from?
And I said unto him, sir, thou knowest,
and he said unto me,
these are they which came out of great tribulation,
and have washed their robes and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb.
Hey, where this multitude come from?
From the great tribulation.
Why?
Because there's a rapture after the great tribulation.
That's why.
Before God pours out his wrath, that's why.
Okay, the Bible's clear.
Verse number 15.
Therefore are they before the throne of God,
and serve him day and night in his temple.
And he that sitteth on the throne
shall dwell among them.
They shall hunger no more,
neither thirst any more,
neither shall the sun light on them,
nor any heat,
for the Lamb which is the midst of the throne
shall feed them,
and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters,
and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
The reason I read the rest of that,
I just wanted to show you that correlation once again
with the rapture, the resurrection,
these people coming out of the great tribulation,
and then God will wipe all tears from up their faces,
okay, from their eyes.
So if you can please go to the next passage
for me, brother.
You know, once again, what did we see?
We saw the sixth seal, the celestial dark here.
After the sixth seal, people on the earth saw Christ.
They saw him.
Why?
Because there's a rapture.
Christ coming in the clouds in power and great glory.
All right, and then the question gets asked,
where do they come from?
This great multitude of people
says they came from great tribulation.
Why?
Because yeah, great tribulation just took place, right,
before the sun and moon were darkened.
So this is consistent,
and if you go to the next slide for me,
this is consistent with the post-tribulation
pre-rap rapture, this portion of scripture
from Revelation 6, 12 to 7, verse 17.
And it is, it is contradictive
to the pre-tribulation rapture
because they don't believe any of them
will go through great tribulation.
They believe they'll be raptured before that time,
before the great tribulation.
It is not consistent with a pre-trib rapture,
but perfectly consistent with a post-trib pre-rap rapture.
Let's look at another major passage, brother.
Next slide.
Revelation, chapter 12.
Revelation, chapter 12, verse one.
So we start with a vision of this woman,
again, represents all of mankind on this world.
Revelation, chapter 12, verse one.
And we're going to read up to chapter 14, verse 20.
But again, we're not gonna read all the verses.
We're just gonna look at certain portions of here
just to help us put that chronology together.
But Revelation, chapter 12, verse one.
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven,
a woman clothed with the sun,
and the moon under her feet,
and upon her head a crown of 12 stars.
Verse number six.
And the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she had a place prepared of God,
that they should feed her there 1,203 school days.
I really told you, that's 42 months.
That's three and a half years, okay?
And I believe this first three and a half years,
this woman fleeing, trying to find protection,
is that beginning of sorrows.
When the entire world is being under attack
for all these different things,
these wars, famines, the pestilences.
But it'll be preserved.
That world will be preserved.
I believe it will be preserved by God.
Now if you drop down to verse number 17,
it says in the dragon, the dragon of course is Satan.
And the dragon was rough with the woman,
and went to make war with the remnant of a seed,
which keep the commandments of God,
and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
So what's the remnant of this woman?
The seed, right?
Those that are in Christ are Abraham's seed, right?
And as according to the promise there.
So what we see here is that the believers,
these are the remnant.
Believers are always called the remnant,
in a sense, in the Bible.
The remnant are believers.
You know, the dragon is rough with the woman,
angry with the woman.
So instead of taking that out on the entire woman,
it couldn't do it,
it goes and takes it out on the believers.
Those that have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
So what do we have?
Three and a half years,
then we have believers being persecuted.
When do believers get persecuted?
At the great tribulation, amen?
So this makes sense.
And then it says, let's look at verse number seven.
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.
Notice that power was given unto him, okay?
Unto, to, you know, over all kindreds.
Now this is important,
because if this happens at the midst of the week,
three and a half, four and a half, 42 months later,
that's the abomination of desolation, once again.
That's when the antichrist dies, resurrects,
comes back to life,
and people wander at the beast,
they start worshiping the beast,
and he's got all power at this point in time.
He's got everybody under control,
of all kindreds, of all tongues, all nations.
He's introduced the mark of the beast
at this point in time, okay?
Look at verse number,
now if we go to, sorry, Revelation 14,
Revelation 14, verse 13,
so we continue the reading,
but we just skip ahead,
and it says here,
and I heard a voice from heaven say none to me.
Right, blessed are the dead which die
in the Lord from henceforth.
Bless, if you die from,
if you die at the great tribulation for the Lord,
you're gonna be blessed,
and we know that they're gonna rule
and reign with Christ,
they're gonna have these thrones in the millennium.
So you see the great blessing,
if you lose your life for Christ and his spirit.
Blessed are the dead which die
in the Lord from henceforth.
Yea save the spirit,
that they may rest from their labors,
and their works do follow them.
So what do we see coming up now?
A rest, there's a rest.
After this war against the saints,
this persecution,
now comes the rest.
Which for us, we know that's a rapture.
You know, being caught up together
with Christ in the clouds.
Let's look at this rest in verse number 14.
And I looked and behold,
a white cloud,
hey that sounds good,
isn't Jesus coming in the clouds?
Aren't we gonna be gathered together in the clouds?
We see this white cloud,
and upon the cloud,
one sat like unto the Son of Man.
Hey what did Jesus call himself in Matthew 24
when he comes in the clouds?
He called himself the Son of Man, right?
Now notice here,
it does say like unto the Son of Man.
I've heard some people say,
well this is not Jesus,
cause it's like the Son of Man.
Well hold on,
when Jesus used the term the Son of Man,
that was one of his most popular titles
that he gave himself when he walked the earth.
And the reason he gave himself that title,
the Son of Man,
is because he came manifest in the flesh.
He was born of Mary in the manger.
He came in the likeness of sinful flesh.
He came looking like a man, okay?
So that's why he called himself the Son of Man
in that state.
But here it says it's like unto the Son of Man.
What this is saying is,
it's still the same guy,
but he doesn't look exactly the same way he came
when he came in Bethlehem as a manger.
Okay, he's like unto that.
You know because the Bible says
he comes with great power and glory.
Jesus Christ turns it on.
You know everything's gone dark.
The sun's gone dark, the moon, the stars.
And then Christ appears.
He shines, he turns on the glory.
He turns on the power.
The entire world's gonna see Christ coming.
There's nothing else to see, it's gone dark.
Alright, the entire world's gonna see Christ coming.
You know the Bible says there's lightning.
He came in from the east to the west.
He's gonna light up the sky.
You know when the disciples of Jesus
saw his transfiguration,
remember they freaked out.
They were so afraid.
They had not seen Jesus like that.
They were used to seeing Jesus as a common man,
but when he transfigures, he turns on the glory.
Man, they were like, what is going on?
But when Christ comes in the clouds,
he comes with great power and glory, he turns it on.
He lights up the sky in his glory.
That's why it's like unto the son of man.
It's the same guy,
but it's not the way that everybody knew him
2,000 years ago, okay.
He turns on the glory.
It says here, having on his head a golden crown
and in his hand a sharp sickle.
And a sickle is used to harvest,
you know, wheat or whatever.
Next slide for me, brother.
Verse number 15.
And another angel came out of the temple.
So here he comes with a sharp sickle, okay.
And then it says here,
and another angel came out of the temple,
this is a temple in heaven,
crying with a loud voice to him.
This kind of sounds like the shouts that we read about.
You know, it says here, he cried unto him.
And when someone cries,
the biblical speaking here, they are shouting, okay.
Unto him that sat in the cloud,
thrust in thy sickle and reap,
for the time is come for thee to reap,
for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
So Jesus comes to reap, okay.
And then it says in verse number 16,
and he that sat in the cloud,
thrust in his sickle on the earth,
and the earth was reaped.
So there's a gathering taking place.
Hey, that's the rapture.
The rapture's taking place after the great tribulation.
Christ coming in the clouds,
Christ coming and reaping the saved,
the souls that have believed on Christ, okay.
And remember it said, there's coming a rest.
This is a rest.
Christ coming and reaping that harvest.
What happens after this harvest?
What happens after this reaping?
Verse number 17.
And another angel came out of the temple,
which is in heaven.
So this is another angel.
He also having a sharp sickle.
So now this angel has a sickle as well,
like Christ did, okay.
But Christ has finished harvesting.
Verse number 18.
And another angel came out of the altar,
which had power over fire,
and cried with a loud cry to him,
that had the sharp sickle saying,
thrust in thy sharp sickle,
and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth,
for her grapes are fully ripe.
Verse number, so now this next gathering
is being seen as a harvest of grapes, all right.
Look at verse number 19.
And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth,
and gathered the vine of the earth,
and cast it into the great winepress
of the wrath of God.
Hey, this makes sense.
What takes place after the rapture?
The wrath of God, the day of the Lord.
Perfect sense.
So perfect, the chronology of the Bible.
The winepress of the wrath of God.
And the winepress was trodden without the city,
and blood came out of the winepress,
even unto the horse's bridles,
by the space of 1,600 furlongs.
So what do we see if we put all this together?
Three and a half years takes place, right?
Then Satan takes it out on the believers, right?
The great tribulation.
Some believers lose their lives.
But then there's an announcement of great rest.
Christ coming in the clouds with his sickle,
gathers his harvest, he's done.
Then we have an angel come in.
Now I think this is symbolic of the seven angels
that have the seven trumpets,
and the other seven angels that have the seven vials.
Hey, they're the ones that follow the instruction
that Jesus Christ gives.
They're the ones that ultimately pour out the wrath of God.
Makes sense to have an angel then come in with his sickle,
and he's gathering these grapes together
for this winepress of the wrath of God.
So after the rapture,
we have the wrath of God taking place once again.
So please go to the next slide for me, brother.
Again, three and a half years,
midst of the week, persecution of believers.
We didn't see the sun and moon get dark in this passage,
but we know it takes place.
Then we have the rapture.
Following the rapture, God's wrath being poured out.
And that's why I did it purple to represent wines,
to represent grapes of the winepress, okay?
That's why I did it purple for the last bit.
Hey, this is perfectly consistent.
Next slide, brother.
Perfectly consistent.
Revelation 12, one to 14 and chapter 14 and verse 20.
Perfectly consistent with a post-trib pre-wrath rapture.
You say, what do the pre-tribbers do with this?
Can they, are they inconsistent?
They're not inconsistent because they don't even think
this has anything to do with the rapture.
Like they don't even have a position on this.
You go and find out what the pre-tribbers believe
about this event.
They have no idea.
Oh, I'm just being honest with you.
They have no idea.
Why is Christ coming on the cloud, right?
And harvesting, doing a harvest.
They've got no idea, okay?
So again, it is perfectly consistent with our position.
I mean, this should have just proved it enough, right?
Once we had two or three witnesses,
that should have been enough
for us to just hang our hats and say we're done, okay?
But the Bible's not done, okay?
The Bible is not done.
So next slide for me, brother.
The next passage we're gonna look at,
and maybe if it's a bit small,
please take your Bible and go to 1 Corinthians 15.
1 Corinthians 15 for me.
This is the next major passage.
This is the chapter, the second most famous,
the second most famous chapter of the Bible
about the rapture.
We're looking at 1 Corinthians 15.
And we're gonna be reading verses 51 to 54.
So, and I've got some other passages here
for you to compare.
It says here in verse number 51,
behold, I show you a mystery.
We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed in a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye.
That's the change of our bodies, right?
It says here, at the last trump,
hey, the trump's mentioned again,
for the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed.
Now, let me stop there for a moment,
just to clarify one thing.
When the Bible says here, the last trump,
this is where your host trippers get it wrong,
because they know the wrath of God's coming,
and the seven trumpets.
And so they know the seven trumpet
is toward the end of that tribulation,
or the end of that 70th week,
the end of that seven year period.
So they think the last trump is the seventh trumpet, okay?
But that wouldn't line up with our chronology at all.
So when something is mentioned like the last trump,
obviously there was a trump before that.
Now, what is a trump?
Is it talking about a trumpet here?
Is it talking about the last trumpet?
No, the trump is defined for us in that same verse.
Look at it again, in verse number 52,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
at the last trump, for,
no, sorry, at the last trump, notice the colon.
When the Bible has colon,
next words are gonna define what was just mentioned.
It goes into more detail than what was just mentioned.
At the last trump, for, the trumpet shall sound.
Okay, so what's a trump?
A trump can be a singular trumpet,
but it also is the sound a trumpet makes.
You know, when a trumpet is blown, it makes a trump.
Okay, if you look at your dictionary,
you'll notice it has two definitions.
Trump can be a singular trumpet,
or it can be the blast,
the sound that the trumpet makes, okay?
And the Bible tells us here,
no, he's talking about the sound of the trumpet.
So it's the last trump, okay?
It's not the seventh trumpets.
It's not the last trumpet of God's wrath.
It's the last trump, okay?
So what we saw at the rapture,
we saw that there's a trumpet that trumps, okay?
So here's what I understand.
When Christ comes in the clouds,
the trumpet's gonna blow.
Boom, ba-da-boom!
Christ come in the clouds.
We all look out, oh, there's Christ.
You know, if you didn't already notice that,
you know, things are going unusual, right?
There's a trumpet, you know,
for those that are blind, I guess,
for those that are blind,
they're gonna hear at least the trumpet sound.
They know something's up.
But then, the last trump will be sounded.
So it's not one blast of the trumpet,
but there'll be at least a second trump, at least.
There could be more.
But at least say second trump.
And at that last trump is when our bodies will change.
Right, will they say that again?
In a moment, in the twinkle of an eye,
at the last trump, that's when we'll be changed.
So Christ come in, boom, ba-da-boom!
And then when it's time for Christ to change our bodies,
boom, ba-da-boom!
That's the last trump and we'll be caught up together
with Christ in the air.
That's why the last trump is mentioned here.
It's not the seventh trumpet.
All right.
Verse number 53.
For this corruptible, that's our corruptible bodies,
must put on incorruption,
and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption,
and this mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written, death is swallowed up in victory.
I've put that in blue for you, okay?
On the slide here.
Death is swallowed up in victory.
I know we've covered this in a previous one,
but I need to cover this once again.
Because this that was written
is actually found in Isaiah 25, verse eight.
Look at it.
In blue, I've put it in the same color for you.
He will swallow up death in victory.
That's Isaiah 25, verse eight.
And the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces.
Say, we've heard that before.
And the rebuke of his people
shall he take away from off all the earth.
Why is he gonna take that rebuke away?
Because it was a tribulation?
Because it was a persecution of God's people?
For the Lord have spoken it.
The Lord have spoken it, not Pastor Kevin.
The Lord have spoken it.
And then what we saw in Revelation chapter seven,
verse 14, remember that large multitude of people
from all tongues, nations, and tribes,
appearing at the front of God, giving God worship.
And the question was asked, where do they come from?
And the answer was, these are they
which came out of great tribulation.
And then it says, and God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes.
So I've got that in red to show you
how it ties into Isaiah 25, which has the blue,
he will swallow up death in victory,
which is actually mentioned in First Corinthians 15,
death is swallowed up in victory.
So here's the funny thing.
When the pre-tribbers, and you know, yeah,
the last trump, you know, the twinkling of an eye
can happen at any moment,
they forget to read the last bit,
death is swallowed up in victory.
All right, why is that there?
Because Isaiah said, when this takes place,
that's when God's gonna wipe away our tears.
Why would Isaiah say that?
Because in Revelation chapter seven, when John wrote it,
he was like, this is when it takes place, okay?
This is who it's given to.
It's those that go through that period of great tribulation
which is why Isaiah says, yeah,
God will take away that rebuke off his people
from off all the earth.
Why?
Because the Bible's consistent,
because the Bible's beautiful,
because it's in harmony,
because it's a post-trib pre-wrapped rapture, that's why.
That's why, you know,
so it's amazing that the second most popular passage,
it's clearly pointing to a post-tribulation rapture.
So if you can please go to the next slide for me.
Once again, we saw those came out of great tribulation.
All right, who?
Those that were in heaven, what happened?
The change in our bodies, the rapture.
All right, then what happened?
The wiping of tears away from the eyes.
Okay, it's a post-tribulation pre-wrapped rapture,
but if people believe in a pre-trib rapture,
it doesn't even come close to the great tribulation.
It doesn't even come close to that time
when God will wipe away tears from off their faces,
which 1 Corinthians 15 is pointed to
when it points back to Isaiah.
Does that make sense?
If any of this doesn't make sense for everyone,
please, you can ask me for more information.
All right, so next slide, brother.
So we saw how the pre-trib is contradictive
with 1 Corinthians 15, 51 to 54.
Again, the second most famous passage about the rapture,
but it's perfectly consistent
with the post-tribulation pre-wrapped rapture.
Jesus says, don't be deceived.
Paul wrote, don't be deceived.
And yet, how many people can't work out the end times?
How many people are deceived?
Now, don't you think,
well, what did we look at?
Six major passages, we read a lot of verses, didn't we?
I reckon we read over 100 verses.
We read many, many verses.
What do we find?
Consistency, all right?
We don't see any confusion.
We see three and a half years,
great tribulation, celestial darkening,
the rapture, the wrath of God.
Every single time, perfectly consistent with that.
Man, we've got more than two or three witnesses.
Holy, this is, how clear is this doctrine?
It's crystal clear, it's perfect, okay?
I wouldn't spend my time teaching this
unless I had it perfect.
And I'm ashamed for the pastors preaching
that pre-trib rapture.
And they haven't even got one verse.
Can you believe it?
They haven't even got one verse.
And so, brother, next slide.
So when we look at the chronology of events,
we can remove now the pre-trib rapture.
It makes no sense whatsoever
with the writings of the scriptures.
But the post-trib pre-rap rapture makes perfect sense.
And one more slide, the last slide there.
Again, when we look at it in terms of the chronology,
not just chronology, but a scale of time,
you can see now how we have the beginning of sorrows,
the first three and a half years.
The midst of the week takes place.
The antichrist exalts himself.
Then we have that period of great tribulation.
Then we have the celestial darkening, the sixth seal.
Then we have the post-trib pre-rap rapture.
And then we have God pouring out his wrath, all right?
So I believe the Bible's perfectly consistent.
You know, this is why I show you so many scriptures.
And my desire is that you would go home, once again,
my desire is you would go home, study this out.
If you need the charts,
I'll send it to you via PDF or whatever.
You know, go back, listen to the sermon
if you need to refresh your memory on a few things.
But honestly, I don't think you even need
to go back to my sermon.
I think with the knowledge you've gained today
and last week, you'll be able to go back,
read your Bibles, go back and read the end times.
And I believe it's gonna come perfectly together for you.
You'll probably find other consistent,
amazing consistent things that I've missed.
I'm sure you'll find other great truths as well
if you went back and studied the Word of God yourself.
So brethren, get ready for great tribulation.
It's coming our way, maybe not for us, future generations.
If it's not for us, we need to teach our children,
we need to teach the next generation
to get ready for this difficult time.
Hey, but there's a great blessing to come
because it's exciting.
It's the closest time that you'll ever know.
You'll know that Christ is coming.
You'll know that he'll be coming in the clouds.
Now I can't wait to say, you're not gonna miss it.
Even if you pass away, you're not gonna miss the rapture.
Christ will bring you.
And the sun's gonna go dark, it's gonna turn blood.
There's gonna be stars falling from a meteor shower
or something, right?
There's just gonna be an amazing spectacle
and then Christ coming in all his glory,
just lighting up the entire sky
and every eye shall see him.
Let's pray.