The second place in Revelation that describes the rapture is Revelation 14.
Now you say, wait a minute Pastor Anderson, why would the revelation describe the rapture
back in chapter 7 and then all the way in chapter 14 again?
Well, that's easy because as you're reading the book of Revelation, it goes in chronological
order.
Chapters 1 through 11 are in perfectly chronological order.
But then when you get to chapter 12, all of a sudden you jump way back in time.
And it's pretty obvious because when you start reading chapter 12, you're reading about the
birth of Jesus Christ.
Well that should tell you right away we've gone back in time.
And so you read about the birth of Christ and then in chapter 13 you read about the
tribulation and then in chapter 14 you read about the rapture and about God's wrath being
poured out after the rapture.
Chapters 15 and 16 go into the seven vials of God's wrath and so on.
So when you read the first half of Revelation, you start out in the first century AD with
John on the Isle of Patmos, then you read about the events of the tribulation, then
the rapture, then God's wrath is poured out.
Well guess what?
In the second half it's the same order.
In chapter 12 you're in the first century AD with the birth of Christ, then you read
about the tribulation in chapter 13, the rapture's in chapter 14, the wrath is poured out after.
So the order is always the same when you're reading the book of Revelation.
It's always tribulation, then the rapture, then wrath.
Well it's no different in chapter 14.
In chapter 13 we have the tribulation where the Antichrist is forcing people to get a
mark in their right hand or forehead to buy or sell.
Then in chapter 14 you have the rapture, 15 and 16 you have God's wrath.
God's wrath.