One of the most common things that you'll hear from those who believe in a pre-trib
rapture is that we need to differentiate between the second coming and the rapture.
In fact, I just read an article yesterday on a popular blog called Now the End Begins,
and that was what the whole article was based on.
But what they're getting wrong is that they define Revelation 19 as the second coming.
In fact, nowhere in the Bible is Armageddon or Revelation 19 defined as the second coming.
In fact, the Bible calls the rapture the coming of Christ, which would make it the second
coming.
In the key rapture passage, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, it says in verse 15,
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto
the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
So the Bible clearly defines the rapture as the second coming.
Unless this is coming 1.5, because we know that Jesus came once in Bethlehem, that would
make the rapture his second coming.
Because every time the New Testament talks about the coming of the Lord or the coming
of Jesus Christ, it's always referring to the rapture.
So now the end begins and other pre-trib websites or preachers or blogs, they create this straw
man by setting up Revelation 19 as the second coming.
That is found nowhere in scripture.
Nowhere is Armageddon referred to as the second coming of Christ.
In fact, the second coming is the rapture.
And obviously we all know that the rapture and Armageddon are not the same event.
So they set up that straw man by not understanding what the second coming is.
Make no mistake.
The second coming is the rapture.
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