Chiasmos, Inverse Parallel Structure, Sets Order of Lastday Events

Lastday

Amy,

You write:

I agree with your sentiments except that your view of "not needing to know the day nor hour of Christ's return" rests only
upon being ready to meet Him. I talk to many Christians who believe as you do but are not yet willing to face death for Christ.
Endtime Saints who face death...even as they see Christ "coming in Kingdom Power and Authority for 3.5 years...will love not
their life unto death". Rev.12:10-11.

What is your explanation of why the great tribulation Saints will be willing to suffer martyrdom for Christ when the possibility of
facing death is no longer remote, but very likely? Those Believers will also not know the day nor hour! What makes the difference?
Will their hope rest on just being "ready"...with no thought of not knowing the day? Maybe it will rest on knowing for sure that He
must come "at any moment" after the Two Witnesses are killed...like those mentioned in Rev.16:15 who are "blessed in watching
for His coming as a thief" when the armies gather to Armageddon...while two out of every three Jews (and believers) face death?
Zech.13:8-9.

Our Preterist members don't have this hope to begin with! They think "some who must taste death, after having seen Jesus come
in Kingdom Power" in AD 70, refers to millions martyred for 1940 years since then!!
I see Pre-Tribbers shaken in their faith should Christ wait to rescue them "after the great tribulation"!!!
Mel

 

The martyrs who "come out from under the altar, sing their song of Moses
and praise God and the Lamb in the Temple of heaven" ARE also among those
who are beheaded for Christ and take part in the "first resurrection". Rev.20:4-6.
Mel