Featured Question(s) for pre-Trib Rapture Theorists

Because of the fact that they did not take the Mark of the Beast, which while our A-mil, Preterist, Idealist, and Historicist brethren view as symbolic and representative of evil deed (hand) and action (forehead, mind), I view to be a literal mark in a literal Seven Year Period prophesied in both Old and New Testaments.


Revelation 20

King James Version (KJV)

4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.


As I told an A-Mil brother here recently, I wish I could embrace a view that removes this period as a literal event, but, I cannot. IT would be easier to take a view that simply views all Prophecy here as representative of the great battle of good versus evil, and that the tribulation depicted here is being carried out throughout history. Here we see they did not take the mark, and they did not worship the Beast, and they were killed for that reason.

That can only happen when the Beast is present and demanding worship, right?


God bless.

 

Now where in anything I have said do you come up with this?


God bless.

 

Vooks, you need to place everything that has been said together.

You come up with this...

...after I have already told you that I view "beheading" to refer to death in general, rather than specifically taking someone's head off. Regardless, all in view would be dead.

It's really a simple teaching, the First Resurrection consists only of Tribulation Martyrs. That someone dies naturally is an attempt to ignore that simple fact. Any believer that dies in the Tribulation will likely be raised at the First Resurrection, and even if they are not...

...what point do you think you derive, and...

...how does that change what is stated in Revelation 20:4, and...

...when will you acknowledge that the First Resurrection is not the First Resurrection in meaning of Sequence?

We have first the Resurrection of Christ, that is the "First" in meaning of sequence, and then we have the resurrection and Rapture of the Two Witnesses.

If for some reason those who die naturally as believers are not resurrected in the First Resurrection, then we know that their resurrection will occur one thousand years later. It doesn't really impact the Rapture, because the First Resurrection is not the Rapture.


God bless.

 

Since the rapture doesn't happen until the end of the tribulation the answer is no.


Matthew 13:39
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.