To follow on the last review, we looked at the periods of the seven trumpets, and the plagues that follows. we saw that from the first to the sixth trumpets, and the sealing of the 144,000 Jews, that the plagues will be for the destruction of one third of the earth`s resources, the mankind, and the torment of ungodly sinners.
We must understand that the plagues of the six trumpets, are distinct from the plagues of the seven bowls which shall be poured out after the rapture at the sounding of the seven trumpets. These plagues shall be poured out in successions without further sounding of trumpets. Revelation is now so real to believers of the gospel of the water and the Spirit because we are walking with the Lord with our faith united with Jesus Christ our Lord in His baptism, blood on the cross and His resurrection. Therefore, the Lord by His Holy Ghost is helping us to understand this plan of God to conclude His mystery. However, we have a great task to preach the truth that saves lives.
We have been given the the understanding of the mystery of the Salvation of our God because of the abundance of His grace towards us who have believed, and we should always be thankful to the Lord for openning this mystery to believers.
The problem with the wider world is that they have not grasp and understand the time of the Rapture. This series from chapter 10 has helped me to understand that there can never be Pre and Post tribulation rapture. Therefore, we have to grasp this revelation and teach it to the people. It is quite clear that the believers will still be here until the sounding of the seventh trumpet. Why must this be so; it is because the Lord will use the believers to reach out to the world before the final judgement of the ungodly sinners. Knowing that the rapture shall take place at the sounding of the seventh angel, let us look at Rev.10:7: " But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the prophets. " This scripture quite clearly is telling us that the mystery of the Salvation of God shall be finished as the angel is about to sound the seventh trumpets. this to me means that as the mystery of God`s Salvation is finished, at the sounding of the seventh trumpet, the Saints shal be raised from the dead and those that are alive and remain shall be lifted up to meet the Lord in the air by the Power of God.
Let us see the letter of Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17: " For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. 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 orevent them which are asleep.) ( Here the word " prevent " in greek:phthano is translated to come first. It means that the saints who are alive and remain shall not by any means precede those who died in Jesus. It means that they which died in Christ shall rise first, and be raptured together with those who are alive and remain.) For the Lord Himself shall descent from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the cloud, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."
Again let us read the letter of Jude 1:14-15: " And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, behold, the Lord commeth with ten thousands of His saints, To execute judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."
I believe,the prophecy of Enoch was revealing to the true church of Jesus Christ, that after the rapture, the Lord would return with saints to the to execute judgement on the ungodly sinners who will still be on the Earth. Therefore, this means that after the saints are ruptured, they will remain in the air for a short time before reurning with the host of Heaven to execute judgement upon the earth.
Therefore if anyone needs the proof that there shall be no Pre or Post tribulation rapture, then the above scriptures are sufficient to silence the propagators of their false doctrine on Revalation. The following bible passages will help to consolidate the truth about the end time: Rev.11:15-18; 1Cor.15:51-52. Now anyone who believes that the bible is the word of God ought to believe His words, and come to God in righteousness through the faith of the gospel of the water and the Spirit. It is the righteousness of God, and His manifold wisdom to hide this truth from the wise of this world and to make them known to the humble in heart. (Pr.25:2 and Lk.10:21)
