Genesis 5, verses 21 to 24, part 4, the Rapture from Genesis, cont.

 

Further evidence is supplied by the following verses from Paul to the Corinthian church. We shall not all sleep with sleep being used as a reference to death as in the narrative of Lazarus’ resurrection by Jesus in John 11. The rapture or translation of the church is said to take place at the last trumpet, with the trumpets following the seventh seal, but the sixth seal is said to be the time of Christ’s wrath, as we will see, so this is a general statement of events happening in a general timeframe so I would not set my clock by it. I think that it is clear that the church will not see or experience this horrible period of time and will be translated before it begins leaving an unbelieving world of men and women behind. As Christ said to His disciples just remember when something happens that He told you it would and don’t try to set a date.

1Corinthians 15:51 ¶  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

The error of modernism is reading the Bible like a textbook as I have shown repeatedly. God is under no compunction to provide you with a schedule of events and times that constrict when He can or cannot do something. Generally, we can be assured that the church will not experience the following terrors from the perspective of the unsaved world of men.

Back to Revelation 11 and the timing of this at the last trump before the vials.

Revelation 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

There is a period of time in there where the translation or rapture occurs and the marriage supper of the Lamb and then the return of Christ with the glorified believers, both Jew and Gentile, all the church.

Hebrews 12:23  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,…

Writings of early church leaders, some admittedly of disputed authenticity, others of uncertain translation and background texts, that have come down to us expressing belief in the premillennial return of the Lord include writings attributed to Papias, Shepard, Irenaeus, Lactantius, Victorinus, Cyprian, Ephraim the Syrite, Commodianus, Origen, Tertullian, and Justin Martyr. While some of them also include implications and clear statements that the church will not see the wrath to come but will be removed beforehand others are ambiguous and uncertain in meaning.