The Day Of The Lord
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Rapture.
The Holy Spirit and true believers are removed from the physical world.
This is a different event than the Second Coming of Christ. (vs 8)
We see the difference in these two events in 1 Thess. 4:13-18; and I Thess. 5:1-11;
both sections ending with: Therefore encourage one another...
The Day Of The Lord.
Both an individual event - The Second Coming of Christ
A period of time. The Pouring out of the Cups of Wrath. Last half of the tribulation period.
Also called The Great Tribulation
“For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.
Next Sermon.
The Timing Of The Rapture
I’m a pan-tribulationist!
The text actually says, the Restrainer/Church-Holy Spirit is taken (ginomai - change of state or position) out (from the midst of, from among, away) AND then the Antichrist is revealed.
Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
First of all, the tribulation is a 7 year period of time.
Daniel and Revelation: one week
Also, time, times, and half a time / 42 months / 1260 days. To signify 3.5 years.
The grammatical implication of the text is that the church is taken away out of the midst of the Tribulation.
Coincidence - Sabbath years are in groups of seven. The Year of Jubilee was the 50th year, and leading up to that was called 7- “7s” or 49 years. the millennium would be 100 - “10s” add 10 to 490 and you get 500 - The analogous year of Jubilee. Which would be Heaven. Pentecost was 50 Days after Passover. Which was the giving of the holy Spirit.
According to the Old Testament, you would go to the day of the celebration of Firstfruits, and beginning with that day, you would count off 50 days. The fiftieth day would be the Day of Pentecost. So Firstfruits is the beginning of the barley harvest and Pentecost is the celebration of the beginning of the wheat harvest.
Since it was always 50 days after Firstfruits, and since 50 days equals seven weeks, it always came a "week of weeks" later. Therefore, they either called it the Feast of Harvest or the Feast of Weeks.
AND THEN the antichrist is revealed.
So the Antichrist is revealed immediately after the church is raptured away.
Which could imply the church is raptured right before the midpoint of the tribulation.
But then again, in the grand scheme of time, 3.5 years before the midpoint, or at the beginning of the tribulation period is not very long before.
Either way, the church has to be raptured prior to the midpoint.
So my current position is that the rapture will occur sometime prior to the midpoint of the tribulation. So I call myself a pre-mid-trib rapturist.
Principles of grammar and similar constructions elsewhere (cf. Notes) show that the two phenomena are conceived of as within the day of the Lord, not prior to it. The day of the Lord is not yet present because these two conspicuous phenomena that will be distinguishing characteristics of that day have not yet surfaced. The issue involved in Paul’s correction of the false information to which the readers have been exposed is not the future coming of the day of the Lord; it is rather the current presence or nonpresence of that day at the time he writes and they read his words.
A major issue in understanding this verse is the function of the adverb prōton (GK 4754; NASB, “first”; NIV, “until”) in the first half of the protasis. Commonly, the sense assumed is that the arrival of the “rebellion” (NASB, “apostasy”) and the revealing of “the man of lawlessness” will precede the day of the Lord. This understanding is faulty. “First” indicates that the arrival of the apostasy will precede the revealing of “the man of lawlessness,” but not the day of the Lord (cf. Notes). Both of these events fall within the day of the Lord and will be easily recognizable signs to those on earth when they happen.
Great Tribulation
“For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.
“Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued.
I said to him, “My lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
The Day Of The Lord Comes
Wrath of God
This is the 5th Cup of the Passover.
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle. Then another angel, the one who has power over fire, came out from the altar; and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, because her grapes are ripe.” So the angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into the great wine press of the wrath of God. And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses’ bridles, for a distance of two hundred miles.
Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels who had seven plagues, which are the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished.
After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of testimony in heaven was opened, and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in linen, clean and bright, and girded around their chests with golden sashes. Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one was able to enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.
Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.” So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.
Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, “It is done.” And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty. The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.
Christ’s Second Coming to bring an end to the Antichrist. - End of 7 years of Tribulation
Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.
This day will not overtake you. In other words, you will not experience this day.
We are not destined to wrath.
This day is known as the wrath of God.
It is the pouring out of the wrath of God on the antichrist and all those who worship him.
(“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.”)
in context of Armageddon.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.
The Followers of the Antichrist
They all may be judged
They did not believe the truth
Took pleasure in wickedness