I haven’t checked this thread for some time now, thought it was dead, lo, and behold, GN is back again. At it again I see, throwing out a slew of his inferences.
I asked for a plain statement from the NT setting forth this additional coming of Christ. By additional, I mean additional to the one we see in the wheat and tares parable, additional to the one we see in the Olivet Discourse.
It is you that has the burden of proof. Most pretribs claim the reason Jesus didn’t mention a pretrib rapture, an additional 2nd coming, in the Olivet Discoruse, was because it would be left to Paul to reveal it. Hence, we should expect a clear statement to that effect.
Something on the order of Paul saing, “Behold, I shew you a mystery, ye all know Jesus only mentioned one 2nd comging in his parable of the wheat and the tares, only one 2nd coming at the end of the tribulation in his mount Olives discourse, but, behold, I now reveal to you an additional coming. There is actually two separate 2nd comings, you see. The first one is not visible to the world, no one sees it or hears it but believers caught up to heaven, this occurs before the great tribulation. Jesus did not tell you of this, but, behold, I now reveal it. As to the one Jesus mentioned, it contrast to the prior coming, this one is an open revelation, a coming in judgment, a very public one, which every eye shall see.”
It is you that has the burden of proof, GN. Not me. All these inferences you claim, I simply the same singular 2nd coming Jesus set forth...howbeit with much more detail supplied. You have produced nothing but inferences, my friend. I’m looking for a clear statement similar to the one above, where this additional 2nd coming is revealed. It surely should be, for something as vital as this. Where is it? The burden is on your shoulders to produce it.
correction, I left out a few words:
All these inferences you claim, I simply see as the same singular 2nd coming Jesus set forth...howbeit with much more detail supplied.
The posts the I have made on this thread have, beyond any argument or doubt, proven that the rapture will happen before the Tribulation.
As you, and I and anyone who has read this thread knows, you have not posted one verse of Scripture to validate your beliefs because you can't. You cling to a demonic doctrine, and you discard plain, clear Scriptures that destroy your beliefs because you love a lie and fable over the Holy Spirit and the Word of God.
You really have nothing more to say. You can spew your opinions and denials and lamely continue to try to divert attention away from your spiritual blindness and rejection of Jesus Christ, but you are exposed, and you are finished.
How does it feel to have absolutely nothing that Jesus Christ said that you can provide to support what you believe? How does that feel? How does it feel to be proven over and over to be someone who simply refuses to accept the Scriptures as God wrote them because the Scriptures as God wrote them blow your false doctrine into a million pieces?
The fact remains that you have given no Scripture that even hints that the rapture will occur after the Tribulation and therefore your "religion" is man-made, is in direct contradiction to the Word of God, demonic, and something you love enough to reject Jesus Christ for.
You are exposed, and you are finished.