Tag: Rapture

The Rapture vs The Second Coming

Rapture

  • Translation of believers
  • Translated saints go to heaven
  • Earth not judged
  • Imminent, any moment, signless
  • Not in the Old Testament
  • Believers Only
  • Before the Day of Wrath
  • No reference to Satan
  • He come for His own
  • He come in the air
  • He claims His Bride
  • Only His own see Him
  • Great Tribulation begins
  • Church believers only

Second Coming

  • No translation involved
  • Translated saints return to earth
  • Earth judged
  • Follows definite predicted signs
  • Predicted in the Old Testament
  • Affects all men on the earth
  • Concludes the Day of Wrath
  • Satan bound
  • He come with His own
  • He come to the earth
  • He comes with His Bride
  • Every eye shall see Him
  • Millennium begins
  • OT Saved raised later

Pre-Tribulation Rapture

2 Thessalonians 2:2

The Thessalonians were being told that the day of the Lord had started in a letter forged as being by Paul.  Paul had taught many things to the Thessalonian church within the 1st three weeks of its inception, including the doctrine of the rapture.  The Thessalonians were upset that the day of the Lord was at hand and they missed the rapture.  The Thessalonians would have no reason to be upset if they had any other rapture view but pre-trib.  Paul was pre-trib.

Dispensational Model of the Harpazo

Genesis 19:9-11

  • Lot was righteous – 2 Peter 2:4-9
  • Righteousness stems from God
    • a biblical axiom
  • Lot is used as a picture of those who are in the Lord’s church
    • deemed righteous by God because of the work of Christ
  • Lot was pulled through the door and then the blindness’ came (strong delusions – 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12), just as we will be pulled through the door before 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12.  The door is Jesus – John 10:9-10
  • God was with the two angels – Genesis 19:18

Dispensational Model of the Harpazo

Genesis 38:13-26

Judah = the Jewish people

Tamar = the gentile led church

signet = identity

bracelets = tribe

staff = authority

  • Judah possessed the signet, bracelets, and staff to pledge, which represents the person and authority of Christ
  • Judah bargained away the signet, bracelets, and staff for the price of a harlot, just as the Jews sold off Christ at His 1st coming in their spiritual harlotry
  • The signet, bracelets, and staff were given as a guarantee of payment, just as the Holy Spirit is given as a guarantee of our eternal life
  • The signet, bracelets, and staff being returned are a symbol of Christ’s authority transfer back to the Jews, representing their opportunity during The Great Tribulation
  • Judah knew Tamar again no more, just as Christ’s dealing with Israel and the Church do not overlap