Pre Tribulation Rapture!

As we are busy going through Revelation in the Bible in our Church studies, it occurred to me to do a blog on why I believe in the Pre Tribulation Rapture. This is my own belief and it is not a salvation issue. In other words, if you want to believe in a pre tribulation rapture, a mid tribulation rapture or a post tribulation rapture, it will not alter your salvation if you are a child of GOD. And by that I mean a follower of Christ who has admitted that you are a sinner, has believed in Jesus Christ as the Redeemer and has confessed this truth with your mouth.

Here we are, then,  and this is why I believe that we will be raptured before the tribulation. And, please do not shoot the messenger, all my blogs are written with love for Jesus Christ and with love for all my readers.

In this verse above Jesus was talking about this generation not passing away before these things would happen. Which is why I believe that we are living in the end of times. Taking it that Israel was born in 1948 and a generation being about 83 years, we do not have long to go.

But more importantly this verse above points to the bride of Jesus being removed so that we do not have to face the wrath of GOD.

Let us go to the next verse Jeremiah 30:7 "Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it." Here again, I believe Jeremiah is talking about the tribulation which we, the church of GOD will not be exposed to.

The next verse referred to above is Revelation 3: 10 "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth."

Again, I believe this refers to the Rapture. From which I believe we will be spared.

1 Thessalonians 110 "And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come." (The Tribulation). 
1 Thessalonians 5: 4 "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief." (The Rapture).

2 Thessalonians 2: 1 "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;"

I believe that this falling away is the Rapture. 

Why do I believe this?  It is really simple.  GOD has promised to remove our sins from us as far as East is from West. I believe that when we accept Christ as our Redeemer, GOD looks as us through Jesus. Jesus is our intercessor.  Now we are not promised lives without troubles.  But I believe that we are promised that we will not face the wrath of GOD.

Therefore, GOD will send Jesus to save us from HIS wrath before HE meters it out upon the earth.  Why else did Jesus say ? John 14:3  "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."

Throughout the Bible, Jesus and GOD kept each and every promise that they made to us.  And I believe that here Jesus is telling us that He will come to fetch us.

1 Corinthians 15:52 "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." (Raptured). 

This is why I believe in the pre tribulation Rapture.  Please feel free to comment.

Prayer:  Heavenly FATHER, no matter whether I am right or wrong about the Pre Tribulation Rapture, FATHER I thank YOU that I know that I will be raptured if that occurs during my lifetime on earth.  I thank YOU FATHER that I know and love Jesus Christ, my Lord and my Redeemer.  Come soonest FATHER to fetch your church home.  I pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay truly GOD blessed today!