douggg

Sorry, but you don't know the difference between escape from and endurance through. I did not say anything about avoiding trials and testing, Christians will have while in this world. The verses in Luke 21:34-36 are talking about escaping the time of trouble of the great tribulation to come upon the whole world like a snare. 1Thessalonians5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. In 2Thessalonians2:3-4, the transgression of desolation, ToD act by the Antichrist begins the day the Lord, the day of Christ. 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; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. The rapture/resurrection event - anytime between today and the ToD act. The false messianic age. The world saying peace and safety.

Because Jesus preceded how to escape the day of the snare with the parable of the fig tree generation in Luke 21:29-33 ; which Jesus also respoke about the parabable of the fig tree generation in Matthew 24:32-35 when the disciples overnighted on the Mt. of Olive - after just describing the great tribulation and His Return in Matthew 24:15-31. Please note: Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Then in Matthew 24, following the parable of the fig tree generation just like in Luke 21:34-36, Jesus gave the same way to escape, by watching, to be living as He said. Matthew 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. 45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

Like Revelation Man, how many countless times I have heard that. What you are describing is an endurance through it, not an escape to avoid it.

In a blink, in the twinkling of an eye, them who are watching for Jesus to come to receive them unto Himself, will be changed, and immediately ascend from the earth, to join together with the resurrected asleep in Christ, to go to heaven with Him - escaping the snare that will come upon all who dwell on the earth. The snare will be when the Antichrist goes into the temple, sits, claims to be God... something totally unexpected. Why totally unexpected? Because there is so much unawareness in the world about the end times bible prophecies.

Luke 21: 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. The above verses indicate the rapture will be before the great tribulation. The ones who by the grace of God are raptured from this earth escape. Them who are not raptured, will face the great tribulation. I named my rapture timing view after the "anytime" in verse 34. Anytime between now and the transgression of desolation act by the Antichrist.

one liner sequence of events: Pre-70th week: 1. little horn becomes leader of a ten leader european coalition. 2. Gog/Magog takes place and Gog's army destroyed 3. the little horn moves his EU army into the middle east as peace keepers. 4. little horn is anointed the king of Israel messiah, making him the Antichrist. 70th week: 1. confirmation of the Mt. Sinai covenant, day 1, 70th week. 2. a false messianic age 3. the transgression of desolation act 4. antichrist killed and brought back to life to become the beast 5. the abomination of desolation set up 6. the great tribulation and tribulation of those days 7. the sign of the Son of man in heaven 8. armies gather at Armageddon 45 days to make war on Jesus 9. Jesus returns, and destroys those armies.

one liner sequence of events: Pre-70th week: 1. little horn becomes leader of a ten leader european coalition. 2. Gog/Magog takes place and Gog's army destroyed 3. the little horn moves his EU army into the middle east as peace keepers. 4. little horn is anointed the king of Israel messiah, making him the Antichrist. 70th week: 1. confirmation of the Mt. Sinai covenant, day 1, 70th week. 2. a false messianic age 3. the transgression of desolation act 4. antichrist killed and brought back to life to become the beast 5. the abomination of desolation set up 6. the great tribulation and tribulation of those days 7. the sign of the Son of man in heaven 8. armies gather at Armageddon 45 days to make war on Jesus 9. Jesus returns, and destroys those armies.

The third woe (as announced by the 7th trumpet) is the time/times/half time that Satan will have left after being cast down to earth from the 2nd heaven (the cosmos), that woe noted in Revelation 12:12. Anytime rapture view - anytime between now and the ToD act - could be pre-70th week (the pre-trib view). Or maybe not. But before the ToD act.

The sign of the son of man in heaven takes place at the sixth seal near the end of the 7 years. The 45 days is the time that the kings of the earth will gather their armies at Armageddon to make war on Jesus and to take half of Jerusalem as hostages (Zechariah 14:2) in hopes of keeping Jesus from executing Judgement on them. Regarding the sixth seal event, visualize if you can... ... the beast and the false prophet standing on the temple mount in the evening, as another group of martyers are slain. Then they notice the sun begins to darkened, and as a result the moon does not reflect the light of the sun. When the sun has completely darkened black as sackcloth made from hair, the moon becomes as blood, i.e. turns a dark red, sagging like blood over its surface. Then the heavens part, and the stars move aside, and appear to fall to the earth as they disappear over the horizon. And then the world sees Jesus before the throne of God sickle in hand (from Revelation 14). What do you think the evil men of the world are going to think at that time? What is the message they will be getting?

No, the trump of God in regards to the resurrection/rapture will be the voice of Jesus saying come up hither (here). Associated with Jesus's action, the signal for Him to do so, will be immediately preceded in heaven by a quick series of 7 trumpets sounding one rapidly after another, to produce an effect kinda like.... Reveille below. When the last note is sounded, that of the last trumpet, Jesus will descend from heaven and with a shout, the voice of the archangel, being the highest messenger of God, and say to the dead in Christ, their decayed bodies to come forth out of their graves and rejoined with their souls which Jesus will bring with Him; and to the living in Christ, the soul stirring cry will immediately transform the living in Christ also to incorruptible bodies. Joined in unison to meet the Lord in the air. To forever be with the Lord. Differently, the 7 angels sounding their trumpets are judgements on the people of the earth. Those trumpets will be over an extended period of time.

Revelation 11 indicates the two witnesses will be testifying in Jerusalem.