A. Separate rapture does not teach that the bride of Christ can be lost, nor does it teach that those Christians, who had to pass through Tribulation and could not be received at first rapture, would not be raptured at the last trumpet resurrection and rapture. Nor does separate rapture say the bride of Christ is only raptured at first rapture, for surely some overcome in the Tribulation period and there are those who overcame in the past 6000 years who would be raptured at the last trumpet who were not martyred-thus, they too are included in the bride of Christ to reign in the 1000 years. I am sure these words are extremely confusing to anyone who reads them unless they know separate rapture. The popular views will dull your mind.Originally Posted by gracethroughfaith.com
The wrath specifically is the bowls which take place at the 7th trumpet in the last 24 months of the 7 year Tribulation. The last trumpet rapture and resurrection take place before that. There is the wrath of Satan which comes against believers and the wrath of God which does not come against believers in the same time.
Your two daughters if they do not overcometh, they shall pass through the Tribulation, and be grateful, because they are given yet another opportunity to overcometh even as martyrs for Christ in the Tribulation. But it is the hope of the Church to be received at the first rapture if you are accounted worthy for being prayerful (Luke 21.36), watchful (Matt. 24.42) and keeping the Word of His patience (Rev. 3.10). If your daughters are truly saved, then they can never lose eternal life and are promised the new city and new earth, so have no worries, but be filled with joy. However, do understand God requires accountability for Christians; hence, the 1000 year reign of Christ unto rewards for overcomer believers is provided over the nations of earth.
Rev. 19.7 Who is this “wife” of the Lamb? It cannot be the church for the following reasons:
(1) The great multitude spoken of in 19.1 includes the saved among the children of Israel as well as from among the nations. The church is definitely included. Since it is the great multitude who proclaims the words found in 19.7, the church must therefore be included among those who make such a proclamation. And hence the wife must point to someone else.
(2) In the parable of the ten virgins (Matt. 25.1-13), only the five wise virgins (and therefore not all who are in the church, for notice that all ten are virgins) are privileged to attend the marriage feast.
(3) This wife of the Lamb is different from the bride in Paul’s epistles. For she whom Paul speaks of is clothed with Christ, whereas the wife here is clothed with her own righteousnesses. In Paul’s epistles the church as a whole is viewed as the bride of Christ. In Revelation, the church is considered according to her components, therefore the responsibility of the church before God is stressed. In Paul’s epistles the church is accepted in Christ, but in Revelation the church is accepted in her works. In Paul’s epistles the church in totality belongs to Christ, while in Revelation she is divided into the saved and the overcomers.
This wife of the Lamb is none other than the New Jerusalem (21.9,10). God is now in His holy temple, so that the voices of praise from the great multitude come also from the temple. During the millennial kingdom the overcomers shall be kings in the city and priests in the temple. But the temple shall gradually lose its prominence until it totally disappears, for God and the Lamb will be the temple in New Jerusalem in the new heaven and the new earth.
Of the church, some (for example, the five wise virgins) will attend the marriage feast, while some (for example, the five foolish virgins) will not be able to attend the marriage feast.
Some object that rapture is part of redemption, that since redemption is according to grace, rapture cannot be based on the concept of worthiness. In reply, it needs to be pointed out that while the act of changing (see 1 Cor. 15.51-52) is indeed according to grace, the act of being taken (rapture) is according to works. Otherwise, you have antinomianism, and you can be as lazy and slothful as you like without consequences. Be grateful to God there are consequences for Christians, though we can't lose eternal life.
Since God does not divide the body of Christ by I of Cephas and I of Apollos denominations, any denom that says it is the bride and nobody else is, they are themselves lost and deceived.
There are no rewards in the new city and new earth. Rewards are done away with at that time. Don't think you can have a better eternal life than someone else. Rewards are only for the 1000 year reign of Christ with His overcomer believers, and just as there are first fruits and harbingers and advanced parties in every sphere of life, there are also in the timing of rapture and who shall be raptured when. Enoch was raptured, and Noah went through the flood. Elijah was taken, Elisha was left. Jesus was raptured, the 12 disciples were left. And so too is it true for the first rapture and condition for it. It is because of this firstfruits in rapture that causes Satan to react. The Holy Spirit has put on my heart that those who deny this do so because it allows you to remain in the flesh as though in the spirit to buy their products or live like they do.
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