~ JESUS IS THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE ~ Rev 6:12-7:17 Sixth Seal Rapture of All Christians Scripture clearly indicates that there is only going to be one rapture and that it will happen during the great tribulation described in Revelation. Sixth Seal Rapture Comparing Matthew and Revelation clarifies the timing of the rapture to happen during the great tribulation and after the sixth seal has been opened. Please note that all the verses in Matthew (Mt 24:21-31) are in sequence. The verses from Revelation are taken from the fifth seal (Rev 6:9-11), from the sixth seal (Rev 6:12-7:17), and a concise description of the beast and the false prophet (Rev 13:11-18, 19:19-20). THE GREAT TRIBULATION Mt 24:21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. Mt 24:22 If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. Rev 6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. Rev 6:10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” Rev 6:11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed. ANTICHRIST AND THE FALSE PROPHET Mt 24:23 At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. Mt 24:24 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible. Mt 24:25 See, I have told you ahead of time. Mt 24:26 “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the desert,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. Rev 13:11 Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. Rev 13:12 He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. Rev 13:13 And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. Rev 13:14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. Rev 13:15 He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. Rev 13:16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, Rev 13:17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. Rev 13:18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man’s number. His number is 666. Rev 19:19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. Rev 19:20 But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. Mt 24:27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Mt 24:28 Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather. The appearance of the true messiah will come suddenly like lightning from above. Vultures on the other hand circle slowly around a dead body (or a false prophet) found upon the earth. SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS (after the tribulation) Mt 24:29 “Immediately after the distress of those days “ ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ Rev 6:12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, Rev 6:13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WHOLE WORLD Mt 24:30 “At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. Rev 6:14 The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Rev 6:15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. Rev 6:16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! Rev 6:17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?” THE SIMULTANEOUS RAPTURE OF ALL CHRISTIANS Mt 24:31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. Rev 7:9 After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. Rev 7:10 And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God,who sits on the throne,and to the Lamb.” Rev 7:11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, Rev 7:12 saying: “Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!” Rev 7:13 Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?” Rev 7:14 I answered, “Sir, you know.” And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. CONCLUSION Mercifully Christians will never have to endure the 7 trumpets and the 7 bowls of God’s wrath. However It is clear that after the rapture there will be a select group of Jewish male Christians (the 144,000) who will remain on earth during the 7 trumpets and that God will also provide them supernatural protection during this awful time of judgment. It would be tragic for an unbeliever to wake up one day and look up just after the heavens have disappeared with a roar and seeing only Jesus sitting on his throne and then hearing the trumpets of God sounding forth one by one while the wrath of God is poured out upon the earth with the knowledge that the opportunity for true repentance has just expired. Christians need to have zeal in carrying the Gospel to the end of the earth and loving one another until Jesus returns. The second great lie commonly taught today is that people can be saved after the rapture. This is plainly false. The purpose of the 7 trumpets is for God to judge the dominion of Satan. And the purpose of the 7 bowls of God’s wrath is to judge those who have allowed themselves to be branded with the mark of the beast. After Jesus appears and becomes visible to all those who dwell upon the earth they will instantly also lose the opportunity to have faith in Him. The only thing that remains for these unbelievers is face the terrible wrath of God. That is why today is the day of salvation. Ro 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. Ro 1:17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Heb 3:7 So, as the Holy Spirit says:“Today, if you hear his voice, Heb 3:8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, Heb 3:9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did. Heb 3:10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ Heb 3:11 So I declared on oath in my anger,‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ” Heb 3:12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. Heb 3:13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. Heb 3:14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. Heb 3:15 As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.” Heb 3:16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? Heb 3:17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? Heb 3:18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed ? Heb 3:19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. Article by youngearth
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