Dear dispensationalist: There will be no pre-tribulation rapture. The parable of the wheat and the tares clearly coincides with Matthew 24:40-41 (Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left.) It is the reprobate who will be snatched away and burned in judgment. Only those who are in Christ will inherit the new Earth: Matthew 13:24-30 NKJV Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares [weeds, or those who have rejected the Messiah] and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat [or believers] into my barn.” Those who are taken away in reference to the story of Noah were also not believers but the unrighteous. Matthew 24:38-39 NKJV For as in the days before the flood, they [the unbelievers] were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all [everybody but Noah and his family; unbelievers] away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. In 1 Corinthians 15:50-54 Paul says we shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the LAST trumpet (clearly referring to the church to whom 1 Corinthians was written). How can the LAST trumpet be 7 years before the trump in Matthew 24:29-31, as pre-trib dispensationalists assert, which says the elect will be gathered at the sound of a great trump, and Rev. 11:15-18 where the trumpet of the seventh angel declares the time for the dead to be judged? Was Paul wrong when he said it would be the last trumpet in1 Cor. 15? Of course not. All of these verses refer to one event that coincides with the Second Coming of Christ.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 06:17:03 +0000
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