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This calls for wisdom: let anyone with the understanding
calculate the number of the beast, for it is the
number of a person. Its number is
six hundred
and sixty-six. - Book of Revelation 13:16-18
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Step Three: Armageddon
From the Hebrew word (har megido), used in Revelation 16:16, referring to Mount
Megiddo, "the place of the last battle at the Day of Judgement".
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Step One:
The Rapture
The sudden removal of Christian elect from the Earth before the full embodiment
of Antichrist and then returning with Jesus Christ to claim His kingdom from
Satan.
Step Two: The number of the Beast
Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and
slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or
sell who does not have the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of
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to collect both the dead and alive members of
the Christian Church and relocate them in
heaven, to allow the Millennial Kingdom to begin
on earth and marks the end of the Great
Parenthesis.
The Rapture was first proposed in
1827 by John Nelson Darby as a solution to the
expectancy that Jesus could return at any
moment, and prophecies that would take a long
duration.. A second proposed rapture will occur
at the end of the tribulation for the Jews who
have converted to Christianity during the
tribulation.
Pre-Tribulation
The Pre-Tribulation rapture is the view that the
rapture will occur before the beginning of the
Tribulation period. It has become popular in
recent years around the world and through the
work of dispensational preachers such as Dr. J.
Dwight Pentecost, Tim LaHaye, Dr. J. Vernon
McGee, Chuck Smith, Dr. Chuck Missler, Dr. Jack
Van Impe, Dr. Grant Jeffrey, and Dr. David
Jeremiah. [35]
Jehovah's Witnesses became a mid-tribulation
rapture using the scripture "the days would be
cut short" implying tribulation was stopped cut
short and continues later. Thus World War I was
the tribulation that will begin again when it
continues before Armageddon. During this time,
when the ruling body was freed from prison in
1918 (as 3.5 years), the tribulation was cut
short by that act, and immediate rapture of
almost 130,000 (dead) sleeping Christians since
the death of Jesus awoke in heaven (including
the 12 apostles). Over 14,000 were then yet
remaining and at death they change instantly. By
personal choice, these persons take communion
while on earth. Thus it is mid-tribulation
during decades of no tribulation because it is a
post-tribulation since 1918, but a
pre-tribulation before Armageddon. Eventually,
the 1914-1918 tribulation was eliminated in the
claims that the rapture from 1918 onward is
pre-tribulation because it precedes the only
tribulation, the one that will be cut short to
survive.
Mid-Tribulation
A minority view amongst dispensationalists is
that the rapture happens half-way through the
seven-year Tribulation. This view is supported
by the 7th chapter of Daniel (Verse 25), where
it says the saints will be given over to
tribulation for "time, times, and half a time,"
which is interpreted to mean 3.5 years. That is,
half way through the seven years of the
tribulation. At this juncture, the Antichrist
commits the "abomination of desolation" by
desecrating the Jerusalem temple (to be built on
what is now called The Temple Mount.)
Prewrath
The prewrath rapture view is that the
tribulation of the church begins toward the
latter part of the seven-year period, being
Daniel's 70th week, when the Antichrist is
revealed in the temple. The great Tribulation,
according to this view, is of the Antichrist
against the church at this time. The duration of
this tribulation is unknown, except that it
begins and ends during the second half of
Daniel's 70th week. References from Matthew 24,
Mark 13, and Luke 21 are used as evidence that
this tribulation will be cut short by the coming
of Christ to deliver the righteous by means of
rapture, which will occur after the sixth seal
is opened and the Sun is darkened and the moon
is turned to blood. However, by this point many
Christians will have been slaughtered as martyrs
by the Antichrist. After the rapture comes God's
seventh-seal wrath of trumpets and bowls (a.k.a.
"the Day of the Lord"). The Day of the Lord's
wrath against the ungodly will follow for the
remainder of the seven years.
Non-Dispensationalist Post-Tribulation
The post-tribulation rapture (or Historic
Premillenialist) view places the rapture at the
end of the Tribulation period, based on passages
such as 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, seen as quoting
the words of "the Lord" as indicated in Matthew
24:29-31 (see table below). From this
perspective, Christian believers will be on the
earth as witnesses to Christ during the entire
seven years, until the last day of the
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The
Rapture is a concept in Christianity relating to the
return of Jesus. The primary passage describing the
rapture is 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, in which Paul cites
"the word of the Lord" about the return of Jesus to
gather his saints.
Scriptural basis
The following New Testament verses are often used to
support the teaching about the rapture (quoted here from
the NKJV):
* "For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that
we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord
will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the
Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.
And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are
alive and remain shall be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we
shall always be with the Lord." (1 Thessalonians
4:15–17)
* "In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were
not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place
for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will
come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am,
there you may be also." (John 14:2–3)
* "For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also
eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who
will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed
to His glorious body, according to the working by which
He is able even to subdue all things to Himself."
(Philippians 3:20-21)
* "And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we
shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man. Now this
I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit
incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 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. For this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal
must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has
put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on
immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O
Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your
victory?" (1 Corinthians 15:49–55)
* "Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask
you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either
by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as
though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive
you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the
falling away comes first, and the man of sin is
revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts
himself above all that is called God or that is
worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God,
showing himself that he is God. Do you not remember that
when I was still with you I told you these things? And
now you know what is restraining, that he may be
revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness
is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so
until He is taken out of the way." (2 Thessalonians
2:1-7)
* "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the
angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As
it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming
of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood,
people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in
marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they
knew nothing about what would happen until the flood
came and took them all away. That is how it will be at
the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the
field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women
will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and
the other left." (Matthew 24:36-41 [NIV])
Timing - Dispensationalist
Dispensationalists view the rapture as a 'mid'
or pretribulation secret coming of Jesus Christ
distinct to Dispensationalism, not to be
confused with the subsequent Second Coming of Jesus
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