Scriptural Reasons That I Do NOT Believe In Pre-Tribulation Rapture

REASONS FOR NO PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE --- SCRIPTURAL

First of all, let's get to Jude 1:14-16. In this passage, Jude quotes from the apocryphal Book of Enoch. Although this book was not included in the canon of Scripture, early church historians wrote that the church accepted it as a valid source of information. Therefore, it is plausible to conclude that Jude, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, used this prophecy of Enoch as a means of describing those false teachers who sought to lead astray believers from the true faith in Christ. For some time this passage was the chief reason for the Book of Jude's rejection form the canon of Scripture. However, by 400 AD, Jude's letter had been fully accepted by the entire church.

ALSO, the LANGUAGE of the NEW TESTAMENT was GREEK, NOT HEBREW. We do NOT HAVE the New Testament in anything but ancient GREEK. HEBREW/ARAMAIC was OLD TESTAMENT.

Now let's look at the book of Matthew.  Chapter 24:15-28 discuss the Great Tribulation, up to the point where it tells us to be ready for Christ's return. And a reminder - these are Christ's words! Matthew 24:29 - "IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION OF THOSE DAYS shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And THEN SHALL APPEAR the sign of the Son of man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and THEY SHALL GATHER TOGETHER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS, from one end of heaven to the other.

Now, let's look at MARK. ALSO Christ's words! Chapter 13. 3-13 talks about forthcoming woes. This is just before the great tribulation. 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the END, the same SHALL BE SAVED.

13:14 - 23 - The Great Tribulation. Specifically let's look at Verses 19-20: For IN those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. (20) And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: BUT FOR THE ELECT'S SAKE, WHOM HE HATH CHOSEN, HE HATH SHORTENED THE DAYS.

Now, 13:24-27 - Christ Is Coming Again! Let's read.... 13:24 But in those days, AFTER THAT TRIBULATION, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. AND THEN SHALL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN THE CLOUDS WITH GREAT POWER AND GLORY, AND THEN SHALL HE SEND HIS ANGELS, AND SHALL GATHER TOGETHER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS, FROM THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH TO THE UTTERMOST PART OF HEAVEN.

Even in Luke 21:32-33, after He has told the apostles how to "tell time", He says, "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."

What is "this generation"? The generation which lives after Jerusalem becomes a nation again. That happened in 1948.

He also says that it will be as was in the days of Noah. This refers back to "one shall be taken and the other left." Christ says in Luke 17:32 - Remember Lot's wife. Just before that he says that when the Son of man is revealed, if a man is on a housetop and his belongings are in the house, let him NOT come down to take it away, and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot's wife. Because in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken and the other shall be left. The WORD that was used in the ORIGINAL GREEK that was interpreted as SHALL BE TAKEN is "paralambano" (par-a-lam-BAN-o). This word means "to receive near; to associate oneself with; to assume an office; to learn". There will be a giving of knowledge and a bringing together (an association) among the saved, and we are to take it and not look back, lest we be like Lot's wife (turned into a pillar of salt) or like those in the days of Noah (being told the truth but refusing to hear it). It is this "TAKING" that establishes the ELECT which will be TAKEN at the ONE and ONLY RETURN OF CHRIST!

Why is it important that Christ said in Luke 21:33, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away"? Because of Revelation 21:1. "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." The word "new" is a translation of the Greek word "kainon" which means "qualitatively new", not "literally new". Many scholars believe the meaning is that Heaven and Earth will be as this heaven and this earth were at their creation.

Do we need to go ON? Jesus HIMSELF TELLS US THAT THE TRIBULATION COMES FIRST, FOLLOWED BY HIS RETURN! Who are His elect?

Determining who God's elect are is very important. This is urgently important because it is they who are the saved (Mk. 13:27). God knows who is elect are. "... God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation," Paul writes, "through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth" (2 Thes. 2:13, cf. 1 Pet. 1:2).

The elect or chosen of God are those who have believed the truth. It is "in" or "by" belief of the truth that the elect are chosen or become the elect (2 Thes. 2:13). Who says truth does not matter? Jesus is the truth or presented the truth (John 14:6). His words, truth, are spirit and life (John 6:63). We are free of the bondage of sin by believing the truth (John 8:32). We purify our souls in obeying the truth (1 Pet. 1:22), and we are to worship God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). The truth is the word of God, the one faith (Eph. 4:5). It is that system to which many rendered obedience (Acts 6:7, 13:8), and the faith has been once for all delivered (Jude 3).

The elect are those who have been set apart by the spirit. This is precisely what Paul said regarding the saved at Thessalonica (2Thes. 2:13). The Spirit sets apart or sanctifies through the truth (John 17:17). As we submit to the Spirit's teaching regarding belief, repentance, confession, baptism for the remission of sin, and growth, we are sanctified (John 8:24, Acts 17:31, Rom. 10:10, Acts 2:38, Col. 1:10).

To the elect God multiples grace and peace (1 Pet. 1:2).

I do not speak from false doctrines. If they are false, they are no more false than any other; but the doctrines of this church (Greek Orthodox) date literally to the days of the apostles. Religion is NOT dead; Religion is corrupt. Religion is the study of God's word with divinely qualified leaders, it is the worship of God according to His laws, it is the keeping His Holy days Holy. No, we are Laodecia- the lukewarm. We don't like it? Make something else fit! We don't like it? Say then that religion is dead! No, the desire for God within the soul of man is what is dead. The desire for the TRUTH OF HIS WORD!