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Those who are not ready and the dead wicked ones will not be in this group. We discover here a certain order of events to happen. What will happen first and what will follow after. Some conclude from reading in Matthew We will go through some Biblical examples to find the order of events when Christ returns. Jesus refers to the time of Noah and Lot in Matthew We read in Genesis7: The Lord commanded them to go into the ark, as the Lord also had commanded Noah to build an ark.
Then 7 days later the flood came and the ones outside the ark, left behind, perished in the floodwaters. This is what Jesus confirms in both scripture passages of Matthew 24 and Luke 17; the people were living it up until the day that Noah entered into the ark and they knew it not until the flood came and took them all away. Some read into Matthew The Greek word for took is from airo not from lambano as in vs. The contextual meaning is also the opposite.
Here it means to take away, to lift up for destruction, for death. This is in harmony with Luke The people of that time saw, visibly, Noah and his family and the animals going into the ark. They, Noah and his family and the animals, were taken first. The same happened with Lot. The angels came to Lot in Sodom.
People saw these angels. Lot was told to go out and warn the people. The next day Lot and his wife and daughters were taken out of Sodom. Then came the fire from heaven for Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed those who were left behind. Jesus refers to this in Luke The people were living it up, But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. We read in Genesis In terms of Matthew and Luke, we may say they were taken.
other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” Matthew , Early this year the Christian blockbuster movie . But what did He mean when He said that some would be taken--and some would be left? For ages prophecy teachers have offered contradictory explanations of.
We will now look at some parables of Jesus in regard to His coming. The wise ones, ready for the coming of the Bridegroom went in first. The foolish ones were left behind and arrived before a closed door. The sheep are mentioned first to be put on the right side, and then follow the goats. John records a similar order of events written in his book The Revelation of Jesus Christ. Here again the saved are taken first and what is left goes into perdition.
Also in Revelation 19 it first deals with the ones called to the marriage supper of the Lamb, and then in vs. We have one parable where it looks like that the events will be in reverse. Then the reapers will gather first the tares and bind them together in bundles to burn them, but the wheat will be gathered in my barn. Some mayconclude from this parable that the wicked will be dealt with before the righteous are taken into heaven. But the reading does not indicate that the burning of the tares will take place immediately.
If my reading and understanding is correct it means that the tares are bundled together for the purpose of being burned. All these translations indicate that the tares will be bundled together to be burned at a future time, not immediately. The wheat is brought in or taken into the barn first.
In the barn of safety before the burning of the tares takes place. It seems to be clear that this is the correct order of events at the time of the coming of the Son of Man. Those who are ready will be taken first and then the ones left, to perish. Jesus sent the lepers to the priests at the temple. Jesus knew that sending the lepers would upset the priests. You see, no person had ever been healed from leprosy and then presented themselves before the priests.
The health of the lepers proved that Jesus had the power to heal. The priests knew that the Prophet Isaiah said that the messiah would heal the sick. Jesus used healing as a sign to prove that he was the Messiah. This was his message to John the Baptist. After the lepers showed themselves to the priests Jesus was confronted by the Pharisees in Jerusalem. The Pharisees were a sect of religious leaders. So Jesus was in Jerusalem when the Pharisees challenged his authority. Jesus answered the Pharisees in Luke There is a day coming that will bring a terrible time of judgment for Israel.
Things will be the worst in the city of Jerusalem. Folks in Jerusalem will be going about their lives as usual. But then all of a sudden something terrible will happen. Jerusalem will be attacked by the Antichrist and his army. Half the people will be taken captive. One person will be taken and another will remain.
Praise you the Lord. This correlates to the seventh trumpet of Revelation which of course precedes the seven bowls of God's actual wrath, now that Satan's short time is done Rev Two women will be grinding at the mill: Three and a half years after this invasion Jesus will return to defend Jerusalem. In each case, those who were left perished.
Jesus warns the people in Jerusalem not to return to their homes! Obviously they will be alerted to some sort of eminent threat. They have been warned by the presence of the Antichrist in the temple and by his plundering army. They will be tempted to return to their homes in order to retrieve their personal belongings.
Jesus warns them to not go home! Jesus warns the citizens of Jerusalem and Judea not to go home because danger awaits them there. If they return to their houses they will be killed, abused, or taken captive. Does the Bible tell us about a day when the homes in Jerusalem will be in jeopardy, a day also when one out of two people will be taken away? The homes will be robbed, and the women will be raped. One out of two people will be taken away as slaves! This invasion of Jerusalem will happen halfway through the seven year long Tribulation period.
It will begin on the day that the Antichrist sits in the temple 2Th 2: Three and a half years after this invasion Jesus will return to defend Jerusalem.
Antiochus ordered his soldiers to kill people in their homes. Half of the people who survived were taken away as slaves.
The future Antichrist will attack Jerusalem in much the same way. Raging like a wild animal, he set out from Egypt and took Jerusalem by storm. He ordered his soldiers to cut down without mercy those whom they met and to slay those who took refuge in their houses. There was a massacre of young and old, a killing of women and children, a slaughter of virgins and infants. In the space of three days, eighty thousand were lost, forty thousand meeting a violent death, and the same number being sold into slavery. Meanwhile away from home, two men will be standing in the field. One will be taken away as a slave and the other man will be left in the field.
In this way one half of the people in Jerusalem will be taken away as slaves just as Zechariah At the start of the Great Tribulation the Antichrist will invade Jerusalem and his army will go from home to home taking every other person prisoner. In that way one half of all Jews found in Jerusalem will be taken away as slaves. The other half will suffer through the Great Tribulation inside of the city see the end of Zechariah Permanent link to this article: October 25, at 6: Thanks for this article to me a lot of the above verses appear to describing the AD70 events. Though I am not a preterist.
Where is the key informationen that these passages point to a future Event? Thank you for your kind response. October 25, at 8: The fall of Satan from heaven to Earth, and the revealing of the Antichrist. Those two events did not happen before Rome destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD. June 18, at 8: I think you are right on with Turkey and Iran and what you are saying with Syria.
June 22, at 2: Revelation says that when Satan is cast out of heaven that he will have a short time. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea!
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