Matthew 24:29-31 is the hands down favorite passage of Pretribulation Rapture deniers, yet contained in those passages is the very proof that the Rapture of the Church and the Second Coming are two separate events The Bible gives Christians in the Church Age a clear command to study the word of God. Not only that, we are also commanded to ‘rightly divide’ what we read there. There are 3 groups in the Bible that God can be talking to any any given time, they are not the same. First you have the Jews and Israel as one group, the redeemed Church as the second group, and the unsaved gentiles which make up the rest of the gentiles ~ #1. THE 24 ELDERS ARE WEARING THEIR CROWNS BEFORE THE START OF THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE #2. THE BIBLE DOESN’T MENTION A RESURRECTION AT THE SECOND COMING BUT IT DOES FOR THE RAPTURE #3. MATTHEW 24 SAYS AT THE SECOND COMING THE WORLD WILL MOURN, BUT PAUL SAYS AT THE RAPTURE IT’S A TIME OF REJOICING #4. THE VERY NAME GIVEN TO THE TIME OF GREAT TRIBULATION IS A DIRECT REFERENCE TO NATIONAL ISRAEL AND THE JEWS #5. AT THE TIME OF THE SECOND COMING, JESUS RETURNS FROM A WEDDING #6. THE TWO OPENINGS OF THE DOOR IN HEAVEN #7. THE DAY OF THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH IS UNKNOWN WHILE THE DAY THE LORD RETURNS AT THE SECOND COMING IS MENTIONED SPECIFICALLY #8. THE LORD RETURNS TO THE EARTH WITH HIS CHURCH NOT FOR HIS CHURCH #9. THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB HAPPENS IN HEAVEN BEFORE THE SECOND COMING #10. AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH AND LOT SO SHALL IT BE IN THE END TIMES Keep looking up, Jesus is coming to get us soon! Thanks Sis! Blessings, I love it when anyone talks Rapture! TR #9 the Marriage Supper of the Lamb ... I’ve heard both debates some feel it occurs in heaven and others believe it happens on the restored earth before the Millennium period begins. I think they use the theory that the guests (O.T saints) have to have their new glorified body so they can join us eating. Just wondering which view is correct? Or is this considered still a mystery? :feedback So I suppose the mortals will eat the same things as we immortals do. That would not be surprising since Jesus, the Immortal, ate all manner of things including fish, after the Resurrection. Heavenly bodies must have digestive systems, which would be functional beginning to end I'd guess. I hope it's a wedding feast and not a wedding fast. Immortal bodies might lack a digestive system altogether, as food may only be for the palate alone. It is an immoral body after all! Just as we have been told and speculated that fallen fruit simply vanishes. TR
