The main problem with your position is that you take verses and apply your own interpretation to them proclaiming them to be the only possible way to understand them. If you take the tribulation period as a whole you find that the visions John sees get progressively worse from the worlds point of view. When the Antichrist appears at the start he portrays himself as the Messiah and mimics the person of Christ offering Israel a seven year peace agreement which he breaks half way through. After this point he declares himself as God. Global worship of him begins along with a full scale campaign of persecution of Israel and Christian believers. John sees two visions one of Martyers under the throne and another of a numberless crowd of believers coming out of the tribulation.
I completely agree with everything that you wrote above, except the part about twisting scriptures to fit my own interpretation. I do and have taught the very same thing. I come to my conclusions by cross-referencing and comparing scriptures. You view it as me twisting scriptures because it doesn't match up with your positon.
According to you Gods wrath falls at the start of the tribulation. This doesnt conform to the detals given in Revelation.
The only way you can make it fit is for what Christ calls he birth pains in Matthew 24 to be lumped together with the day of the Lord.
One of the on-going problems within eschatology, are those who have coined the word "tribulation" as being separate from God's time of wrath, when in fact the tribulation is God's tribulation, not man's or Satan's. The seven years in which all this will take place, will be the fulfillment of God's seventy seven year periods that he decreed upon Israel and Jerusalem, therefore that time period is His time of wrath, better known as the day of the Lord.
As I continue to make known, Jesus is the One who is opening the Seals and is therefore responsible for the resulting fatalites, as well as the fatalities and destruction resulting from the trumpets and bowl judgments. All of the events that take place during that time period, including the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments, the plagues of the two witnesses and the beasts kingdom are all apart of the day of the Lord, the time of God's wrath. After all, those last seven years are the completion of the original seventy sevens decreed in Dan.9:24-27
As the Scripture says ''He will come in clouds and every eye shall see him and those who persecuted him'' Come Lord Jesus!
As usual, you are confusing the event of the gathering of the church, with the Lord's return to the earth to end the age. The scripture that you quoted above is from Matt.24:30 and Rev.1:7. Bot of these are in reference to the Lord's return to end the age.
The other problem associated with this is found in Matt.24:31, where because there is a great trumpet sounded, expositors pigeon whole the word "trumpet" and assign it to being the "last trumpet" of 1 Cor.15:52. Also, when the Lord sends out his angels and they gather His elect "from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other" they interpret this as the angels gathering the church. Angels do not gather the church when the dead in Christ rise and the living are changed. It is the Lord himself who calls us up where we meet him in the air.
Those that the angels gather when Christ returns to the earth to end the age, will be those great tribulation saints and Israel who will have made it through the time of God's wrath alive and in their mortal bodies. These are those who will go into the millennial period and repopulate the earth.
Gathering of the church = 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, 1 Corinthians 15:51-53
The Lord's return to the earth to end the age = Matthew 34:29-31, Revelation 1:7, Revelation 19:11-21
Gathering of the church = takes place prior to the first seal being opened, prior to God's wrath
The Lord's return to the earth to end the age = takes place after God's wrath
The church/bride is already seen in heaven receiving her fine linen at the wedding of the Lamb, which is in heaven. Then in Rev.19:14, we see the same group following Christ out of heaven and wearing the same fine linen that she will have previously received. In order to follow the Lord out of heaven, the church would already have to be in heaven.
