Is the rapture a false teaching Yes, and No. The pretrib rapture teaching is False. However the teaching that the living will meet the Lord in the air at His post trib 2nd coming is absolutely true.
It doesn't matter if you are aware of it being true or not. Everyone prophesy in part and know in part, but when He appears, the truth shall be known.
Jesus made a promise.
John 14:1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2In 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. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 5Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Where He is now.. that is where we shall be.. the Kingdom of God.. as in the House of the Lord. The analogy of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb is that the traditional honeymoon is seven weeks for the bride and bridegroom to know one another intimately. The call is to be watching and leaning on Jesus to keep us from falling and to present us faultless as His righeousness as in the faith in the Son of God is our wedding garment towards His glory.
Matthew 13: 33Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
This singular parable is the hidden clue to the hidden mystery.
We have the initiation of the fulfillment of the Gospel being presented by which the Old Testament saints were resurrected after Jesus was since He is the First Fruit. Matthew 7:13-27 & Luke 13:24-30 spoke of the promise of the supper by which followers will partake in with the Old testament sainst so we know that the resurrection of the saints from the Old Testament is only a part of the first harvest as those He brings with Him at the pre-tribulation rapture event will eat with the saints of the Old Testament.
Then you have the harvest at the end of the great tribulation.
Then you have a harvest at the end of the milleniel reign of Christ.
Three harvests that shall make up the Kingdom of Heaven. Verse 23 speaks of two events... the rapture as in the first fruit at His appearing and then the coming when He sets up His kingdom on earth.
1 Corinthians 15:20But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 24Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
Then verse 24 refers to the end of the milleniel reign of Christ. By His grace only do I read Matthew 13:33 as the sneak peak at the whole parameter of the events to be unfolding to His glory.
So take note of the three watches below and how only the first one has a supper and how we are to watch... letting our faith shine over what Christ has done for us in making us His and not serve anything else in his name that would be contrary to what we are to bear witness of.
Luke 12: 35Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
One thing is written that Jesus declared that the scriptures cannot be broken as they are also written to be fulfilled.
John 10:34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? 35If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
John 19: 35And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. 36For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. 37And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
So those that are ready and abiding in Him will be taken Home to His glory, otherwise...
Psalm 125: 2As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. 3For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity. 4Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.
But as it is, due to the falling away of the faith, many foolish virgins and the prodigal sons will be scourged so that they may be partakers of His holiness during the great tribulation for just as Jesus taught excommunication... He will do it when judgment falls on the House of God first...as it must.
Those weeping and gnashing of teeth are different from those that did receive the mark of the beast.
Matthew 22:10So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. 11And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14For many are called, but few are chosen.
The called is in reference towards the believers as not all will be ready.
That is why God shall wipe the tears from the eyes of those that come out of the great tribulation to get them past their loss of their first inheritance.
By His grace, I hope He has convey the necessity of abiding in Him and trusting Him to have us ready to go because only He can cause the increase for anyone into receiving this "talent" the Lord has shared with me.... in which I give thanks for in Jesus' name. Amen.
