Just the name antichrist renders pretribulationism obsolete...
Let's say all the Christians raptures out together with the resurrected believers in their glorified bodies, before the antichrist starts the great tribulation...
Why would the antichrist then be called antichrist, if there is no Christians around during his reign?
It's because Christians gets raptured together with the resurrected believers in their glorified bodies after the great tribulational reign of the antichrist.
Pretribbers kindly take a reality check in advance, before you have to take it in great distress, without being prepared with faith from God above to last, through what will be coming.
Revelation 13 (ESV)
10If anyone is to be taken captive,
to captivity he goes;
if anyone is to be slain with the sword,
with the sword must he be slain.
Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
Your excuses for not Believing in the Rapture, are Ridiculous and Laughable.
HE IS CREATOR OF EVERYTHING THAT IS:
Isaiah 43:7 (HCSB)
7 everyone called by My name and created for My glory. I have formed him; indeed, I have made him.”
Colossians 1:16-19 (HCSB)
16 For everything was created by Him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities— all things have been created through Him and for Him.
17 He is before all things, and by Him all things hold together.
18 He is also the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He might come to have first place in everything.
19 For God was pleased ⌊to have⌋ all His fullness dwell in Him,
Romans 1:20-22 (HCSB)
20 For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse.
21 For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools
HE IS BOTH KING OF THE CHRISTIANS AS WELL AS THE JEWS.
Zechariah 14:9 (HCSB)
9 On that day Yahweh will become King
over all the earth—Yahweh alone, and His name alone.
Matthew 2:1-2 (ASV)
1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, Wise-men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,
2 Where is he that is
born King of the Jews? for we saw his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Matthew 27:37 (HCSB)
37 Above His head they put up the charge against Him in writing:
THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Malachi 3:6 (HCSB)
6 “Because
I, Yahweh, have not changed,
you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
WHO IS OR ARE THE ANTICHRISTS?
1 John 2:22-23 (HCSB)
22 Who is the liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Messiah?
This one is the antichrist: the one who denies the Father and the Son.
23 No one who denies the Son can have the Father; he who confesses the Son has the Father as well.
1 John 2:18 (HCSB)
18 Children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard, “Antichrist is coming,” even now many antichrists have come. We know from this that it is the last hour.
2 Thessalonians 2:5-10 (NIV)
5 Don't you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things?
6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.
7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders,
10 and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
2 Peter 3:8-9 (HCSB)
8 Dear friends, don’t let this one thing escape you: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.
9 The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
HE IS 180 degrees the OPPOSITE OF CHRIST! AND specifically it will be one who is the leader of the revived Roman Empire, that make a seven year, so-called, Peace Treaty with ISRAEL
WHO WILL BE TAKEN TO HEAVEN ? ? ?
Only Born Again Believers.
John 3:2-7 (HCSB)
2 This man came to Him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him.”
3 Jesus replied,
“I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4 “But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”
5 Jesus answered,
“I assure you: Unless someone is born of water {natural birth} and the Spirit {Spiritual birth or Baptism,
is what HE is referring to}, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6
Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7
Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again.
1 Corinthians 12:13 (HCSB)
13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit
into one body—
whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
YES, that is the BAPTISM THAT SAVES. The Holy Spirit immerses US into the Spiritual Body of Jesus Christ.
Matthew 24:40-44 (HCSB)
40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one left.
41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one left.
42 Therefore be alert, since you don’t know what day your Lord is coming.
43 But know this: If the homeowner had known what time the thief was coming, he would have stayed alert and not let his house be broken into.
44 This is why you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
NOT everyone who claims to be a Christian, really are. If this is Accurate, and I think it is, 50% will be left behind, because they are not truly Born Again.
ONLY THOSE BELIEVERS WHO ARE BORN AGAIN WILL BE TAKEN TO THE WEDDING OF THE LAMB, IN THE RAPTURE.