Why you yelling, bro? Amplitude is no substitute for evidence. You've obviously not read through the OP, so I'll recap for you how Jesus, the "rapture thief" robs you Jesuit Futurists of the ridiculous idea of a future 7 year tribulation period:,
1) You Jesuit Futurists claim when Jesus comes back as a thief, the "7 years of tribulation" begin.
Naw, man, you're still conflating two distinct issues.
1) "the Day of the Lord" ARRIVES as "a thief
IN THE NIGHT" [i.e. the TIME PERIOD, its ARRIVAL] (
being distinct from...)
2) "Behold,
*I* come
AS A THIEF." [i.e. Jesus HIMSELF]... at the Armageddon point in time (i.e. Rev19 / Rev16:14-16 / Rev20:5 / Rev19:19,21); NO "
IN THE NIGHT" phrase is used with regard to JESUS HIMSELF and His PERSONAL "RETURN" to the earth (Rev19 / Armageddon)
These are not the same point in time.
2) Peter says when the Lord comes as a thief, the entire world is going to make WWII Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like a cover shot for Better Homes and Gardens, in which there won't be 7 more years of ANYTHING, let alone a tribulation.
No. Peter is speaking of the entire "DOTL" time period (which SPANS a GREAT DURATION OF TIME...
"IN WHICH" MUCH will transpire, even 1) the 7-yr trib unfolding
upon the earth, 2) His "RETURN"
to the earth, 3) the entire 1000-yr reign
on/over the earth. ALL THAT [="the Day of the Lord" time period]). He's telling the manner of its ARRIVAL (just like Paul refers to its ARRIVAL in 1Th5:2-3 [as an INITIAL "birth PANG [SINGULAR]" just like Jesus spoke of in His Olivet Discourse: it is NOT "ONE and DONE" when it comes to the BPs!!
]) AND Peter also tells what all takes place WITHIN it (MUCH... during a great SPANS of TIME! [again, may the reader be sure to read both chpts of Isaiah 34-35 and not merely 34:
4 wrenched from its overall context])
3) Jesuit can't come back "TWO TIMES" as a thief because all will be counting down 7 years to the moment.
Remember, He "come BACK" (i.e. "RETURNS"
to the earth) ONCE (at Armageddon time-slot). But the rapture occurs BEFORE "the DOTL [TIME-PERIOD]" can commence to unfold
upon the earth; and what FOLLOWS that EVENT [/our Rapture] is: the ARRIVAL of the man of sin IN HIS TIME [and ALL he will DO over the course of SOME
TIME, as we see in Scripture], the INITIAL "birth PANG [SINGULAR, 1Th5:
2-3]"
and many more of THOSE [just like Jesus said!], and God SEND[ing] ['them'/certain ones] "GREAT DELUSION, that they should
believe the LIE/the FALSE/the
pseudei" [entailing some
time], parallel with passages I've pointed out in past posts. There will be those who will come to believe the TRUTH just as there will be those who come to believe THE LIE, [FOLLOWING "our Rapture"] during those trib yrs (I pointed that out also, those passages).
What I think you are saying is that, after "our Rapture" (under the idea that it is "pre-trib"--which I believe Scripture shows) that people will be able to simply COUNT DOWN to His RETURN to the earth (Rev19 / Armageddon) and
ta-da! there's no way they can be "caught off guard" by [His Personal RETURN] "AS A THIEF" (Rev16:15-16).
But when you read the passages that parallel this time-slot (His "RETURN"
to the earth), this is exactly the exhortation to them: "watch
and be ready" (
compare Matt24:42-47,48-51 with Lk12:36-37,38,40,42-44,45-48 "when he will
RETURN FROM the wedding"
THEN the meal, i.e the earthly MK age [these folks are still on the earth, in this context, and He's returning
there [at that point] as an ALREADY-WED "Bridegroom" [these WISE and UNWISE are
NOT "the BRIDE/WIFE [SINGULAR]"--He's not coming to MARRY them, though the WISE of them [i.e. 'saved persons'] WILL ENTER the
earthly MK age with [accompanying] Him).
See the enlarged verses ^ ... where it is saying what it does about the "EVIL servant"... and what "he shall say in his heart" and how they will be "cut him asunder" and "appoint his portion with the hypocrites / unbelievers"... "weeping and gnashing of teeth" (i.e. NOT be ENTERING the MK age... like the "BLESSED" and the "RIGHTEOUS" will do, at that point in time [recall, this is
not the "Rapture" point in time being spoken of, but their entrance into the promised and prophesied EARTHLY Millennial Kingdom (or not entering)]).
These passages state, "if the goodman of the house had known what hour [or, in what watch] the thief would come, he would have watched, and not suffered his house to be broken up [/through]." Not ALL will have that negative experience. SOME will have obeyed the imperative / command to "watch
and be ready" (again, this is
not a "Rapture" passage). THOSE (at the end of the trib [CONTEXT]) who will have done so ['watch
and be ready'] will be "BLESSED" [i.e. ENTER the earthly MK age] (not be "broken up / broken through," see
).
Some will heed God's word (just as in Noah's day), and others will not (just as in Noah's day).
[this
CONTEXT is "His Second Coming
TO THE EARTH Rev19/Armageddon (NOT "our Rapture")--not everyone will have heeded God's Word--not everyone will come to the end being the "BLESSED" / the "RIGHTEOUS" and enter the
earthly MK age (the MEAL [G347]) to enjoy and experience it. No. Some will disregard His word. And some will "believe the LIE/the FALSE/the
pseudei"... and all of this FOLLOWS "our Rapture," which was way back BEFORE the INITIAL "birth PANG [SINGULAR]" falls upon the earth... and we can see the 24 elders saying "hast redeemed
US out-from..." way back at Rev5:9... BEFORE the first SEAL is opened (and Rev1:1 [comp.1:19c / 4:1 / (7:3)] says that time period (that ASPECT of the DOTL time period, the "IN THE NIGHT" aspect [7-yrs]) must "come to pass
IN QUICKNESS [NOUN]"...
NOT transpire
over some 2000 years, as the Historicist has it
]
This is what Scripture itself informs us about how things will go down. In more than one place.
I've endeavored to point them out in past posts.