In pre-tribulational rapture teaching, is Jesus supposed to come as a 'thief in the night' at the rapture, the second coming, or both?
I don't see multiple returns of Christ in scripture, so I can't make the distinction since I don't see it in scripture. But what does pre-trib eschatology say about this?
I don't see multiple returns of Christ in scripture, so I can't make the distinction since I don't see it in scripture. But what does pre-trib eschatology say about this?
The Jewish nation are to be converted when Christ comes, "they will look upon Him and mourn for Him ... etc" so for them He will come as a thief in the night ... we the church are not in darkness that He should come as a thief in the night.
What will come upon us like trap snapping shut is the end-times persecution and the appearance of Antichrist aka as the great tribulation.
This is what we are warned to watch and stay awake for.
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