The church age does end in chapter 4.
"And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
"And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
First off, if the Church was Raptured in 4:1, then John wasn't called up to heaven and shown anything. John being taken to heaven happened circa 96 AD. The "rapture" has not yet happened some ~2,000 years later so how can they be the same event? Thus either John was taken to heaven in 4:1 or the church will be, but the passage cannot be describing both events. If the Church is taken in Rev 4:1, then John never left earth and never saw anything that he could report. If John was taken in 4:1, then the passage cannot be discussing a future rapture. Indeed, if the Church was raptured then it was the church that was shown things and the Church should be the one reporting what it saw, not John. Yet, John was the one who recorded future scenes/events and not the Church.
So, take your pick. I'm going with the clear teaching that it was John taken up to heaven in the spirit and shown things. The evidence of this is the writings of the things he saw so it had to be John who went up and not the Church some 2,000 years later.
It is amazing to me how literalists think they are so pure then propose wildly unsupportable figurative meanings to literal passage to advance their false narrative of a pre-trib rapture.
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