Hello Endoscopy,
Some of the mainstream issues regarding these eschatological views are as follows:
1. The coming wrath of God via the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments
a. Some expositors have discounted the first six seals as not belonging to God's wrath, referring to them as tribulation or Satan's wrath, with others believing that only the bowl judgments as representing the wrath of God. What they fail to understand and reject, is that it is the Lamb/Jesus who is opening the seals, which lead into the trumpets, followed by the bowl judgment. Therefore Christ is the one who is the One unleashing God's wrath, not Satan or mankind.
b. Not believing nor understanding that believers are not appointed to suffer God's coming wrath or any wrath, as revealed in 1 Thes.1:10, 5:9 and Rev.3:10.
c. Not understanding that along with meeting the righteous requirements of the law, that Jesus also took upon himself the wrath of God that all believers deserve, satisfying it completely, which is why we are not appointed to suffer it.
d. They water down God's wrath, some believing that it has already taken place applying it to historical events, with others not understanding the severity and magnitude of the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments, as well as the plagues that will be brought by the two witnesses.
e. Not understanding from scripture who God's wrath will be directed at which will be the arrogant, the proud and haughty, those who will have rejected Christ and those who continue to willfully live according to the sinful nature as revealed in Rev.9:20-21. Believers will have already received Christ and will have repented of those things and there would therefore be nothing else we could do and no reason for us to go through God's wrath. And when they say that God is going to protect the church during his wrath, it again brings us back to them not understanding the severity and magnitude of God's coming wrath.
f. Then there are some who relocate and reduce the time of God's wrath as an apologetic to those who provide scripture to the contrary and to make it fit the teaching that they have adopted, when scripture makes clear that God's wrath will take place during that entire seven year period, with Jesus returning at the end to end the age and establish his millennial kingdom.
2. Not recognizing the gathering of the church as being a separate event from the Lord's return to the earth to end the age
a. Regarding this, some interpret Matt.24:31 as the church being gathered, not realizing that according to scripture, the church will not be gathered by angels, but that when that voice says "come up here," the dead will rise on their own being transformed into their immortal and glorified bodies being caught up in the air, with the living being changed into their immortal and glorified bodies with the entire church meeting Christ in the air.
These different views are arrived at via a myriad of misinterpretations and misapplications of scripture. The gathering of the church in relation to the wrath of God is always the barrier that we cannot cross, which is the main error of the other views.
Some of the mainstream issues regarding these eschatological views are as follows:
1. The coming wrath of God via the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments
a. Some expositors have discounted the first six seals as not belonging to God's wrath, referring to them as tribulation or Satan's wrath, with others believing that only the bowl judgments as representing the wrath of God. What they fail to understand and reject, is that it is the Lamb/Jesus who is opening the seals, which lead into the trumpets, followed by the bowl judgment. Therefore Christ is the one who is the One unleashing God's wrath, not Satan or mankind.
b. Not believing nor understanding that believers are not appointed to suffer God's coming wrath or any wrath, as revealed in 1 Thes.1:10, 5:9 and Rev.3:10.
c. Not understanding that along with meeting the righteous requirements of the law, that Jesus also took upon himself the wrath of God that all believers deserve, satisfying it completely, which is why we are not appointed to suffer it.
d. They water down God's wrath, some believing that it has already taken place applying it to historical events, with others not understanding the severity and magnitude of the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments, as well as the plagues that will be brought by the two witnesses.
e. Not understanding from scripture who God's wrath will be directed at which will be the arrogant, the proud and haughty, those who will have rejected Christ and those who continue to willfully live according to the sinful nature as revealed in Rev.9:20-21. Believers will have already received Christ and will have repented of those things and there would therefore be nothing else we could do and no reason for us to go through God's wrath. And when they say that God is going to protect the church during his wrath, it again brings us back to them not understanding the severity and magnitude of God's coming wrath.
f. Then there are some who relocate and reduce the time of God's wrath as an apologetic to those who provide scripture to the contrary and to make it fit the teaching that they have adopted, when scripture makes clear that God's wrath will take place during that entire seven year period, with Jesus returning at the end to end the age and establish his millennial kingdom.
2. Not recognizing the gathering of the church as being a separate event from the Lord's return to the earth to end the age
a. Regarding this, some interpret Matt.24:31 as the church being gathered, not realizing that according to scripture, the church will not be gathered by angels, but that when that voice says "come up here," the dead will rise on their own being transformed into their immortal and glorified bodies being caught up in the air, with the living being changed into their immortal and glorified bodies with the entire church meeting Christ in the air.
These different views are arrived at via a myriad of misinterpretations and misapplications of scripture. The gathering of the church in relation to the wrath of God is always the barrier that we cannot cross, which is the main error of the other views.
Myself I adhere to the pan View. It will all pan out in the end.