Many quote Revelation 3:10, suggesting the church is raptured to heaven, to escape the hour of temptation?
1.) How will the synagogue of satan worship at the churches feet, if they are raptured to heaven?
2.) Why is the church exhorted on the second coming (Behold I Come Quickly) if they are raptured to heaven?
3.) How does the church (Overcome) if they are raptured away to heaven?
As is clearly seen, the claim this represents a pre-trib rapture is false.
Revelation 3:9-12KJV
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
As seen below, the church will escape the (Hour Of Temptation) seen in Rev 3:10 during the tribulation, that will come upon the earth, the instruction is to enter the dwelling/home and close the door, just like the passover in Egypt
Isaiah 26:20-21KJV
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
1.) How will the synagogue of satan worship at the churches feet, if they are raptured to heaven?
2.) Why is the church exhorted on the second coming (Behold I Come Quickly) if they are raptured to heaven?
3.) How does the church (Overcome) if they are raptured away to heaven?
As is clearly seen, the claim this represents a pre-trib rapture is false.
Revelation 3:9-12KJV
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
As seen below, the church will escape the (Hour Of Temptation) seen in Rev 3:10 during the tribulation, that will come upon the earth, the instruction is to enter the dwelling/home and close the door, just like the passover in Egypt
Isaiah 26:20-21KJV
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.