The great tribulation is not for the church but for the house of Jacob (the Jews) and judgment time for the disobedient world. Reason it is rightly called the time of Jacob’s trouble.
Jer 30:7: Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
At that time, God will only be protecting the Jews from His wrath....
10 Reasons the Church will not be in great Tribulation
1. God has not appointed us to His wrath
The godly (righteous) are not appointed to God’s wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thess 5:9: For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ
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God has not appointed us to His wrath.
God poured His entire wrath on His only begotten son, Jesus Christ, thus we (the church) are not appointed to God’s wrath (great tribulation). The church is in Jesus Christ thus righteous and saved by Jesus Christ from God’s (father’s) wrath.
2. Church-age ends with rapture
Jesus gave birth to the church on the cross. The church came by blood and water; what comes out when a baby is born.
John 19:34: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water
Therefore a true church is not a building built with cement and bricks but a body built with blood and water.
1 John 5:5: Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is truth
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what a church is
Apostle Peter gave the first great speech of church birthday at the Pentecost; Acts 2.
Immediately after the 7 churches in the Book of Revelation, which represent the church-age, the church stops being mentioned in the Bible. Rev 4-5 reveals Rupture and the church in heaven as prophesied and seen by Apostle John. See the study of
Book of Revelation.
Apostle John, who is part of the church to be caught up, gets prophesy of the seven churches while on earth but immediately after, he is taken to heaven; imagery of rapture. It is in heaven were he sees the church (Rev 4-5) and then receives revelation of the great tribulation.
John is an apostle of the church; representing the church. He gives an account of what will happen to the church in rupture.
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne (Rev: 4:1-2)
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what will happen in rapture
After Revelation 5 there is no mention of the church. This is because the church, represented by Apostle John has been caught up into heaven for heavenly worship and it is nowhere on earth in the great tribulation but watching from heaven.
3. No mention of church in the great tribulation
In the entire great tribulation period, Rev 6-19, there is no mention of the church.
4. Genesis gospel prophecy: – the church is caught up before the great tribulation
In Genesis gospel prophecy, Enoch was caught up before the flood.
Enoch represents the church while Noah represents the Israelites (Jews). Noah sailed through the flood in an ark, as the Israelites will in times of the great tribulation but the church represented by Enoch will not be found.
Enoch means dedicated while Noah means rest and comfort
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Genesis gospel prophecy
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