Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

The people who are saying the vaccine is some kind of "mark of the beast" are the same paranoid people who said that the government gave people Polio from the vaccine, or experimented on people without their knowing it, or that denied the official report that Oswald was the lone killer of JFK, or the ones who claimed 9/11 was an inside job. They are the ones who for years were telling us that the Government was aware of UFO's and was not telling us or that the weather balloon at Roswell was a coverup, or that the government was studying how to militarize the weather, or that if they chipped you they could read it from space, or that the government poisoned alcohol during prohibition.

They probably didn't think Iraq had WMD's, or that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. We are talking about tin foil hat conspiracy theorists who think that Covid19 was made in a bioweapons lab, or that Covid19 stands for Certificate of Vaccination ID, A.I.

I bet they even question whether January 6th was worse than 9/11 or whether Texas requiring people to have ID to vote is worse than the Civil War.

This is based on Dana Coverstone dreams from 3 months ago. Stunning how something that seemed bizarre 3 months ago is unfolding in front of our eyes.

The Bible talks repeatedly of an attack from the North. Now we can see very clearly why this must be a reference to Russia which is Claiming control of the North Sea where the North Pole is.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-hunters-track-inhabitants-not-fauci-vaccine/

This is exactly what Dana Coverstone saw in his "Specialist" dream.

What is the happiest day on the Christian Calendar?

Tu B’Av happiest day on Jewish calendar and comes six days after the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. Why? This may be the story behind the rapture, this day has been overlooked because it isn't one of the three yearly festivals where everyone must appear before the Lord. Now remember these things were done as examples for us in the church, they are types and shadows. This is not talking about "our" happiest day but rather the Jews who have the Old Covenant, their happiest day. Still it will be a type and shadow of our happiest day.

Passover and feast of unleavened bread concluding with the feast of firstfruit has been completed by the Lord Jesus during His death, and resurrection.

Shavuot this is the festival where the Torah was given, but that was not until Yom Kippur, during the 3rd month we see Moses, a type of Christ, ascend the mountain, so this may have been fulfilled on the ascension day.

Pentecost -- Feast of new wine is 50 days after Shavuot. For two thousand years we may have confused the account of Pentecost with Shavuot, but it makes more sense that the New Testament age begins with the feast of new wine, just consider the Lord's parable about putting new wine into new wineskins.

9th of Av -- this is a day of crying perpetually. Look into the history of this day and it has clearly been a day of crying for the Jews with at least six very big events taking place on this day. They were faithless, God brought them to the good land, they listened to the evil report and then God cursed them that they would all die in the wilderness. According to Jewish folklore every year after that on the 9th of Av they would dig a grave and sleep in it and a number of them would die that night.

15th of Av -- A full moon, and therefore also a sabbath day. This is the happiest day of the year and so we should discuss the story (and we will) but right now notice this is the next feast on the calendar, all the others have been fulfilled.

After this we have the Feast of Trumpets which alerts you that the 10 days of awe begins and it seems this was fulfilled in 2017.

Ten days later (which in Daniel's timeline would be 10 years later) we have Yom Kippur which was also the happiest day of the year (tied with 15th of Av). Yom Kippur is the day of atonement, it is a day of judgement, and it is a day of rejoicing for those whose names are written in the book of life. Marriage ceremony is likened to a "Yom Kippur". So in many ways this is reminiscent of the wedding and our coming redemption.

So we have two days on the calendar that are called the "happiest day" and yet the best day for a wedding is the 15th of Av. In the same way I think there are two raptures, both are the "happiest day" but the best one (for the wedding) would be the first one.

We also have the "day of crying" in juxtaposition with the happiest day. Think of the six days from the 9th of Av to the 15th of Av like the six thousand years of human history. A time of sleeping in graves wondering if tonight is the judgement. Then on the full moon, the moon is shining bright you realize the curse has been reversed!

So then what is the "happiest day" on the calendar for Christians? We also have two, Christmas and Resurrection Sunday. What about our 9th of Av, what is that? Perhaps when the church decided to marry the world and merge their pagan worship with our worship?

What is Tu B'Av?

Yom Kippur is the day of our redemption, a day of pardon, a day of atonement. The day they were forgiven for the sin of the golden calf. The day they got the 2nd set of stone tablets. The rapture is the "redemption of our body" and when referring to the end of the age the Lord says to look up, not because the rapture is near but because our redemption draweth near.

For the same reason Tu B'Av is a type of our redemption, a mini redemption. Marriage is supposed to be a mini Yom Kippur, and Tu B'Av is the most auspicious day for a wedding.

It was the day on which tribes were permitted to marry within one another. What is the rapture, but the day on which the Lord Jesus is permitted to take a bride from every nation and tongue. Again, just like Yom Kippur this points to our redemption (what the Lord has cleansed don’t call unclean). In the US right now they are trying to race bait and accuse people of being racists and no one is buying it. Instead it is close to 80% of the country is standing up to this.

This was the day when the cursed in the wilderness stopped dying. The 9th of Av was a day designated as a day of crying for all future generations. Each year they would dig graves and enter into the graves on the 9th of Av and some would die. Then at the end of the 40 years they all get up from the graves and don’t die. They thought they had miscalculated the date but by the time they come to the full moon they know that the curse had ended. Only then was intimate communication with the lord restored. (dead in christ rise first). What are we seeing in the US? Year after year they would elect politicians who would promise to do all sorts of things only to renege on the promises, it was as though one after the other they all died. But now you see the people standing up, not because of Trump but because of God. The fellowship is restored and they are not going to tolerate these politicians feigning to die on the job anymore.

The day that the king removed the roadblocks that Jeroboam put to keep the Israelites from going to Jerusalem. A split in the nation. (rapture of Philadelphia mends the split). I was watching the news and they were talking about all the different things the politicians had done to prevent the election audits as "roadblocks" and yet they are all being taken down.

The way this holiday is celebrated is the virgins go out at night and dance in a circle wearing white dresses that they have borrowed. The idea is they all wear the same thing so that those who are poorer are not shamed. They will sing this is our God in whom we hoped. Pointing with the finger, the ring finger. Put the righteous in a circle and point. This is a picture of the Lord rapturing the saints dressed in white to a shelter during the tribulation. The first day of the week is the saddest day of the year, but by the sixth day it is the happiest. It is like the wedding in Cana where Jesus turned the water to wine, or like the Psalms where our mourning has been turned to dancing. It is a day established for matchmaking. The pretribulation rapture is likened to Jacob marrying Leah. The term "weak eyes" indicates she had blue eyes, in other words a gentile. Leah was an arranged marriage whereas Rachel was a marriage based on love. We see a record of this day when the Tribe of Benjamin had committed heinous sins, they were almost wiped out, and then the other tribes told them to go grab a bride for themselves on this night. So it was a day of atonement, a day of forgiveness, a day of hope and love.

Why would God choose this day, it must be that this day was established as a special day. Hence not a coincidence that these things occurred on this day. the world was created on 25th of Elul, whereas Man was created on 1st of Tishri (Rosh Hashanah). So then 25th of Elul is considered by the Jews as the day of Kingship because you can’t have a king without a kingdom. 40 days before the 25th of Elul it was already decreed who this baby will marry. Tu B’Av is 40 days before the 25th of Elul. The idea is that prior to God creating the heavens and the earth He decreed that this creation, this "baby", would marry His son. So then, that explains why this is such a big day in human history, it is a big day in God's history.

So then Tu'B Av is a day on which God declares that this baby which is to be born will marry His Son to rule and reign with Him. For most of us this is strange but common place among royalty. From the day of your birth you are destined to marry the prince. So this is a day prior to the wedding in which we are declaring this baby will be married to Jesus yet at the same time it is a wedding day? It is both.

A living sacrifice, acceptable and well pleasing to God

The one story that is incredibly hard to understand is this one about the tribe of Benjamin snatching these virgins for their brides. Surely you would not liken the Lord Jesus to this very shameful tribe. So then how would this tie into the rapture?

Let's consider the story the tribe of Benjamin is guilty of a heinous crime, the other tribes join together to destroy Benjamin and suffer great losses themselves in this fight but in the end they prevail and Benjamin is almost wiped off the map. They then realize how horrible it would be for one of the tribes to be obliterated. So then they counsel these ones to snatch these girls up as their brides.

This is the story of Joseph being sold into slavery, only in this case all these girls are "Joseph" and just as Joseph said that God meant it for good to save people alive, so also these girls can say the same thing. The nation of Israel has "offered these girls up as a sacrifice". So it is also like the Lord's crucifixion where the high priest said "it is better for one man to die than that the whole nation be destroyed".

So think about the rapture of Philadelphia, the rest of the Christians who are left behind are so horrible they are described as "the synagogue of Satan". Benjamin and the other tribes do not depict the Lord, they depict the rest of the Christians who are left behind whereas these girls are in the likeness and image of Jesus Christ, savior of the world. They are a living sacrifice, acceptable and well pleasing to God.

He makes a number of interesting points, especially showing how the Temple is already destroyed when talking to Matthew and Mark, but it isn't when talking to Luke (1:07:00)

These stories help explain what it means that the Lord would "come as a thief in the night".

When they were dying in the wilderness they would dig a grave and lie in it, in the morning they would see that the Lord "came as a thief in the night". That was not a good thing, that was a curse.

These girls who were dancing on Tu B'Av and were snatched away, it was like being taken by a thief in the night.

When they listened to the evil report they robbed the entire generation of Israelites a chance to enter the Good land.

The Lord is telling us that if we are not alert, if we are not watching we will suffer the same as those who were cursed.

These stories are not biblical accounts - and to be plain with you they are more akin to witchcraft than spiritual truth.

Judges 21 -- story of Benjamin taking the daughters of Israel as wives like a thief in the Night

Numbers 13 gives the account of the spies giving the evil report and Israel crying about it.

And the account of them dying in the wilderness as a result is in Numbers 14

26 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. 28 Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me, 30 surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I [c]sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall be [d]wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. 34 After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know [e]my alienation. 35 I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

Accusing me of spreading non Biblical truths that are akin to witchcraft is slander and a lie.

You are selective and expressly refuse to be corrected. Those accounts you have given are falsely presented in your posts and then after falsely presenting the Scripture you press on into Jewish myths. There is no defence in allusions to truth and neither deliverance in pride. You have constantly refused both material and spiritual corrections in every single post I have made. Perhaps worse even than this you utilised a form of words in post #3,150 that frankly is abusive of women. It is inexcusable to assert that these women are a picture of Christ Himself. I could go on and demonstrate in detail directly from the Scripture just how false your presentations are in this regard - but what would be the point? You would refuse it with zeal.

I have read your posts and concluded there was nothing of value in them. That is my conclusion, I only have so much time in a day and when I find something of value I appreciate it, and when I find it is a waste of time I move on.

That is your portion - and so others can judge what things mean. This may well be your blog post - but you do not speak for the Father.

The Case for a Pre Tribulation rapture (1)

We have had people say that the term "rapture" is not Biblical and in this blog we defended the use, pointing out that the term "Harpazo" is Biblical and my comprehensive understanding of this term is the term "the redemption of our body".

However, one debate I have ignored up to this point is the "pre tribulation" rapture. I think the main argument against this doctrine is they equate going through the tribulation with going to the cross. So then they assume that a pre tribulation rapture is a way of teaching that you don't have to take up your cross and follow Jesus.

For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thessalonians 5:9 NIV).

Revelation 6:12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”

If we reconcile 1Thessalonians 5:9 with the book of Revelation we see that the sixth seal being opened is when "the great day of their wrath" comes referring to "him that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb". We also find the first use of the word "great" in Revelation also occurs in chapter 6 when it talks about "a great earthquake". As a result we can refer to this portion of the tribulation as "the great tribulation". The tribulation begins with the opening of the first seal with the antichrist being released and revealed, most notably by confirming the covenant with the many concerning Jerusalem, the start of the 70th week according to Daniel. The 70th week refers to a 7 year period, we often call "the tribulation" and the last half, the last 42 months or the last 3 1/2 years we call "the great tribulation". So then there is no conflict with 1Thessalonians if believers are in the tribulation prior to the opening of the sixth seal.

To be clear, even though I am persuaded that some Christians will be raptured prior to the 70th week beginning, I am not disputing with those who say some Christians will be in the tribulation. My sense is that the majority of Christians will go through the tribulation and either be martyred or raptured prior to the sixth seal being opened.

Rather, I see the Bible teaching that when the Lord comes some will be found with faith, they will be watching, they will be the faithful servants who are giving the food at the proper time. Others will be asleep and the rapture will wake them up.

The second thing we need to clear up 2Thessalonians 2:1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him The Lord's second coming and our being gathered to the Lord are two separate events. If you think the two are the same event then of course you would say that we are raptured after the tribulation because that is when the battle of Armageddon is and that is when the Lord steps down on the Mount of Olives. Now this second coming takes place after God's wrath has been poured out on the earth and on man. It is quite clear from the book of Revelation that great wrath is poured out prior to the Lord stepping down on the Mount of Olives.

So then although there is Biblical basis to say that Christians will go into the tribulation and be beheaded (5th seal) or raptured prior to the sixth seal, to say they are raptured after the sixth seal contradicts 1Thessalonians 5:9.

John 14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”

In a Jewish wedding the groom is betrothed to his bride in a ceremony where they both drink wine. Then he goes and builds a room for them to live in as part of his father's house. When he is done he comes back to get the bride and then they have the wedding ceremony. The beginning of the age was the Lord's table where we were betrothed to the Lord. The church age began with Pentecost where the promise of our covenant was given to us. During the church age Jesus is preparing a place for us and at the end of the age He will come to gather us to Himself. This is a blessed event, not a time of pouring out judgement and wrath.

1Thessalonians 4:13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

The rapture is an encouraging word. There is nothing in the Jewish marriage that would suggest the groom would put his bride through some kind of judgement and pour out his wrath on her prior to the wedding.

1Corinthians 15:
51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

This makes it very clear that the rapture is a victory for those who are faithful. So then if you are interpreting a "pre tribulation" rapture as meaning these believers will not be involved in the battle, in the struggle, then that is not true. No one will be raptured without it being a victory over sin and death. However, I would say that the church age was a 2,000 year battle and that is why those who are dead are also raptured in victory. We have two different covenants here. When the Jews rejected Jesus and crucified Him Daniel referred to that as "the Messiah being cut off". That was the end of the 69th week and there is a gap, a parenthesis of 2,000 years between the end of the 69th week and the start of the 70th week. This gap is the church age, a New covenant. This covenant is between Christ and the church and will result in Jesus getting His bride. However, this age should end prior to the 70th week starting. For some Christians they will be raised up in victory, but for some they will not be and they will still have 3 1/2 years to repent and rededicate themselves to the Lord.

All of these passages clearly refer to the rapture and do not refer to judgement or wrath.

This is the first point, there is much that happens during the Great tribulation that is not referring to Christians and happens after the rapture. Now it is definitely true that there will be believers on earth when the mark of the beast is enforced under pain of being beheaded. That is during the tribulation and many believers will be martyred then. This is the 5th seal. However, it is also clear that some believers are raptured in the twinkling of an eye. So let's be very clear, I am not saying that all Christians will be raptured or that all Christians will be raptured prior to the 70th week. Rather I am saying that there is a variety of outcomes for Christians. Some will be raptured, some will be martyred. Some will be kept from the hour of trial that falls on the earth, for some the Lord's coming will be like a thief in the night and they will be exposed as being blind and naked. Some will be watching when He comes, giving the saints the right food at the appointed time, others will be beating their fellow servants and eating and drinking with the drunkards. To be continued...

Escape -- Another word for the Pre-tribulation rapture (2)

Luke 21:36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”

We are praying that we might escape all that is about to happen. Not some of it, not the worst part of it, but all of it. However, we know that not all Christians will escape all things because some are beheaded when they refuse to take the mark of the beast.

Proverbs 11:9 With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape.

Do not be deceived, destroying your neighbor is not "fighting the good warfare". We don't fight against flesh and blood. The cancel culture is "godless". They are out to destroy their neighbor, there is no "doing unto others as you would have them do to you".

2Timothy 2:25 Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

Follow Paul's instruction and you will escape the cancel culture. Once again we see that it is not God's will that the believers fall into the trap of the devil. So while it is true that some will it is also true that some will escape. This is the basic premise of the "pre-tribulation rapture". I am not saying all will escape but that some will.

Proverbs 12:13 Evildoers are trapped by their sinful talk, and so the innocent escape trouble

Don't be troubled by what is going on, the evildoers have been trapped by their sinful talk. It is on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and on a myriad of interviews, TV shows, emails, text messages, etc. If you are innocent you will escape the trouble that is coming.

Psalm 33:16 No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength.

We saw this in WWII, Hitler appeared to have great strength in defeating France and the rest of continental Europe, it didn't save him. Japan had a huge army, it didn't save them. All of these arrogant ones boast in their strength and the size of their army, it won't save them. They think they made a mistake in WWII by overlooking the US so this time they are making sure to bring down the US first. What they are missing is God. The Lord of All will come on the clouds with His army and destroy these ones.

Psalm 124:7 We have escaped like a bird from the fowler’s snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped.

Yes, the tribulation will begin and all those on earth will be trapped in the fowler's snare. But the rapture in 2024 will be your escape from this trap (if you are still here). Once again, this "pre tribulation" rapture is not saying that some Christians will not be trapped, some will. It is not saying that some Christians will not go into the first half of the tribulation, some will. It is saying that some will be raptured before that, some will be beheaded during the tribulation, and the rest will be like birds escaping the trap at the mid point of the tribulation.

Amos 2:14 The swift will not escape, the strong will not muster their strength, and the warrior will not save his life.

Enough with the foolishness, you will not escape by investing in gold, or by buying a gun, or any of the other idiotic ideas people have. There is only one possible escape, to escape like a bird, to fly away.

Habakkuk 2:9 “Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin!

Remember the French revolution. Dr. Zelenko has released a paper today laying out the allegations that those who designed this virus in the Wuhan bioweapons lab also designed the cure. Dr. Zelenko read this paper and used that cure to treat thousands successfully. It involved HCQ and Ivermectin which they have tried to suppress from the common people. Not only so but the same doctor who did this also designed Remdesivir, the only drug that Fauci said could be used to treat Covid19. Instead of helping this drug does nothing but destroy your kidneys. He also revealed that there are hundreds of elites in the US government, in Hollywood and in the tech giants who are using this cure while at the same time suppressing the information about it and attacking anyone who speaks about it.

1Thessalonians 5:3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Or in the case of the French Revolution while people are saying "let them eat cake" destruction will come on them suddenly. There have been some very credible prophets who said that December 25th, 1991 when the USSR collapsed, that was when the world said "peace and security". The sudden destruction will come from Russia on the Great Babylon (US) and so many are nervous with the 30th anniversary of this collapse which Russia blames on the IMF.

Hebrews 12:25 See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?

Some feel that the "Pre tribulation" rapture is about avoiding the cross of Christ, others feel that if some Christians escape then all will. This verse in Hebrews makes it very clear that not all will. Some receive the word of warning and bring forth fruit worthy of repentance, others refuse Him who warns them from heaven.

The Tribulation separates the believers from the world, a further case that some believers will be raptured prior to the tribulation (3)

Jeremiah 8:20 “The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved.”

The rapture is likened to a harvest where the angels take the wheat to the barn. Jeremiah is the prophet to those who are left behind after the first rapture. Time is running out.

Proverbs 10:5 He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

Wake up, this is the summer, now is the time to gather in the crops, No one is mocking Jesus freaks right now, they might be attacking them and beating them, but everyone is taking them seriously.

Proverbs 30:25 Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;

We are ants, fine, they are giants, OK, so then time to store up our food. The light and revelation and the word is abundant.

Daniel 2:35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.

The prophet is very clear, this rock is going to strike the statue, the monument to human government and civilization and break it into pieces so that it becomes like chaff on a threshing floor. Think of that analogy, wheat is surrounded with a plant covering that is stripped off on the threshing floor. They roll over the wheat with heavy rollers that is called by the same name that we use as the root for the Tribulation. The seven year tribulation is like taking the wheat to the threshing floor and separating out the wheat from the chaff. This is a strong scriptural basis to say that believers will go through the tribulation which is designed to separate them out from the world. However, this would not be true of all believers. There is a first fruit offering that is more than one grain of barley. There are two loaves that are presented to God at Shavuot. So even though we will see the general harvest in the tribulation, that doesn't mean that all believers must go through that because after all what about the dead in Christ? There are those who during the church age were faithful to take up their cross and follow the Lord and did come out of the world and were separate unto the Lord. What would be the purpose of bringing grains of wheat that were separate from the chaff back to the threshing floor?