... and
according to your viewpoint, neither will the vast majority of "the Church WHICH IS HIS BODY" [
having existed since the first century-Eph1:20-23]
"have any of those works" EITHER, because Revelation 20:4
b refers
solely to those BEHEADED / KILLED
during the LAST 3.5 yrs before Christ RETURNS
to the earth
[whereas 20:4
a speaks of the same persons as
in Daniel 7:22 ("and
judgment was given to the saints of the most High"); IOW,
distinct persons from those shown in 20:4
b],,,
...well then,
TOO BAD for Great Aunt Gertrude who DIED
well-before those
FINAL 3.5 years came to be... she will have to
MISS OUT!!!
[NOT!]
[not to mention what I've said before about the "WAS FOUND" word in Rev5:4
]
MY VIEWPOINT? THOSE ARE GODS WORDS NOT MINE. TAKE IT UP WITH HIM.
WHY ARE YOU ADDING other generations to the discussion? If you would like to speak about them then by all means lets do just that but DON'T PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH because you don't like the words of GOD.
The ONLY ones who will have to MISS OUT
is the pre trib rapture generation who wish to exit before the work is done. The two people who were taken to heaven were only taken ONCE THE WORK WAS DONE.
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
WHERE DOES THAT SAY HE IS GOING TO COME FOR IT BEFORE ANY TROUBLE STARTS?
THE HEAD COULD BE PERFECTED BUT YOU DON'T THINK
THE BODY SHOULD ALSO? IF THE BODY ISN'T PERFECTED LIKE HE WAS
THEN HOW IS HE TO PRESENT IT TO HIMSELF WITH OUT SPOT OR BLEMISH?
IF HE COMES IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, HOW MANY OF 'THE BODY' DO YOU THINK WOULD BE WITHOUT SIN? LIKE LIGHTENING THERE ISN'T A MOMENT TO REPENT. THINK ABOUT IT. IF LIGHTNING STRUCK RIGHT THIS MINUTE WOULD YOU BE LOVING YOUR BROTHER AS YOU DO YOURSELF? WOULD THERE BE ANY FALSE TEACHINGS GOING ON?
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
PRE TRIB WHERE?
Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord
unto all pleasing, being fruitful
in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power,
unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet
to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
13 Who
hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son:
14 In whom we have
redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16
For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him:
17 And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.
18 And He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell;
20 And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled
22 In the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight:
23
If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
THE HOPE OF THE GOSPEL IS THE SAME FOR ALL GENERATIONS, THE LAST ONE INCLUDED. NOT ONE OF THEM EVER WERE OFFERED A 'GET OUT OF TRIBULATION' FREE RIDE. SO NEITHER IS THIS ONE BECAUSE GOD IS NOT A RESPECTER OF PERSONS.
IF IT WERE POSSIBLE YOU WOULD SHOW ME ONE VERSE IN WHICH THE 'CHURCH' IS TAKEN TO HEAVEN PRE TRIB.