Pre-trib or Not? Well, it has to be pre-trib because the removal of the Bride is key to the beginning of Tribulation: Out with the bride–in with the antichrist–One taken–one left. One with oil the other not–Some on the ark–some not….To NOT believe in Pre-trib rapture is to “downplay” the importance and significance of the Bride of CHRIST to CHRIST. WHY IS SHE SO IMPORTANT–ENOUGH TO HOLD BACK TRIBULATION? Because she has a FULL oil lamp–which means she is the ONE who holds the FULLNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT–she’s a key player and she will be found worthy to escape…
Let’s look at this closer: The Moment Day Turns Into Night
In previous posts I have shared that the Hebrew meaning of “twinkling of an eye” phrase means the moment in time that the day becomes night…so this understanding brings new powerful meaning to this scripture:
1 Corinthians 15:52 (KJV): In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
The Hebrew phrase “Twinkling of an eye” literally means at the distinct singular moment every day that the day turns into night according to Hebrew custom and this is why the LORD uses this phrase in this scripture for its deeper meaning.
So we see that the moment the bride of CHRIST is removed in the next moment “day turns into night” for those left behind on the earth….so at that moment of the removal of the bride from the earth to safety
(Isaiah 60:8 (KJV): Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?)
(Isaiah 26:20 (KJV): 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.)
The next moment the earth becomes dark–like day to night. And why? Because the bride is gone from the earth… Now just what does this mean? Well it means that the “Restrainer” the HOLY SPIRIT who “operates full in the FULL OIL LAMPS of the bride of CHRIST (note HE does not operate fully in the virgins without full oil lamps–those left behind–the lukewarm church) is still in the earth–BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS OMNIPRESENT–HOWEVER, the humans “FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT” are out of the earth–and so that is when in the “twinkling of the eye” day will turn to night for the whole earth: the left behind lukewarm (shoulda–woulda–coulda) church and evil men who rejected CHRIST. Then at that moment that the bride of CHRIST is out of the earth then the man of sin who is the son of perdition will then be able to be revealed to the earth as the antichrist–because with the bride removed who operated under the full direction of the HOLY SPIRIT then the antichrist will move into action and the world will suffer under his direction…
Don’t waste any time–pursue CHRIST as your only hope–don’t be like the lukewarm church that wants to be like Lot’s wife turning back to horses and chariots and running back to Egypt for answers… There is an answer for a world that is falling apart under war and rumors of war–pestilences–roaring seas–cascading mountains–cascading finances–rising floods and rising iniquity–HIS Name is Wonderful–HIS Name is CHRIST.
