Ed Edwards
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Actually i keep the scriputres quite straight:
Pretrib pre-mill outline of time forward:
0. church age continues <== you are here!
1. rapture/resurrection event
2. Tribulation time
3. Second Advent of Jesus event
4. literal MK=millinnial kingdom
5. new heaven & new earth
The timeline according to Matthew 24
(Mount Olivet Discourse, also Matthew 25,
Mark 13, Luke 21):
0. church age continues <== you are here!
Matthew 24:4-15
1. rapture/resurrection event
Matthew 24:31-44
2. Tribulation time
Matthew 24:21-28
3. Second Advent of Jesus event
Matthew 24:29-30)
Not mentioned in Matthew 24:
(4. literal MK=millinnial kingdom)
(5. new heaven & new earth)
The timeline according to Revelation:
0. church age continues - Rev 2-3 <== you are here!
1. rapture/resurrection event - Rev 4:1 (type)
2. Tribulation time - Rev 4:2-19:10
3. Second Advent of Jesus event - Rev 19:11-21
4. literal MK=millinnial kingdom - Rev 20:1-6
5. new heaven & new earth - Rev 20:7-22:5
The timeline according to 2 Thessalonians 2:
0. church age continues <== you are here!
(implied, until the falling away)
1. rapture/resurrection
v.1 - gathering together unto him
v.3 - falling away
2. Tribulation time
(time of the man of sin)
3. Second Advent of Jesus event
v.1 - coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
v.8
Not mentioned:
(4. literal MK=millinnial kingdom)
(5. new heaven & new earth)
BTW, I believed in the pretribulation rapture/resurrection
before i saw these three scriptures as pretrib.
So even if you can prove all three of these scriptures
in error, i'll still hope in the pretribulation rapture
as will 90% of Baptists and kindred Christians.