End Times
EE,
I've had to spend some time thinking about your "understanding of private
interpretation" and a relation to "arrogantly flaunting one's understanding" that you charge me with doing.
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"My opinion of what the verse means:
'no prophecy was given for a private individual (but is
available for the understanding of all)'
Incorrect statement: //No possible "private interpretation" exists!!//
Correcet statement //many possible private interpretations exist, none
of them are correct//
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I agree with your conclusion that "many private interpretations exist"; but I don't think you mean that "NONE of them are correct"!
I agree your "interpretation" of the *DAY* of God's and the Lamb's wrath is correct, i.e., that it is the "appointed time" for God's wrath. This is not a "private interpretation" since it is the meaning of KAIROS, a word found only at the 7th Trumpet for the "appointed time" of God's wrath!
We must agree therefore that this is not a private interpretation. For no one can disagree that the "appointed time for God's wrath" occurs at the first sound of the 7th Trumpet!! Rev.11:15-18.
The one question for "interpretation" is whether the 7th Trump is the Last Trump! Does the Last Trump sound AFTER the great tribulation or BEFORE as you interpret? Here we have reached an impasse since you claimed the words "AFTER the great tribulation" mean "BEFORE the great tribulation".
But since that impasse you have returned by charging me with "arrogantly flaunting my understanding" of the meaning of the word *DAY* as being a single 12-Hour (or the day-part of a 24-Hour) Day.
What you fail to include is that the 7th Trumpet is not only the "appointed time" for God's wrath but also for our Resurrection (to judge the dead) AND for our Rapture (to reward the saints and prophets and all who fear God, both small and great) AND for Retribution (to destroy those who are destroying the earth"! Rev.11:18.
Here is where your view comes into play that "every interpretation that IS PRIVATE may possibly be incorrect" (which is what I think you meant).
You obviously agree the "appointed time" for God's wrath comes at the 7th Trumpet! That is the only place in Revelation where KAIROS is used
of a SINGLE time. That fact cannot classify as a "private interpretation".
But your "private interpretations" allow that the Rapture may refer to a Pre-Trib event as well as a Post-Trib event. In fact you claim that the DAY of the Rapture in Matt.24:31 occurs "before" rather than "after" the great tribulation! (Back to our impasse over whether Jesus describes a Pre or Post-Trib Rapture. That contradictory "understanding" just won't go away). So are we both being "arrogant in flaunting our interpretations"?
OR will the 7th Trumpet sound three times on the DAY of God's wrath?
On that Day, one of the (3 1/2) days after the great triblation, Jesus will "gather the elect from earth to heaven upon the 4 winds". Mark13:24,27.
The tribes of earth will see the signs in the sun, moon and stars and see the Sign of the Son of Man and will mourn "immediately after the great tribulation AND they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory". Matt.24:29-30.
"AND WITH THE SOUND OF A GREAT TRUMPET, the angels will gather His elect from the 4 winds, from one end of heaven to the other". (Here Matt.24:31 repeats that "Jesus sends the angels and gathers the elect together above" but omits the word "THEN" (which appears only in Mark) since Jesus had already sent the angels and had gathered the elect from earth to heaven ... before the tribes see the Sign of the Son of Man!!!!!
In Mark 13:27 He gathers the Elect and then men "see the Son of Man".
In Matt.24:31 He sends the angels after "the tribes of earth mourn".
At the first sound of the Last Trump, is it possible that my interpretation is correct that the "appointed time" has come for Resurrection/Rapture?!
My interpretation is that, after a short time of rejoicing in heaven, "God brings with Jesus the souls of the dead in Christ" (including the souls of the Trib-Martyrs) and, at the 2nd sound of the Last Trump, Jesus keeps His word to do His Father's will. "On an unknown day after the great tribulation, He descends from heaven, raises up every/all believers, catches up those who are alive and survive, AND gathers us from earth to heaven". I Cor.15:52; Rev.19:11-15; I Thess.4:16; Mark 13:24; I Thess. 4:13-14; John 6:38-40; I Thess.4:17; Mark 13:27; Matt.24:31.
In the process, the meeting at the Synagogue in the Sky (2 Thess.2:1) occurs after the 12 Jewish tribes of earth see the Son of Man and begin to mourn and then, upon "knowing their kingdom and redemption are near, will beg to escape all these things happening on all the face of all the earth and prevail to stand before the Son of Man" at the Hour of Trial
"coming on all mankind over the earth". Luke 21:28,31,34-36; Rev.3:10.
Jesus describes these events occurring "suddenly, unexpectedly, as a snare when He comes as a thief" with armies gathered to Armageddon! Rev.16:15.
I don't think I need to further expose your false charge that I am "arrogantly flaunting my understanding". This is a simple exposition of what I see happening on the 12-Hour-Day of the Lord during which 100 verses in the Book of Revelation will be fulfilled within six hours. See my Centerpiece. Twenty-Two Major Events from noon (Amos 8:9) to Twilight; the Day Christ becomes King and "comes with all the Saints". Zech.14:5-9; I Thess.3:13.
Mel Miller
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