From: Marilyn Agee
Re: Ed (16 Aug 2005)
"Don't let anyone deceive you. 10 virgins."
Hi:
> > the 5 virgins left behind are denied by Jesus. They asked to open the door but Jesus said "I don't know you". Do you think Jesus will open the door for them again in the future?
The door will get opened. Rev. 3:20 says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."
The word "doors" is plural in the Fig-Tree Parable of Mt. 24:32-34. Door represents a Rapture. In Rev. 3:8, Jesus said, "behold, I have set before thee an OPEN DOOR." That's the first Rapture. Doors, plural, represent the two Raptures.
There are two Raptures, the Pre-Trib Rapture and the Pre-Wrath Rapture. They happen at the first trump of God (I Thess. 4:16) and at the "last trump" (I Cor. 15:51,52).
The Pre-Trib saints are seen in Heaven in Rev. 5:8-10. It says, "saints. And they sung a NEW SONG, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God KINGS AND PRIESTS: and we shall reign on (over) the earth."
The Pre-Wrath saints are seen in Heaven in Rev. 7 and 14.
Rev. 7:14-16 tells us who they are. It says, "These are they which CAME OUT OF GREAT TRIBULATION (the second half of the 7-year Tribulation), and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and SERVE HIM DAY AND NIGHT IN HIS TEMPLE: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat." The 144,000 Israelites are in this group.
Rev. 14:4,5 says of the 144,000, "These are they which were not defiled with women; for THEY ARE VIRGINS. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile: for THEY ARE WITHOUT FAULT BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD."
The Pre-Trib saints are the wise virgins. They are Philadelphians, before whom is set the "OPEN DOOR" (Rev. 3:8). At the time of the first Rapture, the 144,000, plus a great multitude that no man can number (Rev. 7:9), are foolish virgins that get cut off and left behind.
In the Preview of the first Rapture in Rev. 1, Jesus is seen in Heaven with "a sharp twoedged sword" coming out of his mouth. He has this sword to cut off the foolish virgins.
Luke 12:46 says, "The lord of that servant (the unwise one) will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder (lit., cut him off), and will appoint him his portion (the shortened Tribulation) WITH THE UNBELIEVERS."
Mt. 24:51 adds, "And shall cut him (the evil servant) asunder, and appoint him his portion (the shortened Tribulation) with the hypocrites (pretenders): there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
We must be CALLED, CHOSEN AND FAITHFUL. Rev. 17:14 says, "he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful."
Mat 22:8-14 says, "Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW! ARE CHOSEN."
On the Day of the Lord, before God's wrath hits Earth at noon (Zeph. 2,3-5), the Pre-Wrath Rapture will take place. Every believer will be in Heaven receiving his rewards when the asteroids of Rev. 8:8,10 impact Earth.
Rev. 11:15-19 says, "the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall REIGN (it's his Coronation Day, the first day of the Millennium) for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art (at the Pre-Wrath Rapture), and wast (at the First Advent), and art to come (7 months later at the Second Advent); because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. And the nations were angry (Gog's army is attacking Israel), and THY WRATH IS COME, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged (AT THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST), and that thou shouldest GIVE REWARD U! NTO THY SERVANTS the prophets, and to the saints, AND THEM THAT FEAR THY NAME, SMALL AND GREAT; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament (with its two stone tablets): and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail" (when one of the two asteroids hits the Mediterranean Sea, (Zeph. 2:3-5).
On the Day of the Lord (Tishri 1, the Feast of Trumpets), the Pre-Trib saints will be gathered from one end of Heaven to the other. Mt. 24:31 says, "he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of HEAVEN to the other".
At the same time, the Tribulation saints are gathered from EARTH. Mark 13:27 says, "And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the EARTH to the uttermost part of HEAVEN."
At that time, all saints are called to the "GENERAL ASSEMBLY" (KJV) in Heaven. It is Christ's Coronation Day, the day of the Marriage of the Lamb, and the Judgment Seat of Christ.
Panegurei, translated "assembly", means a festal assembly (Thayer). It is talking about the Feast of Trumpets. Heb. 12:22,23 (NAB) says, "you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in FESTAL GATHERING, and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect" (following the Second Rapture, as in I Cor. 15:51,52).
> > Don't let anyone deceive you by saying that even after the Rapture there will be a chance left to be saved. After the Rapture, the door is closed and will NOT open again.
> > After the door of the Ark of Noah was closed, was the door open again? No. Everyone who did not enter the Ark while it was open, perished by the Judgment of God.The first Rapture is as the days of Noah. His wife was safe with him in the Ark.
The second Rapture is as the days of Lot. His wife didn't make it. "Luke 17:29 says, "the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all." It will be the same way after the Pre-Wrath Rapture. The wrath of God will hit Earth.the same day.
Gen. 7:17,18 says, "the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters."
In the days of Noah, the Ark was floated free of the ground within the first 40 days. Forty days after Cheshvan 17 is Kislev 28, 2005. In 2006, the 40th day will be Kislev 27. Hanukkah begins Kislev 25.
That reminds me of Haggai 2:18,19. It says, "Consider (siym, rehearse; lebab, understanding) now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month (Kislev 24), even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it. Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you." We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. I wonder if the Pre-Trib Rapture will be on on the Eve of Hannukah.
> > When Jesus returns he will gather his elect and you'd BETTER be ready for that rapture.
You think the Rapture will be on the day of the Second Advent. That can't be, for all the saints come back with Christ at that time. Rev. 19:14 says, "And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean." Zech 14:5 says, the LORD my God shall come, and ALL THE SAINTS WITH THEE." All the saints have to be caught up to Heaven by the time of the Judgment Seat of Christ. All rewards are given that day to the saints, "small and great" (Rev. 11:18). That is Tishri 1, seven months (Eze. 39:12,13) before the Second Advent on Nisan 1 (Eze. 29:17,21; Hosea 6:3; Joel 2:23).
> > If anyone says you can still be saved after the rapture, do not believe him. That is different from the scripture.
Then how does the "great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people and tongues" (Rev. 7:9) get saved? They come out of the Great Tribulation. That follows the Pre-Trib Rapture of Rev. 4:1.
All Israel will be saved in a day, the day that God's wrath is poured out. Isa. 66:8 says, "Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children."
> > There won't be any rapture unless Jesus returns. Nobody will gather anyone before Jesus himself returns to gather his elect. The only rapture will happen in the Day of the Lord, the day Jesus returns.
The Rapture is not the same as the Second Advent, when Jesus puts his feet on the Mt. of Olives (Zech. 14:4). We meet him in the air. 1Th 4:17 says, "Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord IN THE AIR: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."
As I understand it, the Pre-Trib Rapture (Rev. 4:1) will be before the Day of the Lord, which is the Day of God's Wrath at the end of the shortened Tribulation. The Pre-Wrath Rapture will be before noon (Zeph. 2:3-5) on the Day of the Lord, and there will be another 7 months (Eze 39:12,13) before the Second Advent.
Agape, Marilyn Agee
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