John Mercer(12 June 2006)
"Rapture"


These questions need to be answered that I have provided so that I can believe in the Rapture, so please help.

Revelation 7 9After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10and crying out with a loud voice, saying, Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” 11All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12saying: Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom, Thanksgiving and honor and power and might, Be to our God forever and ever.     Amen.”

13Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where

Did they come from?14And I said to him, “Sir, you know.  So he said to me, “These are the ones who

Come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the

Lamb.  15Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple.

And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them.  Most believing Christians believes that there is going to

Be either Pre-Tribulations Rapture or Mid-Tribulations Rapture or both.   In the above Scripture of Revelation 7, John saw a great multitude in which no one could number all dressed in white robes before the throne and the Lamb, they were praising GOD and the Lamb.  Now one of the elders asked John who are these that are arrayed in white robes and where did they come from?  And John said sir you know, and the elder said to John these are the ones that came out of the Great Tribulations and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.  

The only ones their around the throne and the Lamb was the ones that came out of the Great Tribulations. 

There is no sign of the Pre-Tribulations Raptured or Mid-Tribulations Raptured Saints around the throne and the Lamb.

My questions are where are the Pre-Tribulations Raptured Saints and the Mid-Tribulations Raptured Saints?                    

Did Jesus take them off some where and leave them?    If so where?

Shouldn’t the Pre-Tribulations Raptured and the Mid-Tribulations Raptured Saints be around the throne worshiping GOD and the Lamb with the Tribulation Saints?

Most people believe that when Jesus returns that all the dead will be raised from the grave. 

Where are the ones that came out of the graves?

Are they with the Pre-Tribulations Raptured Saints and Mid-Tribulations Raptured Saints?     If so where are they? 

Are the Pre-Tribulations Raptured Saints and Mid-Tribulations Raptured Saints, and the ones that are supposed to come up out of the grave at Christ return, are they so special that Jesus sent them off alone to do other work that no one else could do?       If so where? 

The bible says in Revelation 20:4-6   4And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness of Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.  Verse 4 is telling us that the only ones that will be with Jesus during the millennial reign are the ones that came out of the Great Tribulations, they were beheaded for standing up for Jesus and for the word of GOD, they did not accept the mark of the beast upon their forehead or their hand.

Where are the Pre Raptured Saints that were supposed to be taken out before the Tribulations?

Where are the Mid-Tribulation Saints?

Where are the ones that came out of the grave at Christ return?    

I think the Pre-Tribulations Raptured and the Mid-Tribulations Raptured Saints should be around the throne worshiping GOD and the Lamb with the Tribulation Saints.     

5But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 

Verse 5 here is saying that all the other dead, (the ones that are in the grave) will not live again until after the thousand year reign.  6Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. Thank You.              In Christ.                     John