Re: "THE 'WRATH OF GOD' IS AN 'ACT OF GOD'...IT IS NOT TRIBULATION"
That's nice, Bruce, but that's not the only thing the
Bible has to say about the period of time that includes the Great
Tribulation. You seem very eager to have the church go through the
first 3.5 years of the 70th week of God's dealings with national
Israel. That still doesn't make any logical sense, but i understand why
you have to avoid addressing that in order to maintain your belief in
the church going through 3.5 of the 7 years of God's wrath being poured
out during the 70th week. The 70th week is pretty clearly articulated
as being a time of God's dealing with the unbelievers and the spiritual
renewal of Israel. It has nothing to do with the church. And God's
chosen means for setting things aright includes using the schemes of
man against them during the first 3.5 years leading up to the time of
greatest catastrophes. Yet all of it is God's judgment and wrath and
all of it is for the unbelievers and national Israel to go through, not
the church.
If we don't approach Scripture with your mid-trib presupposition, and
instead let the text speak for itself, it is much clearer that the 70th
week has nothing to do with the church.
God bless.