REF: BRUCE WARNER POST (7 APRIL 2012) - RAPTURE NOT IN MATTHEW 24 - WRONG



MR. WARNER, THE VERSES YOU HAVE QUOTED ARE ALL RELATED TO THE TRIBULATION

TIMELINE. THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE ALWAYS REFERS TO ISRAEL, AND YOU HAVE

TO CONSIDER THE AUDIENCE THAT IS BEING SPOKEN TO REGARDING THE TRIBULATION

PERIOD.  JESUS WAS SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO A JEWISH AUDIENCE ABOUT THEIR EVENTUAL

SALVATION AT THE END.  IT IS THIS GENERATION OF JEWS YET TO RECEIVE SALVATION

THAT WILL NOT PASS AWAY UNTIL ALL THESE THINGS HAVE TAKEN PLACE.  IN LUKE 21,

IT IS THEIR REDEMPTION THAT IS DRAWING NIGH.  WE, WHO HAVE BEEN RAPTURED, WILL

BE LONG GONE BY THE TIME ALL THESE THINGS TAKE PLACE!!!  I BELIEVE THAT

MIKE W. IS CORRECT IN HIS ASSERTION THAT THOSE TAKEN ARE TAKEN IN JUDGMENT.

MATT. 24:36-42 MAKES REFERENCE TO NOAH'S DAY, SAYING THAT MEN ARE IN THE

FIELD, WOMEN ARE GRINDING, ETC, IN OTHER WORDS, GOING ABOUT THEIR DAILY ROUTINE

WITHOUT A CLUE "THE FLOOD IS ABOUT TO OVERTAKE THEM", AND ONLY NOAH'S FAMILY

IS LEFT SAFE IN THE BOAT (I.E.- RAPTURED).  ALSO, THE REFERENCES IN

MATT. 24:27-28, ARE REFERRING TO CHRIST'S 2ND/FINAL COMING.  THE WORD EAGLES IS

CORRECTLY TRANSLATED "VULTURES" AND REFERS TO THE FEAST THAT GOD WILL GIVE THEM

AS REVELATION 19:17-21 TELLS US: "...COME AND GATHER TOGETHER FOR THE SUPPER

OF THE GREAT GOD....  AND ALL THE BIRDS WERE FILLED WITH THEIR FLESH."

M.A.P.