Alan T (9 Aug 2015)
"Why Rev.3:3 and Mat.24:36-44 is NOT the Rapture but the 2nd coming( Pt.2)"


 
In Pt.2 I want start right off with Rev.1-3 which has been a major controversial subject and used by so many as a church age address  /Rapture precedent, and to show why I believe this is in error. Look here at Rev.1:7

7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

Now This is unquestionably the 2nd coming referred to here. This should set the topic for the following letters to the churches and contextual content. Since we are not slated to be here for the tribulation this would not apply to us. Look at Rev.1:11

11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

No Book written to Israel by any on the Jewish Apostles was ever written directly to Gentiles, if that is whom people assume is being addressed here. Nor to any believers as Paul refers to as "male nor female, Jew nor Greek". All Jewish epistles are written in the understanding that the Jewish nation be saved FIRST, accepting their Messiah , and THEN go into all the world and make converts. 
Ro.11:9-13

9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:


Paul declares his legitimacy as the Gentiles Apostle. If Israel had not been set aside he could not go to them and the Jews equally, but would have to begin at Jerusalem and save the jews first.

Acts.1:8


8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.


Rev.1-3 is undoubtedly addressed to Jews scattered abroad and Gentiles pressing into their salvation specified by the Lord Jesus.


1 Pe. 1:1



1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.


Notice He says to the "elect", a reference to Israel as God's chosen people. Peter is fulfilling his commission by branching out from Jerusalem in his outreach.

Lu.24:47


47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.


Repentance for sins of the PAST, water baptism a Mandated testimony, and remission of PAST sins. This is the subject of Prophecy.

Is.49:6


 6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.


Now look at Rev.2:26


26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:


This is consistent with Jesus commandments..are these consistent with Paul's?, in this dispensation of the grace of God?


Mat.28:19-20



19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.


Those in the tribulation will be held to the standards the Jewish apostles and their converts were. And the Old Testaments Israelites that beheld God's miracles. Healings, Blind given sight, devils cast out, Prophesying, Miraculous intervention,etc. All these things have a witness and signature of God and they will be responsible for their conduct in light of all they have witnessed and received.All those that fall away will be rejected.

More in Part 3.


Alan T