I was looking at a couple things in the book of Revelation, which at first seemed confusing to me, but perhaps there is a simpler explanation:
Revelation 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto 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.
When it said give reward to the saints, is this describing a 2nd Bema?Also,
Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Jesus comes as a thief, both at the blessed hope (rapture), and then after the tribulation, at the second advent?Both events are similar, in that he comes as a thief?
Gino