A 6TH SEAL RAPTURE? - Why the Tribulation Period has not started Checklist

by Luis B. Vega
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‘For at that time there will be Great Tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again. If those Days had not been cut short, nobody would be Saved. But for the sake of the Elect [Israel], those days will be cut short’. -Matthew 34:21-22

The purpose of this study is to consider a ‘Hot Button’ topic in the Rapture Community. It is about the assertion that the Rapture of the Bride of Christ occurs at the 6th Seal Judgment time-frame. This is essentially based on a Pre-Wrath, Mid-Tribulation Rapture scenario. Thus, with this model, the Church Age will spill-over into the Tribulation Period of Jacob up to that point in time, presumably. The main assertion is that the world is already in the Tribulation Period in that case by some who estimate it. One will be sharing some very poignant objections and questions to challenge this model.

Now one would agree that if it seems that the Tribulation Period has started, it is because it has definitely cast its shadow of what has and is occurring. One just has to put the theory to the test. And the standard? It is Jesus’ Olivet Outline of how it will look like. Which part of the factors? All of them, and at the same time. If that be the case, then the Tribulation Period would be such a horror and the amount of mass death would not even compare to the total slain since Abel. One is not talking about the millions of deaths that have occurred since the 2 World Wars prior. No, one is talking about a death toll in the billions. Has that happened in the past years or since Jesus? No.

Or that the world is presently in or about the midpoint of the Tribulation experience? The following is one’s response to how some End Time Students of the Bible purport that the timing of the Rapture event occurs at Seal 6. And that the Church is to go through the 1st half of the Tribulation Period, approximately, etc. Let us consider such a supposition to test the theory. One will just pose several questions that should be very easy to answer in this regard. Since those that purport to believe such a 6th Seal Rapture timing, they should be able to see, in hind-sight how it all has panned-out.

Since the breaking of the 1st Seal, it should be easy to identify who is the AntiChrist and what world wars, world plagues, and word die-offs ensued, for example. The following list is of those events that are to have taken place before the 6th Seal or within the Tribulation Period, initially. These factors should have been historical events by now. These are the tests by which one can then ascertain if the Tribulation Period had already started and the Church Age Believers are looking at ‘Hard Times’ or ‘Tribulation’ up to the 8th Seal, which to many is when the ‘Wrath’ starts, etc. All these questions should have answers, concretely and without doubt or guess-work.

3-When did the Daily Sacrifices start?

4-When did they cease by command of the AntiChrist?

5-Who was the ‘Many’ that Israel makes the Covenant of Death with?

6-Where did the Remnant of the Jewish Faithful flee to? Petra?

7-How were they provided for, some 1260 Days of the 2nd Half of the Tribulation.

8-Where are all those Beheaded that refused the Mark of the Beast?

9-Where are the 2 Asteroids that are to hit Earth, 1 by Land, 1 by sea?

10-Where on Earth is the 1/3 of the grass burned-up, water turned blood and ships wrecked?

11-Where is the heat so intense, people wanted to die from it but could not?

12-Where was the Angel flying around admonishing the Peoples of Earth not to take the Mark?

13-Where were the Fallen Angels, i.e., the Titans released from Tartarus or the Bottomless Pit?

14-When was that Great Earthquake that leveled all the Cities of the Earth, all at once?

One believes that part of the confusion of how some can surmise a ‘Rapture’ event at certain points in the Book of Revelation like at Seal 6 is that, as one has presented before, there are 7 Translations or ‘Raptures’ throughout the sequences revealed in the Book of Revelation. One purports that the 7 Raptures follows a prophetic pattern 1st presented by Chuck Missler. He identified 7 ‘Raptures’ from Adam to the end of the Church Age, concluding with the Rapture of the Bride that closes-out the Church Age, etc. This would seem logical if one holds to a Dispensational disposition.

1 John                         Come Up Here                                   Revelation 4:1

2 Martyrs                  Out from Great Tribulation                 Revelation 7:9

3 2 Witnesses             After 3.5 Days at Mid-Tribulation       Revelation 11:12

4 Man-Child                Of the Revelation 12 Sign                  Revelation 12:9

5 Overcomers             Singing the Song of Moses                Revelation 14:1

6 Sickle Harvest       By Christ of the Elect                        Revelation 14:16

7 Beheaded                Tribulation Believers                          Revelation 20:04

One thus, applies this 7 Rapture prophetic template, overlayed onto the entire Book of Revelation. In this context of the Seal Judgements of Jesus, the last Rapture since Enoch, who ‘Walked with God and was no more’, will pivot with the 1st of the 7 Raptures of Revelation since the Apostles John. But that the Chapter 4 Rapture is what will initiate the Tribulation Period. This is one’s theory. Note that both characters are prophetic metaphors and types of the primarily ‘Gentile Bride’, i.e., Boaz and Ruth, etc.

As many Bible Students of the End Times surmise, the Rapture of the Bride of Christ coincides with the how John hears the Trumpet Call and is called ‘up’ in chapter 4. One believes that the Catching-Away of the Apostle John, referred to as the ‘Beloved of Jesus’ is a metaphor for the Church Age Bride of Christ. This time and place is what determines the, ‘what was, is and will be’ outline of the entire reveling of Jesus’ Wrath. And only thereafter, does it the Wrath start with Jesus breaking the Seals.

Thereafter, the subsequent 6 ‘Raptures’ or Translations ensue. The other ‘error’ one surmises is based on the belief of Replacement Theology. This is where the Remnant of Israel or the Elect are confused and replaced with the Church Age Believers. One subscribes to the interpretation that there are 2 Covenants. There is the Earthly one based on the physical DNA racial makeup Birthright, i.e., the Bloodline of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob. Then there is the New Covenant that is based on the Spiritual Heirs of Abraham.

These Heirs are those who believe in the Messiah, Jesus is by Faith, just as Abraham believed, and was ‘counted for Righteousness’. There is also another test of the Tribulation Period that has not occurred yet. Those who propose that Humanity is in the Tribulation Period surmise that the Revelation 12 Sign was the start of the Tribulation Period. So, one’s question is, where has the Planet Jupiter been in the Constellation of Virgo since 2017? It has not, not until 2029. Thus, one is more convinced that the Rapture events occurs before Seal 1, which starts the 7-Year Tribulation Period.

It is initiated by the 1st Seal, being the start of the Wrath of the Lamb, all-inclusive with the revealing of who the AntiChrist is. Presently, it is the Body of Church, or the Restrainer within her that is keeping the AntiChrist at bay and from being revealed and actuated. This is one’s interpretation. This assertion is based on how after the Pre-Tribulation Rapture, the Bride is sat in Judgment as the 24 Elders. It is thereafter that the Scroll of Judgment is given to Jesus as witnessed by the Bride.

Only thereafter can the Seal Judgments or ‘Wrath’ begin. The breaking of the Seals is the beginning of the Judgment or Wrath being poured-out upon the Inhabitants of the Earth for that ‘1 Hour of Testing’. Realize that the 70th Week of Daniel concludes the ‘wrath’ decreed against Israel. Thus, the Bride of Christ cannot be further tested nor be under the worldwide Judgment that comes upon Jacob and the entire World. It is because the Bride of Christ is already in Heaven when the Judgment, that is the ‘Wrath of the Lamb' begins. Surely, the ‘Tribulation Shadow’ is increasingly being cast upon the world as it disintegrates into utter Chaos, by design on this side of the Rapture.

Rider of the White Horse?
As ‘Tribulation Period-Like Conditions’ are being orchestrated and manifested, one can see how some End Times Watchers rationalize that the Church Body will still be present on Earth for such Calamities, up to the 6th Seal. However, this is more of a US-Centric Interpretation as the USA and Christians in the West have had it ‘Good’ with ‘Peace and Relative Prosperity’, especially since the end of the 2nd World War.

The American Church has not suffered as many are and have in the East and the 3rd World. So, the ‘explanation’ is that the Bride is not to be rescued until the ‘Wrath’ occurs from Seal 6 onward, etc. Again, one would argue that the breaking of the 1st Seal is the start of the Judgment of the Lamb, all Inclusive. It is just that, the 1st Seal will be the false Peace offered through a false Prince in the revelation of who the AntiChrist will be.

The revealing of the AntiChrist and his ensuing World Peace and New Order constitutes the start of the Wrath of Jesus. If not, then the sequence of the AntiChrist has to be known before the Bride escapes. No, fellow Watchers are confusing the notion that the Rider of the White Horse is Jesus or the Church. This is a grave error in one’s view.

If one follows this logic, then as the unveiling of the Seals is tied by the Scroll, and is the Body of Christ, as in the Church, then it follows that the subsequent Seals, as in the Red, Black and Pale Horses are also of the Church and are responsible for them. In that case, when has the Body or Bride of Christ made war that caused the death of millions? When has the Church Age been the cause of famine and plagues? And when has it caused the death of billions? It has not because it is not.

It is one’s understanding that Jesus was talking to the Jewish Remnant Believers. Such Brethren that subscribe that Jesus was talking to the Church are 'inserting' the Church Age Believers in the context of the Jewish Covenant and time frame of that time of Jacob’s Troubles. Why? It all henges on Daniel and in the context of the Abomination of Desolation event. Where has that occurred if no Temple has stood since 70 AD?

It is not the Church’s Trouble any longer and she does not ‘owe’ the God of Jacob any ‘Rent’ for not keeping the Sabbath of the Land, Jerusalem or the Temple. The Bride of Christ is promised a better Country or ‘Promised Land’ that is in Heaven, whose New Jerusalem is assured and whose Temple is Christ Jesus Himself, etc. It was only when the Apostle Paul was commissioned by Jesus that the Church Body and the Mystery of the Bride of Christ was birthed and to him, revealed the teaching thereafter. The Church Age has been nothing but ‘Tribulation’.

This was taught by all the Apostles who, from Jesus, gave warnings of how there would be Tribulations for the Church as history bears this out. So, as to Jesus stating that, ‘No One Knows the Day or the Hour?’ Was that of the Rapture event? No. If one sincerely reads the context of the discourse, Jesus was speaking about how His Words would never pass away. It is that the Earth and Heaven will pass away, and no one knows that day or hour, etc. Thus to summarize, is the Rapture event to occur at Seal 6? Is the Tribulation Period already ‘in-progress’, presently as some surmise? No.

One doubts it, based on the evidence one has provided and understands, up to his point in the prophetic ‘Learning Curve’. But based on Jesus’ warning of how horrible it will be on Earth with the loss of not millions, but billions of people? One is more convinced that the Tribulation Period has not occurred yet. And one is not convinced that the Rapture of the Bride of Christ will occur at Seal 6, but at chapter 4, before Israel, i.e., Jacob, Lucifer and the Inhabitants of the Earth well be judged into the Tribulation Period.
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