Let me start out by saying that I do believe in what people call
a Pre-Trib Rapture. That is, that Jesus will catch away His believers,
from Adam to that very moment, and take them to heaven
to be judged and rewarded, before 7 years of God’s wrath
against hateful humanity are displayed upon the earth.
At the end of those 7 years, Jesus will come to the earth
to begin his rule and reign as King of kings and Lord of lords
on earth. People who argue against it say,
Then you believe this! You believe that!
Actually, no, I don't! So let me help you better understand
what I do believe as I show you from scripture
two specific things I don't believe about a Pre-Trib Rapture.
Hi, I’m David Daniels from Chick Publications.
Number One: The Rapture Will Not Be Silent.
First, the rapture – or catching away, as I like to call it,
will not be a “secret rapture,” in the sense of silence.
It will be loud. Get out your Bible
and check for yourself! 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds,
to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever
be with the Lord.” God doesn’t shout for no reason.
And it won’t be a “silent shout,” either.
The voice of the archangel certainly doesn’t sound quiet.
The trump of God is a trumpet-- a loud instrument.
The dead in Christ shall rise first. That is clear.
These are people in Christ. We which are alive and remain.
God had Paul say “we.” That’s living Christians.
So as Jack Chick and I talked about it,
there was no way we could think there was anything silent
about the rapture. Number Two:
The Rapture Will Not Involve All of the Angels.
When Jesus shows up in the clouds, the dead and living in Christ
will rise to meet Him.
There is no note about angelic assistance.
Compare that to all the “many angels” passages.
Jesus said, in Matthew 25:31
that He’ll return with “all the holy angels”
Matthew 25:31 “When the Son of man shall come
in his glory, and all the holy angels with him,
then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:”
Now look at the “gathering” passages. These tell what the angels will do
at Jesus’ coming: First, the angels will gather out
them that offend and do iniquity. Jesus said, in Matthew 13:40-42
“As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire;
so shall it be in the end of this world.
The Son of man shall send forth his angels,
and they shall gather out of his kingdom
all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
And shall cast them into a furnace of fire:
there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
This seems like what happens to those who receive the mark
in their right hand or forehead: Revelation 14:9-10
“And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice,
If any man worship the beast and his image,
and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,
which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation;
and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:”
Take the mark,
go straight to the lake of fire: Do not pass Go; do not collect $200.
A second use for all of the holy angels
at His coming is in Matthew 24:30-31.
They will gather His elect to bring them to Jerusalem in Israel,
fulfilling many prophecies. Matthew 24:30-31
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn,
and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven
with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels
with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together
his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
A number of the prophecies of this gathering of the Jewish
people into Israel are in Ezekiel: Ezekiel 11:17 "Therefore say,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you
from the people, and assemble you
out of the countries where ye have been scattered,
and I will give you the land of Israel."
Another is in Ezekiel 20:41 "I will accept you
with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people,
and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered;
and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen."
Now look at Ezekiel 34:13
"And I will bring them out from the people,
and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land,
and feed them upon the mountains of Israel
by the rivers, and in all the
inhabited places of the country."
Finally, Ezekiel 37:21 "And say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take
the children of Israel from among the heathen,
whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side,
and bring them into their own land:" And that’s just in Ezekiel!
What about all the other people, who are alive at His coming,
but did not take the mark somehow? Could there be people without the mark
all over the world? Yes.
First, the mark mandate will not last long.
It only lasts from Revelation 13:18 to 16:1-2.
That’s because everyone who has the mark
will have a grievous sore! Who will want to get the mark
at that point, if everyone who has it is
writhing in horrible pain? Revelation 16:1-2
“And I heard a great voice out of the temple
saying to the seven angels, Go your ways,
and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
And the first went, and poured out his vial
upon the earth; and there fell a noisome
and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast,
and upon them which worshipped his image.”
And please remember, that mark is only for those
who worship the Beast or his image. Everyone who gets saved
sometime in those seven years will not get that mark.
And according to Matthew 25, Jesus has a judgment
for nations of people without the mark,
right after He returns to earth to set up His kingdom.
Jesus said, in Matthew 25:31-33 “When the Son of man
shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him,
then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
And before him shall be gathered all nations:
and he shall separate them one from another,
as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand,
but the goats on the left.” So all the nations,
ha Goyim, panta ta ethne, the Gentiles,
shall be gathered before Jesus by the holy angels.
I talked about how this will all look in Vlog 133: What Will Jesus Do?
and other videos in the End Time playlist.
Further, God gives us more details
in Zechariah 14.
Jesus will come back, bringing the saints with Him
from heaven,
and will stand on the mount of Olives, split it and make a big valley.
That’s where the nations will be gathered before Jesus’ throne.
It all fits together. Zechariah 14:3-4
“Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations,
as when he fought in the day of battle.
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,
which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave
in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west,
and there shall be a very great valley;
and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north,
and half of it toward the south.” End of verse 5:
“And the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.”
So let’s sum up:
I don’t believe the rapture will be silent.
It will be loud, with a shout,
the voice of the archangel and the trump of God.
And all the believers, dead and living,
from Adam to that moment, will be changed in a moment
and rise to meet Jesus. And the rapture
will not involve all of Jesus’ angels. However, the second coming
will involve all of His holy angels. They will do three things:
One, they will grab everyone with the mark
and send them out of Christ’s kingdom into the lake of fire.
Two, they will grab all the elect from all over earth,
to bring them to Jerusalem for this event.
Three, they will grab all the Gentiles,
both saved and unsaved, and Jesus will sit on his throne
east of Jerusalem in the massively enlarged
Valley of Jehoshaphat and judge them there.
Everyone on earth will either go to the lake of fire
or to Jerusalem (or just east of it). That’s why Jesus will need all His holy angels.
So if verses talk of many angels at the end,
that’s not the catching away, or rapture.
They are two separate events. The rapture is for changed, transformed people
to receive their rewards (which might be in another video),
and the other, usually called the Second Coming,
is for Jesus to set up His earthly
1,000 year kingdom, usually called the Millennium.
I hope that was clear. By the way,
these terms are not in the English Bible:
rapture, second coming, first coming, millennium, tribulation period,
church age, age of grace. People use these terms
to make sense of different scriptures. I do not fault them for that,
as long as they define their terms. The rapture will not be silent,
and not accompanied by many angels. Scripture about many angels
is after the seven years, not before.
I hope these two points help! Do you want to hear more?
Let me know in the comments below. Until the next video,
God bless you, and have a wonderful day!