“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake…but He who has endured to the end will be saved” (Matthew 24:9, 13).
Immediately after the tribulation
Today there are multitudes within the wider Body of the Messiah who are insisting that there will be a pre-tribulation rapture of the faithful Body of Messiah before the Time of Great Tribulation comes. However, before the Middle of the 19th Century this idea of Messiah coming for His Church secretly and then coming visibly with His Church to earth seven years later cannot be found in the Word of God. In fact the apostles never taught this neither did the first century Body of Messiah embrace such a doctrine. In any doctrinal matter in the Word of God we always begin with what is clearly and plainly taught before we look at what might or might not be implied in a Biblical text…
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