The Power of Resurrection
Romans 1:4
Introduction
Paul does not begin Romans by easing into doctrine with soft words and vague religious fog. He comes out swinging with one of the strongest Christological statements in the New Testament. Jesus Christ was “declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead” (Romans 1:4). That is not a line for scholars to nibble on while they sip coffee and compare footnotes. That is a thunderclap from heaven. Paul is telling you that the resurrection did not make Jesus the Son of God. It manifested Him as the Son of God. It did not produce His deity. It proved it. Christ was not adopted at the empty tomb. He walked out of that tomb as the same eternal Son who walked into it.
That matters because heretics have always tried to crawl into the doctrine of Christ through the cracks. Some say Jesus was just a man who became divine. Others say He was a lesser god who worked His way up. Others say the “Christ spirit” came upon a human Jesus and then left Him later. Others talk like He became Son of God at His baptism, or at His resurrection, or at His ascension, as though deity were a reward handed out for good performance. That is devil talk dressed up in theological language. The Bible does not say He became the Son of God in Romans 1:4. It says He was declared to be the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead. There is all the difference in the world between revealing a thing and creating a thing. Sunrise reveals the sun. It does not manufacture it.
The whole Christian faith hangs on that point. If Jesus Christ was only adopted into divine sonship, then He is not eternal. If He is not eternal, He cannot be the Creator. If He is not the Creator, He cannot be the rightful object of worship. If He is not truly God, His death is no better than the death of another martyr. But if He is the eternal Son of God, manifest in flesh, and the resurrection is God’s public declaration of that truth, then every cult, every false religion, every council, every priestcraft system, and every liberal seminary can go whistle in the dark. The empty tomb did not upgrade Christ. It exposed the blindness of the world that crucified Him. It was heaven’s answer to earth’s rejection. It was the Father’s declaration that the One nailed to the tree was His Son all along.
1. Declared, Not Made
The Holy Spirit chose His words carefully in Romans 1:4. Jesus Christ was “declared to be the Son of God with power.” He was declared. He was not voted in. He was not promoted. He was not elevated. He was not adopted. He was declared. A declaration does not invent a fact. It announces a fact that already exists. When a judge declares a man innocent, he is not creating innocence out of thin air. He is rendering a public verdict. When heaven declared Jesus Christ to be the Son of God with power, it was not conferring deity upon Him. It was publicly vindicating what had always been true from everlasting.
That is exactly why the adoptionist crowd is so dangerous. They try to sneak in the idea that Jesus was a righteous man whom God later honored with sonship. That is as rotten a lie as ever crawled out of hell. John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Not became God. Was God. John 1:14 says, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” The one who was made flesh was already the Word. Hebrews 1:8 says, “But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever.” The Son is addressed as God before any resurrection scene in Romans is ever mentioned. The resurrection did not create His identity. It confirmed it.
You can see the same truth in John 10:36 where Jesus said, “say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?” He did not say, I will become the Son of God after I rise. He said,
Romans 1:4
Introduction
Paul does not begin Romans by easing into doctrine with soft words and vague religious fog. He comes out swinging with one of the strongest Christological statements in the New Testament. Jesus Christ was “declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead” (Romans 1:4). That is not a line for scholars to nibble on while they sip coffee and compare footnotes. That is a thunderclap from heaven. Paul is telling you that the resurrection did not make Jesus the Son of God. It manifested Him as the Son of God. It did not produce His deity. It proved it. Christ was not adopted at the empty tomb. He walked out of that tomb as the same eternal Son who walked into it.
That matters because heretics have always tried to crawl into the doctrine of Christ through the cracks. Some say Jesus was just a man who became divine. Others say He was a lesser god who worked His way up. Others say the “Christ spirit” came upon a human Jesus and then left Him later. Others talk like He became Son of God at His baptism, or at His resurrection, or at His ascension, as though deity were a reward handed out for good performance. That is devil talk dressed up in theological language. The Bible does not say He became the Son of God in Romans 1:4. It says He was declared to be the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead. There is all the difference in the world between revealing a thing and creating a thing. Sunrise reveals the sun. It does not manufacture it.
The whole Christian faith hangs on that point. If Jesus Christ was only adopted into divine sonship, then He is not eternal. If He is not eternal, He cannot be the Creator. If He is not the Creator, He cannot be the rightful object of worship. If He is not truly God, His death is no better than the death of another martyr. But if He is the eternal Son of God, manifest in flesh, and the resurrection is God’s public declaration of that truth, then every cult, every false religion, every council, every priestcraft system, and every liberal seminary can go whistle in the dark. The empty tomb did not upgrade Christ. It exposed the blindness of the world that crucified Him. It was heaven’s answer to earth’s rejection. It was the Father’s declaration that the One nailed to the tree was His Son all along.
1. Declared, Not Made
The Holy Spirit chose His words carefully in Romans 1:4. Jesus Christ was “declared to be the Son of God with power.” He was declared. He was not voted in. He was not promoted. He was not elevated. He was not adopted. He was declared. A declaration does not invent a fact. It announces a fact that already exists. When a judge declares a man innocent, he is not creating innocence out of thin air. He is rendering a public verdict. When heaven declared Jesus Christ to be the Son of God with power, it was not conferring deity upon Him. It was publicly vindicating what had always been true from everlasting.
That is exactly why the adoptionist crowd is so dangerous. They try to sneak in the idea that Jesus was a righteous man whom God later honored with sonship. That is as rotten a lie as ever crawled out of hell. John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Not became God. Was God. John 1:14 says, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” The one who was made flesh was already the Word. Hebrews 1:8 says, “But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever.” The Son is addressed as God before any resurrection scene in Romans is ever mentioned. The resurrection did not create His identity. It confirmed it.
You can see the same truth in John 10:36 where Jesus said, “say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?” He did not say, I will become the Son of God after I rise. He said,
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The are key differences between what Pleiadians say about ascension (the Shift) and what others are saying.
It's important to recognize that Pleiadian disclosure matches what Jesus taught about the rapture, or 'Day of the Lord', because the information is from the same source.
"In a flash, in the twinkling of an eye... we shall be changed"
Ascension is a Galactic Federation plan, not the result of a cosmic cycle or solar flash. It happens to specific planets of their choosing.
We're receiving downloads and 'light' right now in preparation for it, but ascension isn't a gradual process. It will happen instantly. It will happen to Earth only once.
"One shall be taken. One shall be left behind."
Another important distinction is that not everyone will experience it. This is the penalty for choosing evil. Regular flawed people will make it. If you are worried about it, you'll be fine.
'The meek shall inherit the (5D) Earth'
This point of ascension is to allow those who are ready to become a galactic civilization to rise and for those who choose evil to remain behind for more lessons.
Many in the spiritual community are recycling the same ideas about the Shift because they lack specific information about Galactic Federation and are relying on inaccurate channeling and intuitive methods.
How will we know when it happens?
It will be obvious. We'll be youthful and healthy and gain superpowers. There will be no more dark forces in our reality. Crafts will immediately land and we'll meet our galactic family without fear.
For all of these reasons, full disclosure and open contact can only happen after the Shift.
If we were waiting on a solar flash, there would be no guarantee we'd be the ones to experience it.
Pleiadians promise us that we are the ones who will experience it because Elder Ikai, leader of Galactic Federation, decides the exact moment it will happen.
It's important to recognize that Pleiadian disclosure matches what Jesus taught about the rapture, or 'Day of the Lord', because the information is from the same source.
"In a flash, in the twinkling of an eye... we shall be changed"
Ascension is a Galactic Federation plan, not the result of a cosmic cycle or solar flash. It happens to specific planets of their choosing.
We're receiving downloads and 'light' right now in preparation for it, but ascension isn't a gradual process. It will happen instantly. It will happen to Earth only once.
"One shall be taken. One shall be left behind."
Another important distinction is that not everyone will experience it. This is the penalty for choosing evil. Regular flawed people will make it. If you are worried about it, you'll be fine.
'The meek shall inherit the (5D) Earth'
This point of ascension is to allow those who are ready to become a galactic civilization to rise and for those who choose evil to remain behind for more lessons.
Many in the spiritual community are recycling the same ideas about the Shift because they lack specific information about Galactic Federation and are relying on inaccurate channeling and intuitive methods.
How will we know when it happens?
It will be obvious. We'll be youthful and healthy and gain superpowers. There will be no more dark forces in our reality. Crafts will immediately land and we'll meet our galactic family without fear.
For all of these reasons, full disclosure and open contact can only happen after the Shift.
If we were waiting on a solar flash, there would be no guarantee we'd be the ones to experience it.
Pleiadians promise us that we are the ones who will experience it because Elder Ikai, leader of Galactic Federation, decides the exact moment it will happen.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlACOVQEYvg Chris Bledsoe says “The Lady” told him:
“When the red star and Regulus are on the horizon, in front of the gaze of the Sphinx, before daylight, a new knowledge will come to humanity.”
Everyone has been focused on Easter 2026 as the date. But I think the real date is March 20, 2026, the Spring Equinox and here’s why:
The astronomy actually works on March 20.
The Sphinx faces due east precisely where the Sun rises on the equinox.
On March 20, 2026 at dawn, Regulus rises in the exact eastward gaze of the Sphinx just before sunrise.
Regulus is a blue-white star. It’s not red. I think it was a mistranslation. I think it meant red star AND Regulus. Red star being the sun as the sun is red at sunrise and sunset.
You’d have Regulus (the blue star) rising first, followed by the red Sun — both in the Sphinx’s gaze at dawn on the equinox.
This mirrors Hopi prophecy almost perfectly.
The Hopi speak of the Blue Star Kachina appearing first as a signal, followed by the Red Star Kachina as the Purifier bringing a new world. Blue star, then red star. That’s exactly what you’d see at the Sphinx on March 20.
Edit: Also Regulus is considered the heart of the lion regarding the constellation of Leo. Regulus is the heart of the lion as it is the brightest and the central star to the “mane” of the lion. The Terrestrial lion looking at the Celestial one. And the earthy lion looking at the heart of that lion. I think it is an important marker denoting a change to heart based consciousness.
Edit: I’m a fucking retard. The only date where regulus pops up above the sun at the giza location is around 27th AUGUST 2026.
“When the red star and Regulus are on the horizon, in front of the gaze of the Sphinx, before daylight, a new knowledge will come to humanity.”
Everyone has been focused on Easter 2026 as the date. But I think the real date is March 20, 2026, the Spring Equinox and here’s why:
The astronomy actually works on March 20.
The Sphinx faces due east precisely where the Sun rises on the equinox.
On March 20, 2026 at dawn, Regulus rises in the exact eastward gaze of the Sphinx just before sunrise.
Regulus is a blue-white star. It’s not red. I think it was a mistranslation. I think it meant red star AND Regulus. Red star being the sun as the sun is red at sunrise and sunset.
You’d have Regulus (the blue star) rising first, followed by the red Sun — both in the Sphinx’s gaze at dawn on the equinox.
This mirrors Hopi prophecy almost perfectly.
The Hopi speak of the Blue Star Kachina appearing first as a signal, followed by the Red Star Kachina as the Purifier bringing a new world. Blue star, then red star. That’s exactly what you’d see at the Sphinx on March 20.
Edit: Also Regulus is considered the heart of the lion regarding the constellation of Leo. Regulus is the heart of the lion as it is the brightest and the central star to the “mane” of the lion. The Terrestrial lion looking at the Celestial one. And the earthy lion looking at the heart of that lion. I think it is an important marker denoting a change to heart based consciousness.
Edit: I’m a fucking retard. The only date where regulus pops up above the sun at the giza location is around 27th AUGUST 2026.
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Rabbi Jason Sobel explains WHY the Cross?
The deeper you study the Bible, the deeper the connections and meanings you will find!
The deeper you study the Bible, the deeper the connections and meanings you will find!
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After the Tribulation of Matthew 24
Why the Elect of Matthew 24 Are Not the Church at the Pre-Tribulation Rapture
Introduction
One of the most common questions I get when I teach on the pre-tribulation Rapture is this one right here. If Jesus says in Matthew 24 that after the tribulation of those days He will come with power and great glory, and if He sends His angels with a great sound of a trumpet to gather His elect, then how can that not be the same event Paul describes in 1 Thessalonians 4 and 1 Corinthians 15? On the surface, to a man who does not rightly divide his Bible, the thing can look like a match. There is a coming of Christ. There is a trumpet. There is a gathering. There are saints involved. So the careless reader, the covenant man, the replacement theology man, the post-tribulation man, and the fellow who has read more prophecy charts than Scripture all jump to the same conclusion. They say, There it is. Matthew 24 is the Rapture. Then they assume the Church must go through the Tribulation. But that conclusion does not come from careful Bible study. It comes from grabbing similarities while ignoring context, audience, timing, wording, and doctrine.
The first rule in handling a question like this is that I am not allowed to force Paul into Matthew, and I am not allowed to force Matthew into Paul. The Holy Spirit wrote both, and He did not get confused. Jesus in Matthew 24 is answering Jewish questions about the temple, the sign of His coming, and the end of the world. The disciples ask Him plainly, “Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” (Matthew 24:3). They do not ask about the Body of Christ, because the Body of Christ had not yet been revealed. They do not ask about the mystery of the Church, because that mystery was still hidden in God. They ask a Jewish Messiah about Jewish concerns tied to Jerusalem, the temple, Judea, the sabbath day, and the visible coming of the Son of man to the earth. If you ignore that setting, you are not studying prophecy. You are vandalizing it.
Now I want this essay to do more than answer one man on a post. I want this to be something solid enough that when this question comes up again, and it will, I can hand somebody the link and say, Here. Read this slowly. Read the verses. Compare them. Let the Book speak. Because this issue is one of the places where confusion multiplies faster than rabbits in a field. People see the word “elect” and think it has to mean the Church in every passage. They see the word “trumpet” and think every trumpet in the Bible is the same trumpet. They see a gathering and assume every gathering is the Rapture. That is not Bible study. That is word association. So I want to lay this thing out so clearly that the only way to miss it is if a man wants to miss it. Matthew 24 is not the Church’s pre-tribulation Rapture. It is the post-tribulational gathering of Israel’s elect and believing saints connected with the Second Advent of Jesus Christ to the earth.
1. The Question in Matthew 24 Is Jewish Before It Is Christian
The whole chapter opens in a Jewish setting, and if you miss the setting you will miss the sermon. Jesus had just departed from the temple, and His disciples came to point out the buildings of the temple to Him. He then tells them, “There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down” (Matthew 24:2). That statement triggers the question of verse 3. The disciples are not sitting around asking when the Church will be caught up into the third heaven. They are asking about the destruction of the temple, the sign of Christ’s coming, and the end of the world. That is a Jewish prophetic framework straight out of Daniel, Zechariah, and the prophets. It is about the kingdom program, not the mystery program.
Then look at the details Jesus gives in the chapter. He warns, “let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains” (Matthew
Why the Elect of Matthew 24 Are Not the Church at the Pre-Tribulation Rapture
Introduction
One of the most common questions I get when I teach on the pre-tribulation Rapture is this one right here. If Jesus says in Matthew 24 that after the tribulation of those days He will come with power and great glory, and if He sends His angels with a great sound of a trumpet to gather His elect, then how can that not be the same event Paul describes in 1 Thessalonians 4 and 1 Corinthians 15? On the surface, to a man who does not rightly divide his Bible, the thing can look like a match. There is a coming of Christ. There is a trumpet. There is a gathering. There are saints involved. So the careless reader, the covenant man, the replacement theology man, the post-tribulation man, and the fellow who has read more prophecy charts than Scripture all jump to the same conclusion. They say, There it is. Matthew 24 is the Rapture. Then they assume the Church must go through the Tribulation. But that conclusion does not come from careful Bible study. It comes from grabbing similarities while ignoring context, audience, timing, wording, and doctrine.
The first rule in handling a question like this is that I am not allowed to force Paul into Matthew, and I am not allowed to force Matthew into Paul. The Holy Spirit wrote both, and He did not get confused. Jesus in Matthew 24 is answering Jewish questions about the temple, the sign of His coming, and the end of the world. The disciples ask Him plainly, “Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” (Matthew 24:3). They do not ask about the Body of Christ, because the Body of Christ had not yet been revealed. They do not ask about the mystery of the Church, because that mystery was still hidden in God. They ask a Jewish Messiah about Jewish concerns tied to Jerusalem, the temple, Judea, the sabbath day, and the visible coming of the Son of man to the earth. If you ignore that setting, you are not studying prophecy. You are vandalizing it.
Now I want this essay to do more than answer one man on a post. I want this to be something solid enough that when this question comes up again, and it will, I can hand somebody the link and say, Here. Read this slowly. Read the verses. Compare them. Let the Book speak. Because this issue is one of the places where confusion multiplies faster than rabbits in a field. People see the word “elect” and think it has to mean the Church in every passage. They see the word “trumpet” and think every trumpet in the Bible is the same trumpet. They see a gathering and assume every gathering is the Rapture. That is not Bible study. That is word association. So I want to lay this thing out so clearly that the only way to miss it is if a man wants to miss it. Matthew 24 is not the Church’s pre-tribulation Rapture. It is the post-tribulational gathering of Israel’s elect and believing saints connected with the Second Advent of Jesus Christ to the earth.
1. The Question in Matthew 24 Is Jewish Before It Is Christian
The whole chapter opens in a Jewish setting, and if you miss the setting you will miss the sermon. Jesus had just departed from the temple, and His disciples came to point out the buildings of the temple to Him. He then tells them, “There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down” (Matthew 24:2). That statement triggers the question of verse 3. The disciples are not sitting around asking when the Church will be caught up into the third heaven. They are asking about the destruction of the temple, the sign of Christ’s coming, and the end of the world. That is a Jewish prophetic framework straight out of Daniel, Zechariah, and the prophets. It is about the kingdom program, not the mystery program.
Then look at the details Jesus gives in the chapter. He warns, “let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains” (Matthew
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24:16). That is not language addressed to the Body of Christ spread across all nations as one spiritual organism. That is a local warning tied to a specific geographic region in Israel. Then He says, “pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day” (Matthew 24:20). There is your Jewish setting again. The sabbath day is a dead giveaway. The Church is never told in Paul’s epistles to regulate her prophetic escape around sabbath restrictions in Judea. That belongs to Israel and the land.
A man who ignores those details and then says Matthew 24 is the Church’s Rapture is doing exactly what so many prophecy teachers do. He sees one or two overlapping words and ignores the whole frame of the passage. But the frame controls the picture. The context is temple, Judea, sabbath, abomination of desolation, and the sign of the Son of man. That is not Church mystery ground. That is tribulation and Second Advent ground. The Church can draw application from many things in the chapter in a broad moral sense, but doctrinally Matthew 24 is not addressed to the Body of Christ as such. It is Jewish kingdom material.
2. The Great Tribulation of Matthew 24 Is Not the Church Age in General
Jesus says, “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:21). That statement alone should stop all the loose talk. He is not describing the ordinary sufferings Christians face in the present age. He is describing a unique period of unparalleled distress. He ties it directly to the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet in verse 15. Daniel’s seventieth week is not a vague symbol for all church history. It is a defined prophetic period connected with Israel and Jerusalem. “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city” (Daniel 9:24). Thy people are Daniel’s people, the Jews. Thy holy city is Jerusalem.
The great tribulation in Matthew 24 is therefore not the normal pressure of living in a wicked world. It is the climactic time of Jacob’s trouble. Jeremiah says, “it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it” (Jeremiah 30:7). Jacob is not the Church. Jacob is Israel. That does not mean no Gentiles get saved in that time, because they do, and many will die for it. But the tribulation as a prophetic program is centered on the Jew, the land, the city, the covenant, the temple, and the coming King. It is the furnace through which God purges Israel and judges the nations.
Paul, on the other hand, when he gives the Rapture revelation in 1 Thessalonians 4, does not mention Judea, the sabbath day, the abomination of desolation, the temple, or fleeing into the mountains. He says, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout” and “the dead in Christ shall rise first” (1 Thessalonians 4:16). Then he says the living saints are “caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thessalonians 4:17). That is a different setting, a different people, and a different emphasis. Matthew 24 is survival through tribulation until the King visibly returns to the earth. First Thessalonians 4 is the catching away of the Body of Christ to meet the Lord in the air before wrath falls.
3. The Elect in Matthew 24 Are Not the Body of Christ as Such
This is where many people trip because the word “elect” is used of Christians in several New Testament passages. That is true. Romans 8:33 says, “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect?” Colossians 3:12 says, “Put on therefore, as the elect of God.” First Peter 1:2 says believers are “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God.” So yes, Christians can be called elect. But that does not mean every use of the word elect in every context is automatically the Church. Israel is also called God’s elect. Isaiah 45:4 says, “For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect.” Isaiah 65:9 refers to
A man who ignores those details and then says Matthew 24 is the Church’s Rapture is doing exactly what so many prophecy teachers do. He sees one or two overlapping words and ignores the whole frame of the passage. But the frame controls the picture. The context is temple, Judea, sabbath, abomination of desolation, and the sign of the Son of man. That is not Church mystery ground. That is tribulation and Second Advent ground. The Church can draw application from many things in the chapter in a broad moral sense, but doctrinally Matthew 24 is not addressed to the Body of Christ as such. It is Jewish kingdom material.
2. The Great Tribulation of Matthew 24 Is Not the Church Age in General
Jesus says, “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:21). That statement alone should stop all the loose talk. He is not describing the ordinary sufferings Christians face in the present age. He is describing a unique period of unparalleled distress. He ties it directly to the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet in verse 15. Daniel’s seventieth week is not a vague symbol for all church history. It is a defined prophetic period connected with Israel and Jerusalem. “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city” (Daniel 9:24). Thy people are Daniel’s people, the Jews. Thy holy city is Jerusalem.
The great tribulation in Matthew 24 is therefore not the normal pressure of living in a wicked world. It is the climactic time of Jacob’s trouble. Jeremiah says, “it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it” (Jeremiah 30:7). Jacob is not the Church. Jacob is Israel. That does not mean no Gentiles get saved in that time, because they do, and many will die for it. But the tribulation as a prophetic program is centered on the Jew, the land, the city, the covenant, the temple, and the coming King. It is the furnace through which God purges Israel and judges the nations.
Paul, on the other hand, when he gives the Rapture revelation in 1 Thessalonians 4, does not mention Judea, the sabbath day, the abomination of desolation, the temple, or fleeing into the mountains. He says, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout” and “the dead in Christ shall rise first” (1 Thessalonians 4:16). Then he says the living saints are “caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thessalonians 4:17). That is a different setting, a different people, and a different emphasis. Matthew 24 is survival through tribulation until the King visibly returns to the earth. First Thessalonians 4 is the catching away of the Body of Christ to meet the Lord in the air before wrath falls.
3. The Elect in Matthew 24 Are Not the Body of Christ as Such
This is where many people trip because the word “elect” is used of Christians in several New Testament passages. That is true. Romans 8:33 says, “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect?” Colossians 3:12 says, “Put on therefore, as the elect of God.” First Peter 1:2 says believers are “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God.” So yes, Christians can be called elect. But that does not mean every use of the word elect in every context is automatically the Church. Israel is also called God’s elect. Isaiah 45:4 says, “For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect.” Isaiah 65:9 refers to
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“mine elect.” So if you see the word elect and immediately shout Church, you are not interpreting. You are assuming.
In Matthew 24 the elect are in a tribulation and Second Advent setting tied to Judea, the abomination of desolation, and cosmic signs. Jesus says in verse 22, “but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” Then in verse 31 He says, “he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect.” The elect there are God’s chosen people and believing saints connected with that tribulation period, with a strong reference to Israel’s remnant. The context decides it. The Church did not replace Israel, and the elect is not a code word that erases Jewish prophecy every time it appears.
Mark helps even more because he gives parallel wording and says the angels “shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven” (Mark 13:27). That is not the language of the Rapture in 1 Thessalonians 4. That is the language of regathering after the visible Advent. It includes saints on earth and saints connected with heaven in the broad kingdom sense. It matches Old Testament regathering passages where Israel is gathered from the nations at the coming of the Lord. Isaiah 27:13 says, “it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish.” That is not the Church’s mystery Rapture. That is Israel’s prophetic regathering.
4. The Trumpet of Matthew 24 Is Not Paul’s Last Trump
Now we come to the trumpet argument, which gets thrown around as if one trumpet sound settles every prophecy in the Bible. But a man who knows anything about Scripture knows there are many trumpets with many functions. There are silver trumpets in Numbers 10. There are trumpets at Sinai. There are trumpets in Joshua. There are feast trumpets, warning trumpets, regathering trumpets, and judgment trumpets in Revelation. So when somebody says Matthew 24 has a trumpet and Paul mentions a trump, therefore same event, he is not proving anything. He is just lining up two English words and hoping nobody looks deeper.
In Matthew 24:31 the Lord sends “his angels with a great sound of a trumpet” to gather His elect. In 1 Thessalonians 4:16 Paul says, “the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God.” Those are not the same descriptions. In Matthew 24 angels are sent out to gather. In 1 Thessalonians 4 the Lord Himself descends, the dead in Christ rise, and living believers are caught up. Matthew 24 says nothing about the dead in Christ rising. It says nothing about translation of living saints into glorified bodies. It says nothing about meeting the Lord in the air. First Thessalonians 4 says nothing about angels being dispatched to regather elect survivors from the four winds after a tribulation.
Then there is 1 Corinthians 15:52, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.” The last trump there is the last trump for the Church, not the last trumpet that will ever sound in the universe. Paul is writing to a Church about a Church mystery. He says, “Behold, I shew you a mystery” (1 Corinthians 15:51). Matthew 24 is not called a mystery. It belongs to openly revealed prophetic material tied to Israel. You cannot take a mystery trumpet for the Body of Christ and force it into a public, visible, post-tribulation gathering passage for Israel and the nations. That is mixing programs. The trumpet similarity is superficial. The doctrinal content is different.
In Matthew 24 the elect are in a tribulation and Second Advent setting tied to Judea, the abomination of desolation, and cosmic signs. Jesus says in verse 22, “but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” Then in verse 31 He says, “he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect.” The elect there are God’s chosen people and believing saints connected with that tribulation period, with a strong reference to Israel’s remnant. The context decides it. The Church did not replace Israel, and the elect is not a code word that erases Jewish prophecy every time it appears.
Mark helps even more because he gives parallel wording and says the angels “shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven” (Mark 13:27). That is not the language of the Rapture in 1 Thessalonians 4. That is the language of regathering after the visible Advent. It includes saints on earth and saints connected with heaven in the broad kingdom sense. It matches Old Testament regathering passages where Israel is gathered from the nations at the coming of the Lord. Isaiah 27:13 says, “it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish.” That is not the Church’s mystery Rapture. That is Israel’s prophetic regathering.
4. The Trumpet of Matthew 24 Is Not Paul’s Last Trump
Now we come to the trumpet argument, which gets thrown around as if one trumpet sound settles every prophecy in the Bible. But a man who knows anything about Scripture knows there are many trumpets with many functions. There are silver trumpets in Numbers 10. There are trumpets at Sinai. There are trumpets in Joshua. There are feast trumpets, warning trumpets, regathering trumpets, and judgment trumpets in Revelation. So when somebody says Matthew 24 has a trumpet and Paul mentions a trump, therefore same event, he is not proving anything. He is just lining up two English words and hoping nobody looks deeper.
In Matthew 24:31 the Lord sends “his angels with a great sound of a trumpet” to gather His elect. In 1 Thessalonians 4:16 Paul says, “the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God.” Those are not the same descriptions. In Matthew 24 angels are sent out to gather. In 1 Thessalonians 4 the Lord Himself descends, the dead in Christ rise, and living believers are caught up. Matthew 24 says nothing about the dead in Christ rising. It says nothing about translation of living saints into glorified bodies. It says nothing about meeting the Lord in the air. First Thessalonians 4 says nothing about angels being dispatched to regather elect survivors from the four winds after a tribulation.
Then there is 1 Corinthians 15:52, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.” The last trump there is the last trump for the Church, not the last trumpet that will ever sound in the universe. Paul is writing to a Church about a Church mystery. He says, “Behold, I shew you a mystery” (1 Corinthians 15:51). Matthew 24 is not called a mystery. It belongs to openly revealed prophetic material tied to Israel. You cannot take a mystery trumpet for the Body of Christ and force it into a public, visible, post-tribulation gathering passage for Israel and the nations. That is mixing programs. The trumpet similarity is superficial. The doctrinal content is different.
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