29 "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Do you see clear as day it says here immediately AFTER the tribulation of those days?

This verse says the rapture is after the tribulation. People saying that we will go before the first trumpet must not have read this verse or understood it.

Pre tribulation doctrine is a lie and there is a very good reason why people cling to that lie and a very good and profitable reason that Satan allows it to be so widespread. This verse should be enough to convince you but I have a few more verses for you who have been so indoctrinated by a lie that you may need a little more evidence.

Mark 13:24-26

24 "But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; 25 the stars of heaven will fall, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. 26 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

People try and explain this verse by saying that there is going to be a rapture that people will not see the Son of God and then there will be a time when Jesus comes back to rule the world. Yet if you have ever read the accounts of the last bowls to be poured out on earth I don't think many humans would be alive on earth to look up and see the Son of Man.

The heavens shall be shaken, and the words after the tribulation are both phrases that are similar to the ones in the Matthew 24:29-31 and so we can assume that when the people look up to see the Son Of Man coming that they will also see the elect going to heaven as it says in the Matthew verse.

I Corinthians 15: 51-52

51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed- 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

There are seven trumpets in the Book of Revelation and if the rapture was going to be before the tribulation then the seven trumpets must also be before the tribulation, but we all know that the trumpets are all part of the judgement. So the last trumpet is the last trumpet and the last is normally the last one mentioned in the world I live in, and this would be number seven. The rapture will happen the same time the trumpet is played. So when is the trumpet played?

Revelation 11:11-19 (New King James Version)

The Witnesses Resurrected

11 Now after the three-and-a-half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 12 And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them. 13 In the same hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. In the earthquake seven thousand people were killed, and the rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven. 14 The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly.

Seventh Trumpet: The Kingdom Proclaimed

15 Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!" 16 And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying:

" We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty,

The One who is and who was and who is to come,[c]

Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.

18 The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come,

And the time of the dead, that they should be judged,

And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints,

And those who fear Your name, small and great,

And should destroy those who destroy the earth."

19 Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail.

You notice the cloud the two last prophets ascend into when Jesus says, "Come up here.". And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them.

Isn't that the same cloud that we all go up into?

1 Thessalonians 4:15-17

15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

Seeing as the Lord would come down to stand in a cloud and call the two witnesses home does it not make sense that the same cloud would take the believers. You see it's that last trumpet that the archangel blows that signals the rapture as we have seen and in Revelation we see it confirmed that it is the last trumpet that the witnesses go in a cloud.

Preachers all over the world will have you think that the two witnesses start their ministry after the rapture. This means that they get converted to the faith one week and become to most important prophets that the world has ever seen the next week without training in the Word of God and a deep relationship with Jesus and God that can only be developed in depth over years of faith, trials and patience.

If these two prophets are alive on earth today, which I know for sure that they are, they are holy, righteous and already walking in the prophetic in training. As holy followers of Jesus would they deserve to miss the so called pre tribulation rapture so they can stay back to judge the world? The most important messengers would not deserve to miss a rapture and so it only makes sense that no Christian leaves earth until they do.

Malachi 4 (New King James Version) The Great Day of God

1 "For behold, the day is coming,

Burning like an oven,

And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble.

And the day which is coming shall burn them up,"

Says the LORD of hosts,

" That will leave them neither root nor branch.

2 But to you who fear My name

The Sun of Righteousness shall arise

With healing in His wings;

And you shall go out

And grow fat like stall-fed calves.

3 You shall trample the wicked,

For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet

On the day that I do this,"

Says the LORD of hosts.

4 " Remember the Law of Moses, My servant,

Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel,

With the statutes and judgments.

5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet

Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.

6 And he will turn

The hearts of the fathers to the children,

And the hearts of the children to their fathers,

Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."

If a prophet like unto Elijah is to be one of the two witnesses as this scripture says, how fair would it be on the world if a rapture happened before Elijah warned the world? When has a world or Israel ever been judged before the warning, but pre tribulation people will have you believe the world will only be judged before they have been warned by the prophets.

The prophets will come BEFORE the great and dreadful day of the LORD verse five above says. So what of the church?

Isaiah 26:20-21 (New King James Version) Take Refuge from the Coming Judgment

20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,

And shut your doors behind you;

Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment,

Until the indignation is past.

21 For behold, the LORD comes out of His place

To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;

The earth will also disclose her blood,

And will no more cover her slain.

The church has to enter into the hiding place as the wrath of God is poured out in the world. You see the earth will also disclose her blood. The two witnesses will be given the power to turn rivers and oceans to blood like Moses did the Nile and so the innocent blood of the prophets will be manifested on the earth and no more will the earth cover the blood of the slain. Michael will rise up in those days.

Daniel 12:1-2

1 "At that time Michael shall stand up,

The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people;

And there shall be a time of trouble,

Such as never was since there was a nation,

Even to that time.

And at that time your people shall be delivered,

Every one who is found written in the book.

2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,

Some to everlasting life,

Some to shame and everlasting contempt.

And at the time your people shall be delivered means that they will see the judgement but like Noah saw the judgement he was delivered from it and lived to tell the story.

The reason pre tribulation doctrine is taught.

People like to think that they will escape judgement. It is an easier doctrine to preach and easier on people who do not want to serve God with all their hearts and money and lives. It's easy to think you will escape the Beast and the Mark and tribulations and yet when Jesus is your Master what have you to fear? Get close to Jesus. You're not leaving till the last trumpet if you have good health now and so take the time to save as many people as you can.

God bless