Secret Rapture
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Yet we are led to believe that the Christian is taken out of the tribulation in the so called rapture. While the Bible says we will go through the tribulation. So if one goes through it then it is obvious that one does not miss it. Likewise if one is stuck in a traffic jam, then that person has to go through it, he cannot miss it.
Now let us see what the Bible has to say about trial, testing and tribulation.
James ch1:v3-4. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
1 Peter ch1:v6-7. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: (Temptations or trials) That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Here we see that Peter presents an appearing Christ, not a disappearing Church snatched out of it.
The following reading is about Israel coming through the Red Sea. Israel came through it but Pharaohs army was taken away, drowned.
Nehemiah ch9:v9-11. And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day. And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Psalms ch66:v6. He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
Psalms ch66:v10-12. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
Psalms 106: v7-9. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea. Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known. He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
Psalms 106:v10-11 10. And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
We see that God proved and tried Israel as silver is tried and He also brought them through. We see that God brings us through the test and trial, through the tribulation and into blessing and prosperity. He did not take them out He did not lift them away, He brought them through it.
In the book of Daniel we read about three Hebrew’s who would not bend or bow down, or worship the image of gold were thrown into a burning fiery furnace. God could have delivered them from the furnace, but He didn’t, He brought them through it.
Daniel ch3:v24-26. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellers, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
We see that God delivered them, He did not take them out of the furnace of affliction and the Lord Jesus walked with them, all they lost were their chains and they came through it, they were not snatched out of it.
Isaiah ch43:1-3. But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel,
Isaiah ch13:v9. Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Who are going to be taken when the Lord cometh. We can see in the verse above that the sinners are the ones who are destroyed and removed. So we can see that the Bible is very clear as to who will be removed. How any Minister can say the opposite is hard to comprehend.
Zechariah ch13:v8-9. And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
We can see in the above verse that two parts would be cut off and die, while the third part shall be left and also refined.
Matthew ch13:v36-43. Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 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. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
So we see in the above verses that it was the wicked that are taken and cast into the furnace of fire at the end of the world, better rendered the end of the age. So we see that only the righteous remained to shine as the sun.
Matthew ch13:47-49. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,We again see in the above verse that the wicked are taken away, while the righteous remain to inherit the earth. There is one thing we must remember, the kingdom of heaven is not in heaven. The heavenly kingdom is composed of an earthly realm and earthly people living by heavenly or divine principles