Thread: Questions about the Rapture

Originally Posted by Nikos

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The chart is wrong Nikos. The OT saints were resurrected at Jesus resurrection. That was 2000 years ago.
Your chart says they are resurrected with the so called "tribulation saints."

And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom,
and the earth shook, and the rocks were split,
and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints (OT saints), who had fallen asleep were raised,
and coming out of the tombs after after His (Jesus) resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many (Matt 27:51-53).

TIMETABLE OF PROPHETIC EVENTS

--The Cross
--His Resurrection--
(Appx 40 days later)
--The Ascension

Compromise and eventual Apostacy
2 Thessalonians 2:3
2 Timothy 4: 3-4
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This downward trend begins shortly
after Christ's ascension and has
continued to our modern day. The
"falling away" will eventually result
in "mainstream Christianity's
acceptance of the Anti-Christ, his
one-world religion, and his one world
economic system of world commerce
which will result in willingly taking his mark.

---- 7-Year Tribulation -------

--Anti-Christ Establishes covenant with Israel (Dan 9:27)
--Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (Rev 6)
--Abomination of Desolation (Dan 11:31 & 12:11, Rev 13:5)

---- Last 3.5 years of Tribulation begins ----

--Mark of the Beast / One-World Religion (Rev 13:13-18)
--All who reject the Mark are ordered to be executed (Rev 13:15)
(Multitudes of Jews and Christians are butchered)
--Servants of God are sealed in their foreheads, the two witnesses minister,
the 21 judgments of God's wrath are poured out upon the wicked, etc.----

---- The 7 years are coming to a conclusion with the last 3.5 years coming to a close ----

--The Rapture occurs / Second coming--
--Battle of Armageddon--

---- Millennial Kingdom ----

--Christ becomes King (Rev 11:15 & 20:6)--
--Sheep and Goats Judgment (Matt 25:31-34)--
--Judgment Seat (Bema) of Christ (2 Cor 5:10)--
--Marriage Supper of the Lamb (Rev 19: 6-9)--

---- The Millennial Kingdom is coming to a conclusion ----
(Thousand years comes to a completion)

--Satan is loosed from his prison (Rev 20:7)--
--He leads a rebellion against the saints and the beloved city (Rev 20:8-9)--
--Satan is Cast into the Lake of Fire (Rev 20:10)--
--Great White Throne Judgment (Rev 20:11-15)--
--New Heavens and Earth (2 Peter 3:12-13)--
--New Jerusalem (Revelation 21)--

----ETERNITY-----

HALLELUJAH!

And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom,
and the earth shook, and the rocks were split,
and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints (OT saints), who had fallen asleep were raised,
and coming out of the tombs after after His (Jesus) resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many (Matt 27:51-53).

MANY not all. An indefinite number Many bodies of the saints that slept arose [were raised], and came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." Matthew is the only gospel writer who mentions this event. We know nothing about this event except for what is said here. They were raised up bodily and came out of their graves. These who were raised were "saints" (believers), not unsaved people. They appeared to many people in Jerusalem. Whether these saints were raised like Lazarus, only to die again, or whether they were raised up in a permanent resurrection body is not stated.