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What do various Scriptures say about this debated subject (All the italics are mine):
1. It is noticeable that Daniels’s 70 weeks’ prophecy (Daniel 9:24-27) starts with “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city …”. As Daniel was a Jew and the church had not yet been formed (nor mentioned by name in the OT) therefore the 70 weeks’ prophesy has and will concern Jews.
2. Jeremiah 30:7 “Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.” There is no Bible verse which shows trouble as great as the Tribulation. It is a time described as Jacob’s trouble (i.e. Jewish trouble) and not the church’s trouble.
3. In Matthew 24:16-21 the company who will flee during this “great tribulation” are Jews from Judea and not Christians.
4. In Matthew 24:20 the Jews are told to pray that their flight from Jerusalem will not be on the sabbath day (Saturday) which is different to the first day of the week is the day which belongs to the Church (Acts 20:7).
5. The word wrath is found many times in the NT. It has two translations: “orge” {Strong 3709 from 3713; properly, desire (as a reaching forth or excitement of the mind), i.e. (by analogy), violent passion (ire, or (justifiable) abhorrence); by implication punishment.”} and “thumos” {Strong 2372 from 2380; passion (as if breathing hard)}.
In Revelation there are 10 references to wrath (in one reference both “orge” and “thumos” are used).
“Orge” is used 5 times:
1.1. Rev 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
1.2. Rev 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
1.3. Re 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
1.4. Rev 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
1.5. Re 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
“Thumos” is used 6 times.
2.1. Re 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
2.2. Re 14:19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
2.3 Re 15:1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
2.4 Re 15:7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
2.5 Re 16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2.6 Re 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Also Romans 5:9 makes a great promise “We shall be saved from wrath through Him.”
Considering these verses God’s wrath must at least include the period of wrath on the earth after the church has been raptured to glory. So one of the great promises is that the completed church, the body of Christ, will be with Christ in glory (1Thessalonians 4:13-18) when “the wrath” is poured on the earth during the great tribulation.
6. Further verses are 1Thessalonians 1:10 “And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.” and 1Thessalonians 5:9 “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.” Not only will none of us go through the Tribulation, we shall not even go into it. As seen above, the wrath that Paul describes is the Tribulation, and the apostle tells us that we shall be saved ‘from’ it, i.e., away from it, not out of it. How is that deliverance achieved? It is achieved by God’s Son coming out of heaven at the what is commonly called “the rapture’.
7. In 1Thessalonians 4:13-18 show that the rapture of the Church is capable of being fulfilled at any moment “that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord” (4:15) and is to be a comforting hope “Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” (4:18) so that no distressing prophetic events need to be fulfilled before the Rapture can take place,
8. In Revelation c1-3 the church is mentioned many times but not mentioned once between Revelation 4:1& c19 when the tribulation is described.
9. Promise to the Philadelphia church in Revelation 3:10 “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.” i.e. the great tribulation. The believers would be kept entirely out of it.
10. Unquestionably, the Revelation reveals that the tribulation era will be a time of unequalled judgment and affliction which will put immense pressures upon God’s people who will be on earth during that time. As previously mentioned, Matthew 24:15-21 gives instructions to the Jews as to what to do when “abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place” comes. If Christians are to face those terrible days, then there would probably be some clear guidance in Paul’s and Peter’s writings about what to do in such conditions but there are none. Instead, as mentioned above, we have 1Thessalonians 1:10 and 5:9 that believers in Christ can rejoice in.
11. In Revelation 19:5-21 the marriage of the Lamb to His bride the Church takes place in heaven and that is mentioned before the Lord leads the armies out of heaven to the final battle at the end of the tribulation.
Therefore we conclude and can rejoice that believers in Christ as their Saviour are not only delivered from going to hell but are going to heaven and also will not go through the Tribulation.