(work in progress)
Core Study - 70 Weeks
Milestones to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb
The Marriage Supper Is Not On Earth - 89th Rev.
In the light of II Thess 2:1-4 ESV, the hope is that you teach your children, so that they teach their children, so on and so forth, that before the Lord Christ Jesus returns and we are gathered (Gathered to: a. meet him in the air? b. be taken to the place that he has prepared? c. attend the Marriage Supper of the Lamb? d. follow him into Armageddon?) to Him, there will be a falling away (apostasy/rebellion) and then the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction;....so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
Matt 24:14 ESV
And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
I Cor 15:51-52 NIV
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the *last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
I Thess 4:14-17 NIV
For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord's word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with *the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.​
Matt 22:11-14 ESV
“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Gathered To Him
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Is it probable, for Christ to take all believers off of the Earth, before the Mark of the Beast is implemented and those remaining on the Earth do not notice it?
Would those remaining on Earth, refuse to believe in Christ, then follow, worship and take the Mark of the Beast, after witnessing the gathering/rapture?
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The Falling Away
Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation." (2 Peter 3:3-4 NIV)
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It is within reason that the scoffers are not non-believers. Non-believers are not remotely concerned with the return of the Lord Christ Jesus to Earth. If it's not the non-believers doing the scoffing, then where is the scoffing coming from?
More than likely, the scoffing is originating within the church (from and by the tares). Notice, the scoffers use the word "creation". Believers subscribe to "creation" and non-believers do not.
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II Tim 4:3 AB, For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,...
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The Apostle Paul's Mystery
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The mystery that Paul revealed in 1 Cor 15:51-52 KJV, is what will happen to the Christians that are alive at the coming of the Lord Christ Jesus. Namely, that they would be made incorruptible as they joined in the air those that are dead in Christ.
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Jesus, the Pharisees, Sadducees, Apostles, and Disciples referenced the resurrection of the dead. However, Jesus and the Apostle Paul, referenced the resurrection of the dead and the living.
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The Lord Christ Jesus' reference to "an hour you do not expect" Matt 24:44 KJV, and "I come as a thief" Rev 16:15 KJV, concern the resurrection of the living. These references do not address the resurrection of the dead in Christ/those alive in Christ as one event. The Apostle Paul associates the resurrection of the dead in Christ, with the resurrection of those alive in Christ as one event.
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Revelation 16:15 KJV, "Behold, I come as a thief. ..." Compare with (I Thess 5:2, II Peter 3:10, and Rev 3:3). Take particular note that Jesus' final reference to "I come as a thief" appears in The Book of Revelation after the Seventh Seal is opened and
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