Why Can't The Rapture Be Post-trib?

[Music] you're listening to search the Scriptures daily a program in which we encourage everyone who desires to know God's truth to look to God's Word for all that is essential for salvation and living one's life in a way that is pleasing to him if you're a new listener to our program we have for a number of weeks now in this segment in this particular segment of our program search the Scriptures daily we've been discussing Dave Hunt's book when will Jesus come subtitled compelling evidence for the soon return of Christ Dave for the last couple of weeks we've been giving reasons why the church must be removed I'm I'm sure many of our listeners or at least some of our listeners the church being removed you know I know when I came to Christ as a new believer at the rapture coming out of Roman Catholicism the rapture was not a teaching that we had any idea about I was clueless about it well the Catholic Church of course does not teach the rapture it wouldn't work because purgatory right you have to spend different lengths of time in purgatory so you couldn't possibly resurrect everybody the rapture is a resurrection right so how could you resurrect everyone at the same time and you go immediately to be with Christ right so we're the purgatory would doesn't doesn't work well with that please anyway you're talking about remove the you're talking about the church being removed from this earth for the great tribulation correct right and that would be the beginning of the 70th week of Daniel and that's the catalyst that starts it off so that's one of the reasons another reason is that the Saints have to be in heaven to come with Christ right that's the second coming right so it has to be the event that's needed to bring the Antichrist immediately on the scene to institute the covenant of peace with Israel you have time we probably talked about this in depth but just very briefly how are you going to unite the world under one man politically religiously all the world is going to worship this man how are you going to bring that about there is no possible way except the rapture if 100 million I think that might be at least a hundred million real Christians out of two billion professing Christians if they suddenly vanish from this earth you we can't imagine the terror that would be on this earth and a man arises immediately with all the power of Satan can do lying signs and wonders he says I know where they went take my mark that will be the pledge that you won't leave I don't know the various scenarios that there would be a number of possibilities but the fact is that the earth is terrified and they are all United Muslims and Israelis Baptists and Presbyterians atheists and Christians because there will be a lot of Christians left behind so b-boy is that I thought everybody goes who's a Christian goes in the wrench well maybe my I was careless with my language a lot of professing Christians thank you people who call themselves Christians who don't really know the Lord they call themselves Christians but they have no intention of following the Bible following what Jesus Christ said either his example or his teaching therefore they are not they're not Christians the person preventing the Antichrist from rising according to 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 you must be taken out of the way and of course that person is the Holy Spirit who inhabits the church and you can look to Ephesians 2:20 - in 1st Corinthians 6:19 what talks about well the latter verse talks about us being the temple of the Holy Spirit yeah we went over that - I guess Tom I guess we give you a little review here in John 7:37 it says on the last day the great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried saying if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink and out of his innermost being will flow rivers of living water and then John as this commentary this spake he of the holy spirit which they that believed on him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified so although the Holy Spirit came upon the prophets and inspired them in the past yet David prayed and Psalm 51 taking out thy Holy Spirit from me now at some churches sing that please don't sing that if you're a Christian it's not biblical that was biblical for David because the Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified but now he and Wells us so well we're sealed until the day of resurrection so he cannot leave us absolutely you can't remove the Holy Spirit because he is omnipresent you can't remove God God is the only one who could keep Satan from putting his man in power Antichrist so but you can't remove God you can't remove the Holy Spirit he's God he's omnipresent what is Paul talking about he's talking about as you mentioned tom the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the church permanently not to come and go but we are sealed by him we belong to him and the church will have to be removed to remove that presence that new presence of the Holy Spirit that is on this earth for the first time since the day of Pentecost furthermore the scripture says that the Antichrist is given authority that's by Satan to make war against the Saints now those are the tribulation Saints who come to Christ during the Great Tribulation because the gospel will be preached and to overcome them anyone who does not bow down and worship Him he just killed well that would be the entire church that's good jesus said the gates of Hell cannot prevail against the church the church is the Bride of Christ he's not gonna leave us to be he is not going to leave us to the tender mercies of Antichrist to wipe us all out so that's another reason why we must be removed did you make another point that I never thought about which seems just reasonable to me they say that the church if it were left here when the Antichrist appears they would actively oppose him now that would throw a wrench in the works of his really bringing everybody under his control right away or those being so attracted to him because of the event and because of the solutions that he brings and so on if you've got a prominent active opposition to him on the earth backed by the Holy Spirit exactly he's not gonna make it yeah but of course that must be removed before he can be revealed well you pointed out if let's say conservatively if there were 100 million Christians removed from the earth if they were here that would be a pretty large opposition to to him all right the antichrists well as you point out would destroy the church and you quoted Matthew 16:18 that's another point the only other way to protect the church is to allow Antichrist to kill all the Saints is to remove the church and these Saints these Saints who come after the rapture they are going to be martyred the scripture is very clear on they'll pay for their faith with their lives yeah now out of that day you make a point a post-trib rapture then based on what we've said you say it would be a non-event yeah classic not even because there's nobody left to rapture it's quite clear if you don't take the mark of the beast you can't buy or sell now you're starving to death eating out of garbage pills if you could run fast enough to keep ahead of the world police who are on your tail if you do not bow down and worship His image of course you do either those things the wrath of the Lamb comes upon you so this would only be true believers who would not do that you don't bow down to worship His image you are killed it's that simple can he find you I think he can find you anywhere because Johnny I don't want to try to get into the technology of the thing because we're not sure that but we have a technology to trace everybody and you know you get GPS in a car you don't have to tell Bambi where you are for more information about the berean call call us toll free at our order number or visit our website [Music]

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Length: 9min 50sec (590 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 05 2007