>>20036105The rapture is imminent.
>>20036118>>20036121John 14:1-3
1 Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many rooms; if that were not so, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again and will take you to Myself, so that where I am, there you also will be.
Titus 2:13
looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
Revelation 3:10
Because you have kept My word of perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of the testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who live on the earth.
The rapture is the blessed hope where Jesus takes us out of the world because the Holy Spirit dwells within us.
2 Thessalonians 2:7-8
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is removed. 8 Then that lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will eliminate with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;
1 John 4:4
You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
The Great Tribulation is a time of God’s wrath. Christians will not be present because we are not appointed to wrath.
Revelation 16:1
Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
The rapture and the second coming are two separate events. You can’t have a blessed hope for the darkest day that all of creation will ever experience.
