AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOE
THUS SAITH THE LORD:
“BUT AS THE DAYS OF NOE WERE, SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE. FOR AS IN THE DAYS THAT WERE BEFORE THE FLOOD THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING, MARRYING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY THAT NOE ENTERED INTO THE ARK. AND KNEW NOT UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME, AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY; SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE. THEN SHALL TWO BE IN THE FIELD; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHER LEFT. TWO WOMEN SHALL BE GRINDING AT THE MILL; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHER LEFT”. MATH. 24/37-41.
“AND AS IT WAS
IN THE DAYS OF NOE, SO SHALL IT BE ALSO IN THE DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN. THEY DID
EAT, THEY DRANK, THEY MARRIED WIVES, THEY WERE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY
THAT NOE ENTERED INTO THE
It is commonly presumptuously touted by the pre-tribulation “rapture” theorists from the above scriptures that the meaning is, that Jesus is going to “rapture” (no such word) His “Elect”, take them to Himself without any knowledge of it occurring to anybody else, the remainder being left, “grinding, in bed, and in the field”, the ones “left”, not even “seeing”, or having no knowledge of the event taking place.
Right, for
starters Christ “catching up” His Elect is not an event that is going to done
in secret, in stealth, without anybody else being aware that it is happening:
The greek word for being “caught up” in 1 Thes. 4/17 is, “harpazo”, and means,
“to seize upon, spoil, snatch away, to seize upon with force, to rob; It
denotes an OPEN ACT OF VIOLENCE IN
CONTRAST TO CUNNING AND SECRET STEALING:
The same word is used also in the following scriptures: Acts 8/39, 2 Cor. 12/2,4, and Rev. 12/5.
“AND THEN SHALL APPEAR THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN
HEAVEN: AND THEN SHALL ALL THE
TRIBES OF THE EARTH MOURN, AND THEY SHALL SEE
THE SON OF MAN COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY. AND HE SHALL SEND HIS ANGELS WITH A GREAT
SOUND OF A TRUMPET, AND THEY SHALL
GATHER TOGETHER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS, FROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE
OTHER.” MATH. 24/30-31, MK. 13/27,
Let`s have a little look at another word in the scriptures in Math. 24/37-41, and Luke 17/26-37. “TAKEN”, “PARALAMBANO”, MEANING, TO TAKE: IN MATH. 24/40,41; LUKE 17/34-35, “PARALAMBANO” IN THE PASS. FORM IS USED AS THE OPPOSITE OF “APHIEMI”, TO LET BE. IN THESE VERSES, THOSE WHO ARE TAKEN ARE NOT TO BE MISCONSTRUED AS THOSE WHOM THE LORD FAVOURS, AS IF THEY WERE THE SAME SAINTS SPOKEN OF IN 1 THES. 4/17 WHO WILL BE “CAUGHT UP”, (“HARPAZO”, TO SEIZE, CATCH AWAY, AS IF BY FORCE) TO MEET THE LORD IN THE CLOUDS. THE VERB “PARALAMBANO IN MOST CASES INDICATES A DEMONSTRATION IN FAVOUR OF THE ONE TAKEN, BUT NOT ALWAYS. IN MATH. 4/5,8, IT IS USED OF SATAN TAKING JESUS UP TO TEMPT HIM. IN JOHN 19/16 IT IS USED OF TAKING JESUS TO LEAD HIM TO THE CROSS. THE VERB “PARALAMBANO” IS TO BE CONTRASTED IN MATH. 24/40-41 TO “AIRO”, TO TAKE UP AND AWAY. IT IS USED TO REFER TO THOSE IN THE DAYS OF NOAH WHO WERE TAKEN AWAY, NOT BEING FAVOURED BUT BEING PUNISHED, WHILE NOAH AND HIS FAMILY WERE LEFT INTACT, THEREFORE, IN THIS PASSAGE IN MATH., AND THE PARALLEL PASSAGE IN LUKE, “PARALAMBANO” MUST NOT BE EQUATED TO THE BELIEVERS WHO ARE TO BE “CAUGHT UP” AT THE COMING OF THE LORD FOR HIS SAINTS. IT REFERS RATHER TO THOSE WHO, AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, ARE TAKEN TO DESTRUCTION. THE OTHERS ARE LEFT ALONE (“APHIEMI”) FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENTERING INTO THE BLESSINGS OF CHRIST`S KINGDOM.” Quote, Zodhiates complete word study Dictionary New Testament.
In Luke 17/37, the disciples are asking Jesus, “WHERE LORD”, referring to asking where the ones being TAKEN, are being taken too:
Jesus answers in verse 38 by saying: “WHERESOEVER THE BODY (“SOMA”, CARCASE”) IS, THITHER WILL THE EAGLES (“AETOS”, AN EAGLE OR VULTURE, A SPECIES OF RAPACIOUS BIRDS REPRESENTED AS PREYING ON DEAD BODIES”.) BE GATHERED TOGETHER. AND AGAIN, MATH. 24/28.
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD:
“AND I SAW AN
ANGEL STANDING IN THE SUN; AND HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING TO ALL THE FOWLS THAT FLY IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, COME AND GATHER YOURSELVES TOGETHER
UNTO THE SUPPER OF THE GREAT GOD;
THAT YE MAY EAT THE FLESH OF KINGS, AND THE FLESH OF CAPTAINS, AND THE FLESH OF
MIGHTY MEN, AND THE FLESH OF HORSES, AND OF THEM THAT SIT ON THEM, AND THE FLESH
OF ALL MEN, BOTH FREE AND BOND, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT”. REV. 19/17-18. “AND
THE REMNANT WERE SLAIN WITH THE SWORD OF HIM THAT SAT UPON THE HORSE, WHICH
SWORD PROCEEDED OUT OF HIS MOUTH: AND
ALL THE FOWLS WERE FILLED WITH THEIR FLESH”. REV. 19/21.
The pre-tribulation theorists conjoin the scriptures in Math. 24/37-41 and Luke 17/26-37 with Rev. 3/10. Specifically touting the word “KEEP” TO MEAN JESUS “CATCHING AWAY” HIS “ELECT” “FROM THE HOUR OF TEMPTATION, WHICH SHALL COME UPON ALL THE WORLD, TO TRY THEM THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH”:
THE GREEK WORD
FOR “KEEP” IN REV. 3/10 IS “TEREO”, AND MEANS, A WARDEN, TO KEEP AN EYE ON, TO
GUARD, PROTECT, WATCH OVER, KEEP IN SAFETY, PRESERVE: (if the saints have been taken out of the earth to Heaven here, then
what exactly is it that Jesus has to guard, keep an eye on, protect, preserve,
keep them in safety from in Heaven????????????).
“AND THE VERY GOD OF PEACE SANCTIFY YOU WHOLLY; AND I PRAY GOD YOUR WHOLE SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY BE……..PRESERVED….. (“TEREO”, SAME WORD AS REV. 3/10) BLAMELESS UNTO THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.” 1 THES. 5/23.
“JUDE, THE SERVANT OF JESUS CHRIST, AND BROTHER OF JAMES, TO THEM THAT ARE SANCTIFIED BY GOD THE FATHER, AND……………… PRESERVED………. (“TEREO”, AGAIN, SAME WORD AS REV. 3/10) IN CHRIST JESUS AND CALLED. JUDE 1.
IF LOVING FATHER IS SPEAKING ABOUT THE “CATCHING AWAY”
IN REV. 3/10,………..HOW COME HE DIDN`T SPEAK, USE THE WORD “HARPAZO”???????????????????
WHICH MEANS TO “CATCH AWAY”:
(If you have the fortitude, check out all the other scriptures which mean the same, “tereo”, “to watch, guard, to keep an eye on, to watch, observe attentively, keep the eyes fixed upon, to keep, protect, preserve, keep in safety, to watch vigilantly: Rev. 1/3, 22/7-9; Sept.: Eccl. 11/4; Prov. 23/26). Math. 19/17; John 14/15, 21; 15/10; 1 Tim 6/14; 1 John 2/3, 4; 3/22, 24; 5/2, 3; Rev. 12/17; 14/12; John 8/51, 52, 55; 14/23, 24; 15/20; 17/6; 1 John 2/5; Rev. 3/8, 10; Mk. 7/9; john 9/16. Rev. 2/26; Math. 23/3; 28/20; Acts 21/25; Rev. 3/3; Sept.: Prov. 3/1, 21; 8/34; Math. 27/36, 54; Acts 12/5, 6; 16/23; 24/23; 25/4, 21; 1 John 5/18, Math. 28/4, Rev. 16/15; Sept.: Song 3/3; Sept.: Song 8/11, 12; Eph. 4/3; 2 Tim. 4/7; Jude 1/6; Sept.: Prov. 16/17; 2 Cor. 11/9; 1 Tim 5/22; Ja. 1/27; 1 Thes. 5/23; Jude 1/1; John 17/11, 12; Jude 1/21; John 17/15; Rev. 3/10; Ja. 1/27; Sept.: Prov. 7/5; John 2/10; 12/7; 2 Pet. 2/17; Jude 1/13; 1 Pet. 1/4; 1 /Cor. 7/37.)
THUS SAITH THE LORD:
“AND GOD SAID
UNTO NOAH, THE END OF ALL FLESH IS COME BEFORE ME; FOR THE EARTH IS FILLED WITH
VIOLENCE THROUGH THEM; AND BEHOLD, I WILL DESTROY THEM WITH THE EARTH. MAKE
THEE AN
“AND EVERY
LIVING SUBSTANCE WAS DESTROYED WHICH WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE GROUND, BOTH MAN,
AND CATTLE, AND THE CREEPING THINGS, AND THE FOWL OF THE HEAVEN; AND THEY WERE
DESTROYED FROM THE EARTH: AND NOAH ONLY
REMAINED ALIVE, AND THEY THAT WERE WITH HIM IN THE
LOVING FATHER GUARDED, WATCHED OVER, KEPT AN EYE ON,
PROTECTED, KEPT IN SAFETY, OBSERVED ATTENTIVELY, PRESERVED THE LIVES OF EIGHT
SOULS IN THE
ALL THE OTHERS “KNEW NOT UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME, AND
TOOK THEM ALL AWAY” IN DESTRUCTION:
SO SHALL IT BE AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOE: THE
“EKLEKTOS”, THE ELECT OF LOVING FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST WILL BE KEPT IN
SAFETY, PROTECTED, GUARDED, OBSERVED ATTENTIVELY, WATCHED OVER, KEPT AN EYE
ON,…….PRESERVED…….. “FROM THE HOUR OF TEMPTATION THAT IS TO COME UPON THE WHOLE
WORLD TO TRY THEM THAT DWELL THEREIN” IN THE
ALL OTHERS WILL BE TAKEN IN DESTRUCTION:
THUS SAITH THE LORD:
WHAT ABOUT YOU FRIEND? (HETAIROS)
WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN, ON YOUR DAYS` TOIL JOHN 9/14
AND THE CREATURES OF THE NIGHT, ARE SET TO SPOIL; 2
THES 2/1-9
WILL THE WORK YOU HAVE DONE, STILL REMAIN? 1 COR. 3/14
OR WILL THE SAVAGE BEASTS, PLUNDER AND STAIN;
THE WALL THAT YOU`VE BUILT, IS IT WITH TEMPERED
MORTAR? EZ. 13/10,11,14,15, 22/8
WILL AN ENTRANCE BE GRANTED YOU BY THE PORTER? JOHN
10/3
OR WILL IT CRUMBLE UNDER THE ASSAULT?
HEADING TO BE LOCKED UP IN THE VAULT; 2 PET. 2/9
THE
OR IS IT HOLEY LIKE A WATERING CAN SPOUT; REV 2/6, 2
TIM. 4/3-4, 1 TIM. 1/6
HAVE YOU GONE INTO THE GAPS TO PLUG UP THE BREACH? EZ.
13/5
OR INTO THE CRACKS WILL THE EVIL LEACH; 1 COR. 5/6
HAVE YOU STOOD YOUR WATCH WITH DILIGENT VIGILANCE?
MATH. 24/42,25/13,26/41
OR ARE YOU GUILTY OF SLUMBERING NEGLIGENCE; MATH.
13/25
IS THERE PLENTY OF OIL LEFT IN YOUR LAMP? MATH.
25/1-13
OR PERHAPS YOU THINK YOU HAD BETTER REVAMP; MATH. 3/2,
4/17, MK. 1/15
WHEN THE FLOOD OF DESTRUCTION COMES UPON THE EARTH,
MATH. 24/37-41, 2 THES. 2/3-9
WILL YOU AND YOUR WORK SURVIVE THE DEARTH?
WHAT YOU HAVE GOT PACKED, WILL BE TESTED, JA. 1/13-14
BETTER MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE NOT BESTED; 1 COR.
3/13-17
THE WORK THAT YOU`VE DONE, WILL BE TRIED, MK. 4/17,
MATH. 13/21, JA. 1/1, 1 PET. 4/12
BETTER MAKE SURE YOU`RE NOT GOING TO BE FRIED; 1 COR.
3/17, REV. 21/8
DOES THE
OR HAVE YOU REPENTED AND CHOSE TO LIVE;
AS A MAN THINKS IN HIS HEART, SO HE IS, PRO. 23/7
WILL YOU PAY THE PRICE AND BECOME ONE OF HIS? REV.
12/11, RO. 6/1-14
WHEN THE FLOOD OF DESTRUCTION COMES, WILL YOU FLOAT? 2
THES. 2/10-12
OR HAVE YOU GOT HOLES ALL OVER YOUR BOAT; 2 TIM.
4/3-4, REV. 2/6
HAVE YOU BECOME THE POPULAR CHURCH? REV. 17/1-5
THE WORLD NOT ABANDONING YOU IN THE LURCH;
OR RATHER AS IT SHOULD BE, HATED OF ALL MEN, MATH.
13/13
SEPARATED, CIRCUMCISED, APART FROM ALL THEM; 2 COR.
6/17, HEB. 7/26
THOSE GROVES OF IDOLS IN YOUR HEART YOU`VE HID, EZ
14/3
WILL YOU REPENT, AND DARE TO BE RID?
THE EVIL COMING WILL FIND YOU OUT, JA. 1/14
SO WHY NOT REBUILD, AND BECOME VERY DEVOUT;
I KNOW IT`S A CHALLENGE TO BECOME UNDEFILED, 1 PET.
1/15-16
THAT`S A WHOLE LOT BETTER THAN BEING REVILED;
A BRIDE PREPARED WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE, EPH. 5/27,
REV. 7/14
FOR THE LORD`S GOOD PLEASURE, NOT A HINT OF CRINKLE;
THE NIGHT COMES, WHEN NO MAN CAN WORK, JOHN 9/14
IT`S TIME TO GET BUSY AND NOT TO SHIRK; MATH. 24/45-47
LUKE 12/42-44
THE LORD WILL KEEP (TEREO) YOU IN THE HOUR OF TRIAL,
REV. 3/10
UNLESS………YOU CHOSE TO BE BEGUILED; RO. 6/16
AS THE TORRENT OF UNBRIDLED FILTH IS UNLEASHED. REV.
3/10, 9, 2 THES. 2/1-9
WILL YOU STAND FAST? OR WILL YOU BE BEACHED; 1 TIM.
1/19
LOOK AT THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD RIGHT NOW,
AND GUAGE IN YOUR HEART, THE WRONG THINGS YOU ALLOW;
IS THE
OR IS IT AN
HAVE YOU BEEN LOVING THE LORD ONLY BY HALF? MATH.
15/8, MK. 7/6
IF YOU HAVE, THEN JUST WATCH HIM BURN UP THE CHAFF:
MATH. 3/12, LUKE 3/17
Friend, (“hetairos”) if you think you have your passage booked to Heaven already, and you don`t have to worry, think again, Loving Father commands Holiness and Purity of His people, nothing else: If you think you don`t have to be bothered with “the temptation that is to come upon the whole world to try them that dwell therein”, think again. There is a torrent of unbridled filth to be unleashed, (INDEED IT`S ALREADY HAPPENING, AND MANY ARE BEING TAKEN ON IT`S PATH TO DESTRUCTION), HOW ABOUT THE ANGLICAN AND UNITING CHURCH RATIFYING HOMOSEXUAL PRIESTS FOR STARTERS? WHAT ABOUT THE AOG BRINGING IN A POLICY OF ALCOHOL IS OK, AS LONG AS IT IS TAKEN IN MODERATION, (pity help the poor reformed alcoholics in their fellowships with this one), I SEE THE WATER GETTING MUDDIER BY THE DAY AS RELIGIOUS PRETENDERS SLIP SLIDE INTO DESTRUCTION, TO THE GRAND FINALE OF THE OUTPOURING OF LOVING FATHER`S WRATH AND JUDGMENT: IF THERE IS ANYTHING IN YOU, YOU WILL BE TAKEN: JA. 1/14-15. IF YOU ARE TAKING YOUR UPWARD CALL FOR GRANTED, THINK AGAIN, ONLY THOSE WHO LOVE HIM WITH ALL THEIR HEART MIND AND STRENGTH, THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO WALK THE STRAIT AND NARROW WAY, THOSE WHO FOLLOW AND OBEY HIM ALWAYS, THE PURE IN HEART WILL “ESCAPE THE WRATH THAT IS TO COME”:
ALL THOSE WHO
ARE SNARED IN THE DENOMINATIONAL WEBB,
THE INSTITUTIONALISED, MAN MADE, MAN CONTROLLED, REILGIOUS ABOMINATIONS, WHO
ARE ALL IN CONCURMENT TO UNITE INTO ONE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM,
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD:
“COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, THAT YE BE NOT PARTAKERS
OF HER SINS, AND THAT YE RECEIVE NOT OF HER PLAGUES. FOR HER SINS HAVE REACHED
UNTO HEAVEN, AND GOD HATH REMEMBERED HER INIQUITIES”. REV. 18/4-5.
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD:
“WHEREFORE THE RATHER, BRETHREN, GIVE DILIGENCE TO
MAKE YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE: FOR IF YE DO THESE THINGS, YE SHALL NEVER
FALL”: 2 PET. 1/10. “WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING”.
PHIL. 2/12.
Bevan Kluver,
Ph/Fax 07 55452874,
Website www.straighttalkmin.org
“speaking the truth in love, in the spirit of meekness, earnestly contending for the faith”;
HELPING HIM PREPARE A BRIDE WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE:
HATING EVEN THE GARMENT SPOTTED BY THE FLESH:
I AM SORRY THAT I HAVE MADE THEM, THEIR EVIL, SIN AND VICE,
AND HE CAN AGAIN DESTROY US, NOT ONCE BUT YET AGAIN TWICE,
YET NOT BY ANOTHER FLOOD, HIS RAINBOW COVENANT WITH US NIGH,
BUT WHAT WORSE FATE BEFALLS US, WHEN WICKEDNESS IN US LIES?
YES, HE IS OUR CREATOR, BUT HE CAN DESTROY US JUST AS QUICK,
JUST READ REVELATIONS, BY WHICH WAY, JUST TAKE YOUR PICK;
WHEN HE HAS HAD ENOUGH, AND HIS FINAL JUDGMENT COMES DOWN,
WILL YOU BE LIKE NOAH, WILL YOU FLOAT ABOVE THE GROUND?
DO YOU THINK THAT SIN IS OK, BECAUSE OF HIS LOVING GRACE?
THEN WHAT ABOUT THE MULTITUDE AS THEY LOST THEIR RACE,
A FORM OF LOVING DESTRUCTION, FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE,
ANOTHER LESSON IS COMING, BUT WHICH ONE WILL IT BE?
MANY SAY HE DOESN`T GET ANGRY, BUT SURELY YES HE DOES,
A FLOODING ANGER OF DESTRUCTION WHICH IS DONE IN LOVE,
BUT HE LOVES US SO DEARLY, PROMISING US NEVER AGAIN,
EVEN THOUGH HE KNOWS WELL SIN, THE DESTRUCTION WILL BE NOT RAIN:…………………AMEN:
COMING
Just as a postscript to a previous paper, “AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOE”, the greek word for “coming”, in Math. 24/3, 27, 37, 39, is, “PAROUSIA”, and means, “a being present, a coming to a place, presence, coming or arrival.
“A technical term used for the coming of Christ )Math. 24/3; 1 Cor. 15/23; 1 Thes. 2/19; 2 Thes. 2/8; 2 Pet. 3/4; 1 John 2/28); the Son of Man (Math. 24/27, 37, 39); the Lord (1 thes. 3/13; 4/15; 5/23; 2 Thes. 2/1; ja. 5/7, 8; 2 Pet. 1/16); the day of God (2 Pet. 3/12). The term “parousia” refers to the Second Coming of the Lord, BUT, THE SECOND COMING IS NOT JUST ONE EVENT TAKING PLACE AT A PARTICULAR TIME. RATHER IT IS MADE UP OF A SERIES OF EVENTS. We can understand which event is referred to only by a careful examination of the context in which the terms “parousia” or “erchomai” to occur.
The comings of the Lord spoken of prior to His death and resurrection may be distinguished as follows:
(A) His coming
after His death to confirm the faith of His disciples. In this instance
“proaxo”, the fut. Tense of the verb “proago, to lead or go before, is used
(Math. 26/32; Mk. 14/28). In John 16/16 “opsesthe”, the fut. Tense of the verb
“horao”, to see, or “optanomai”, to see
with one` physical eyes, is used.
(B) His coming to enter into a closer spiritual fellowship with His disciples. As the Risen One, He was to return to them and to abide with them continually (John 14/16-22) manifesting His presence through the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, and thereby guiding, teaching and sustaining them by His grace working in their hearts (John 14/16, 17; 15/26; 16/14). In this sense the Lord Jesus regarded His coming again as a vital experience to be shared by all believers in later generations. He thereby signified His abiding presence in the hearts of believers and corporately in the Christian church.
(C) His coming to remove His disciples from their toils and struggles on earth and to take them to the place He would prepare for them in His Father`s house (John 14/2, 3, “that where I am, there ye may be also”). This is what is referred to as the “parousia” of the Lord in 1 Thes. 4/15. This coming is going to be startling and unexpected. The Lord will come to raise the dead in Christ, to transform the living who have believed, and to take them all to be with Him (1 Cor. 15/50-54; 1 Thes. 4/13-17). This will constitute the Day of Christ or the Day of the Lord Jesus (1 Cor. 5/5; 2 Cor. 1/14; Phil. 1/6, 10; 2/16; 2 Thes. 2/2). Simultaneously, however, there will begin a time of great suffering for those unbelievers who are alive at the time of the “parousia”. This is called the Day of the Lord (Is. 2/12; 13/6, 9; Ez. 13/5; 30/3; Joel 1/15; 2/1, 11, 31; 3/14; Amos 5/18, 20; Obad. 1/15; Zeph. 1/7, 14; Zech. 14/1; Mal. 4/5; Acts 2/20; 1 Thes. 5/2; 2 Pet. 3/10). The phrases “that day” or “the day” or “the great day” occur more than seventy-five times in the OT. All these passages speak of the period of the Tribulation and include judgments that extend OVER A PERIOD OF TIME PRIOR TO THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD JESUS (which itself constitutes another time of His coming). Zech. 14/1-4 makes it clear that the events of the Second Advent are included in the program of the “Day of the Lord”. 2 Pet. 3/10 appears to include the entire millennial age within this period.
(D) The coming of the Lord at the end of the seven-year tribulation period is what the Lord describes in Math. 24/15-22, 32-34; Mk. 13/14-23, 29, 30 (cf. Luke 19/41-44; 21/20-23, 32, 33; 23/28-30). The judgment of the Lord is designated as a specific coming by the verb “elthe”, the aor. Subjunctive of “erchomai” indicating that this specific coming is prior to the final judgment of the world. This coming is also called “apokalupsis, revelation (Ro. 2/5; 8/19; 1 Cor. 1/7; 1 Pet. 1/7, 13; 4/13) and “epiphaneia”, manifestation (2 thes. 2/8; 1 Tim. 6/14; 2 Tim. 1/10; 4/1, 8; tit. 2/13). This is going to be the Last Day and will bring about the termination of the existing order of things.
THUS THE COMING OF THE LORD OR HIS “PAROUSIA” CONSISTS OF SEVERAL COMINGS WHICH ARE IN REALITY STAGES OF A CONTINUOUS PROCESS”. Quote Zodhiates Complete Word Study New Testament.
The purpose for this postscript to “As it was in the days of Noe”, is basically to explain that the word “coming” in the scriptures in question actually means any manifestation of His presence in the form of The Holy Spirit, AS WELL AS REFERRING TO HIS ACTUAL SECOND COMING: THEREFORE, WE CANNOT ATTRIBUTE THE USE OF THE WORD “PAROUSIA” (COMING) IN MATH. 24/3, 27, 37, 39 TO LITERALLY MEAN HIS “SECOND COMING”.
(Think about this, how about His “coming” in the above scriptures for the purpose of “tereo”, to guard, keep an eye on, watch diligently, keep in safety, protect, preserve His choice, “Eklektos”, His “Elect”, the “faithful ones”, “the few”, “the Holy Remnant”, “from the hour of temptation that is to come upon the whole world to try them that dwell therein”).
Bevan Kluver,
Straight Talk Ministries,
Ph/Fax 07 55452874,
“speaking the truth in love, in the spirit of meekness, earnestly contending for the faith;”
HELPING HIM PREPARE A BRIDE WITHOUT SPOT OR BLEMISH:
HATING EVEN THE GARMENT SPOTTED BY THE FLESH:
Footnote: Dr Zodhiates notates the following: [SIMULTANEOUSLY, HOWEVER, THERE WILL BEGIN A TIME OF GREAT SUFFERING FOR THOSE UNBELIEVERS WHO ARE ALIVE AT THE TIME OF THE “PAROUSIA”].
This statement attesting to the pre-tribulation theory, (doctrine), that believers are going to be taken out of the world BEFORE THE GREAT TRIBULATION:
Straight Talk Ministries does not concur with this doctrine; we find no scripture to validate such, actually, quite to the contrary: And we have yet to experience any leadership anywhere who can prove, (by scripture, according to Holy Divine Writ), that believers are not going through the great tribulation: As a matter of fact, if you peruse Straight Talk papers, you will find we go to quite some lengths to disprove the “pre-tribulation rapture theory” as heresy, and, we believe succeed in doing so.
ALL THIS APART FROM THE FACT, THAT LOVING FATHER HAS NOT SHOWN ME, OR SAID ANYTHING WHICH WOULD TELL ME CONTRARY TO WHAT WE HAVE PENNED, AS A MATTER OF FACT, IT WAS HE WHO SHOWED US THE DOCTRINE WHICH WE ATTEST TOO CONCERNING THE “UPWARD CALL”.
Again, the above
paper is not to dispute the time of the “upward call”, IT IS TO DEMONSTRATE
THAT THE WORD “COMING” IS NOT JUST REFERRING TO ONE EVENT FROM THE SON OF GOD,
BUT MANY SUCH REVELATIONS OF CHRIST TO HIS BELOVED.