Evidence of Pre-Trib Rapture in Matthew Chapter 10
Matthew 10:21-23
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death and the father the child and the children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death And you shall be hated of all [men] [invisible women] for my name's sake but RR they [invisible women] that endure to the end shall be saved But when they persecute you in this city flee ye into another for truly I say to you, you shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of Mortals be come
Comments: Matthew 10:22 During the Dispensation of Grace (time of “Christ in You”) whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, whoever believes on the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved, whoever confesses with their mouth and believes in their heart shall be saved. But during the Time of Jacob’s Trouble/The Great Tribulation whoever endures to the end shall be saved.
Believing to be saved and enduring to the end to be saved both require faith but are not synonymous. These speak of two distinctly separate time periods and are evidence of a pre-tribulational harpazo [rapture]. Before the harpazo, one believes unto salvation. After the harpazo, one must endure to the end to be saved.
Matthew 10:23 This verse speaks to the fugitive status of believers during the seven years immediately preceding the visible and physical return of Christ at the 2nd Coming. The Time of Jacob’s Trouble/The Great Tribulation will not begin until after the harpazo.
Jocelyn Andersen is the author of several non-fiction books, including, Redemption: Bible Prophecy Simplified, a Study of HOPE.
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