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EKnight:
I am reading Exposing the "Secret Rapture" and Ray talks about indignation vs. tribulation.  And the scriptures speak of a "day" or the "day" of indignation.  Is this day, like the "day of the Lord", a specific day or is this an ongoing wrath of God?

"Deaden, then, your members that are on the earth: prostitution, uncleanness, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry, because of which the indignation of God is coming on the sons of stubbornness ..." (Col. 3:5-6).

"Let no one be seducing you with empty words, for because of these things the indignation of God is coming on the sons of stubbornness" (Eph. 5:6).

"Yet, in accord with your hardness and unrepentant heart you are hoarding for yourself indignation in the day of indignation and revelation of the just judgment of God ..." (Rom. 2:5).

"Progeny of vipers! Who intimates to you to be fleeing from the impending indignation?" (Matt. 3:7).

You see? It's like it is yet to be.

Eileen

mharrell08:

--- Quote from: EKnight on May 02, 2009, 07:10:06 PM ---I am reading Exposing the "Secret Rapture" and Ray talks about indignation vs. tribulation.  And the scriptures speak of a "day" or the "day" of indignation.  Is this day, like the "day of the Lord", a specific day or is this an ongoing wrath of God?
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The day of the Lord and the day of God's wrath & indignation are one in the same...it has not begun yet. Everyone will know when it does...



Marques

EKnight:
So when Christ returns to reign on earth, God's wrath begins?

Eileen

aqrinc:

Hi Eileen,

Check out this, i just posted it in another thread by Arc.

http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,9895.msg83979.html#msg83979

george. :)

mharrell08:

--- Quote from: EKnight on May 02, 2009, 07:32:55 PM ---So when Christ returns to reign on earth, God's wrath begins?

Eileen
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Yes...next to the Lake of Fire series, the Secret Rapture paper is probably Ray's most detailed study on the Day of the Lord (Christ's return).

Excerpt from 'Exposing Secret Rapture Theory' (http://bible-truths.com/rapture.htm):

PROOF FOR WHEN THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME
Let us be clear, that the "day of the Lord" is the time period of Christ’s return to this earth to punish Babylon the Great and to pour out His righteous indignation on her (and on those nations who follow and worship her) for her evil crimes of inhumanity and blasphemy. Here is the order of events (Mat. 24:29-30). It’s as simple as one, two, three:

"Immediately AFTER the affliction [great affliction, or great tribulation--ver. 29], of those days ...

"... the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not be giving her beams, and the stars shall be falling from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken ...

"And THEN shall appear the sign of the Son of Mankind in heaven, and then all the tribes of the land shall grieve, and they shall see the Son of Mankind coming on the clouds of heaven with power and much glory."

The "day of the Lord," the day that the Lord comes, clearly is "after" the great affliction, and "after" the heavenly signs. The book of Joel gives us a second confirmation:

"Alas! Alas! Alas for the day! For near is the DAY OF THE LORD.

And as devastation from Him Who-Suffices is it coming" (Joel 1:15).

"For coming is the DAY OF THE LORD! A day of darkness and gloominess. A day of clouds and murkiness" (Joel 2:2).

"The heavens quake, The sun and the moon are somber, and the stars gather in their brightness ... before His army [Rev. 19:11] (Joel 2:10) ...

"And He will spare His people" (2:18).

"And I will give MIRACLES IN THE HEAVENS above, And signs on the earth, Blood and fire and pillars of smoke, The sun shall be turned to darkness, And the moon to blood (2:30-31), BEFORE the coming of the DAY OF THE LORD, the great and fearful day" (2:30-31).

So we have this event neatly book-ended with references to the "great affliction" and the "heavenly signs." Matt. 24:29 clearly tells us that "immediately AFTER" the great affliction or tribulation of those days, the signs in the sun, moon and stars occur, followed by the return of Christ--the day of the Lord. And Joel 2:31 clearly tells us that the signs in the heavens occur "BEFORE" the coming of the day of the Lord. As to the chronology of these grand events, there can be no honest dispute--the day of the Lord does not include the great tribulation, but comes after the great tribulation, and after the heavenly signs.


Hope this helps,

Marques

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