note=new Array(33) note[1]=['Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.','Revelation 16:15',250] note[2]=['This chapter focuses on Israel not on the church; that is why Jesus does not mention a pre-tribulation rapture here. For instance, Jesus says to flee from Judea, not to flee from North America. Another example is that praying that the abomination of desolation does not happen on the Sabbath is not relevant to Christians since we are not under the Mosaic Law.','The argument for Matthew 24',346] note[3]=['In Exodus 19:4 God uses the same metaphor to describe bringing Israel up out of Egypt.',,200] note[4]=[''] note[9]=["Thayer's Greek Definitions"] note[10]=['And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.','Acts 17:10-11',250] note[11]=["Pretrib rapture teachers also warn believers not to be deceived.",,180] note[12]=["Strong´s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible",,173] note[13]=["Webster´s New World Dictionary, 3rd college edition"] note[14]=['The definition of the word ek'] note[15]=['Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.','Revelation 9:14-16',300] note[16]=['And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.','Revelation 16:12-14',300] note[17]=["The promise (that is interpreted as a rapture) was given to the church in Philadelphia, the sixth church, not to the seventh church in Laodicea.",'Revelation 3:7 & 14',270] note[18]=['www.raptureready.com'] note[19]=['For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.','1st Cointhians 2:16',300] note[20]=['σε´ Accusative singular of συ´; thee',"Strong's Concordance",265] note[21]=['If we are at the end of the seven church ages, we should be proclaiming the admonition that God gave to the last church in Laodicea',,240] note[23]=['And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.','Matthew 24:14',290] note[24]=['And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.','Luke 2:1',290] note[25]=['For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.','Matthew 5:18',300] note[26]=['Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:','Matthew 13:5',300] note[27]=["Since eagles do not usually go in quest of carrion, these may actually be vultures.",,207] note[28]=['From www.raptureready.com'] note[29]=['This is from www.Raptureme.com'] note[30]=['www.pretribulationrapture.com/pretrib/article36.htm'] note[31]=['Escape: <εκφευ´γω (ek-fyoo'-go)> to flee out. The prefix <ek> is a primary preposition denoting origin. The root <pheugo> means to run away (literally or figuratively); by implication to shun; by analogy to vanish.

The word is translated in the KJV as "escape" or "flee". You will miss Jesus' warning if you eisegete escape to mean being taken up in a Pretribulation Rapture.',"Strong's Concordance:",350] note[32]=['Reading his beliefs into the interpretation without real scriptural support.',,300] note[33]=['This was cut and paste from www the.propheticyears.com',,220] note[35]=['Actually, there were many events that must happen during the Time of the Gentiles, but that is another study.',,280] note[36]=['The definite artical the is in the origional Greek text.',,180] note[37]=["While both Jesus and Paul talk about the antichrist, abomination of desolation, and the need to persevere till the end. We will limit this study to their actual descriptions of the Lord's second coming.",,300]