PRETRIBULATION PREMILLENARIANS
Pastor J. C. O’Hair
A very interesting question is asked in Luke 18:8: . . . “Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?”
Can you answer this question? Will there be faith on earth when the Son of man comes? The Son of man will surely visit this earth again and it will not be a short visit.
The Greek construction of this question undoubtedly calls for a negative answer. The Son of man will not find faith. Note in this same Gospel of Luke what Christ said: “As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.” “. . . the flood came, and destroyed them all.” (Luke 17:26 and 27).
Aside from the faith of Noah and his family, there was not much faith on the earth in the days of Noah. There was much lawlessness and such violence that God brought an end to it all by an awful judgment. There will be more lawlessness when the Son of man comes back to this earth. (II Thessalonians 2:1 to 12 - Matthew 24:27 to 31). Think what the dragon, the beast and the man of sin are to do.
If the Son of man will not find faith on earth when He comes, then He will not find His Church (Body) here. The reason why Christ, as the Son of man, will not find faith on earth, is because the Church will have been removed to heaven.
Concernin the coming of Christ for His Church, we have in I Corinthians 15:51 to 53 the truth of the “MYSTERY” coming of Christ when the living members of the Church will be changed, but will not sleep. Read these three verses with I Thessalonians 4:13 to 18 and Philippians 3:20 and 21.
Intelligent, spiritual obedient Christians are looking for the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ will call the Church to meet Him above and that coming is imminent, not determined by prophesied political events, not in fulfillment of Old Testament prophesied signs. Otherwise, it would not be a mystery; neither could it be considered imminent until all the prophesied events were taking place. Setting dates by “signs” and the “mystery” appearing of Christ are irreconcilable.
If the Lord Jesus should call His Church to glory today, He would find on earth the greatest number of Christians who ever lived on this earth at any one time. But in thus calling His Church to meet Him in the heavenlies, He would not come down to earth as the Son of man.
According to the “revelation” truth for the “Church of the Mystery” (Ephesians 3:4 to 9), Christ is not the Son of man to the Church, which is His Body, and Christ is not coming to the earth as the Son of man, until the Church has been taken to glory and the political world and the religious world head up under the beast and the false prophet, the Antichrist. There is a great difference between the rapture of the Church and the King’s coming to earth.
Now note the awful judgment and doom of a Christless civilization in II Thessalonians 1:7 to 10: “And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power, When He SHALL HAVE COME to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.”
These are solemn words, but the fulfillment of them will be far more solemn.
In II Thessalonians 2:10, “WHEN HE SHALL COME” should be “WHEN HE SHALL HAVE COME.”
The coming tribulation is prophesied. “The Church of the Mystery,” the hope and calling and rapture were not prophesied. For this reason and for the truth of Luke 18:8 and II Thessalonians 1:10 the Church will not be in the tribulation. Israel and the Christ-rejecting nations will be (II Thessalonians 2:9 to 11). Christ in the tribulation, will come to redeem Israel. (Luke 21:25 to 33). Therefore, members of Christ’s Body, should be “Pretribulation Premillenarians.”
What is the Gospel?
Believing Christ died, that’s
HISTORY.
Believing Christ died for YOUR sins
and rose again, that’s SALVATION.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel
which the preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you,
unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all
that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the
scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures. 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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