In this continuing study I take a look at the Rapture Doctrine. Is this a Pre-Trib, as taught in most main stream Churches are do Christians go through the Tribulation Period? I compare Thessalonians to Matthew 24 along with Revelation. I venture into Paul’s writings to explore what he has to say, along with what Yahweh says in Ezekiel. 

In this Part 53 I continue our study in this Matthew 24 verse 41 to 43. 

 In a previous section  Yahshua Messiah speaks of the coming of the Son of Man being just like the days of Noah and Lot. In both illustrations it was the wicked one who was taken in judgment. Luke 17:27 says, “the flood came and destroyed them all.” Luke 17:28-29 says: “It was the same as happened in the days of Lot…and destroyed them all.”  Luke 17:34-36 gives three illustrations of the separation of believers and unbelievers. Then the following question is asked by the disciples: “Where Lord?” This question means where are the unbelievers taken? Yahshua answers: “Where so ever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.” Eagles in this context imply vultures that hover over and scavenge a dead corpse.

Book of Enoch Chapter 90

1.   And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing (of the sheep), and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others received them into their hands, to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period.
2.    And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh.
3.   And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds, and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep.
4.   And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there: and their bones too fell to the earth and the sheep became few.
5.    And I saw until that twenty-three had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their several periods fifty-eight times.

In verse 2 the eagles (Rome, Italy), vultures (Iran), kites (Greece) and ravens (Syria/Iraq) attack the sheep (O.T. saints).

6.    But behold lambs were borne by those white sheep, and they began to open their eyes and to see, and to cry to the sheep.
7.    Yea, they cried to them, but they did not hearken to what they said to them, but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were very exceedingly blinded.
8.     And I saw in the vision how the ravens flew upon those lambs and took one of those lambs, and dashed the sheep in pieces and devoured them.
 9.    And I saw till horns grew upon those lambs, and the ravens cast down their horns; and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of those sheep, and their eyes were opened.
10.   And it looked at them [and their eyes opened], and it cried to the sheep, and the rams saw it and all ran to it.
11.    And notwithstanding all this those eagles and vultures and ravens and kites still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down upon them and devouring them: still the sheep remained silent, but the rams lamented and cried out.
12.   And those ravens fought and battled with it and sought to lay low its horn, but they had no power over it.
   In verse 8, the ‘ravens’ (Syria/Iraq) attack the new converts.

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