The evidence in the bible for the pre-tribulation harpazo/escape from all is overwhelming.

Genesis 7:17

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.

Where was the escape from the global destruction in Noah’s day? It was HIGH ABOVE THE EARTH. No need for literary creativity here. No need to spiritualize the Word of God here. The “other tribbers” are sorely vexed to explain to us the pre-tribulation believers how exactly it is that this time we will be “kept” high above the earth without the harpazo.

We have already demonstrated that somewhere “up” is the only direction to go during a time of global destruction. Also remember that the Lord used the stories of Noah and Lot as our context for understanding what is going to happen. If someones interpretation strays from the context of the stories of Noah and Lot, their theories default to non-sense.

What have we learned from this little detail in Luke 17:29? We know for a fact that the coming destruction is set in motion by the departure of the righteous. No fancy interpretation skills needed to arrive at this conclusion. That conclusion comes from a straightforward, literal childlike reading of the Word of God.

We also know that we are the bride of Christ waiting for the return of our Bridegroom. We also know that the fall feast days are the only feast days waiting for prophetic fulfillment. We also know that we have been commanded to watch for our Lord’s return, not the tribulation, not the anti-christ, not anything else written in the pages of Revelation.

We have been ordered to watch for the return of Jesus Christ. Anyone telling you some other story today is preaching a “different gospel” from the one we have been taught in the pages of scripture and they should therefore be summarily dismissed.

The gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ. Part of that good news is that He is coming back for us. We are to encourage each other with these Words. We are to comfort one another with these Words. The Lord Himself gave us the words “comfort” and “harpazo” in the same passage of scripture:

1 Thess 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Comfort and the harpazo go hand in hand. That is in extreme juxtaposition with the doctrine of demons taught as the “pre-wrath” and post-tribulational escape from nothing we hear so much about today.

This writer finds no comfort whatsoever from contemplating which way the anti-christ is going to sever my head from my body in the days ahead. The doctrine of demons pre-wrath and post-trib teachings tell you that probable death is what awaits you. Does that comfort you? You connect the dots.

There is an escape from all coming. Our bridegroom is coming back for His bride. The fall feasts will be prophetically fulfilled. There is an event that will provide great hope and comfort today for those who have faith in the Words written about it.

This writer is not the author who told you to be comforted by the thought of the harpazo, JESUS is that author. Be comforted, be encouraged, be hopeful, be pure and holy. Be a wise virgin who has extra oil for her lamps, prepared to watch for her bridegroom for however long He takes to appear.

These are the thoughts this writer has been impressed with today.

grace and peace

Luke 17:26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

The Lord has given me a troubling question for all the naysayers who would have us believe that we will all go through part, most, or all of the time of Jacob’s trouble.

That troubling question is, how much “tribulation” did Noah endure in his days? If the days ahead are going to be just like the days of Noah AND naysayers are right that we will all go through at least part of the tribulation,then we should see some “tribulation” that Noah went through comparable to what we see in the book of revelation, but do we?

Where exactly do we see in Noah’s experience plague, famine, the righteous being hunted down and slaughtered etc? If we are to believe the naysayers that tell us there is no escape from the coming days of hell on earth, shouldn’t we see the things that will happen during the tribulation in Noah’s experience as well?

Well, we don’t. The fact is, we see nada, zip, zero, NOTHING about the description of the days of Noah that would in ANY WAY compare to the days of the Daniel’s 70th week/time of Jacob’s trouble.

Here’s another troubling fact, Noah was in the ark, a place of physical safety while the rest of the world was punished with the flood. So again, I ask you, where was Noah’s “tribulation?” The mid-trib/pre-wrath/post-trib crowd can only respond with a stunning silence.

It’s the same with Lot, where were Lot’s “tribulation” events? If the naysayers are right shouldn’t we see tribulation kinds of events happening to both Noah and Lot? Yea, we should but we don’t, so what can we conclude? The mid-trib/pre-warth/post trib crowds are wrong, dead wrong.

The coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah, and in the days of Noah life went on as usually for everybody right up to the very day that NOAH ENTERED THE ARK. Then all hell broke loose, but not a moment before:

Luke 17:27
People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Noah entered the ark, THEN the flood came and destroyed them all. What part of that don’t people understand? If the coming of the Son of man is going to be just like the days of Noah, then we will enter our “ark” and THEN the “flood” of judgment will come and destroy the world. If Jesus said it he meant it.

If the days ahead are going to be just like the days of Noah, then life will go on as usual until the very day we are physically separated from this world by the walls of our “ark” whatever that is. Since we use the bible to interpret the bible, does this jive with what we are told in Luke 21:36?

36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Yes, it fits like a glove. Noah escaped ALL, Lot escaped ALL and those of us found worthy will escape ALL as well. The how and when of all this are the Lord’s department, but the “what” has been clearly spoken to us.

The wise virgins will keep their lamps full of oil, WATCHING for the Lord and praying in obedience to the command we were given to pray that we may be counted worthy to escape all that’s about to happen and stand before the Son of Man.

It’s going to be a very very bad day for those foolish virgins who only come later, after it is painfully obvious that the bible means what it says in plain language, to knock on the Lord’s door asking to be let in. He will tell them “I don’t know you.”

Today is a day for watching and warning. The Lord dropped these words directly into my heart yesterday. Ask the naysayers to prove their point by comparing the days of Noah and Lot to the days of the tribulation.

If there was no plague famine or flood inside the ark, NONE, then how exactly is it that we should expect these things for ourselves? If people want to argue until they are blue in the face that they will go through Daniel’s 70th week, then perhaps they personally will get what they argue for.

Every day the facts continue to stack up in support of what the bible says at face value. There is an escape from all and we should pray for it. Many will likely not be watching and ready when the escape shows up, so they will go through part or all of the tribulation.

As far as they personally are concerned, they are right to argue that they will go through the tribulation because they probably will, but not everybody will….according to your faith it will be done unto you.

Just imagine what it will feel like to know that some people did escape just as the bible teaches, but you were left behind because your faith and belief placed you in the middle of the tribulation. How will you feel then?

How will all the people feel who bought into the idea that there was no escape even though the bible clearly teaches there is one? Perhaps people need to spend a lot less time listening to their “pastors” and spend more time listening to the Holy Spirit.

I could truly care less about what most men have to say about God. I want to know what God has to say about God. There’s just way too much deception in this world to be listening to naysayers at this late hour. Determine for yourself what you believe and why you believe it. It would be a pity to miss an escape from the worst days this world has ever seen because some man talked you out of it….

34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

There is an escape from all coming. That’s a FACT. There is a worthiness factor attached to it, that also is a fact. Many people will not be counted worthy of this escape from all, just like many people will not make it through the narrow gate that leads to life (Matt 7:13-28), did you ever stop to ask WHY?

It’s become quite a fad in todays so called christianity to cast doubt on whether or not there will be an escape from all. This fad also calls into question how much of the flood Noah escaped. It calls into question how much fire and brimstone Lot had to endure before he escaped. It also calls into question how much the Philadelphia church (Rev 3:10) will be kept from.

The fact is, Noah escape ALL of the flood. Lot escaped ALL of the fire and brimstone. Some people will escape ALL of the coming judgment and some people will be kept from the hour of trial coming on ALL the earth. Those are facts, not my opinions..FACTS straight from God’s mouth as written in the pages of the bible.

According to men’s faith things happen to them. Doubt sticks a rapier through the heart of faith. Doubt is a tool of the devil who has been asking “hath God really said” from the very beginning. Few will escape, and few will be saved because few take the Lord at his word. Few will be “ready” like the virgins of Matt 25. Few will be WATCHING and PRAYING in FAITH at the time of Luke 21:36 is literally fulfilled.

Just before the command to pray to be kept from all in Luke 21, we see this in Luke 18:

Luke 18:8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and … … Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

Belief is a major part of “being.” Men’s disbelief suppresses them, they aren’t blind, its just that they won’t see. What they do not believe, they will not receive. Be careful of what you believe, especially when it conflicts with the commands of God. If we were told to pray that we may be counted worthy to escape all, I would suggest we do it. Silly me?