3 Post-Trib Rapture Contradictions

(This is copied from a pdf on kingjamesvideoministries.com on 12 post-trib problems).

Here are 3 major contradictions in the post-trib rapture heresy.

1. Peace from God?

Romans 1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Lord gives all Christians PEACE. Every single one of the Pauline epistles begins with this promise of PEACE for a saved Christian. (See also 1 Corinthians 1:3, 2 Corinthians 1:2, Galatians 1:3, Ephesians 1:2, Philippians 1:2, Colossians 1:2, 1 Thessalonians 1:1, 2 Thessalonians 1:2, 1 Timothy 1:2, 2 Timothy 1:2, Titus 1:4, and Philemon 1:3.)

This promise of “peace from God” STOPS when you get to the book of HEBREWS! Why?

Revelation 6:3 ¶ And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

Revelation 6:4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

Please notice that the “he” in verse 3 is a reference to the Lamb, who is JESUS CHRIST! (Read

Revelation 5 for proof.)

Problem: Paul writes to Christians and promises us PEACE from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus

Christ. Yet Revelation 6:4 shows that Jesus (i.e., the Lamb) opens a seal which takes PEACE from the earth. So, which one is it? Did Paul lie, or are the Christians gone before Revelation 6 takes place?

2. The mark of the beast vs eternal security

Revelation 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the

beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

Revelation 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

Revelation 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

There are NO exceptions to this judgment. “Any man” and “whosoever” worships the beast and takes his mark, will face God's WRATH. But, what about a Christian?

Ephesians 1:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Ephesians1:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

God SEALS a Christian and PROMISES them eternal life. He saves US; we cannot save ourselves!

Problem: Revelation 14:9-11 says that anyone who worships the beast, and takes the mark, will face God's wrath. But Ephesians 1:13 and 4:30 both say that a Christian is SEALED and promised eternal life. So which one is it?

3. The temple in Jerusalem

2 Thessalonians 2:3 ¶ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

2 Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

2 Thessalonians 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

Matthew 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Matthew 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

The Bible is crystal clear that there will be a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem, where the Antichrist will one day sit on a throne and claim to be God. But how does this work for Christians today, when the Bible teaches that our BODIES are the temple of God?

1 Corinthians 3:16 ¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Problem: If a Christian's BODY is the temple of God, how can the Antichrist sit on a throne inside of Christians?