The Rapture!
The man of Lawlessness/Abaddon/Apollyon/The anti-christ has to be revealed before we are raptured.
2 Thess 2:2 "Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him.......3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, (Abadon means Destruction)
Revelation 9 The 5th Trumpet 1st WOE Abaddon/Apollyon/The anti-christ is released from the pit.
Revelation 10 The 2 Witnesses are called out. (The Angel is a TYPE/Model/Image.....His head is Christ in the Clouds, His body is the Clouds, his legs are the 2 Witnesses the 2 pillars of FIRE!)
Revelation 11 The 2 Witnesses are Forerunners of Christ.
Their testimony is 3 1/2 years like Christ's. 3 1/2+3 1/2 = 7
They bring forth judgement like Christ will bring when HE comes.
They die in Jerusalem like Christ died.
Rev 11:7 "And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them"
1 Thess 4:
15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
REV 11:11
10 and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry......
1 Thess 5:3
3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
REV 11:12 (They raise from the dead after 3 1/2 days like Christ did.) 3 1/2+3 1/2 = 7
"Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them." (NOTE: Cloud)
1 Thess 4:
16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. (The 2 Witnesses)
17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds.... (Clouds)
REV 11:13 "And at that hour there was a great earthquake,"
What happened when Christ rose from the dead?
Matthew 27
52 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
REV 11:15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” (The 7th Trumpet last trump/3rd Woe)
1 Cor 15:52
"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."
