 
📘THE 20 BIBLICAL BELIEFS WRITTEN AS STATED IN THE BIBLE & THE DANGER OF A FAKE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE.
📘 Anyone who disagrees with the statements below must examine their theology by Scripture, not by later traditions.
How can someone trust a doctrine that appeared in the 1800s and ignore the teaching of the apostles and the early church fathers who lived closest to Christ and the original faith?
📘 MY 20 BIBLICAL BELIEFS — WRITTEN AS “THE BIBLE STATES.”
No systems.
No traditions.
No dispensationalism.
No covenant theology.
Just Scripture → sequence → fulfillment.
1. SATAN & THE FALLEN ANGELS
The Bible states Satan fell through pride before Eden (Isaiah 14; Ezekiel 28).
The Bible states that a group of angels followed him (Revelation 12:4).
The Bible states Satan alone deceived Eve (Genesis 3:1–6).
2. SATAN’S JEALOUSY OF HUMANITY
The Bible states God gave dominion over the earth to humanity, not angels (Genesis 1:26–28; Psalm 115:16).
The Bible states angels are ministering spirits sent to serve those who inherit salvation (Hebrews 1:14).
The Bible states Satan fell through pride, seeking a position not given to him (Isaiah 14:12–15; Ezekiel 28:17).
The Bible states Satan attacked humanity immediately, seeking to corrupt the one given dominion (Genesis 3:1–5).
The Bible states humanity is destined to rule the world to come and judge angels (Psalm 8:4–6; Hebrews 2:5–8; 1 Corinthians 6:3).
3. THE WATCHERS
The Bible states that a different group of angels sinned in Genesis 6 (Genesis 6:1–4).
The Bible states these angels left their proper domain (Jude 1:6).
The Bible states God imprisoned them immediately (2 Peter 2:4).
The Bible states these angels produced the Nephilim (Genesis 6:4).
4. BEFORE CREATION
The Bible states the Lamb was foreknown before the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:20).
The Bible states the Kingdom was prepared from the foundation of the world (Matthew 25:34).
The Bible states God’s works were finished from the foundation of the world (Hebrews 4:3).
The Bible states names were written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8).
5. CREATION
The Bible states God created the heavens, the earth, and humanity in His image (Genesis 1:1–27).
The Bible states God gave humanity dominion and a mandate (Genesis 1:28).
6. THE FALL
The Bible states sin entered through one man, and death through sin (Romans 5:12).
The Bible states creation was subjected to futility (Romans 8:20).
7. ADAM, EVE, AND THE FIRST SACRIFICE
The Bible states the serpent deceived the woman (Genesis 3:13; 1 Timothy 2:14).
The Bible states Adam was not deceived but knowingly disobeyed God’s command (1 Timothy 2:14; Genesis 3:6).
The Bible states Adam knowingly disobeyed God’s command (Genesis 3:6).
The Bible states that sin and death entered the world through Adam (Romans 5:12).
The Bible states God made garments of skin for Adam and Eve, requiring the first shedding of blood (Genesis 3:21).
8. THE PROMISE OF THE SEED
The Bible states that the Seed of the woman will crush the serpent (Genesis 3:15).
The Bible states that the blessing to all nations comes through Abraham’s Seed (Genesis 22:18; Galatians 3:16).
9. THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS
The Bible states the Law was added because of transgressions until the Seed came (Galatians 3:19).
The Bible states the prophets testified beforehand of Christ’s sufferings and glory (1 Peter 1:10–11).
10. THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST
The Bible states the Word became flesh (John 1:14).
The Bible states Christ died for sins, was buried, and rose on the third day (1 Corinthians 15:3–4).
The Bible states He ascended and sat at the right hand of God (Acts 2:33–36).
11. THE GOSPEL AGE (NOW)
The Bible states this gospel must be preached to all nations (Matthew 24:14).
The Bible states that the wheat and tares grow together until the harvest (Matthew 13:30).
The Bible states the Church will face tribulation in the world (John 16:33).
12. THE MAN OF SIN MUST BE REVEALED
The Bible states the Day of Christ will not come until the apostasy and the man of sin are revealed (2 Thessalonians 2:3).
The Bible states he will sit in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
The Bible states this abomination causes desolation (Matthew 24:15).
13. THE GREAT TRIBULATION
The Bible states there will be a great tribulation such as never was (Matthew 24:21).
The Bible states the saints will be given into the hand of the beast for a time, times, and half a time (Daniel 7:25).
The Bible states the beast will make war with the saints (Revelation 13:7).
14. THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN
The Bible states the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give light, and the powers of heaven will be shaken (Matthew 24:29).
The Bible states the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven (Matthew 24:30).
15. THE GATHERING OF THE ELECT (THE RAPTURE)
The Bible states Jesus gathers His elect AFTER the tribulation (Matthew 24:29–31).
The Bible states the Lord descends with a shout, the dead in Christ rise, and the living are caught up (1 Thessalonians 4:16–17).
The Bible states this happens at His appearing and His kingdom (2 Timothy 4:1).
16. THE WRATH OF GOD
The Bible states the Day of the Lord brings wrath on the ungodly (1 Thessalonians 5:2–3).
The Bible states the bowls of wrath are poured out on the beast’s kingdom (Revelation 16).
17. THE RETURN OF CHRIST IN GLORY
The Bible states Christ returns with all His saints (Revelation 19:11–14).
The Bible states He destroys the beast and the false prophet (Revelation 19:20).
18. THE RESURRECTION AND KINGDOM
The Bible states the saints reign with Christ for a thousand years (Revelation 20:4–6).
The Bible states Satan is bound, then released, then destroyed (Revelation 20:1–10).
19. THE FINAL JUDGMENT
The Bible states all the dead stand before God (Revelation 20:11–15).
20. THE NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH
The Bible states God makes all things new (Revelation 21:1–5).
The Bible states that the tabernacle of God is with humanity forever (Revelation 21:3).
THERE IS A DANGER OF A FAKE PRE-TROB RAPTURE - THE ESCAPISM OF PAUL DARBY THAT ALL BELIEVERS MUST KNOW.
“There is a real danger in the pre‑trib rapture expectation, because any false disappearance event will deceive those who were taught they would be gone before the Antichrist.”
“It is amazing how many teachers preach a pre‑trib rapture when 2 Thessalonians 2:1–5 clearly contradicts it.
Paul makes a distinction in verse 1 between the coming of the Lord and our gathering to Him, and then explains that the gathering cannot happen until after the apostasy and the revealing of the man of sin.
“Jesus taught the same thing: the elect—the church, not national Israel (Romans 9:6–8; Galatians 3:7, 26–29)—will witness the abomination before the gathering.
In Matthew 24:15, Jesus says ‘when you see the abomination of desolation…’, and the ‘you’ refers to His own disciples, who function as representatives of the church. They never lived to see it, which shows Jesus was speaking prophetically to the future believing community, not to first‑century Israel.”
“Pre-trib escapism makes believers drop their guard. Darby’s 1800s doctrine created an expectation of a secret escape, but Jesus taught that the elect—the church, not national Israel (Romans 9:6–8; Galatians 3:7, 26–29)—will witness the abomination of desolation
(Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14) before the gathering (Matthew 24:29–31; 2 Thessalonians 2:1–4).
Any false disappearance event will deceive those who expected to be gone early (Matthew 24:24; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11).”
Jesus said the elect will see the abomination (Matthew 24:15, 24, 29–31).
Paul said the gathering cannot happen until after the man of sin is revealed (2 Thessalonians 2:1–4).
Pre‑trib says the opposite.
Therefore, pre‑trib creates false expectations.
False expectations create real vulnerability.
I am not imagining this. I am reading the text correctly.
There is a real danger in the pre‑trib rapture expectation, because it conditions believers to expect an early escape instead of the clear sequence Jesus and Paul gave.
Jesus warned that the elect—the church, not national Israel—will see the abomination of desolation before the gathering
(Matthew 24:15, 29–31),
and Paul taught that our gathering to Christ cannot happen until after the apostasy and the revealing of the man of sin
(2 Thessalonians 2:1–4).
The problem is not Scripture but the modern tradition that began in the 1800s with John Nelson Darby, who teaches a secret rapture before tribulation.
This tradition contradicts Jesus and Paul, and will leave believers vulnerable to any false disappearance event or manufactured “rapture‑like” deception. Believers must stay grounded in Scripture, not in a doctrine invented long after the apostles.
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