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Scriptures Regarding the Pre Great Tribulation Rapture

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This is His warning to the church at Thyatira to repent or else be cast into the bed of the coming great tribulation.

Now if all Christians are supposed to go through the great tribulation, then this warning is moot as the consequence is regardless and so why would Jesus say this unless the rapture is before the great tribulation for why some saved believers will be left behind for when God judges His House first?

Revelation 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; 19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. 20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.

25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
 
Here is Jesus exhorting this church in Philadelphia to hold fast or else they will not be kept from the hour of temptation that shall try all that dwell upon the earth; hence left behind on earth, the temptation to take the mark of the beast to buy & sell to survive in that great tribulation from which any that take the mark, will be cast into the lake of fire, no matter what per Revelation 14:9-11.

So there is more consequence than the loss of your crown as seen in the warning to the church at Thyatira in Revelation 2:18-25

Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; 8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. 9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
 
Paul gives the same warning about becoming a castaway and not just lose the reward of crown for engaging in the flesh.

1 Corinthians 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
 
Paul warns believers about what they build on that foundation laid by Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 3:10 and although that foundation remains regardless of what was built on that foundation and cannot be moved Hebrews 12;22-29, thus salvation is assured, but anyone that sows to the works of the flesh, and heresy is one of them per Galatians 5:19-21, they defile the temple of God which is their physical bodies per 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 for why God will destroy that temple hence physical death per 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 although they are still saved per 1 Corinthians 3:15 when left behind in that day 1 Corinthians 3:13.

1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
 
That is why Jesus Christ is warning believers to be ready or else be cut off and left behind with the unbelievers Luke 12:40-46 when He sends that fire on the earth Luke 12:49 as those unrepentant BUT saved believers will get stripes per the measure of knowledge they had for not being ready Luke 12:47 and lesser stripes for the knowledge they did not have for not being ready, Luke 12:48 but they are still His servants for why they are getting stripes.

Luke 12:40-49 for full reading.

Bible Gateway passage: Luke 12:40-49 - King James Version

The purpose of the stripes for why He still addresses them as His "servants" in Luke 12;47-48 with Hebrews 12:6 is so that they may be partakers of His holiness per Hebrewsc12:10 for not resisting sin Hebrews 12:4 by not looking to Jesus Christ daily to help them lay aside every weight ( provision for the flesh ) as well as the sin daily in thought, word, and deed Hebrews 12:1-2

Hebrews 12:1-10 for full reading.

Bible Gateway passage: Hebrews 12:1-10 - King James Version

We do not run that race to obtain salvation since those left behind are still saved, thus that would become a work of iniquity in denying Him as our Saviour, but we run that race by faith in Jesus Christ in living that reconciled relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ, as He is our Good Shepherd & Friend to help us resist sin & walk in fellowship with the Father & the Son.
 
The reason why Jesus Christ will excommunicate those not found abiding in Him & His words from attending the Marriage Supper in Heaven can be seen by how God commanded through Paul for the church to excommunicate the unrepentant brother down here.

1 Corinthians 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

So what the church is supposed to do in order to maintain fellowship & communion by, so will God definitely do for the Marriage Supper above.

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.


Notice how the offending member is still called a brother in verse 11? Paul did not give the condemning judgment that he is not a brother or not a Christian or not a true believer. He simply stated to not eat with him & thus excommunicate him from the assembly as judging that brother in correcting him as a wicked person in the hopes that such excommunication would lead him to repentance.
 
This is His warning to the church at Thyatira to repent or else be cast into the bed of the coming great tribulation.

Now if all Christians are supposed to go through the great tribulation, then this warning is moot as the consequence is regardless and so why would Jesus say this unless the rapture is before the great tribulation for why some saved believers will be left behind for when God judges His House first?

Revelation 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; 19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. 20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.

25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
The title of the OP is Scriptures Regarding the Pre Great Tribulation Rapture and then give scriptures that say nothing about a rapture of any kind or that there is a defined in years or time, Great Tribulation. You have presumed it onto the texts that you give. First establish that either of the two things do exist.
 
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