First one being: who then will Christ and His Bride rule over if all the saved are raptured at the end of Tribulation?  

It is my understanding of Scriptures message concerning any doctrine must be from Scripture.  This must apply to the one new man Doctrine that is created within the bringing of Israel’s New Covenant through their Messiah’s Church.  So God should give us what is necessary for faith in what He has shown us within His Word.  Our doctrine does not stand upon what we are asked to believe without scriptural support.  It stands on Scripture alone.  

The answer to this first question is found in Matt. 25 concerning the Sheep and Goat judgment. These both the sheep and the goats are all mortals left here on earth after Christ has returned. They obviously (as is revealed in Jesus own telling) know little of the Scriptures much less of Salvation. The sheep are allowed into the kingdom prepared for them because during the Tribulation, which in Jesus telling, had just passed, they had helped Jesus’ brethren who were unable to buy and sell during that time of the Antichrist rule.  These brethren are standing there with Jesus. They are His resurrected and Raptured Bride.  

These standing there to be judged had not been alive to help your past dead relatives. These are those left on earth after Jesus returns and they will be ruled over for a thousand years by Christ and His Bride.  

Listen to what He says about them. They, neither the sheep nor the goats, know why they have are separated as they are before Him.  Read the passage. They stand there as they are strictly because of the works that they have done for Jesus people (many of whom) have just come out of great Tribulation.  These standing there (these sheep on the right side) have just come out of great Tribulation.  

They don’t know much of anything about Scriptures truth. If this is not correct and they are saved; then you would have to conclude that Jesus had taught here concerning the judgment of nations that salvation is by works and not by believing in Him the one God-man Jesus the Christ.  That understanding would be in total opposition to Scriptures teaching on eternal salvation.  So these mortals who make up nations, who are not then cast into the lake of fire, will be ruled by King Jesus and by you the Bride of Christ. 

The next question that may be posed due to this Post-Trib One New Man understanding is: who then can be raptured if all who do not worship the beast are killed?  The answer to this begins with Paul’s teaching of the Old Testament.  In Romans 11 he tells us:

Romans 11:25  For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery–so that you will not be wise in your own estimation–that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; (NASB1995)

The fullness of the Gentiles implies that the very last Gentile has been saved after God has given every opportunity, and then God will turn His focus to save all from the nation Israel. In fact Paul goes on to say:

Romans 11:26  and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, “THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.” (NASB1995)

This salvation does not refer to every Israelite or every Jew who ever lived, but to all who are alive and belonging to Israel in that day, which is at a time following the salvation of the last Gentile and following the purging of Israel (God’s Nation)

During Tribulation Israel will actually be overcome yet one more time before Jesus comes.  

Zach chapter 13 implies a war where only 1/3 of Israel will survive because they will flee (it is believed) to Petra in Edom. 

In Revelation 12, we see that when Satan is cast to earth, he immediately attempts war on Israel (the woman who birthed Christ).  This will occur before Armageddon. And Israel will be taken to her pace of perfection. These Jews (it is believed) are taken to Petra in Edom.

It is after the last Gentile has been saved and near the end of the Tribulation that all of Israel, which remains at Petra are again under extreme duress during Armageddon’s battle and they will call upon their Messiah to save them.  Remember Jesus had stated to The Jews when here on earth: “you will not see me again until you say: blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.”  

Jesus being the Word of God knew what He had prophesied before in O.T. Scriptures:

Hosea 5:15  I will go away [and] return to My place Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me. (NASB1995)

It is likely that from Petra during the battle of Armageddon a unified cry will go up to Jesus the Messiah.  For here is what Jesus states (the Word of God) concerning Himself in these days of Israel’s deliverance:

Isaiah 63:1  Who is this coming from Bozrah in Edom with his clothes stained bright red? Who is this dressed in splendor, going forward with great strength? “It is I, the LORD. I am coming to announce my victory. I am powerful enough to save [you].”  

The people then ask:  Vs.2  Why are your clothes red and your garments like those who trample grapes in a winepress?  

Jesus answers: Vs. 3  “I have trampled alone in the winepress. No one was with me. In my anger I trampled on people. In my wrath I stomped on them. Their blood splattered my clothes so all my clothing has been stained.   4  I planned the day of vengeance. The year for my reclaiming [you] has come.  5  I looked, but there was no help. I was astounded that there was no [outside] support. So with my own power I won a victory. My anger supported me.    

Notice there was no one to help. No one was with Him (no rapture yet) 

Jesus continues: vs. 6  In my anger I trampled on people. In my wrath I made them drunk and poured their blood on the ground.” (GOD’S WORD)

These last several verses recount before it has happened the coming of Jesus to save Israel’s remnant located it is believed in Edom.   

So,  this is to occur on earth before Messiah is seen coming in the sky to rule. It appears that He returns in these same blood stained garments (see Revelation 19). Then all Israel will be saved. Also notice in Revelation 19, that before He comes “the bride has made herself ready”.

It is highly likely that these last ones to be saved (these Jews) will be the only ones left to be Raptured when the resurrection occurs. Only because they were sealed and protected from Satan’s wrath.  But why is this believed to take place before the Rapture?  Jesus says in verse 3: “No one was with me”.  Following the Rapture Paul says: “and we will ever be with the Lord”. 

Jesus prophesied these events in the O.T. Scriptures. It is highly unlikely that they will not occur even as He revealed them to Paul.  So what does Paul state? Paul here is speaking of Israel:

Romans 11:15  For if their [present] rejection [of salvation] is for the reconciliation of the world [to God], what will their acceptance [of salvation] be but [nothing less than] life from the dead? (AMP)

We know that their salvation will come after the last Gentile is saved. Paul had told us this also in Romans 11.  So those remaining of the nation Israel will be the last to be saved, and since there are no more to be saved (the bride has made herself ready) it makes perfect sense for Jesus to go back in His blood stained royal garments and gather his angles and then the elect are called forth in the first resurrection.  This resurrection must be followed by the Rapture of those left from the earth. Israel’s salvation will yield “life from the dead” or the first resurrection.  Paul stated it just that way in his Epistles.  

1 Thessalonians 4:15  For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.  16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (KJV)

Paul did not stop there for after this first Resurrection of the dead then he says:

1 Thessalonians 4:17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (KJV)

Scripture interprets the scriptures when they are put in their chronological order. 

This blog was created to assist you in understanding your future, and God’s plan for it. 

Jesus tells us that persecution and Tribulations will come but we are not to fear them, for He has overcome the world for us. We are to overcome in our little part of it for Him. 

If this frightens you please consider: this is my mantra in these days:  my last breath on this earth will produce my first breath in Heaven.  Listen again to Jesus:

you likely will not get out of this life alive, most of us do not, so make your decision now to both live for and if necessary die for Him.  There is a Hymn: “It well be worth it all, when we see Jesus”.  

We must stop looking to escape this world and its problems. Jesus prayer in John 27 for us states: that we not be taken out of this world, but that God would keep us:

John 17:11  “I am no longer in the world; and [yet] they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, [the name] which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We [are.] (NASB1995)

We Stan in the Truth that the world hates us for:

John 17:14  “I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.  15  “I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil [one.] (NASB1995)

We are here as a witness to this world my brothers and sisters.

John 17:17  “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. 18  “As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. (NASB1995)

You are here to make Jesus and His Truth known; that they may be one with us:

John 17:20  “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;  21  that they may all be one; even as You, Father, [are] in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. (NASB1995)

For God so loved the world that He sent us Jesus, and now Jesus sends us that we will call forth those who will believe to be One New Man with us “in Christ”.