Who is Going to be Raptured at the First Rapture?
Who will be raptured at first rapture to the throne at Rev. 7.9 before the 7th seal opens the 7 trumpets of the Tribulation which begins at Revelation 8.1?
While the throne is still in heaven (Rev. 4.1-2), the Antichrist will be brought to nought by the exploded glory of the parousia of Christ (2 Thess. 2.8,9). The parousia commences first in the clouds (Acts 1.11c; Rev. 1.7a,14.14a). As it commences, there is a first rapture according to readiness (3.10, 6.11a,12.5,14.1-5; Luke 21.36; Matt. 24.37,40-41) "before the throne" (Rev. 7.9) in heaven, before the trumpets are blown (Rev. 8.6). After some time, the Lord descends from heaven to the air (1 Thess. 4.15-17, 1 Cor. 15.23). Finally, the completion of the later harvest takes place (1 Cor. 15.50-52, 1 Thess. 4.15-17). And "on the clouds" (Matt. 24.30b; Rev. 14.14,15) like lightening (Matt. 24.27), He appears in Person. "On that day his feet shall stand [step down] on the Mount of Olives" (Zech. 14.4).
The Great Tribulation occurs in the latter three and a half years (Rev. 9-11), "for a time, and times, and half a time" (12.14). All this occurs during the return (parousia) of Christ (SofS 2.8-13) first in the clouds, then in Person (Zech 14.4, Acts 1.11, Rev. 1.7) with His first resurrection overcomers (Jude 14,15; Rev. 20.4) to reign with an "iron rod" (Ps. 2.9; Rev. 2.27, 12.5, 19.15) in the millennial kingdom (20.2-7). Afterwards, when the 1000 years is finished, God will do away with the rewards (Matt. 25.1-12, 13.44 "like a treasure hidden in the field") of the millennial reign to usher in the new city and new earth (21.1ff) in the new heaven when all the saved will be pillars (3.12), and there will be no more distinction among the nations.
Study partial rapture at first rapture (Matt. 24.37,40-41, Luke 21.36; Rev. 3.10, 7.9, 12.5, 14.1-5) to be received according to readiness and the 7th trumpet rapture (1 Thess. 4.15-17, 1 Cor. 15.50-52) for those who are "alive" and "left" together with the resurrection of those asleep according to completion of the harvest at the consummation of this age, the dispensation of grace (to fulfill the last "week," each week representing 7 years in Dan. 9.24-27).
Why are the postrib and pretrib onlyism views false?
Understand partial rapture and you will discover what is wrong with pretrib and posttrib onlyist views. In fact, you will also soon discover why there is no prewrath before Revelation 9.18 and the second woe, but there is a prewrath of 1 Thess. 4.15-17 that takes before the last twenty-four months of the third woe which contain the bowls and are specifically named the wrath of God: " seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God" (Rev. 15.1).
The prewrath resurrection and rapture occurs before the 24 months of the 7 bowls of the 7th trumpet: "And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, [and] over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God" (Rev. 15.2). "And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous [are] thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true [are] thy ways, thou King of saints" (v.3). "Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for [thou] only [art] holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest" (v.4). "And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened" (v.5). The "seven golden vials full of the wrath of God" (v.7) "No man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled" (v.8).
After nuclear holocaust in the second woe of 13 months in Revelation 9, the 7 bowls are yet to be poured out. The saints who were not raptured at the first rapture at the start of the Tribulation are raptured at the start of the last trumpet that contains the 7 bowls of wrath.