Some times its good just to think out loud.
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
What is present with the Lord? It can not be the old body.
Corinthians 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
These Martyrs are waiting like many of those dear saints before us for the event of putting on immortality. That is why these brothers and sisters are not in body.
Revelation 6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
They are fully conscious and they are aware of their surroundings and are interacting with the Lord. They are robed with the Robes of Righteousness but we cannot infer the event of the resurrection of the body has occurred yet. Why? The New Testament saints are waiting for the same event we are waiting for.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 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: 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. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
The shedding of innocent blood requires God attention. Paul, Peter, and most of the disciples are martyrs. Our brothers and sisters souls that were persecuted by Nero and the Romans are crying out; as well as those that are being persecuted now in the middle east and around the earth.
Genesis 4:9-10 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Notice that after the sixth seal John notices a fantastic event that causes him to be asked a question.
Revelation 7:9-10 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Nowhere in this passage does it say the souls. It was a sudden event and this multitude "stood before the lamb." They are in their bodies, my friends. John had not seen them before and this causes and Elder to give him some understanding of this sudden event.
Rev.7:13-17 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
This my friends is our "harpazo" pre-tribulation event.
So many commentators over the years have assumed that because they came "out of" great tribulation that we must infer they came out of the middle of the midpoint of the tribulation.
Did not Lot escape Sodom? Did he suffer any of the destruction of Sodom? Look at the text of Genesis.
Genesis 19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot
out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
When you read that passage you could infer that in the midst of the destruction of Sodom, God took him out of it.
If I take you "out of" harms way did you suffer first or did you escape it?
1 Thessalonians 5:9-11 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
The wicked world is preparing for the wrath of God after the sixth seal in Rev. 6:16-17
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
God's Fire is poured out after the great multitude is gathered around his throne and the silence of the 7th seal along with our righteous prayers presented by the Angels of the seven trumpets around the altar.
Rev. 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
My friends I do not want to be apart of the Trumpet judgments; especially when the Locust of the Abyss is released upon everyone that
does not have the seal of God in their forehead.
