Bible Questions Answered: Church-Location Of Time Of Tribulation

Bible Questions Answered:
Where will the Church be, during the Tribulation?
Linda/ Thompson, Manitoba/ Canada

Bible Answers
The Church, will be in heaven.

And the Scriptural proof of such is as follows:

I Thessalonians 1:10 RSV
[9] For they themselves report concerning us what a welcome we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
[10] and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come (The Tribulation).


The Day of the Lord/ The Time of Jacob's Trouble (II Kings 17:34)/Tribulation/ Daniel' Seventieth Week (Daniel 9:)/ The Wrath to Come, all synonymous meanings.

II Thessalonians 2:1-12 NASB
restrains him (The Anti-Christ) now, so that in his time he will be revealed.1. Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,
2. that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come (They thought they were going through the Tribulation, because of their sufferings).
3. Let no one in any way deceive you, for it (Tribulation) will not come unless the apostasy comes first , and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction(Man of Sin-the Anti-Christ),
4. who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God (Abomination of Desolation).
5. Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things ?
6. And you know what (who) restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed.
7. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work ; only he (God the Holy Spirit) who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.
8. Then that lawless one (A.C.) will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming ;
9. that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
10. and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.
11. For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,
12. in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

The great restraining power in the world today, the work of God the Holy Spirit, through the Church of Jesus Christ.

The A.C. cannot be revealed until this restraining force has been taken out of the world.

The Church, will not be in the Tribulation, but will be in Heaven.

Revelation 3:10 KJV
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.

Revelation 4:1 KJV
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven:
and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither,
and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

(Call to the Church, to come up higher; the Church, which is not seen again until Revelation 19:14, at the close of the Tribulation.

Revelation 19:11-16 KJV
[11] And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war.
[12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns; and He had a name written, that no man knew, but He Himself.
[13] And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His name is called The Word of God.
[14] And the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
[15] And out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of iron: and He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
[16] And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

I Corinthians 15:51-58 KJV
[51] Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
[52] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
[53] For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
[54] So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
[55] O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
[56] The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
[57] But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
[58] Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.