Do all Christians keep the patient word? "Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that [hour] which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth" (Rev. 3 10; see Luke 21.36). "Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread (typifies repentance and abhorrence of sin accompanied by a desire to get rid of it), and in the feast of weeks (two wave loaves signify first rapture and the last trumpet resurrection, see Lev. 23.17), and in the feast of tabernacles (type for being sheltered in the reward of the millennial reign of Christ); and they shall not appear before the LORD empty" (Deut. 16.16). First rapture is explained in Rev. 14.1-5; 7.9; Matt. 37,40-41.

The final harvest is the rapture occurring near the end of the Great Tribulation at 7th trumpet, before the bowls are poured, as indicated in these verses: Rev. 11.15,14.14-16; 1 Cor. 15.50-52; 1 Thess. 4.15-17. Then, a great ingathering of Jews and Gentiles, seen with the blowing of trumpets feast, occurs after the 7 trumpets of the last week-seven years of the Tribulation. After the final three trumpets (3 woes) are blown (1260 days of the second half of the Tribulation called the Great Tribulation), there is a gleaning of fragmentary raptures of the saved over approximately 30 days as God administers judgment from the 1260th (Rev. 11.2,3; 12.6,14) to 1290th day (Dan. 12.11). This last month of judgment after the Great Tribulation will be used to separate the goats and the sheep - Matt 25.31-46. From the 1290th to the 1335th day, the ingathering takes place whereby the nation of Israel then receives her glory.

Of the different partial rapture views, the reason my spirit is led to, "first rapture between the 5th and 7th seal of the (1) living overcomers, (2) martyrs from past 20 centuries, (3) 144,000 firstfruits (living and resting), and (4) during the Tribulation martyrs are raptured three and half days after their death" was several, in addition to the hope of escaping the seven year Tribulation based on being ready to be received to the throne which commences the parousia of Christ and initiates the Tribulation.

 The living and resting 144,000 firstfruits (Rev. 14.1-5) are ready to be received at first rapture; who had been and will be closest to Christ in the millennium. The 144,000 are not just those living at the time of the first rapture since they necessarily also must come from all the generations since Christ. Because first rapture is just for Christians, it is not for those before resurrected life, that is, before the resurrection of Christ, though the cross is eternal. The 144,000 are attained at first rapture since it is this pinnacle reached which sets off the seven year Tribulation - the number God is looking for to begin His parousia. If you were wondering, this would mean David, for example, would not be one of the firstfruits closest to Christ to be in the camp with Christ, reigning from Jerusalem, even though he was a man after God's own heart. Even so, he shall reign during the millennial kingdom over cities. The reason being is that none from the OT period had the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Though the Holy Spirit had come upon men, He never dwelt in men then.

Partial Rapture (cont'd)

Please don't give much credence to popular notions such as partial rapture being non-OSAS or that five of the ten virgins represent partial rapture. The ten virgins are all of the same class as "virgins" with eternal life (OSAS) having at least some oil of the Holy Spirit that still remains in their lamps. The five wise virgins receive the reward of reigning in the millennial kingdom (the "hidden treasure" Matt. 13.44) which is not the partial rapture, but the "first resurrection" (Rev. 20.4) - a "best", "out-of", "out-resurrection" from the total raptures and resurrections during the consummation of this age.

Partial rapture is for all believers to seek after the "prize" (1 Cor. 9.24, Phil. 3.14) of the hidden treasure and to be received according to readiness (Rev. 3.10, 12.5, 14.1-5; Luke 21.36, Matt. 24.40-41,42) at the first rapture "before the throne" (7.9) "to stand before the Son of man" (Luke 21.36c). The decision of who is to be raptured at first rapture is left up to God, and we as believers await that decision. Those included in the first rapture are necessarily included in the kingdom rewards, but not all those who shall reign in the millennium are necessarily in the first rapture since not everyone is alive at first rapture and some will overcome in the Tribulation after the first rapture. Those who "keep the word of My patience" (Rev. 3.10a) who are "watchful and prayerful" (Luke 21.36a) shall "be accounted worthy escape all these things that shall come to pass" (Luke 21.36) "upon the whole world" (Rev. 3.10c) in the "hour of trial" (v.10b) of the Tribulation (emphasis on the time of the last week of Daniel's prophecy). This is a definite condition that not all believers maintain.

 The five unwise virgins lose the reward and spend the duration in "outer darkness" (which has no fire or furnace about it), outside the light of reward of reigning during the millennial kingdom. Yes, there are consequences for Christians for the time of recompense (accountability)-the 1000 years (Rev. 20.2-7). If any unwise Christians were alive at first rapture, they would pass through the time of testing "to try them that dwell upon the earth" (3.10d) which includes everyone, both the saved and unsaved since both are on the earth. Partial rapture (separate rapture) is a conditional rapture at the first rapture. Those who were saved at the time of the first rapture, but are "left" (1 Thess. 4.15,17) to pass through the Tribulation, still remain once-saved-always-saved with eternal life. And even if a believer enters the Tribulation, he or she still has opportunity to "overcometh," even as as a martyr or non-martyr. There are those in Christendom (Matt. 13) that sin bearing false witness against the correct teaching of partial rapture, but hopefully this helps some of their mistaken assumptions in reading God's Word.