I’m continuing my series for the support of the Pre-Trib rapture scenario.
A quick recap:
The Church is completely mentioned throughout chapters 1-3 of Revelation and then not again after Revelation 4:1 when the Lord says “Come up here.”
I also mentioned how the Lampstands, which is said to be the churches, are now lit in Revelelation 4:5.
Today lets look at the group just before the burning lamps in Revelation 4:4.
Revelation 4:4 – 4Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads.
It’s the first mention of the twenty four elders. They weren’t mentioned in Revelation 1,which is when were introduced to the lampstands.
Who are the elders? There are educated guesses out there, but we won’t know until we get there. We do know that they are beings and they wear golden crowns.
If you remember I did a post a month or so ago that spoke of our new body. At the rapture we receive a new body and I believe that is when we receive our rewards shortly after. All humans that are saved and are raptured will go through this in the same time period.
So for the elders to have a body that can wear a crown and also have received a crown, tells me that rapture appears to have already happened.