Hour of Testing: How do you, as post-tribulationists, respond to the fact that Believers are spared from the hour of testing, i.e., the Tribulation period?
A popular reference used to support the premise that Believers are removed from Earth before the Tribulation period comes from Revelation 3:10, where Yeshua the Messiah promises to spare those of the congregation or assembly of Philadelphia from the hour of testing: Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth (ESV). What is automatically assumed by most pre-tribulationists is that the congregation of Philadelphia comprises all Believers and that the hour of testing (NASU) is the Tribulation period. This is a major hermeneutical problem. It is not appropriate to assume that all Believers in Yeshua classify as being Philadelphian, and furthermore that the hour of testing or hour of trial is the Tribulation period. If we look at only a surface examination of who the Philadelphian Believers are, the Greek Philadelpheia (Filadelfeia)the name of a city in First Century Asi
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