In Revelation 3:10, Jesus promises the church that He will keep thee from the hour of trial, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. The phrase “keep from” is the Greek tereo ek, meaning to keep out of. This is very different from dia tereo, which is the idea of being protected through a trial while remaining inside it.
The distinction matters.
If the coming trial is said to come upon “the whole world,” then there is only one way to truly be kept from the hour of that trial: to be removed from the earth before it begins.
Jesus did not promise merely to preserve believers during the Tribulation. He promised to keep them from the very time period itself
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