Welcome to Prophecy Q & A with Jimmy DeYoung!
All Christians who know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, ones who have put their trust in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, will go at the time of the Rapture of the church.
Some people believe in a partial Rapture, and if you are not living for the Lord at the time of the Rapture, you will not be taken out. There is no Scripture text for it, but that you need to go through some persecution to get your heart right with God. I don’t see how the judgment of the Tribulation Period can make me any purer than I already am in the Lord’s sight. Jesus Christ shed His blood to wash away my sin. Romans 8 says that there is now no condemnation. If the blood of Christ cannot make me as pure as I need to be, no persecution is going to make me any purer. We will all go at the time of the rapture of the church. Christians will be caught up to meet Him in the air.
At the Rapture, we go into the presence of Jesus Christ, and the Judgment Seat of Christ will take place. Some of us will be embarrassed at the Judgment Seat; we will be judged for the works that we did. Those works that we did in His power for His glory will be rewarded. Some of us are working in our own power for our own glory. I have seen Christians like that who want to be congratulated or honored. He wants those who love Him to do it in His power and for His glory. We have a job description for the future, determined by what we do, and we are judged for what works we do. Revelation 22:12 says that He will come quickly and will bring His reward with Him to give to us according to what we have done in our works.
Matthew 25 and the ten virgins is not talking about Christians but about Jewish people at the end of the Tribulation Period. Matthew 25 is part of the Olivet Discourse, and He is not talking about the Rapture. The Rapture happens before the Second Coming of Christ, which is the key issue in Matthew 24 and 25. The parables of the ten virgins and the sheep and the goats are dealing with the Jews and Gentiles who live throughout the Tribulation Period. They are not killed during those seven years but are alive when Christ comes back. The Lord will judge the living Jews and the Gentiles. These people who know Christ as Lord and Savior will go into the Millennial Kingdom with a physical body capable of having children. The world will be filled up with people again (Isaiah 65:20).
There will be people who come through the Tribulation Period who took the mark of the beast, who followed the Antichrist, who are not saved. Five of the ten virgins had oil in their lamps and were ready when the bridegroom came; five did not have oil, and Jesus said to them that He was sorry and never knew them. These are the living Jews at the end of the Tribulation Period. The five virgins who had oil in their lamp go into the Millennial Kingdom; those who had no oil in their lamp are lost and go to Hades to stay there temporarily for the thousand years of the Millennial Kingdom until the Great White Throne Judgment.
The sheep are those who trusted in Christ, and the goats are those who did not.
Jimmy DeYoung was a prophecy teacher and journalist who travelled the country and the world educating the Body of Christ of the future events foretold in God’s prophetic Word. His goal was to equip Christians with the knowledge and understanding of what God’s Word says will happen someday soon, so that they can make better decisions today. Dr. DeYoung went home to be with his Savior on August 15, 2021.
