Pre Tribulation Rapture Types in Genesis

Adam and Eve

In the Garden of Eden, when it came time for the Marriage, Adam's Body was put into a deep sleep, and the Bride was taken out of the Body.

At this time, Adam was still without sin. Might Adam's body represent, the body of Christ, or the church? Jesus Christ? Both?

Gen 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

Gen 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Gen 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

If Adam and Eve are a parallel of Christ and the Bride of Christ, here are a few comparisons:

1. Adam had his side pierced, as God took one of his ribs, Gen 2:21. Jesus had his side pierced and the church was born from his:

John 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

John 19:37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

2. In both cases, this was the "bride price". Adam gave a rib. Christ gave his life.

1 Corinthians 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

3. In both cases, there is a quote about what marriage means. Compare Gen 2:24 to Ephesians 5:31.



Ephesians 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.



4. Each involved a miracle act of God. God took the rib from out of Adam. God will take the bride out of the earth.

5. Each involves an act of creation of God. God created the woman from the rib. God will resurrect believers from the dead, and transform people into incorruptible bodies.

6. The purpose of the woman was to "help" Adam. The purpose of the bride of Christ is to help Christ rule the earth.



Rev 2:26 He who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, I will give him power over the nations,

Rev 2:27 and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received power from my Father;

Rev 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

Rev 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

Enoch & Noah

Not much is said about Enoch in Scripture. There is "The book of Enoch", but it is not considered inspired.

Gen 5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

Gen 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

Enoch's testimony of the Second Coming:

Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,


Jude 1:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

Enoch lived 365 years. 365 days in a year...

And when Enoch's son Methuselah died, then the flood came, in the same year.

Genesis 5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. 969.

Genesis 5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.

Genesis 5:28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

Genesis 5:29 And he called his name Noah

187 + 182 = Noah was born when Methuselah was 369.

The Flood came when Noah was 600, and after Methuselah died at age 969, the same year the flood came.

Enoch walked with God, and Enoch could symbolize the Father.

Methuselah, the son of Enoch, could typify the Son of God.

Jesus died, and Methuselah died. Jesus was raptured, taken up to God in Acts 1, the first to be born in an incorruptible body to immortality. Methuselah did not have immortality, and was not raptured as Enoch, but Methuselah did live longer than any man in the bible. Methuselah's death could symbolize the rapture, through his father, as Enoch, was raptured. We can accept this if we realize that Jesus symbolized both the Father and the Son.

Thus, Methuselah's death right before the flood, (through the type of his father Enoch's rapture, through the type of Jesus’ rapture who symbolized both the Father and the Son) is a type of the rapture right before the tribulation.

Of course, we can simplify, and just look at Enoch, and say it is a type of "rapture" prior to tribulation of the flood. But through Methuselah, and Jesus, I believe we have a more clear understanding, that the rapture happens right before the tribulation, the same year.



3. Noah entering the ark.

Luke 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

God calls Noah into the ark, and 7 days later, the flood comes. So, Noah is a type of the rapture before the 7 year tribulation, at the end of which all of God's enemies are destroyed at Armageddon, like in the flood.

Genesis 7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

I understand verse 4 & 5 to mean that Noah obeyed, and went in when the Lord told him to. Controversy arrives when people forget that Noah was the type to obey god, and they assume the "selfsame" day in verse 13 refers to the same day the rain fell. The only way you can assume that Noah went into the ark late, is if you assume that Noah did not obey the Lord for a period of seven days. Do you think it is realistic that Noah, after spending 120 years to build an ark, would disobey a direct command from God for a period of 7 full days right before the world was destroyed, in direct contrast to the scripture in verse 5?

I think that the "selfsame day" in verse 13 refers to the action phrase at the end of verse 16, "as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in".

Genesis 7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;



Genesis 7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

Note, back up in Gen 7:1, we saw that God calls to Noah from inside the ark, to come in, which is similar to "Come up hither" in Revelations.



Revelation 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet

talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.



Mat 25:10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

The parallel gets even stronger when we realize Noah's ark is a type of heaven. Noah's ark is like the ark of the covenant, in that God's presence is in both. God's presence in the ark of the covenant

Exodus 25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

Even the construction ratios are the same. 3 to 5 Noah’s' ark is 30 to 50, The ark of the covenant is 1.5 to 2.5 cubits.

Gen 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Gen 6:15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

Exodus 25:10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

The ark of the covenant is a symbol of heavenly things.



Hebrews 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

Thus, the ark that Noah went into, like the Ark of the Covenant, is also a symbol of heaven, like that heavenly bridal chamber of the wedding. And Noah, entering the ark seven days before the flood, and God shutting the door behind him, is a symbol of the pre tribulation rapture. Remember, the seven days symbolize seven years, a day for a year.

A day is for a year when considering a length of time of a judgment as shown from a type; see Moses and Ezekiel.

Num 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

Ezek 4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

Here is an interesting verse, if we consider that waters represent people from Rev..

Gen 8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth:

Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me, “The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”

The Genesis verse is interesting for two reasons.

1. At 601 years, it supports the 6000 year time plan for man.

2. At the first day of the first month, it supports the Feast of Trumpets rapture, as the Feast of Trumpets takes place on the first day of the 7th religious month, which is the first calendar month of the New Year.

Further, Christians carry the waters of the Holy Spirit. At the rapture, the waters being dried up from off the earth is like the "removal of the restrainer" in 2 Thesselonians 2.



Noah mentioned in the New Testament:



Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.



1 Peter 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.



2 Peter 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

The story of Lot.

Note, the plural, "days" of the Son of man. Thus, the arrival of our Lord is more of a process, and not all happening in one 24 hour day. More like a 1000 year day, spread out, including the beginning and end of the seven year tribulation.



Luke 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

Luke 17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

Luke 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

Luke 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.



2Pet 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

2Pet 2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

2Pet 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

Rapture themes in Genesis Chapter 19:

The chapter starts with a clear picture of the rapture. The Gate is like the open door. Lot rose up, going out to meet the angels. This is a symbolic picture of Lot abiding in Jesus, and then going out through the gate (the open door) being raptured up going out to meet the Lord as he returns.

Gen 19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up [06965 quwm] to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;



The gates are open on the Feast of Trumpets, which is the only Feast of the Lord on a new moon.



Ezek 46:1 "Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

The gate is like the open door of the rapture in Rev. 4:1. Jesus is the door, the gate.

John 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

We are to abide in Christ Jesus.

1 John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

The word "rose up" or quwm, used to describe Lot is the same word used in Hosea, which links quwm to chayah, a word meaning brought to life.



Hsa 6:2 After two days will he revive [02421 chayah] us: in the third day he will raise us up [06965 quwm], and we shall live in his sight.

The rapture is not only a "catching up" in the air, it is also the time when he will revive or resurrect us, & it is the fulfillment of the promise of prophecy, changing to immortality, when we all must stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.