Question: You were right when you said [on Search the Scriptures Daily] there will be lots of Christians left behind to face the tribulation because though saved, they were not ready for the first rapture according to Matthew:24:42Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
See All..., Luke:21:36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
See All..., and Revelation:3:10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
See All.... When questioned about what you said, you changed your mind, so I thought I would correct you with an understanding of a partial rapture.
Response: No, I did not change my mind. It was a slip of the tongue, which Tom immediately brought to my attention. I quickly corrected my error, which is clear on the video. I have never believed in a partial rapture. It is not biblical.
For there to be a partial rapture, there must be a Protestant purgatory for those who died in a state unworthy to be raptured. No longer on earth, they can't repent and live in a manner, as you say, "worthy of heaven." How will they qualify to be taken to heaven?
A partial rapture contradicts the gospel. We are promised heaven on the basis of Christ's full payment for our sins on the Cross, and His resurrection--not for living a good-enough life. It is in heaven at the judgment seat of Christ (not in some interim place) that we will be judged for our works: "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body [i.e., in life on earth], whether it be good or bad" (2 Cor:5:10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
See All...). Paul has explained this in another way in 1 Cor:3:11-15 [11] For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
[12] Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
[13] Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
[14] If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
[15] If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
See All.... The issue is not salvation but reward or loss of it. Even if none of a man's works come through the fire of God's evaluation, "he himself shall be saved...."
You also argue for a post-trib rapture, deny that the "restrainer" (2 Thes:2:7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
See All...) is the Holy Spirit indwelling believers, misunderstand that taking all believers to heaven in the rapture only removes God's presence in believers who were raptured but does not remove the omnipresence of God, which always is. The Holy Spirit will still convict and save those who are not guilty of having "believed not the truth..." (2 Thes:2:10-12 [10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
[11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
[12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
See All...).
These and other related issues that you raise have all been explained in my books and previous newsletter articles, so I can't take time to discuss them further.