Fleeing Naked

Does the CHURCH flee naked from Christ in Tribulation? Let's examine.

THE YOUNG MAN: THE CHURCH?

Mr 14:51 And there followed him a certain young man <3495>, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:

Mt 19:20 The young man <3495> saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

Mt 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

Mt 19:22 But when the young man <3495> heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

Lu 7:14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man <3495>, (son of a widow woman) I say unto thee, Arise.

Ac 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men <3495> shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

1Jo 2:13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men <3495>, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

FLEEING NAKED: JUDGMENT ON THE CHURCH IN TRIBULATION WHERE THE ELECT FIND REFUGE IN EGYPT?

Mr 14:49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.

Mr 14:50 And they all forsook <5343> him, and fled.

Mr 14:51 And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:

Mr 14:52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled <5343> from them {Him} naked.

Mt 2:13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee <5343> into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

Jer 27:11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

Jer 52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

Mic 4:10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

ELECT HAVE NO COVERING IN TRIBULATION

Mr 14:52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them {Him} naked.

Job 22:6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

Mt 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

Mt 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

2Co 5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

1Co 4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

THE SCATTERING OF THE SHEEP IN TRIBULATION

1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Joh 16:32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

Mr 14:27 And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

Ac 19:15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?

Ac 19:16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Jer 48:6 Flee <05127>, save your lives, and be like the heath {naked, stripped, destitute} in the wilderness.

Jer 17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

Am 2:16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.

JOSEPH AND PHARAOH’S WIFE: FLEEING FORNICATION?

Ge 39:12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment <0899> in her hand, and fled <05127>, and got <03318> him out <02351>.

Ec 9:8 Let thy garments <0899> be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

Zec 3:4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy <06674> garments <0899> from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy <05708> rags <0899>; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Ge 39:13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled <05127> forth,

Jer 51:6 Flee <05127> out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD’S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

1Co 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Ge 19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth <03318>, and set him without <02351> the city.

Ge 19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth <03318> abroad <02351>, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

Ge 39:20 And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

SUMMARY CONCLUSION

The Bible appears to be giving us the picture of fleeing naked and leaving behind a garment as a picture of (1) the church coming into the great tribulation when Christ was taken. The body was left without a Head and the sheep were scattered. (2) Joseph fleeing the wife of Pharaoh appears to relate to the depart out when the believers are told to flee fornication. It’s a time when they leave the filthy garment of the church behind to come out of Babylon.