The Great Tribulation - Matthew 24

[Book of Jeremiah]

When the day of Pentacost came, it was not long before persecution followed. Some of those Believers living during that time thought this is the great tribulation Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24! Perhaps we have missed the rapture! Paul had to correct them and tell them that the man of sin would be revealed first. ( the anti-christ ) In other words, do not be troubled. The rapture has not taken place.

I have a serious concern for Christians who are expecting the rapture to come before the great tribulation because I can find no evidence of a pre-tribulation rapture in the bible. The other night while watching a christian preacher on television who has a magazine called The End times - he stated that although he could not find any evidence of a pre-tribulation rapture - he withheld that information from his readers because he didn't want to be called a false prophet.

His wife had told him that if he taught the church was going through the tribulation he would be called a false prophet. So he prayed about it, studied the scriptures carefully and concluded it was time to tell others what he had found. My husband listened to him and said, Look! That preacher believes the same thing you believe about the rapture! I admit I was surprised because other than Michael Boldea Jr. I have not found any other Pastors / evangelists teaching the catching up "after the tribulation". So let's look at the scriptures on the rapture and I will also add a few of the the scriptures that the End Times minister found and we can study it out together.

Beginning with Mathew 24: 4

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying I am the Christ, and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes,. in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end the same shall be saved.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.

Matt. 24: 4 -14
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Jesus warned us first, Take heed that no man deceive you. Why? Because the times leading up to and including the Great Tribulation will be a time of great deception upon the earth. The LORD informs us that we shall hear of wars and rumours of wars and again he warns us, "See that you are not troubled" .... all these things must come to pass ........ the end is not yet. ( not time for Him to return yet )

Then as these things come to pass the LORD calls these times the beginnings of sorrows. I believe we are entering those times and the great tribulation is not far off now.

We see false prophets abounding, we also hear of those claiming to be Christ - ( but are not ) in Europe a new age Jesus is supposedly waiting in the wings to be announced, Lord something or another, the occasional report of a person in the USA claiming to be the Messiah, more and more we are hearing of such announcements... still Jesus has not returned.

Iniquity is abounding in the world and in the church and the love of Jesus Christ is waxing cold, we see that all about us. Just look at the news reports from this message board - even the world knows iniquity is greatly increasing upon the earth in this hour.

In much of the church, people are no longer tolerating sound doctrine but have itching ears to hear the latest, greatest "revelation"... it matters not that it is all lies.. they just want to hear a gospel that soothes their conscience, that tells them it alright to seek the riches of this world, no need to confess our sins or live holy, forget repentance - the latest revelation is there is no such thing as repentance - that one comes from yet another false prophet and his popularity is on the rise on the christian television networks.

Yes, the altars have been turned into stages that look like Grammy Award shows complete with rock music set to christian lingo. No more pure holy gospel hymns that have the anointing on them and what would bring a true heartfelt repentance - like the Spirit led sermons Tozer and Ravenhill, Charles Finney, Spurgeon or Jonathan Edwards preached!

No, I am told that today many of these wide road false preachers get their sermons off of the internet because they do not hear the Holy Spirit speaking to them. How can they when they have no relationship with God?

Yet in other places around the world - outside of the United States - we see Christians being put to death on a greater scale than ever before in the history of the world. Perhaps because this hasn't happened here in America the church still clings to a pre-tribulation rapture. So the following are scriptures to examine and find out what the bible says about the LORD's return.

It is written:

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened. and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

AND THEN shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
- Matthew 24: 29 - 31

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These are the words of Jesus. When shall Jesus return? Immediately after the tribulation of those days. Not before.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

From Matthew 24: 31 referring to the Lord's elect:

Matthew 24:31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

Matthew 24:32
"Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.

1 Corinthians 15:52
in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

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The dead shall rise first, then we which are alive will be caught up. When shall this happen? At the last trumpet. 1 Corinthians 15:52 is the scripture verse the church uses to teach the pre-tribulation rapture. How is this possible that we would be raptured 7 years before - when scripture states the dead rise first?

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Those who believe in a pre - tribulation rapture will tell you that when Jesus said his angels would gather his elect from the four winds - he was referring to the Jews which would be born again during the tribulation and that the church is already gone. That is not what scripture identifies as the elect.

Have a look:

http://biblehub.com/colossians/3-12.htm

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

http://biblehub.com/romans/8-33.htm

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

http://biblehub.com/romans/11-7.htm

King James Bible
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
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Who are the elect that Jesus is speaking of in Matthew 24: 31? Not the Jews. Those who were born again including those Jews who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. The elect are the born again Church. That is who the elect are. When are they getting caught up? At the last trumpet. That is AFTER the tribulation. Not before.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Matthew 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.

Matthew 24:3
As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. "Tell us," they said, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"

Matthew 24:27
For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
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What happened after Noah and his family went into the ark? Was it 7 years before the judgment of God fell and destruction came? No. It was immediate. As Jesus said, Immediately after the Tribulation of those days the Son of man shall appear.... IMMEDIATELY after. Anyone not considering what Noah was subjected by a world of wicked men is simply not thinking this thing through. Noah indeed had his own tribulation that he went through prior to being told to enter the ark with his family. Look at the scripture of what was taking place during Noahs' day:

http://biblehub.com/genesis/6-5.htm


King James Bible
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Cross References

Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts--murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

Matthew 24:37
As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Luke 17:26
"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

Romans 1:28
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

1 Peter 3:20
to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water,
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Some theologians estimate there were 20 million people on the earth when God destroyed it by the flood.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Who are these people?

Revelation 20:4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast3and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. 4Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.…

Cross References

Daniel 7:9
"As I looked, "thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His clothing was as white as snow; the hair of his head was white like wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze.

Daniel 7:18
But the holy people of the Most High will receive the kingdom and will possess it forever--yes, for ever and ever.'

Daniel 7:22
until the Ancient of Days came and pronounced judgment in favor of the holy people of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Question for those believing in a pre-tribulation rapture. If those who are martyred for Christ because they refuse to deny the Word of God and refuse to take the mark in their hand or in their forehead are the first resurrection......... how can you then be raptured 7 years before them? These are of the first resurrection are the choice saints that rule and reign with Jesus Christ for a thousand years. The finest of the wheat as Watchman Nee would say.

If you are a choice servant why would you be wisked away into the air before the first resurrection and be denied the privledge of ruling and reigning with Jesus Christ for 1000 years ? Does that even make sense? No. It doesn't. Any servant worth their salt would refuse such an offer hoping for a better resurrection! The first one! Read Hebrews! Hold on! I will get the scripture for you.

* Better yet, if the martyred for Christ are the first resurrection it is impossible that anything went before they did! Understand?

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Here it is!

Hebrews 11:35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.

King James Bible
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:


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The Gospel of Jesus Christ includes raising the dead which you can see by this scripture some women did do, however there were those who refused - these ones did not want to be raised back up by rather rejected deliverance so that they could obtain a better ressurection! What was the better resurrection? The first one! The first one is the one that rules and reigns with Christ for 1000 years!

Why does the church teach that the raptured church prior to the tribulation is the first resurrection?

How can people who have refused the mark of the beast in their hand and forehead and kept the Word of Jesus Christ be beheaded for Christ and raptured too?

Answer. They cannot. Believe the bible, Beloved of God! Believe the bible! Be like the Bereans! Be like that brother with the magazine called End Times Magazine - study the scriptures and ask the Holy Spirit to show you. Yes, be like those who are preparing to endure until the end! Not looking for an early departure! Amen? Amen!

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

2 Thessalonians 2:3 Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.The Man of Sin
…2that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.…

Cross References

Daniel 7:25
He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.

Daniel 8:25
He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior. When they feel secure, he will destroy many and take his stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power.

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The Lucifereans are looking to the day when Lucifer will rule a one world order. It will be short lived and then his followers will be cast into hell for eternal torment. ( Lucifer will be bound for a 1000 yrs then let loose for a season then finally cast into hell with those he duped into serving him where he will be eternally tormented with the damned ) Still in the early church they were suffering great persecution and this led to much speculation about when Christ would return. Notice Paul's response. The anti christ will be revealed, he will set himself up in the temple in Jerusalem - once again referring back to Matthew 24: 15 where Jesus warns the believers about when they see THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION, spoken of by Daniel the prophet. Note Daniel's description in scriptures above? We'll still be here for this. Yes. On the earth, church. What does Jesus tell us to do? Read Matthew 24: 15,16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and then please note verse 21:

For then shall be such great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no , nor ever shall be. - Matt. 24: 21
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This IS the great tribulation Jesus is speaking about. Then the church will be panicking like the church of Thessalonians were and yet Jesus warns us in verse 23 of the same chapter again, Then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ or there, believe it not. For there shall be false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders.... Keep in mind how Jesus said he would return. That is how He shall return. ( not out in the desert, not standing on the ledge of a UFO making a kumbaya all paths lead to me speech ) Amen? Amen!
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As the Jews are waiting for their Messiah to come - this will set the stage for the man of sin to present himself as their "Messiah" - will take the seat in the temple and he will announce himself as God. The Jews will finally see this false Messiah for what he is! An imposter! Then they will realize Jesus Christ is their true Messiah! Oh! What an hour we are living in, people! What an hour!

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Here is a scripture many use in speaking of the pre-tribulation rapture:

1 Corinthians 15:52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Matthew 24:31
And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

John 5:28
"Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice

1 Corinthians 15:23
But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Revelation 11:18 The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small-- and for destroying those who destroy tContext

The Seventh Trumpet
…17saying, "We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign. 18"And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth." 19And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm.

Cross References

Psalm 2:1
Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalm 2:5
He rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,

Psalm 110:5
The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.

Psalm 115:13
he will bless those who fear the LORD-- small and great alike.

Daniel 7:10
A river of fire was flowing, coming out from before him. Thousands upon thousands attended him; ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The court was seated, and the books were opened.

Revelation 10:7
But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets."

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This is when the last trumpet sounds! Immediately after the tribulation and the judgment comes. This is it! How glorious is that?! Glory to God! It all comes together! Doesn't it? With the understanding that the church is going to endure unto the end or she won't be saved - how much should we be seeking the LORD every hour? Praying, fasting,repenting of sin, living holy, declaring the Word of God, winning souls, warning the lost of what is to come? You see, if we were expecting an early departure and had no part in this battle we may just believe that taking the mark in our hand or forehead won't cause us to lose our salvations because we are still waiting for a rapture!

Not realizing that the Word is being fulfilled on the earth right now! That the RFID chip technology is already being rolled out! Lucifer is not God. He is a fallen angel deceiving the world at present. He is not ominscient. He needs this technology for his one world order -he needs this rfid technology which created the chip to be implanted in your hand or forehead because it is what will replace cash in the future. You won't be able to buy, sell or trade without it. But for those who do not believe they are going to live through the Great Tribulation?

They could make the fatal error of taking this mark, this RFID chip / tattoo / whatever they will call it - even calling it part of Healthcare requirements, insurance requirements or even call it a medical breakthrough - perhaps - who knows how they will seduce millions to take it? Still! Anyone who takes the mark will have lost their salvation forever. If they are not saved - they will have lost their opportunity to ever be saved! So knowing what the bible teaches about the catching away of the elect is very important. Review the scriptures on your own time and ask the LORD to reveal to you the truth about what he meant when he said, He who shall endure unto the end the same shall be saved.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

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[GISMYS]

Question for those believing in a pre-tribulation rapture. If those who are martyred for Christ because they refuse to deny the Word of God and refuse to take the mark in their hand or in their forehead are the first resurrection......... how can you then be raptured 7 years before them? These are of the first resurrection are the choice saints that rule and reign with Jesus Christ for a thousand years. The finest of the wheat as Watchman Nee would say.

If you are a choice servant why would you be wisked away into the air before the first resurrection and be denied the privledge of ruling and reigning with Jesus Christ for 1000 years ? Does that even make sense? No. It doesn't. Any servant worth their salt would refuse such an offer hoping for a better resurrection! The first one! Read Hebrews! Hold on! I will get the scripture for you.

* Better yet, if the martyred for Christ are the first resurrection it is impossible that anything went before they did! Understand?

" choice servant will be be wisked away into the air " on rapture day and miss the seven years of the great tribulation, then return with JESUS AND DEFEAT ALL EVIL AND RULE WITH JESUS FOR THE 1000 YEARS.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Gismy, I would think the choice servant would be the one to rule and reign with Christ for a 1000 yrs. The Hebrew believers considered it the better resurrection themselves and refused deliverance from death and chose martyrdom. The bible is clear only those in the first resurrection who are martyred for Christ and reject the mark of the beast in their hands / foreheads will be counted in that number. Furthermore as they are identified as the first resurrection there could be nothing prior to them - resurrected!

Lastly Jesus said AFTER the tribulation he would appear - in the clouds. There is no mention of an earlier appearance. In Matthew 24 he warns us do not be deceived 5 times. In one chapter no less! Why? Because He knew this pre-rapture teaching would come about in the latter days and he didn't want us to be deceived into believing He had come and we had missed the rapture! He makes clear IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION, .......he will appear in the clouds. Then and only then will he appear!

The teaching that the church is raptured while the Jews are left here to suffer through the tribulation without us is a personal affront to me. I would not want to leave this earth without them. When my Jewish brethren are going through the tribulation I will be right there with them. All the way to the end. That is the way it is going to be.

I will not argue with you on what you believe but I have presented these scriptures to explain that according to the bible there is no pre tribulation rapture.

Have a blessed evening, Brother.

 

[PostmodernProph]

1 Corinthians 15:52
in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

sounds like good times.....

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Let me quote it completely, GISMY.

It is written:

Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: On such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. And when the thousand years expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison.

- Rev. 20: 4 - 6

Bible scripture states that only those who take part in the first resurrection - being martyred for Christ - will rule and reign with Jesus Christ for 1000 years. One cannot be martyred and raptured at the same time. It is one or the other, Gismy.

All the rest of the saints will sleep during that 1000 years and will not take part in ruling and reigning with Jesus Christ for 1000 years, Gismy.

You must study Scripture for yourself, brother, because the wide road church isn't the only one preaching the rapture. Those who are supposed to know their bibles believe in it too. I do not.

I believe the written word of God only and take the word of no man. No man. Let the Word of God be true and every man found a liar. I stand on the Word of God. Nothing else.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Question to those who doubt it. Why is it that the early church were martyred for Christ and western Christians do not believe martyrdom is for them? Stephen was martryed for Christ, Peter was martyred for Christ, the apostles were martyred for Christ, albeit John was exiled to the isle of Patmos, the early christians were fed to the lions, the christians all over the world are right now being martyred for Christ and the church of America is still clinging tightly to a pre - tribulation rapture - totally unprepared. Why is that?

What is so terrible about being martyred for Christ? You have to go somehow! Would you rather die from a mosquito bite? Where is the glory in that? I mean seriously, church! THINK!!!

 

[Chuckt]

Question to those who doubt it. Why is it that the early church were martyred for Christ and western Christians do not believe martyrdom is for them? Stephen was martryed for Christ, Peter was martyred for Christ, the apostles were martyred for Christ, albeit John was exiled to the isle of Patmos, the early christians were fed to the lions, the christians all over the world are right now being martyred for Christ and the church of America is still clinging tightly to a pre - tribulation rapture - totally unprepared. Why is that?

What is so terrible about being martyred for Christ? You have to go somehow! Would you rather die from a mosquito bite? Where is the glory in that? I mean seriously, church! THINK!!!

How can one possibly prepare for the book of Revelation's judgments?

The locusts in Revelation 9. How would you defeat them?

Revelation 9:10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

I think if you had anything to defeat them, they wouldn't be hurting men for five months.

And then a third part of the men were killed (Revelation 9:18).

Amos 5:18 ¶ Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

The day of the Lord is like a man feeling from a lion and just when he thinks he escapes, a bear met him or he went into a house and said, "whew" and leaned on the wall and a serpent bit him.

Amos 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

How do you prepare for that when you go to hide and then you get bit by a serpent?

Where would you hide when the men are asking the rocks to fall on them?

Revelation 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

How do you prepare? There is no where you can run because the locusts will find you.

Here is the answer. Unless God intervenes, no one will survive:

Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

 

[PostmodernProph]

Why is it that the early church were martyred for Christ and western Christians do not believe martyrdom is for them?

perhaps because here in the west we have a society where martyrdom is not necessary?.....

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Answer to PostmodernProph, there have been people martyred for Christ in the United States. The girl who was murdered in the Columbine shooting refused to deny her faith in Jesus Christ? She was a martyr. There are tens of thousands who have refused to deny Jesus Christ and been martryed on the mission field throughout US history.

No, what I am referring to PostmoderProph, is that the modern church in America has clung to a teaching of a pre-tribulation rapture because they have believed the false teaching that Christians could not be on earth while the judgment of God is poured out. We will be although we will be sealed by God just as those who mourned over the sins of the land were sealed in Ezekiel Chapter 9.

In the book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ - you will note some of the judgments poured out, famine, death, plague, locusts, etc that will come upon the earth during the great tribulation do not touch those marked by God. Those are Gods servants and they are not touched by any of the judgments of God.

Those judgments come upon the world while the servants are witnessing it take place. See Psalm 91. For the promises of God to his elect.

As for the locusts, those are the fifth trumpet - see Chapter 9 of The Revelation of Jesus Christ. As for the servants of God who are sealed by God from any harm from these plagues, judgments poured out upon the earth?

It is written:

And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth, and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months, and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

- Rev. 9: 3 - 5

As you can see, these torments are for those not sealed by God. Now Gods seal upon the servants is not to be confused with the mark of the beast which man, woman and child have been warned not to accept in their forehead or hand - it will be a mark that is required for them to buy, sell or trade. It is possible it would be the RFID chip which is implanted in the forehead or hand as I'm told this is to link up with a cashless society in the future. It could also be related to healthcare and insurance requirements forcing people to make the decision to join the one world order system controlled by Lucifer or hold fast to their salvation and refuse the mark.

As for the Sixth trumpet which is one trumpet before Jesus Christ appears in the clouds - Immediately AFTER the tribulation - Seventh trumpet is the last trumpet and when church is raptured - but first lets look at the sixth trumpet to see who is being tormented during the Great Tribulation - it isn't who you think:

It is written:

And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God. Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone, and the heads of the lions and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails, for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

Rev. 9: 13 - 19
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PostmodernProph, these are the people who have rejected Christ and the wide road church which will be judged with them. All those who are part of the apostasy - the great falling away will share in that judgment. Not the servants of God. The children of God are sealed during the Great Tribulation - it is the antichrist and beast ( both actually ) that make war against the saints of God. Not God!

Now all these slain above are men who are not servants of God. The rest who did not die that way? Are kept alive for the worst torment yet to come. You'll find that in chapter 11 The two witnesses appear. After the two witnesses who shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days according to Rev. 11: 3. See the three woes in Rev. 11. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of an angry God! These are the ones who will suffer that horrific time. Then finally - after all of this? Comes the last trumpet! What is the last trumpet to sound? The Seventh trumpet.

It is written:

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of their works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold and silver and brass, and stone, and of wood, which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

- Revelation 9: 20,21,

The world thinks they are headed for good times. No. The world is headed for hell on earth. That is what the Great Tribulation is all about! Are you marked by Jesus today?

The servants of God will do mighty exploits in the name of LORD. They will be martyred after their ministry on earth is finished just as Peter, Stephen, James and the early servants of God were. They will run their race and when it is finished they will lay down their lives. That is how it will be.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

1 Corinthians 15:52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Cross References

Matthew 24:31
And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

John 5:28
"Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice

1 Corinthians 15:23
But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.

1 Thessalonians 4:15
According to the Lord's word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.

1 Thessalonians 4:17
After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

Revelation 8:2
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.