#13- Rapture and Tribulation~ BIBLE DOCTRINE 10-6-12
Today we'll say a few things to do with the catching up of the True Church and the seven year Tribulation.
As we think on all the chaotic happenings in the world today, we can't help but realize that they are surely signs of the last days that the Bible describes.
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Most country's the world over are having financial problems, some or worse than others, our nation today is the biggest debtor nation in the world, our governmental officials are borrowing millions of dollars hourly and then give it too other countries, their printing money around the clock, more people are on food stamps today that ever have been, manufacturing plants are closing here and going overseas to avoid sky high taxes, this present administration is leading our nation to becoming a socialist nation, wanting to take from the rich and give it too the poor, this is not right, we see the mad man of Iran getting closer too having a nuclear bomb, thinking sending it on Gods chosen people Israel, you would think that after centuries of trying too destroy Israel that they would finally see that God will never allow that to happen, all that have come against His people in the past have went down in defeat and that is the coarse for all Israel's enemies today.
Listen; the world is setting the stage for the Antichrist, he will come on the scene just after the rapture of the True Church and he will be welcomed with open arms as he will have the solution, "or so it will seem" to all these problems.
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* He will have a way with words that will be convincing to the earth dwellers, not the True Church; she is with the Lord Jesus.
>>Psalm 55: 21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter,--
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His coming on the scene just after the Rapture of the True Church will not be an accident, let me remind us that what we know as the Tribulation, God refers too as Jacobs trouble, Israel's trouble, not the Church's trouble.
>>Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he {Israel- Jacob} shall be saved out of it.
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The Church is caught out of the world in the 4th chapter of the Revelation and is not mentioned again until she returns with Christ in the 19th chapter, and the reason is, the church is not on earth during the tribulation.
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There will be a false peace for the first 3 ½ years of the tribulation, Israel will feel secure with the Antichrist promise of protection. And keep in mind, he will not be called the Antichrist, he will be some kind of renowned military man, a political man, he's going too be received with opened arms so to speak, the world is today ready for some one like this as things are getting worse each passing day.
>> Daniel 9: 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, --
THE MANY is to do with the Islamic country's and the Jews, both are included, -- with many for one week, for seven years.
The ONE WEEK is 7 years, IN THE MIDST OF THE WEEK, means at the 3 1/2 year mark.
He will allow the Jews to worship as they please for 3 ½ years, but then he'll stop them from offering sacrifices; he'll demand that they worship him as God.
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Let me say, that for the Antichrist to "confirm the covenant" there must be already in place and agreement in order for him to confirm it.
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>> 1 Thessalonians 5: 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
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Most of us men folks understand little about the mothers too be having labor pains, however, it's really a no brainier to understand that when she truly is about to give her baby birth there is nothing that can stop it, there is no escaping what's about too happen.
This same truth applies in Israel's case, when they are in unwalled villages thinking now at last they are going to have peace and safety the unthinkable happens, it's now 3 ½ years into the seven and now this man of Satan shows his true colors.
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>> 2 Thessalonians 2: 1- 12 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, ** 2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, ** as that the day of Christ is at hand.
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The Thessalonians had been taught by someone other than Paul that the persecution they were experiencing was a part of the Tribulation judgment and that there was no rapture for which they should hope, and so Paul is now setting the record straight too these Thessalonians.
>>3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day {day of the Lord} shall not come, except there come a falling away first, --
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Paul said that there must come a falling away from the truths of God, and we're certainly there today, apostasy is in full bloom, but it will continue to become worse and worse with each passing day right up unto the rapture of the True Church.
I say the True Church because there are many denominations today that call themselves a church and are not really the Lords, the only True Church is made up of blood bought believers, that believe the Bible, the real bible, there's many so called books that claim to be the bible and are not.
The book of Mormon, The new world translation that the false Jehovah witnesses have, not too mentions the countless perversions.
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>>John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. -- Not as any thing else says.
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* Let me quickly say, we have a Mormon running for President, he's running against a sitting Muslim, we've already seen what the Muslim does, a total disaster, we must choose between these two, to me the choice is clear.
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3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day {day of the Lord} shall not come, except there come a falling away first, --
-- and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; {antichrist} 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
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The Jews will build a place of worship in Jerusalem just after the Church has left, they will worship there as they did under the Mosaic Law, but at the midway point into the seven years the Antichrist will enter into the temple and declare himself to be God, and demand all to worship him as such.
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5 Remember ye not, {Thessalonians} that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only HE who now letteth will let, until HE be taken out of the way.
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The Holy Spirit, is allowing these things to happen all around us today and as He is taken out of the way, He takes the Church with Him, and then but not until then this WICKED man will come on the scene.
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8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
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With the speed of lighting and laser beam accuratce, they be destroyed as Jesus simple speaks the Word.
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9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
== WHAT IS THE LOVE OF THE Truth?
>> John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: ---
>> 1 John 4:8 ---- for God is love.
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10- in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness
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We're told here that "God shall send them strong delusion" in other words, God will cause these that didn't believe and receive Jesus, Who is the Truth, to believe a lie; He'll put it in their heart and in their mind to believe a lie.
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Remember the believers are no longer on earth, these here are the earth dwellers that refused to be saved, these were left here on earth, these have no hope, there will be people that will be saved in the Tribulation according to Revelation chapter 7: by hearing and believing the preaching of the 144000 Jewish missionary's in the tribulation, but it will be people that have never heard the gospel message before the rapture, if the rapture should happen in a the next few minutes, every one that has heard the truth to do with the saving grace of God and rejected it have no hope, these will believe a lie, the antichrist.
It certainly would be awful to go to hell from any place in the world, but I would hate to go too hell from this part of the country, there has been more preaching around here than a lot of other places, I realize we have great preaching in other parts of our land, but here in this particular location of S.C the message is going out twenty four hours a day from right here at W.T.B.I. and even across the world through the internet. -- Folks here are without excuse.
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Back too Israel; Israel's worse days are just ahead, these precious Jewish people that we love so much have always been persecuted and millions killed, in world- war- two it has been said that under Hitler six million were killed.
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As Gods chosen people they have turned their back God, they worshipped pagan gods all through the O.T., they were continually disobeying Him, the Jews brought Gods wrath on themselves, for the most part they still reject Jesus Christ as their Messiah, but one day they'll realize that He is.
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>> Zechariah 13: 6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. -- His friends being the house of Israel
Be sure and notice, it says WOUNDS, not scars, I believe He will always have these WOUNDS in order to remind us all; of the terrible price He paid in order for us to be saved.
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There will be 2/3rds of the Jews killed in the tribulation.
>> Zechariah 13: 8-9 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 9And I will bring the third part through the fire, {tribulation} and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
>>Notice; what is left of the Jews, 1/3rd will call on the Lord in that horrible time and He will hear and answer their call for mercy.
The Jews will receive Jesus as their Messiah after He has destroyed all their enemies at Armageddon.
These will flee to the now awaiting their arrival, Petra, just inside Jordan. They now have running water there, wonder why?
The antichrist and his henchmen will not be able to get too these Jews at that time, we might say, but what about air planes, could they not fly over and bomb the Jews? -- Not if God don't allow it.
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Revelation 12:1 1And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: -- the twelve tribes.
This is telling about Israel, the woman.
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Verse 6 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
>> This is the last half of the Tribulation, 3 ½ years. -- 1260 days.
I don't know who the "THEY" are in this verse. But God has this place prepared and waiting for them, we believe it to be PETRA in Jordan.
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But the very next thing on Gods prophetic calendar is the Rapture of the True Church, and it could very well be just any time now, if your not saved please don't put it off any longer, that is the most important thing that any one could possible do.
>> Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
