Why I Believe The Rapture Is Before The Great Tribulation
"Comfort one another with these words. The Devil will torture and murder you and my people the Jews. There will be demons hunting non-Believers throughout the land, the waters will turn to blood, a third of the people in the world will die through war, it will cost a whole day's work to feed one man one meal, the Skies will be blacked and the great and most powerful men in the world will come to the mountains and beg them to fall on them, to hide them from the wrath of God. Those who refuse to take the ****ing Mark of the Beast will be beheaded, and a great Earthquake will shake the entire world. And then I will come and take what little survivors are left of you to Heaven. COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS.
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cheachea
alanmolstad are you a preterist ?
Do you believe God will pour out His wrath on His own Church ?
He made a way of escape for Noah with the Ark and also made a way of escape for Lot and his daughters.
The way of escape was in the midst of the judgement much like the angel of death taking all of the young males where the blood of the lamb was not on the door post. The chosen were in the midst of the judgement not entirely removed from it like the rapture is usually presented but shielded from it unless you happen to look over your shoulder while it's happening...
Remember though the enemies wrath is not necessarily restrained from believers. I believe the case can be made for concurrent tribulations if you will. God's judgement of the deniers and the Devil's persecution of the church.
Could be wrong,
MacG