SEEK JESUS:THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE BIBLE STUDY OCT. 6, 2014 For more Bible Study and many more inspirational postings to inform, teach and encourage you in your daily walk with the Lord, just click on: facebook/seekjesusthepearlofgreatprice also see: facebook/groups/seekjesusthewaythetruthandthelife for prayer clcik on facebook/groups/seekjesusprayercircle/ HELLO! LETS PRAY: DEAR PRECIOUS HEAVENLY FATHER YOU ALONE ARE WORTHY OF ALL OUR PRAISE. BLESSED BE YOUR HOLY NAME. WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORD THAT REVEALS YOU AND ALL THAT YOU ARE. FATHER WE ASK FOR UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR WORD AND WISDOM.LORD WE SEEK YOUR FACE AND WE KNOW THAT IF WE SEEK YOUR FACE WE WILL FIND YOU. FATHER WE HAVE EYES TO SEE AND EARS TO HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING. IN JESUS NAME WE PRAY, AMEN! WE ARE CONTINUING TODAY IN OUR STUDY OF: THE RAPTURE PART 2 PLEASE READ THE OTHER POSTINGS ON THE RAPTURE IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO, BEFORE CONTINUING ON. YOU WILL NEED YOUR BIBLE, PEN, PAPER AND YOUR FAVORITE BEVERAGE. TAKE NOTES, MAKE YOURSELF A NOTEBOOK SO YOU CAN REFERENCE BACK TO IT AT LATTER TIMES IF YOU NEED TO LOOK UP SOMETHING. THIS IS A LENGTHY STUDY, SO BE PREPARED, YOU WILL HAVE TO LOOK UP AND READ SOME SCRIPTURES YOURSELF, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO POST ALL OF THEM FOR YOU. PUT ON YOUR THINKING CAPS! . AS I HAVE STATED BEFORE, THE RAPTURE AND THE SECOND COMING ARE TWO DIFFERENT EVENTS. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS ONE SINGLE PURPOSE FOR THE RAPTURE, AND THAT IS TO TAKE CHRISTIANS FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN. IN THE RAPTURE WE WILL MEET CHRIST IN THE CLOUDS AND WILL BE TAKEN TO THE FATHERS HOUSE. JESUS SAID IN JOHN 14:1-3 LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED; YE BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME. IN MY FATHERS HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS: IF IT WERE NOT SO, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU .. I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN, AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF;THAT WHERE I AM THERE YOU MAY BE ALSO. FATHERS HOUSE IS CLEARLY REFERRING TO HEAVEN . JESUS IS GOING THERE AFTER HIS DEATH, RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION, TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR US. GOD HAS A HOME WITH MANY ROOMS AND TO WHICH THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD(BELIEVERS) WHICH AT THIS TIME IS HERE ON EARTH, WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO. THIS WAS THE HOPE OF NEW TESTAMENT BELIEVERS AND IS THE HOPE OF ALL BELIEVERS TODAY. HE SAID HE WOULD RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF THIS IS REFERRING TO THE RAPTURE. CHRIST COMING FOR HIS FOLLOWERS WILL ENABLE THEM TO ESCAPE THE FUTURE HOUR OF TRIAL THAT IS TO COME UPON THE EARTH. BY CONTRAST TO THIS, THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, HIS GLORIOUS APPEARING, JESUS WILL AT THIS TIME DESCEND TO EARTH, POUR OUT JUDGMENTS UPON THOSE WHO OPPOSE HIM, AND SET UP HIS KINGDOM, THE MILLENNIAL REIGN, (1,000 YEAR REIGN OF CHRIST ON EARTH FROM JERUSALEM). THE GREEK WORD HARPAZO MEANS CAUGHT UP, WHICH MEANS TO SEIZE SUDDENLY OR TO SNATCH. IN LATIN THE WORD IS RAPIO, WHICH MEANS TO CARRY AWAY, OR TO SEIZE, THE LATIN WORD RAPIO IS WHERE THE TERM RAPTURE COMES FROM. ROMANS 11:25 FOR I WOULD NOT, BRETHREN, THAT YE SHOULD BE IGNORANT OF THIS MYSTERY, LEST YE SHOULD BE WISE IN YOUR OWN CONCEITS; THAT BLINDNESS IN PART HAS HAPPENED TO ISRAEL, UNTIL THE FULNESS OF THE GENTILES BE COME IN. FULNESS HERE IS TALKING ABOUT A NUMBER, A NUMBER OF GENTILES, WHICH NO MAN KNOWS WHAT THAT NUMBER IS, ONLY GOD. HE EXPLAINS IT HERE IN THIS SCRIPTURE WE JUST READ AS A MYSTERY AND THAT HE DOESNT WANT US TO BE IGNORANT ABOUT IT, HE WANTS US TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THIS MYSTERY, THIS HAPPENING THAT IS TO TAKE PLACE AT SOME TIME. THE FULNESS OF THE GENTILES SIGNIFIES THE COMPLETION OF THE PURPOSE OF GOD CALLING OUT A PEOPLE FROM THE GENTILES. THIS COULD BE REFERRING TO A TIME WHEN THEIR WICKEDNESS IS FULL, THAT IS TO SAY, WHEN THE SIN IN THE WORLD REACHES A FULL LEVEL OF REBELLION AGAINST GOD. THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THE DAY OR THE HOUR OF THE RAPTURE CAN NOT BE KNOWN IN ADVANCE OF IT OCCURRING HERE ON EARTH. COULD IT BE A SPECIFIC TIME OF DAY, DATE OR HOUR? WELL THE SCRIPTURE WE JUST READ TELLS US THAT IT HAS TO DO WITH A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS BEING REACHED, AND ONLY GOD HIMSELF KNOWS WHEN THAT WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED. THERE IS NO DEBATE AMONG SCHOLARS AS TO IF THERE WILL BE A RAPTURE, BUT THERE IS MUCH DEBATE THAT HAS OCCURRED AS TO WHEN THE RAPTURE WILL OCCUR. MANY FALSE PROPHETS, PREACHERS, AND TEACHERS HAVE TRIED WITH DISMAL FAILURE TO PREDICT THE RAPTURE.THIS TYPE OF RHETORIC CAUSES HARM TO OTHERS AND THE BODY OF CHRIST. THERE ARE FIVE MAIN THEORIES AS TO THE TIMING OF THE RAPTURE. THESE ALL SURROUND WHAT IS KNOWN IN THE BIBLES PROPHETIC TEACHING CONCERNING WHAT THE BIBLE REFERS TO AS THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. CHRIST HIMSELF MENTIONED THE GREAT TRIBULATION IN MATTHEW 24, AND THEN IN REVELATION 4-19 , IT IS DESCRIBED IN GREAT DETAIL. HERE IS ONE VIEW OF THE RAPTURE. 1.PRE-TRIBULATION- THIS IS WHERE BELIEVERS ARE CAUGHT UP TO BE WITH CHRIST BEFORE THE TRIBULATION PERIOD BEGINS TO OCCUR..ROMANS 11:25 STATESTHAT THERE IS A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS THAT IS TO BE REACHED, AND THAT ONLY GOD KNOWS WHAT THAT NUMBER IS AND THAT THIS IS WHAT TRIGGERS THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. IT ALSO TELLS US SOMETHING ELSE. IT MENTIONED THAT BLINDNESS IN PART HAS HAPPENED TO ISRAEL BECAUSE OF THEIR UNBELIEF. BLINDNESS MEANS A HARDENING, CALLOUSNESS, A CALCIFYING OF THE BONES, PETRIFYING. SOMETIMES IT IS DESCRIBED AS A HARD SUBSTANCE IN THE EYE THAT CAUSES BLINDNESS. WHEN USED METAPHORICALLY, IT DENOTES A DULLED SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION, A SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS AND HARDNESS. PAUL WARNS THE GENTILES, THAT THEY ARE BUT A WILD OLIVE TREE, GRAFTED IN. THE GRAFTING IN OF THE GENTILES (ALL WHO ARE NOT JEWS) IS BECAUSE OF ISRAELS UNBELIEF. ISRAELS REJECTION WILL ONLY BE TEMPORARY, UNTIL THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO BE SAVED AMONG THE GENTILES COME TO TRUST IN CHRIST. PRETRIBULATIONALISM TEACHES THAT THE RAPTURE OCCURS BEFORE THE TRIBULATION STARTS. IT TEACHES THAT THIS IS THE TIME THAT THE CHURCH WILL MEET CHRIST IN THE AIR, AND HE TAKES BELIEVERS TO LIVE WITH HIM. THEN THE TRIBULATION TIME PERIOD WILL BEGIN.SHORTLY THE ANTICHRIST WILL THEN STEP INTO THE SCENE. AS I STATED PREVIOUSLY, THE RAPTURE AND THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST (WHICH IS ALSO REFERRED TO AS THE DAY OF THE LORD) ARE TWO DIFFERENT HAPPENINGS.THE SECOND COMING OR DAY OF THE LORD IS WHEN CHRIST COMES TO SET UP HIS KINGDOM, AND IS SEPARATED FROM THE RAPTURE BY AT LEAST SEVEN YEARS, THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. ACCORDING TO THIS VIEW THE CHURCH WILL NOT GO THROUGH THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD, THEY WILL NOT EXPERIENCE ANY OF THE TRIBULATION. NOW LETS LOOK AT THE PROS AND THE CONS OF THIS VIEW OF THE RAPTURE. THE PRE-TRIBULATIONAL VIEW , SPIRITUALLY HAS MUCH TO COMMEND IT. WE ARE TOLD IN 1THESS. 1:10 AND TO WAIT FOR HIS SON FROM HEAVEN, WHOM HE RAISED FROM THE DEAD, EVEN JESUS, WHICH DELIVERED US FROM THE WRATH TO COME. THE PHRASE THE WRATH TO COME IS REFERRING TO THE FUTURE JUDGMENT THAT WILL OCCUR DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. BUT HE IS TELLING US AS BELIEVERS THAT WE NEED NOT FEAR, FOR GOD IS SENDING JESUS BACK TO DELIVER US FROM THAT TIME OF WRATH.. WHAT DOES DELIVER MEAN? THERE ARE THOSE WHO SEEM TO LOOK OVER THAT WORD WHEN READING THAT SCRIPTURE. DELIVER MEANS TO: GO FORTH, FREE FROM RESTRAINT, EVIL, DANGER, ETC. CLEARLY CHRISTS RETURNING FOR HIS FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS HAPPENS BEFORE THIS WRATH WHICH IS TO COME. READ THESE SCRIPTURES FOR YOUR PERSONAL STUDY: 1 THESS. 5:1-7. SOME QUOTE 1 THESS. 5:1-7, AS REFERRING TO THE RAPTURE, BUT THESE SCRIPTURES ARE NOT REFERRING TO THE RAPTURE, BUT ARE REFERRING INSTEAD TO THE DAY OF THE LORD, THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. PAUL THEN SAYS IN 1 THESS. 5:8-11 BUT LET US, WHO ARE OF THE DAY, BE SOBER, PUTTING ON THE BREASTPLATE OF FAITH AND LOVE; AND FOR A HELMET, THE HOPE OF SALVATION. FOR GOD HATH NOT APPOINTED US TO WRATH, BUT TO OBTAIN SALVATION BY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. WHO DIED FOR US, THAT, WHETHER WE WAKE OR SLEEP, WE SHOULD LIVE TOGETHER WITH HIM. WHEREFORE COMFORT YOURSELF TOGETHER, AND EDIFY ONE ANOTHER, EVEN AS ALSO YE DO. ONE REASON WHY THE HOPE OF THE RETURN OF CHRIST IS SUCH A COMFORT TO BELIEVERS IS THAT HE DELIVERS US FROM THE TERRIBLE WRATH OF GOD, THE JUDGMENTS THAT ARE TO COME ON THAT DAY OF THE LORD. WHO DIED FOR US, THAT, WHETHER WE WAKE OR SLEEP, WE SHOULD LIVE TOGETHER WITH HIM. HERE PAUL IS IDENTIFYING OUR HOPE OF SALVATION AND OUR DELIVERANCE FROM THE DAY OF GODS WRATH WITH CHRISTS SACRIFICIAL DEATH ON OUR BEHALF AND HIS RETURN FOR US IS AT THE END OF THE AGE. THE DAY OF THE LORD OR, CHRISTS SECOND COMING, IS NOT REFERRING TO A 24 HOUR DAY, BUT TO AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME WHEN THE ENEMIES OF GOD ARE OVERTHROWN. THIS DAY BEGINS WHEN DIRECT JUDGEMENTS OF GOD FALL UPON THE WORLD TOWARD THE END OF THIS AGE. THE TRIBULATION PERIOD IS INCLUDED WITHIN THE DAY OF THE LORD. THIS WRATH OF GOD CULMINATES WITH CHRISTS COMING TO DESTROY THE WICKED. THE DAY OF THE LORD APPARENTLY BEGINS AT A TIME WHEN PEOPLE ARE HOPING AND SEEKING PEACE AND SAFETY. THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL NOT OVERTAKE THE FAITHFUL BELIEVERS LIKE A THIEF, FOR THEY ARE APPOINTED TO RECEIVE SALVATION, NOT WRATH.THESE FAITHFUL BELIEVERS WILL BE ALERT AND SELF-CONTROLLED, LIVING IN FAITH. LOVE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.THEY WILL BE RAPTURED,TAKEN OUT, SNATCHED OUT, CAUGHT UP TO BE WITH THE LORD. A THIEF IN THE NIGHT IS A METAPHOR THAT MEANS THAT THE TIME WHEN THE DAY OF THE LORD BEGINS IS UNCERTAIN AND UNEXPECTED. THERE IS NO WAY ONE CAN DATE IT. CHRIST WARNS US THAT WE SHOULD BE READY AT ALL TIMES. MATTHEW 24:42 WATCH THEREFORE: FOR YE KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD DOTH COME BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IF THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN IN WHAT WATCH THE THIEF WOULD COME, HE WOULD HAVE WATCHED, AND WOULD NOT HAVE SUFFERED HIS HOUSE TO BE BROKEN INTO. THEREFORE BE YE ALSO READY; FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YOU THINK NOT THE SON OF MAN COMETH. THIS WARNING IS NOT FOR TRIBULATION SAINTS.THIS WARNING IS FOR THE CHURCH. .JESUS EXPLICITLY STATES THAT HIS COMING FOR THE CHURCH SAINTS IS BEFORE THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, AND THAT IT WILL BE AT AN UNEXPECTED TIME AND WITHOUT WARNING. HE DECLARES THAT THEY NOT ONLY KNOW NOT THE TIME, BUT THAT HE WILL RETURN AT A TIME WHEN THEY THINK NOT THE SON OF MAN COMETH. THIS CLEARLY POINT TO AN ELEMENT OF SURPRISE,AND IT WILL BE UNEXPECTED. BELIEVERS ARE DELIVERED FROM THIS WRATH TO COME THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. HE COMES TO CATCH UP(RAPTURE) THE FAITHFUL OF HIS CHURCH AND TAKES THEM TO HEAVEN. THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL END AFTER THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM AT THE CREATION OF THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH. READ REV. 3:10 BECAUSE 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. HE IS TALKING TO THE CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA AND HE PROMISED THEM THAT THEY WOULD BE KEPT FROM THE HOUR OF TRIAL THAT IS GOING TO COME UPON THE WHOLE EARTH. PHILADELPHIA WAS A FAITHFUL CHURCH. THEY HAD KEPT CHRISTS WORD AND THEY DID NOT DENY HIM. THEY HAD ENDURED OPPOSITION FROM THE WORLD AND HAD RESISTED CONFORMING TO THE EVIL TRENDS OF OTHER CHURCHES. THEY HAD PERSEVERED AND REMAINED LOYAL TO CHRIST AND THE TRUTH OF THE NEW TESTAMENT GOSPEL. BECAUSE OF THIS GOD PROMISES TO DELIVER THEM FROM THE HOUR OF TRIAL. CHRISTS PROMISE TO KEEP THE PHILADELPHIA CHURCH FROM THE HOUR OF TRIAL BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITHFULNESS TO HIM IS IDENTICAL TO PAULS PROMISE TO THE THESSALONIANS THAT THEY WOULD BE RESCUED FROM THE WRATH TO COME. THIS EXTENDS TO ALL OF GODS FAITHFUL CHILDREN THROUGHOUT THE AGES. THIS HOUR INCLUDES THE DIVINELY APPOINTED TIME OF TRIAL, WRATH, AND DISTRESS THAT WILL COME UPON ALL THE WORLD IN THE LAST YEARS OF THIS AGE, JUST PRIOR TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTS KINGDOM ON EARTH. THIS TIME OF TRIAL INCLUDES GODS WRATH UPON THE UNgODLY, INCLUDED ALSO IN THIS TIME IS SATANS WRATH UPON THE GODLY, THESE GODLY ARE THOSE WHO WILL ACCEPT CHRIST DURING THE TERRIBLE TRIBULATION PERIOD, FOR THEM THERE WILL BE HUNGER, THIRST, EXPOSURE TO ELEMENTS, GREAT SUFFERING AND TEARS. THEY WILL UNDERGO THE RAVAGES OF SATAN AND HIS DEMONIC FORCES.(9:3-5; 12:12), THEY WILL UNDERGO EVIL AND VIOLENCE FROM WICKED PEOPLE, AND PERSECUTION BY THE ANTICHRIST.. PRE- TRIBULATIONALISM ALSO FINDS SUPPORT THAT IS NOT FOUND IN THE SCRIPTURES. THE WORD CHURCH APPEARS NINETEEN TIMES IN THE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS OF REVELATION, BUT TAKE NOTE, THE WORD CHURCH IS NOT USED AGAIN UNTIL CHAPTER 22. IN THE ENTIRE DESCRIPTION OF THE TRIBULATION IN REVELATION, THE WORD CHURCH IS SIMPLY NOT MENTIONED. THE SCRIPTURES NEVER USE THE WORD CHURCH IN ANY PASSAGE THAT RELATES TO THE TIME OF TRIBULATION. PRE TRIBULATIONALISM IS THE ONLY THEORY WHICH CLEARLY DEFINES THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND ISRAEL. GOD HAS SEPARATE PLANS FOR EACH. THE CHURCH DOES NOT REPLACE ISRAEL AS SOME ARE FALSELY TEACHING TODAY. THE SEVENTY SEVENS FOUND IN DANIEL 9:24 ARE DECREED UPON DANIELS PEOPLE, THE JEWS AND THE HOLY CITY WHICH IS JERUSALEM.. THIS PROPHECY MAKES IT PLAIN THAT THE SEVENTIETH WEEK, WHICH IS THE TIME OF TRIBULATION, IS A TIME OF PURGING AND RESTORATION OF ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM, AND IS NOT IN REFERENCE TO THE CHURCH. TO TEACH THAT THE CHURCH HAS REPLACED ISRAEL IS A FALSE TEACHING, GOD HAS ALWAYS HAD PLANS FOR ISRAEL AND THE HEBREW PEOPLE AND HE WILL DO WHAT IT TAKES TO RESTORE ISRAEL, AND THE TRIBULATION PERIOD WILL ACCOMPLISH JUST THAT..READ IN REVELATION ABOUT THE 144,000 AS A PART OF YOUR PERSONAL STUDY.GOD ALWAYS HAS A REMNANT. RE-TRIBUALTIONISM IS ALSO SUPPORTED HISTORICALLY. READ JOHN 21:22-23 IT WOULD SEEM THAT THE EARLY CHURCH ALSO VIEWED CHRISTS RETURN AS SOMETHING THAT COULD HAPPEN AT ANY MOMENT, OTHERWISE THE RUMOR THAT WOULD NOT HAVE PERSISTED WAS THAT JESUS WOULD RETURN IN JOHNS LIFETIME. THEY ACTUALLY BELIEVED THAT CHRIST WOULD RETURN IN THEIR DAY, THEIR LIFETIME. THIS IS A KEY POINT TO PRE-TRIBULATIONALIM AND DOES NOT CORRELATE WITH SOME OF THE OTHER RAPTURE THEORIES. PRE TRIBULATIONALISM IS THE ONE VIEW THAT SEEMS TO BE THE MOST IN KEEPING WITH GODS CHARACTER. GOD HAS A DESIRE TO DELIVER THE RIGHTEOUS FROM JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD. HE HAS ALWAYS DONE THIS. WE CAN SEE THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE, GOD DELIVERING HIS PEOPLE FROM JUDGMENT. SOME EXAMPLES WOULD BE NOAH AND HIS FAMILY, WHO GOD DELIVERED FROM A WORLDWIDE FLOOD. LOT AND SOME OF HIS FAMILY WHICH WERE DELIVERED FROM SODOM, WHEN GOD BROUGHT JUDGMENT UPON IT BECAUSE OF THE WICKEDNESS AND EVIL THAT WAS BEING DONE THERE. RAHAB, THE HARLOT, WHO WAS DELIVERED DURING THE OVERTAKING OF JERICHO, BY JOSHUA AND HIS SOLDIERS. AND ALSO GOD HAS DELIVERED US FROM JUDGMENT THROUGH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST! HE EVEN DIED FOR US TO BE DELIVERED OF OUR SINS AND RESTORE US TO A RIGHTFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM,. WOOOOOOW! WHAT A DELIVERANCE! NOW LETS LOOK AT SOME OF THE WEAKNESSES OF THE PRETRIB THEORY. ONE WEAKNESS IS THE FACT THAT IT IS A RELATIVELY NEW DEVELOPMENT AS A CHURCH DOCTRINE. IT WAS NOT RECOGNIZED UNTIL THE EARLY 1800S. THE OTHER WEAKNESS IS THAT THE PRE TRIBUALTIONISM SPLITS THE RETURN OF CHRIST INTO TWO PHASES, THE RAPTURE AND THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. THE BIBLE DOES NOT CLEARLY DEFINE BETWEEN THEM. THE OTHER PROBLEM WITH THIS VIEW IS THAT THERE WILL OBVIOUSLY BE SAINTS IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.(REV. 13:7, 20:9) PRE TRIBULATIONISM DOES DISTINGUISH THE OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS AND THE TRIBULATION SAINTS(THOSE SAVED DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD) FROM THE CHURCH OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. FROM THE SCRIPTURES WE KNOW THAT BELIEVERS THAT ARE ALIVE AT THE RAPTURE WILL BE REMOVED, CAUGHT UP, BEFORE THE TRIBULATION PERIOD BEGINS, BUT THERE WILL ALSO BE THOSE THAT COME TO CHRIST DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. JUST LIKE THE RAPTURE THEORIES, PRE-TRIBUALTIONALISM DOES NOT GIVE AN EXPLICIT TIMELINE CONCERNING FUTURE EVENTS. MAYBE YOU DONT KNOW JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR. MAYBE YOU SEE ALL THAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS WORLD AND HOW UNSETTLING IT CAN BE. MAYBE YOU ARE WONDERING IF THERE IS A WAY OUT OF ALL THAT IS TO COME. WELL, YES THERE CERTAINLY IS. WE ALL HAVE TRIBULATION IN OUR LIVES, BUT THE BIBLE TELLS OF A TRIBULATION THAT IS TO COME, THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW PEACE AND HAVE NO FEAR? JESUS MADE A WAY JUST FOR THAT FOR YOU. JESUS IS OUR PEACE, HE IS THE PRINCE OF PEACE, HE IS OUR SAVIOR, OUR STRONG TOWER, HE IS OUR FORTRESS AND HE IS OUR STRENGTH, IT IS THROUGH HIM THAT WE CAN STAND, HE IS OUR HELP IN THE STORMS OF LIFE THAT COMES AGAINST US, WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW HIM AS YOUR SAVIOR? IF SO PLEASE PRAY THIS PRAYER OF FAITH WITH A BELIEVING HEART: DEAR PRECIOUS HEAVENLY FATHER, I BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS YOUR ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, I BELIEVE THAT HE WAS GOD MANIFEST IN THE FLESH, THAT HE WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN BIRTH, LIVED AND DIED SHEDDING HIS BLOOD FOR THE REMISSION OF MY SINS. JESUS FORGIVE ME OF MY SINS. I BELIEVE THAT JESUS NOT ONLY DIED FOR ME, BUT THAT HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND NOW RESIDES AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER IN HEAVEN, EVER INTERCEDING FOR ME. THANK YOU JESUS FOR FORGIVING ME OF MY SINS. THANK YOU FOR PLACING WITHIN ME A NEW HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT, AND THAT I AM NOW A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST JESUS, A JOINT HEIR OF SALVATION. THANK YOU JESUS THAT ALL THINGS HAVE NOW BECOME NEW. I KNOW THAT I TO WILL ONE DAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE WITH MY HEAVENLY FATHER. I LOVE YOU JESUS, YOU ARE NOW THE LORD OF MY LIFE..I SUBMIT MY BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT TO YOU JESUS. IN JESUS NAME I PRAY, AMEN! IF YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER OF FAITH WITH A BELIEVING HEART, KNOW THAT YOU ARE TRULY SAVED AND ALL OF HEAVEN IS NOW REJOICING OVER YOU! TELL SOMEONE NOW, TODAY, WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR YOU. PLEASE LET ME KNOW ALSO IF YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER OF FAITH AND WE HERE AT SEEK JESUS WILL REJOICE WITH YOU ALSO.JUST MESSAGE ME OR LEAVE ME A NOTE, OR COMMENT ON THIS POSTING. JESUS SAID, THAT IF WE CONFESS HIM BEFORE MEN, HE WOULD CONFESS US BEFORE HIS FATHER IN HEAVEN, HE ALSO SAID THAT IF WE DONT CONFESS HIM BEFORE MEN, THAT HE WOULD NOT CONFESS US BEFORE HIS FATHER IN HEAVEN. SO TELL SOMEONE TODAY! FIND YOURSELF A GOOD BIBLE BASED CHURCH,YOU ARE A BABE IN CHRIST SO SURROUND YOURSELF WITH BELIEVERS IN CHRIST. PLEASE SHARE THESE POSTINGS WITH OTHERS. BE A BLESSING TO SOMEONE TODAY. HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY! VICKIE CAUDILL
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:00:01 +0000
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