A word of HOPE and ENCOURAGEMENT from my blog of October 12, 2013: A word of EDIFICATION changes not. [See link below for the entire blog.] AS THE WORLD SYSTEM GROWS DARKER AS EACH DAY PASSES, REMEMBER.... All is NOT gloom and doom, however! The other side of the coin is THE JOY of KNOWING the Lord Jesus Christ. ONLY HE CAN SAVE US FROM THE JUDGMENTS WHICH ARE BEING PREPARED. Bible prophecy, concerning the end times, WILL INDEED be fulfilled. BUT ALSO JESUS WILL KEEP HIS WORD OF PROMISE TO A FAITHFUL, OBEDIENT AND TRUE CHURCH! He said to us in the Words spoken to His disciples (during that private meeting in the Upper Room, just prior to His Crucifixion, Resurrection and the GIVING of the Comforter, the Holy Spirit--in which His Church was birthed). He declared with all authority, to those FIRST ones to enter His Church: Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in Me. In My Fathers house are many mansions; if it were not so I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back to take you to be with Me, that you may also be where I am.~~John 14:1-3. He also spoke a direct promise to the FAITHFUL Church of Philadelphia, who have only a little strength [are few in number], but who KEEP His Word and have NOT DENIED His name. He declares with authority: Because you have kept the word of My patience, I also will KEEP you FROM the HOUR of temptation, which shall come UPON ALL THE WORLD, to try them that DWELL UPON THE EARTH.~~Revelation 3:10. TO BE KEPT FROM THE HOUR OF THAT TRIBULATION IS TO BE KEPT FROM THE TIME OF IT! Jesus then revealed Himself personally to the Apostle Paul, and gave that man this FURTHER revelation. To Paul, Jesus declared with authority: For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.--1 Thessalonians 4:16-18. THE THOUGHT OF BEING IN THE TRIBULATION DOES NOT BRING A PERSON COMFORT. I just described in detail [in the full blog post] what THE CURRENT WORLD FEELS LIKE, and its NOT NICE. [BUT] the TRIBULATION will be thousands of times WORSE. It is NO comforting thought! These [above] PROMISES are WHY, as the world becomes so dark and threatening, we Christians are able to LIFT OUR HEADS IN JOY. We KNOW our Lord is SO SOON to appear. We have His assurance that we will be WITH HIM in glory, VIA a Pre-Tribulation Rapture, BEFORE the judgments and wrath of God come upon the whole world to test them who dwell upon the earth.
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