We have reached our present day in this tale of mankind and look forward to what God has in store for us now. All the signs or prophecies have been fulfilled to allow the return of the King to snatch His bride, the Church, away to take her to His Father's house in preparation of the wedding feast. Whether He comes before the start of the tribulation or during the mid-point is of no consequence for we are told that we who have accepted His gift of salvation are not appointed unto God's wrath. We know that the Anti-Christ will come as a man of peace deceiving many and the great tribulation will not start until he sits in the Temple of God declaring he is god which will bring the wrath of God. This is not to say that the earth and its people will not suffer during the first three and a half years. That is why I personally have my money on the pre-trib viewpoint if as He told us He will come as a thief in the night and that Paul told us he (man of sin) cannot be revealed until he who withholds stops withholding. That I believe is the Church so if we are gone then Satan is free to come and deceive all that are left on this earth.



When the Jews failed to understand that their promised Messiah was a two event occurrence, the first event was to pay for their sins, the second event as King of Kings, they failed the test. When we the church fail to understand His second coming is a two event occurrence, the first to get His bride and the second as King of Kings then we too will fail the test. We are told to WATCH for we know not the day or hour our Lord will return.



As we continue with our story the rapture (snatching away) of the church has happened and the countries with large amounts of Christians are in chaos with their economies plunging. Millions are searching for those who have gone missing with more theories, than can be imagined, being postulated. I have heard so many different theories being put forth on how our disappearance will be explained. I won't even bother to go into them but there will be millions of people who will now understand the truth and find Jesus and there will be an uncountable multitude at the throne of God who will come out of the great tribulation.



Bob Goulding © January 2008

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