AGREE - i will refrain from sarcasm = Will you also?
In this world ye shall have tribulation .
He who endures to the end the same shall be saved .
and now a word from paul long ago
CONCERNING this very tribulation upon us
was writing to a church and reminding them
and told them WHY he had sent timothy and titus unto them .
TO be sure they had not been moved by perseuctions
that we are appointed unto them .
In fact we both know what he writes in his second letter to the church in thessalonica .
AND MAN it as do other places SURE DO PROVE the RETURN OF CHRIST is a ONE TIME EVENT
and that we do suffer tribulation and in fact its a righteous judgment of GOD
that we do suffer for the KINGDOM
but also that GOD would recompense wrath against those WHO DID SO
ON THE DAY OF THE LORD WHEN WE GO home and HE LAYS DOWN HIS WRATH .
IN fact
very clear it is in revelation .
WHO Does the beast come against . THE SAINTS , not the left behind aints .
THE SAINTS . The devil has LONG waged war on the church and used men to do so . HE aint been sleeping