His Absolute Promise.

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[SIZE=14pt]His Absolute Promise To Keep His Faithful Bride From The Hour Of Tribulation [/SIZE]
[SIZE=14pt] The Holy Scripture deals effectively with His assurance that this awful hour is not designed for His chosen. The prophet Isaiah described the final episodes with minute detail: “Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.” (Isaiah 26:19-21) [/SIZE]
[SIZE=14pt]In the first verse of this quote he identified the Resurrection. Next, he calls for the chosen bride to enter with Him into her chambers (an appropriate nuptial place as she prepares for her presentation to the Groom) to be securely hidden away for a short moment until the wrath or rage of God is finished. The third verse of this text pictures the going forth of God’s righteous judgment to finish sin, disclose hidden life styles, and to give an equal response from God’s holiness to man’s evil actions. [/SIZE]

 

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Some Christians, thinking that the Church will go through it, are worried and are doing their best to make plans to survive the seven years.They are stockpiling food, water, precious metals, guns and ammunition, etc., in the hope of making it alive until the time that Jesus returns for His Church.Some “scholars and experts” are going so far as to say that preachers who do not warn their churches of impending and cataclysmic events are shirking their duty as preachers.
I disagree, though not with the fact that the Great Tribulation is coming, but with the teaching that the Church will go through some or all of it.

 

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The subject of the Rapture speaks of something we have never seen before, nor does it have any equivalent expression in anything any of us has ever experienced.

Mankind's view of life is linear, that is, he thinks things will just continue on as before, and on, and on ad infinitum. So it's difficult and awkward to speak about an experience so far removed from anything any of us has ever experienced.

Jesus said that the last days would be "as it was in the days of Noah."2 Let's examine this a bit more closely. What exactly was the story with Noah?

The whole topography of the earth was different in the days before the flood. It's very understandable that men would think Noah crazy for the things he was saying. Try to imagine being alive back then, and seeing this spectacle of a man building a ...a WHAT? You're building a WHAT?"

Not only had the people never seen a flood, they hadn't even seen rain. And here was this old man - it took him a lifetime to build that, that, that ..."WHAT?" And as he was building it, he preached to the people. The New Testament tells us1 that Noah was a preacher. He was a "preacher of righteousness." So picture this old man, swinging a hammer, building a boat to save his family from a deluge of water that was going to come and kill all the people except him and his family. In the heat of the day, imagine crowds gathering around to watch this old man sweat as he toiled under the hot Middle Eastern sun day, after day, after day, all the while preaching "righteousness" to a people who thought he was crazy.

"What is he saying?"
"That we're all going to drown in a flood, all except him and his family."
"Is he crazy?"
"You tell me."

This goes on for years. Then for decades. Noah ages, yet he continues working on that huge 450-foot vessel almost the length of two football fields and 45 feet tall, way more than three stories high. Children grow up hearing about this crazy man Noah, and tell their children, who tell theirs, and Noah is still building the boat. And preaching. And people just wag their heads when they go by. They get used to it and they've just chalked him up to being one of those crackpots. Every generation has their nuts, you know? Oh leave him alone. Just pity the poor man.

What is faith?

Faith is believing what God says. And typically, the people now honored for their faith were people put in positions of havin