WHY WE MUST PREPARE FOR THE GREAT TRIBULATION BEFORE THE RAPTURE
PREPARE FOR TRIBULATION BEFORE
RAPTURE
INTRODUCTION:
A lot of people have written about Rapture, all according to
what they were taught or in accordance to what they believed. But the real
truth of all is that there must be a Rapture in the Future. Rapture is a message of end time which is
under the topic ‘’eschatology’’. Eschatology is a derivation of two Greek words
1. ‘’Eschatos’’ meaning ‘’last things or ‘’last events’’. 2. ‘’Logos’’ meaning
‘’study’’ ‘’discourse’’ or ‘’Doctrine’’. Therefore eschatology is a branch of
theology concerned with the last things or the last events which shall lead us
to the second coming of Christ for the Rapture of the Church. In view of this,
eschatology is viewed under four perspectives
1. Preterists which believes that there is nothing as Rapture
to take place in the future.
2. Historicists which believe that Rapture must take place
through history.
3. Idealists which
believe that Rapture must go through patterns.
4. Futurists which believe that Rapture is a thing of the
future. And in accordance with this particular view, this teaching is coming to
you because we believe that Rapture is a future event.
WHAT DO WE BELIEVE?
Since we believe that Rapture is a thing of the future, what
we are immediately waiting for now is not Rapture, instead we are waiting for
the great tribulation, which Jesus informed us would take place before his
appearance in the cloud Matt. 24:29-31. Rapture is God’s program of lifting his
saints up from the earth, but some people are now thinking that God does not
know what to do when God’s saints are faced with tribulation, instead that it
is better that we run away before the antichrist comes into the world. If some
Pastors do not know about this topic very well, Jesus knows it well and we
should take his word on this issue. They should allow those whom God called in
this area to teach them on this topic or message. I would even recommend that
you obtain my eBook of Rapture and study about it well. There is no scripture
that indicate Rapture before the great tribulation.
Please obtain it by typing the keyword ‘’Rapture: the Past,
Present and What to Expect in the Future’’ into Google and it shall be
displayed to you, just follow their instructions to download the book. You can
also get it from these companies
www.westbowpress.com the publisher and from all bookstores worldwide. It will give you information you have never
heard or known. Whose report would you believe? If Jesus said he is coming
after tribulation and you don’t believe him, is it whose fault? When Jesus was
teaching this topic to his apostles, he made it clear when he would come. He is
coming ‘’Post trib’’ which means ‘’after the tribulation of those days’’ and
not before the tribulation of those days Matt.24:29. Jesus’ teaching here was derived from what
Prophet Daniel had written. Daniel said ‘’I beheld and the same horn
(antichrist) made war with the saints and prevailed against them, until the
ancient of days came and judgment was given to the saints of the most high’’
Dan.7:21-22.
If you don’t
understand what he was saying, he said ‘’he was shown in a video how the
antichrist (the horn) was making war with the members of the Church (the saints) and the antichrist was killing us’’.
As he was looking to that video, and this was going on until the ancient of
days which is Jesus came (for Rapture) and rescued us and judgment was given in
our favour. Jesus said ‘’when you see the abomination of desolation spoken by
Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place, let him that readeth understand’’
Matt. 24:15. Let me give you a little explanation of what Jesus taught in that
passage. There is no other way out. You must prepare now for the great
tribulation before Rapture.
WHEN ALL CHRISTIANS SHALL SEE THE ANTICHRIST STANDING IN THE
HOLY PLACE, I.E INSIDE GOD’S TEMPLE WHERE HE SHOULD NOT STAND, LET ALL THAT
READ THE BIBLE UNDERSTAND THAT TIME IS NO MORE REMAINING WITH US HERE. YES THE ENTRANCE OF THE ANTICHRIST INTO GOD’S
TEMPLE IS AN ABOMINATION. THE ANTICRIST IS ALSO CALLED THE BEAST WITH SEVEN
HEADS AND TEN HORNS. HIS ENTRANCE INTO THE TEMPLE IS THE ABOMINATION THAT
MAKETH DESOLATE ACCORDING TO DANIEL 11:12. WHEN JESUS SAID ‘’WHEN YOU SEE’’ IT
MEANS WE OR THE CHURCH SHALL SEE THE ANTICHRIST. THE APOSTLES WERE OUR
REPRESENTATIVES AT THAT TIME. WHAT HE TOLD THEM IS WHAT HE IS SAYING TO US NOW.
‘’POST TRIBULATION MEANS, RAPTURE AFTER THE TRIBULATION, WHILE PRE TRIBULATION
MEANS RAPTURE BEFORE THE TRIBULATION’’. WHICH ONE DID JESUS TEACH IN MATT.
24:29-31?
When I confronted a Pre tribulation teacher with this
question, he said ‘’the teachings of Jesus in the book of Mathew 24 were
exclusively to the Jews and not to the Church. Such teaching was not taught the
Church, and so we are going before the coming of the antichrist, that’s all I
know’’. The worst thing is that the teachers of Pre tribulation view are not
teachable. You cannot call them to
reason at least what they say. If the teachings of Jesus in the book of Mathew
24 were exclusively to the Jews, where is the exclusive teaching of Rapture to
the Gentiles? Jesus’ commandment to the
Apostles was that they should not move away from Jerusalem until they receive
power from above Acts. 1:4-8. But when they receive the power from above, then
they would start from Jerusalem to Judea, from Judea to Samaria, and from
Samaria to the rest of the world, which was what happened and how they started
their way till the Gospel reached the Gentiles.
On the day of Pentecost the Power from heaven descended which is the
Holy Spirit Acts. 2. Now tell me how this teacher would not know how the
Gentiles received the Gospel he is preaching. Well I tried to convince him but
I couldn’t succeed because he had already concluded that he would never change
his mind even if his belief fails after all. Then shall anything save this man
in the period if eventually he lives at that time? No!
NOW LET’S DEFINE ANTICHRIST:
Pre tribulation teachers and believers who believe that they
would not see the great tribulation or the antichrist have problem in defining
the word ‘’antichrist’’ and its application.
Just ask any Pre tribulation teacher or believer to define the word
antichrist and apply the word to the teaching. Hear them ‘’antichrist means the
one who opposes or who is against Christ in the world’’. You say yea, now apply
it, who is the Christ in the world today which he shall be against. They say
‘’antichrist is coming to punish those who did not know Christ or those who did
not take him serious in their lives. But as for those who love him, they would
go before the coming of antichrist and his great tribulation’’. Do you see
their knowledge? Who is the Christ in the world, is it not the Church? What is
wrong in the minds of these our people? They do well in definition but misapply
in application.
At this answer I took him up again and asked ‘’do you mean
that the Christ in the world are those who do not take Christ serious in their
lives or those who do not know him’’? He said, no. Then why the misapplication?
Do you see such contradiction? But in application he said antichrist is coming
against those who do not know Christ or take him serious in their lives. They
say one thing in definition and another thing in application. This is one of
the reasons which shall cause ‘’their falling away first’’ according to Paul in
2Thess. 2:2-3. The Christ in the world as at today is the Church, and the
antichrist is coming to oppose or to be against the Church. I said in the book of Rapture that those who
are not members of the Church shall not be in tribulation. They shall enjoy all
the pleasures of the period because they shall comply quickly with him in
taking his mark, name and his number, very sharp. Only the members of the
Church shall be in the great tribulation and we are the ones who shall resist
him and his mark, name and number. What it means is that they shall seize all
our monies in the banks. Yes, when they code every product with the number 666,
or with his name and mark, they would demand that everyone in the world should
cue up and update to the latest world Government’s rule. We shall not agree to
update our account numbers with these options of 1. The Mark of the Beast 2.
The name of the Beast and 3. The number of his name which is 666. And at this
point comes the Biblical word that says ‘’and that no man might buy or sell
save he that has the mark, or the name of the Beast or the number of his name’’
Rev.13:17.
If anyone defines the word antichrist and gets the
application, such a person shall not believe on Pre tribulation teaching. Pre
tribulation says ‘’the Church shall not see the antichrist or experience the
great tribulation’’. Looking at this view it seems better that the Church
should not experience this awful period, but it will cause the members of the
Church to fall out of faith before the actual time of Rapture. Those who do not have the correct teaching
will finally fall away, saying that the word of God has failed to be true at
last. This is the reason I’m bringing the right teaching to you. This area of
message was given to me to preach and to teach the Church the correct view, yet
it depends on who is ready for the truth. Paul noticed that some people will
not accept the love of the truth that they might be saved 2Thess.2:9-10. Once and again I ask you to obtain my eBook of
Rapture, type the keyword ‘’Rapture: the Past, Present and What to Expect in
the Future’’ you will have the complete knowledge of this event from the book
of Genesis to Revelation.
Go to the heading in the book and see ‘’window old and new’’
and study how the ATM cards, the credit cards and all the cash cards shall be
used at that time. Do you not have them
or are you not making use of them now? But at that time it will be used to
track you to the kingdom of Satan, except you have the correct understanding of
this event.
WHAT DID PAUL TEACH THE CHURCH ON RAPTURE?
It will be great to explain that he taught the Church at
Thessalonica about this event. But Pre tribulation teachers and believers do
not understand Paul’s message to this Church. First he taught them not to
sorrow much after their departed saints, saying that they were not lost if they
were in Christ. That at his appearing he will come with a shout and with the
Trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. And we who are alive
then shall be changed within a twinkle of the eye to join them in the air, and
so shall we be with the Lord IThess.4:16-18. I believe that after this letter
Paul later went to Thessalonica and taught them on Post tribulation view. You
might ask ‘’how true’’? His second letter showed it off. Some teachers after
his teaching went to the Church and taught them that Rapture had occurred and
that they should not expect it. Based on this teaching the Church sent a group
of people to go and search for Paul being afraid if they would see him. But when
they saw him they narrated all their stories to him and he was wrought with
them.
In the opening of his second letter in the second Chapter he
said ‘’concerning what you wrote to me about the coming of the lord Jesus
Christ and our gathering to him. Let no man deceive you by any means, whether
by word or by spirit or by letter saying this letter is from us. That day
shall not come, except there comes a falling away first, and that man of sin
revealed, the son of perdition’’ 2Thess. 2:1-3.
INTERPRETATION:
Paul was angry with that teaching which said that Rapture had
occurred already at that time. He then wrote to them that they should not allow
anyone to deceive them, whether through the word. Yes some people would say
that they had studied the word of God and come the conclusion that Rapture must
occur before the great tribulation, it is not true. Others might say a spirit
said Rapture must take place before the antichrist comes, and the Church shall
not experience the great tribulation, it is not true. This is where Pre
tribulation was found because Pre trib was developed by John Nelson Darby when
after he heard from a young unmarried Scottish lady who was prophesying in
1880, that Jesus told her that the Church would not enter the great tribulation.
Then John was in the Bible College, and within ten years, about the year 1830,
he was through drafting Pre tribulation theory. So Pre tribulation teaching is
new to the scriptural teaching which was ‘’Post tribulation’’. Now Paul
continued by saying, ‘’whether by letter as rom us’’. He knew that Satan might
influence some people who would present a letter to the Church and say, this
letter is from Paul and his company saying that Rapture must take place before
the great tribulation, and that the Church would not enter the tribulation.
Paul fore warned the Church and his warnings are not taken by many.
ALL THE APOSTLES TAUGHT ON POST TRIBULATION:
After teaching the Church not to allow anyone to deceive them
by any means, he went ahead to give them the formula they should watch. What
should help them to know the time of Rapture. Paul informed them that they
should watch out when the man of sin (the Beast or antichrist) would enter into
the Temple of God and claim that he is God. Before then he shall oppose all
daily service pattern and sit on God’s seat 2Thess.2:4. Except you see this,
there will be no Rapture. This in effect
was Jesus’ teaching when he said ‘’when you therefore shall see the abomination
of desolation spoken by Daniel the prophet in Matt. 24:15. It was what wrote in
2Thess.2:4. If the Church at Thessalonica was asked by Paul to watch this
formula, all Churches of Christ are to take this teaching serious all over the
world. This teaching is called ‘’Post Tribulation’’ meaning ‘’immediately after
the tribulation of those day’’ Matt. 24:29-31. This was Apostle Paul’s teaching to the
Church.
LET’S READ FROM APOSTLE JOHN:
Little children, it is the last time, and as you have heard
that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists, whereby we
know it is the last time’’ I Jon. 1:18. Apostle John was the only man that gave
him the name ‘’antichrist’’. Paul called him ‘’the man of sin’’ 2Thess.2:2-3.
John said to the Church, ‘’you have heard that antichrist shall come’’. If the
Church would go before the coming of antichrist, what is he coming to do? The
rest of the people who are not members of Christ belong to him already, and he
is not coming against them, because they are one with him. Why should the
Church be informed when we shall leave before his coming? If the Church should go before the coming of
antichrist, the information we are arguing upon or rather which is passed to us
as the Christ is useless.
Apostle John in passing that information was warning the
Church about the teaching which they had communicated to them about the man of
sin (antichrist). He went further to say that even at that time there were many
antichrists, and that it made them to know that it was the last time or the
last days as we call it now. He said they were among them before, but had to
leave in other to manifest where they actually belonged, and then they began to
oppose or withstand the Apostles. With this information from John, do you not
agree that all the Apostles taught on Post tribulation in their days? As I said
earlier the Bible was concluded with this teaching, and Pre tribulation was a
teaching from the 19th Century. When John Nelson drafted the
teaching in the 19th Century, it was publicized by C.I. Scoffield in
his reference Bible, which escalated the Pre tribulation theory to the world.
Now you have the right to believe what you want but you have
no right to decide when your lord will come to take you up. Even if you don’t
in him, he won’t do anything to you now. You are in control and in charge of
your life now. But there is a time he will be in charge and he shall be over
all with absolute power. That time you
will cease to parade yourself and become a dull baby, and whatever he decides
takes effect on you. At that time you
can’t even question him. Now I’m pleading to you, know the truth and follow me
to believe on Post tribulation. Paul said we shall go through much Persecution
and tribulation to the kingdom of God Acts. 14:22.
Thank you and God bless.
Thank you and God bless.
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