Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Untold Millions Survive The Great Tribulation

Then he said to his servants, The wedding [feast] is prepared, but those invited were not worthy. Matthew 22:8


Let’s talk about the Great Tribulation for a minute. When our Father comes to pour His wrath out on man, a great percentage of humanity will not survive the events of God’s wrath. Jesus tells us that the wicked who tormented and killed the messengers will be killed themselves. This is referred to in the Book of Revelation as those who took the mark of the beast.


And the beast was seized and overpowered, and with him the false prophet who in his presence had worked wonders and performed miracles by which he led astray those who had accepted or permitted to be placed upon them the stamp (mark) of the beast and those who paid homage and gave divine honors to his statue. Both of them were hurled alive into the fiery lake that burns and blazes with brimstone. And the rest were killed with the sword that issues from the mouth of Him Who is mounted on the horse, and all the birds fed ravenously and glutted themselves with their flesh. Revelation 19:20


And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no respite (no pause, no intermission, no rest, no peace) day or night--these who pay homage to the beast and to his image and whoever receives the stamp of his name upon him. Revelation 14:11


Yet not all of mankind will be killed off during the last 3 1/2 years of this earth age. Jesus tells us this Truth in Matthew 24:22.


And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would endure and survive, but for the sake of the elect (God's chosen ones) those days will be shortened.


These days are shortened for our sakes. Yet it is not so that we won’t be killed by our Father’s wrath. The elect have not been appointed unto God’s wrath, 1 Thessalonians 5:9. The Truth for the Bride is that even if we are killed during or die before the Great Tribulation, we will be raised up to enjoy the Marriage Supper.


For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first. Then we, the living ones who remain [on the earth], shall simultaneously be caught up along with [the resurrected dead] in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always (through the eternity of the eternities) we shall be with the Lord! 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17


Every one of us who is part of the Bride will rule and serve with Jesus for the Millennial Reign of Christ.


Blessed (happy, to be envied) and holy (spiritually whole, of unimpaired innocence and proved virtue) is the person who takes part (shares) in the first resurrection! Over them the second death exerts no power or authority, but they shall be ministers of God and of Christ (the Messiah), and they shall rule along with Him a thousand years. Revelation 20:6


The Truth is that these last days are shortened, so that we will have someone to serve during Christ’s Millennial Reign. Not all of the unsaved, or guests, will be killed during the Great Tribulation. There will be a great number of non-saved people who do not take the mark of the beast during the Great Tribulation Everyone will not side with the anti-christ and false prophet during these last 3 1/2 years. There are actually going to be millions of people who do not side with them and who also are not called to be part of the Bride. These are going to be the guests at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. This will be shown to us over the next two verses.


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