| A STUDY ON THE
RAPTURE
Section
4 - Post-Rapture Operations
Post-Rapture
Operations
The
Body Of Christ
Scripture
reveals that all these vivified members of the body of Christ, on being
snatched away into heaven, come before the dais of Christ. There is no
condemnation here, only a judgement in the matter of rewards for work
done, work that God had prepared beforehand for us to do. It is now
not a matter of salvation but of reward for the type and quality
of work done. Each will be endowed with the glory befitting the quality
of work done and in preparation for what has to be accomplished henceforth.
2Cor.5:10
For all of us must be manifested in front of the dais of Christ,
that
each should be requited
for that which he puts into practice through
the body,
whether
good or bad.
1Cor.3:10-15
According to the grace of God which is being granted to me,
as
a wise foreman I lay a foundation, yet another is building on it.
Yet
let
each one beware
how he is building on it.
For
other foundation can no one lay beside that which is laid, which is Jesus
Christ.
Now
if anyone is building
on this foundation
gold
and silver,
precious stones, wood, grass, straw,
each
one's work will become apparent,
for
the day will make it evident, for it is being revealed by fire.
And
the fire, it will be testing each one's work--what kind it is.
If
anyone's work will be
remaining which he builds on it, he
will get wages.
If
anyone's work shall be
burned up, he will forfeit it,
yet
he
shall be saved,
yet thus, as through fire.
We will
not then laze around and twiddle our thumbs for want of something to do.
We have been inhibited, all this while, from fully and properly serving
God by the limitations of our earthly bodies. With our now vivified
and glorified bodies, energised and dynamic, our faculties will
be free to serve God more efficiently and effectively. But, how
will we serve?
1Cor.6:3
Are you not aware that we shall be judging messengers,
The celestial
world will be our main sphere of operation. Even now, the messengers
who are there are scrutinising with interest God's operations with the
ecclesia
Eph.3:8-11
To me, less than the least of all saints, was granted this grace:
to
bring the evangel of the untraceable riches of Christ to the nations,
and
to enlighten all as to what is the administration of the secret,
which
has been concealed from the eons in God, Who creates all,
that
now
may be made known to the sovereignties and the authorities
among
the celestials, through the ecclesia, the multifarious wisdom
of God,
in
accord with the
purpose of the eons,
which He makes in Christ Jesus, our Lord;
Ours is
not to be a judging of messengers in the sense of punishing them
for any and every misdemeanour. The keyword will still be grace
- as we have received it, we will dispense it. That has been our experience,
and that has been our discipline and training. Ours will be to set
our home country in order,
adjusting and organising - in
general, controlling the affairs of state. But our state stretches
across the wide expanse of the universe. We do not even know what
these inhabitants of the heavens look like or how they behave. Experienced
as ambassadors in an alien environment prior to vivification, we will
be able to adapt to situations and conditions to the very outer
reaches of our domain.
Events
On The Earth
After
we have been snatched away and taken by our Lord into our celestial realm,
and while we work with the creatures of heaven, God allows the 'man of
lawlessness' to emerge on the scene. He will be enabled to manoeuvre his
way to world prominence. Attaining that position, he will have the authority
and backing power to mediate the treaty of seven years with Israel, allowing
the sacrifices to be resumed after nearly two thousand years. For a little
while peace and security seem to be in the offing for Israel. Many
of her people will let down their guard. At last, they feel, the future
looks bright, for they are in the favour of the powers that be. What a
shock awaits them!
1Thes.5:1-3
for you yourselves are accurately aware
that
the
day of the Lord is as a thief in the night--thus
is it coming!
Now
whenever they may be saying "Peace and security,"
then
extermination is standing by them unawares,
even
as a pang over the pregnant, and they may by no means escape.
Midway
through the period of the treaty, however, the Antichrist is assassinated
- but is brought back to life. Convinced that he cannot die, he goes
into the Temple and claims that he is God. He sets up
his image for worship, annuls the treaty, abolishes the daily sacrifices,
and embarks on the worst pogrom, ever, against those Jews who do not accept
his authority and his claims to deity. And Scripture asserts that he will
be given authority, through Satan, to carry out his designs for
forty-two months.
Rev.13:2-5
And the dragon gives it its power and its throne and great
authority.
And
I perceived one of its heads as if it had been slain to death,
and
its
death blow was cured, and the whole earth marvels after
the wild beast.
And
they
worship the dragon, seeing that it gives authority to
the wild beast.
And
they
worship the wild beast, saying, "Who is like the wild beast?"
and
"Who is able to battle with it?"
And
to it was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies.
And
to it was given authority to do what it wills forty-two months.
Dan.7:25
declarations to set aside the Supreme will he declare;
to
the saints of the supremacies will he bring decay;
he
is meaning
to alter stated times and an edict;
and
they shall be granted into his hand
unto
a
season and two seasons and the distribution of a season.
Dan.8:11
Even unto the chief of the host
he magnifies himself:
Because
of him
the continuous ritual is disturbed,
flung
down is
all that pertains to the site of His sanctuary,
and
the horn is given a host for trespassing against the continuous ritual;
thus
is he flinging the truth to the earth. And he does this and prospers.
Dan.11:36
Yet doing is the king as is acceptable to himself:
He
will exalt and magnify himself over every el,
against
the El of elim will he speak marvelous things and prosper
till
the menace is concluded;
for that which is decided shall be done.
It seems
that at this juncture, Satan and his cohorts are ousted
from
heaven and cast onto the earth. In frustration and fury he seeks to destroy
the faithful of Israel.
Rev.12:7-10
And a battle occurred in heaven.
Michael
and his messengers battle with the dragon,
and
the
dragon
battles, and its messengers.
And
they are not strong enough for him,
neither
was their place still found in heaven.
And
the
great dragon was cast out,
the
ancient serpent called Adversary and Satan,
who
is deceiving the whole inhabited earth.
It
was cast into the earth, and its messengers were cast with it.
And
I hear a loud voice in heaven saying,
"Just
now
came the salvation and the power and the kingdom of
our God,
and
the
authority of His Christ,
for
the accuser of our brethren was cast out,
who
was accusing them before our God day and night.
Rev.12:12
…Woe to the land and the sea, for the Adversary descended to you
having
great fury, being aware that brief is the season that he
has."
At this
approaching time of decision there will be three main categories of people
in Israel. The people of the nations will all be for the Antichrist
for the time for their being called is over.
Rom.11:25
For I am not willing for you to be ignorant of this secret, brethren,
lest
you may be passing for prudent among yourselves,
that
callousness, in part, on Israel has come,
untilthe
complement of the nations may be entering.
The
Jews, even from the time of Christ, have been cut off from being the
people of Israel because of their rejection of Christ, their Messiah.
Act.3:22,23
Moses, indeed, said that: A Prophet will the Lord your God,
be
raising up to you from among your brethren, as me.
Him
you shall hear, according to all, whatsoever He should be speaking to you.
Yet
it shall be that every soul whatsoever which should not hear
that Prophet
shall
be utterly exterminated from among the people. (see Deut.18:15-19)
Rev.12:13,14
And when the dragon perceived that it was cast into the earth,
it
persecutes
the woman who brought forth the male.
And
given to the woman were the two wings of a large vulture,
that
she may be flying into the wilderness into her place,
there
where she is nourished a season, and seasons, and half
a season,
from
the face of the serpent.
About
half of the number of these believers of the Circumcision are those who
have been diligently and conscientiously doing the required works.
These
are divided into two groups. God transports the main group of believers,
the
woman, into a place of safety in the wilderness. The other is a splinter
group of 144,000 who are specially sealed and given protection
within the Temple precincts on Mt.Zion.
The
other half of the Circumcision believers in the land of Israel, though
they have faith, have not the accompanying works! Such faith
cannot
save them! They are judged as 'unworthy' to escape from this affliction!
Not only do they become the target of Satan's attention, but they fall
under
God's indignation as well!
Jas.2:14
...if anyone should be saying he
has faith, yet may have no
works?
That
faith can not save him.
Jas.2:24
You see that by works a man is being justified, and not
by faith only.
Lk.21:36
Now
be
vigilant, on every occasion beseeching
that
you may be prevailing to escape all these things which are about
to occur,
and
to stand in front of the Son of Mankind.
Mt.7:21
"Not everyone saying to Me `Lord! Lord!'
will
be entering into the kingdom of the heavens,
but
he who is doing the will of My Father Who is in the
heavens.
The Jews
are not confined exclusively to the land of Israel. Through exile, through
choice because of economics and circumstance, and through dispersion because
of persecution, many of these people of Israel have been scattered all
over the world over the years of their history, making their homes in foreign
lands. These are termed the 'Diaspora', the Dispersion. At Pentecost, for
example, Peter addressed such people and many of these became believers.
Act.2:5-11
Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem,
Jews,
pious
men
from every nation ...
Parthians
and Medes and Elamites and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea,
as
well as Cappadocia, Pontus, and the province of Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia,
Egypt,
and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and the repatriated Romans,
both
Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs--
we
are hearing them speaking in these languages of ours
of
the great things of God!"
At the
time of the end, when the complement of the nations has come, there will
be such people, of the Diaspora, who will be believers of the Circumcision
evangel. Believers who form the 'seven churches of Revelation' belong to
this group. Though some of these, because of their conscientious vigilance
in works, are safe from the ravages of the great affliction, the rest must
bear the brunt of the onslaughts of Satan! Some, just like those of the
Circumcision in Israel, fall away because of complacency and their unwillingness
to face hardship. Many, however, remain faithful, some even to death. This
group of faithful is 'the rest of her seed'.
Rev.12:17
And the dragon is angry with the woman,
and
came away to do battle with the rest of her seed,
who
are
keeping the precepts of God and who have the testimony of
Jesus.
Rev.3:10,11
Seeing that you keep the word of My endurance,
I,
also, will be keeping you out of the hour of trial
which
is about to be coming on the whole inhabited earth
to
try those dwelling on the earth.
I
am coming swiftly!
Hold what you have, that no one may be
taking your wreath
These
events contribute to the initiation of the 'Great Affliction' of Scripture.
In it, the faithful of the Circumcision, those who reject the claims to
deity of the Antichrist, suffer at the hands of Satan, the Antichrist,
the False Prophet, and the nations! Among these people of Israel, even
family members who have not accepted Christ as the Messiah, will turn against
those who have.
Mk.13:9-13
Yet you be looking to yourselves,
for
they shall be giving you up to the sanhedrins,
and
in
synagogues shall you be lashed,
and
before governors and even kings shall you stand on My account,
for
a testimony to them. And to all the nations first must be heralded
the evangel….
And
brother will be giving up brother to death, and father, child.
And
children shall be rising up against parents and shall be putting them to
death.
And
you
shall be hated by all because of My name.
Yet
he who endures to the consummation, he shall be saved.
But, this
is the time when God
intervenes in the affairs of men! The period
for His grace is brought to an end. He now reckons the offences
of men against them. He brings His covenant to mind and pours out His anger
on the nations for their shabby and cruel treatment of His chosen people,
Israel! He declares Himself against all evildoers! The time has arrived
to demonstrate His indignation. This period of the 'Great Affliction' is
also 'the Day of God's Indignation'!
Rev.11:15-18
And
the seventh messenger trumpets. And loud voices occurred in heaven,
saying,
"The kingdom of this world became our Lord's and His Christ's,
and
He
shall be reigning for the eons of the eons! Amen!"
And
the twenty-four elders who are sitting on their thrones before God
fall
on their faces and worship God, saying, "We are thanking Thee, Lord God
Almighty,
Who
art and Who wast, for Thou hast taken Thy great power and dost
reign.
And
the
nations are angered, and Thy indignation came,
and
the era for the dead to be judged,
and
to give their wages to Thy slaves, the prophets,
and
to the saints and to those fearing Thy name, the small and the great,
and
to
blight those who are blighting the earth."
And
opened was the temple of God in heaven,
and
seen was the ark of God's covenant in His temple, and
lightnings
and voices and thunders and an earthquake and a great hail occurred.
What a
terribly traumatic time this will be for those on the earth during that
period! Except for those protected in the wilderness and on Mt.Zion, everyone
else seems to be in deep trouble. Satan and his forces attempt to annihilate
the believers of Israel while God rains down calamities on the apostates
of Israel as well as on the nations who are all unbelievers! The situation
will be absolutely critical.
Mt.24:21,22
for then shall be great affliction,
such
as has not occurred from the beginning of the world till now;
neither
under any circumstances may be occurring.
And,
except those days were discounted, no flesh at all would be saved.
Yet,
because of the chosen, those days shall be discounted.
Jer.30:7
KJV Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it:
it
[is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall
be saved out of it.
Daniel
inquired of God for the timeframe and setting for these troubles to end
and for the restoration of Israel as an independent and dominant
sovereignty. He was given a number of countsdown, each of them starting
from the cessation of the official sacrifices at the Temple, which coincided
with the setting up of the abomination of desolation.
Dan.12:6,7
"Till when is the end of the marvels of which you speak,
and
this cleansing?"
I
am hearing the man clothed in linen who is above the waters of the waterway,
"Till
the era of the end."
Then
he is holding high his right and his left hands to the heavens
and
is swearing by Him Who is living for the eon,
that
it is for
an
appointed time, two appointed
times and half an appointed time….
Dan.12:11-13RSV
from the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away,
and
the
abomination that makes desolate is set up,
there
shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Blessed
is he who waits
and
comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
But
go your way till the end;
and
you shall rest, and shall stand in your allotted placeat
the end of the days."
Dan.8:13,14
"Till when is the vision of the continuous ritual--
the
cessation of the sacrifice and the desolating transgression
which
gives over even the holy place and the host to tramping?"
He
is answering him,
"Till
two
thousand and three hundred evenings-mornings.
Thenfound
just is
the
holy place."
The three-and-a-half
appointed times is equivalent to three years and a half. This in turn works
out to three-and-a-half seasons, forty-two months, as well as to 1260 days.
From the day that 'the abomination of desolation' is set up for worship
in the Temple until the coming of Jesus Christ to deliver Israel is, thus,
1260 days.
It
will be another 30 days, making 1290 days, before sacrifices will
resume at the Temple location in Jerusalem. Another 45 days, making
1335 days, elapses before arrangements are complete for the faithful of
Israel to be resurrected to take their individual places of reward
and honour in the now-ready kingdom! From the same point of reference,
of the desecration of the Temple through the setting up of the abomination,
it will be 2300 days to the cleansing and re-dedication of the new
Millenial Temple which is described by Ezekiel.
So
we see that, once the sacrifices in the Temple are banned, and the abomination
of desolation is set up for worship, the countdown to a number of significant
events begins. The faithful of Israel who are vigilant will be able to
know for certain exactly when their long-awaited Messiah will come,
once
this
significant event occurs!
Where
the Circumcision is concerned, signs are a part of the scheme of
their evangel. On the other hand, we of the Uncircumcision are not given
signs to watch for which will signal the presence of the Lord in the air
to snatch us away to our celestial realm. In keeping with our evangel,
for us there is no countdown. But the count for our being taken
up began when we were chosen in Christ before the eons
even began!
2Cor.5:7
for by faith are we walking, not by perception
2Tim.1:9
Who saves us and calls us with a holy calling,
not
in accord with our acts, but in accord with His
own purpose
and
the
grace which is given to us in Christ Jesus before times
eonian,
Tit.1:1-3
…in accord with the faith of God's chosen, and a realization of the truth,
which
accords with devoutness, in expectation of life eonian,
which
God, Who does not lie, promises before times eonian,
yet
manifests His word in its own eras by heralding,
with
which
I was entrusted, according to the injunction of God, our Saviour,
The
People On The Earth
The
people who are on this earth during the period of the 'great affliction'
fall into a few categories.
1.
The Unbelieving Of The Nations.
2.
Apostate Jews.
3.
The Believers Of The Circumcision.
3a.
The Unprepared.
3b.
The Vigilant.
3b.1.
The Woman With Child.
3b.2.
The Male Son.
3b.3.
The Rest Of Her Seed.
3b.3a.
Those Who Do Not Endure
3b.3b.
Those Who Die.
3b.3c.
The Survivors.
1.
The Unbelieving Of The Nations
From
the time the complement of the nations being called into fellowship
with God had entered, no more of these people can have this privilege.
So, except for the few who are
proselytes
at that time,
all
people of the nations are unbelievers!
Rom.11:25
For I am not willing for you to be ignorant of this secret, brethren,
…
that
callousness, in part, on Israel has come,
until
the complement of the nations may be entering.
2.
Apostate Jews
From
the time of the apostles, only those who are of the Circumcision are recognised
as His
people.
The rest are rejected! Though these people of Israel are descendents of
the patriarchs, Jews by race, and even though they may be religious in
observing the tenets of Judaism, even to fanaticism, God does not count
them as part of Israel. Because they have rejected the teachings of
Christ, they have been
cut off from the people of God.
Act.3:22,23
"Moses, indeed, said that: A Prophet will the Lord your God,
be
raising up to you from among your brethren, as me.
Him
you shall hear,
according to all, whatsoever He should be speaking to you.
Yet
it shall be that every soul whatsoever which should not hear
that Prophet
shall
be utterly exterminated from among the people.
Most of
the Jews, however, are mercenary in mind and soul, preferring to serve
Mammon, centred on their own welfare and ready to pounce on every opportunity
for gain. They feel that prominence and power are the goals that will satisfy
their avaricious hearts. God and His covenant with them, are not factors
in their calculations. These align themselves with the Antichrist. They
constitute the scheming and powerful force, working behind the scene, that
controls the finance and business of the world from its marketing centre,
Babylon.
Lk.16:13-15
No domestic can be slaving for
two lords,
for
either he will be hating one and loving the other,
or
he will be
upholding one and despising the other.
You
can not slave for God and mammon."
Now
the Pharisees also, inherently fond of money, heard all these things,
...
And
He said to them, "You are those who are justifying yourselves in the
sight of men,
yet
God knows your hearts,
for
what is high among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
3.
The Believers of The Circumcision
Those
who do believe in Jesus Christ will be divided into two groups -
those who are faithfully vigilant and continue with their good works and
those who are complacent and idle in this respect. It does appear that,
in the land of Israel at least, the number in both groups is even. These
will be separated at the proper time.
Mt.24:40-42
Then two shall be in the field; one is taken along
and one left:
two
grinding at the millstone;
one is taken along and one left.
Be
watching, then, for you are not aware on what day your Lord is coming.
Mt.25:1-13
Then
likened shall be the kingdom of the heavens to ten virgins,
who
getting their torches, came out to meet the bridegroom.
Now
five
of
them were stupid and five prudent….
Now,
at their coming away to buy, the bridegroom came,
and
those
who are ready entered with him into the wedding festivities,
and
the door is locked
Now
subsequently
the rest of the virgins also are coming,
saying
Lord! Lord! Open to us!'
Yet
he, answering, said, Verily, I am saying to you, I am not
acquainted with you!'
"Watch,
then, for you are not aware of the day, neither the hour.
3a.
The Unprepared
Salvation
for the Circumcision believer is always contingent upon a worthy walk!
They cannot allow themselves to 'backslide'. Failure in this brings down
rejection from God and incurs His wrath! So, those who are not prepared
'fall into the hands of the living God'
Mt.24:48-51
Now if that evil slave should be saying in his heart,
`Delaying
is my lord,' and should begin to beat his fellow slaves,
et
may be eating and drinking with the drunken,
the
lord of that slave will be arriving on a day for which he is not hoping,
and
in an hour which he knows not, and shall be cutting him asunder,
and
will be appointing his part with the hypocrites.
There
shall be lamentation and gnashing of teeth.
Heb.6:4-6
For it is impossible for those once enlightened,
besides
tasting the celestial gratuity and becoming partakers of holy spirit, and
tasting
the ideal declaration of God, besides the powerful deeds of the impending
eon,
and
falling aside, to be renewing them again to repentance
while
crucifying for themselves the Son of God again and holding Him up to infamy.
Heb.10:26-31
For
at our sinning voluntarily after obtaining the recognition
of the truth,
it
is no longer leaving a sacrifice concerned with sins,
but
a
certain fearful waiting for judging and fiery jealousy, about to
be eating the hostile.
Anyone
repudiating Moses' law is dying without pity
on
the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Of
how much worse punishment, are you supposing, will he be
counted worthy
who
tramples on the Son of God, and deems the blood of the covenant
by
which he is hallowed contaminating, and outrages the spirit of grace?
For
we are acquainted with Him Who is saying, Mine is vengeance!
I
will repay! the Lord is saying, and again, "The Lord will be judging
His people"
Fearful
is it to be falling into the hands of the living God!
3b.
The Vigilant
Those
who continue their vigilance and conscientiously attend to the required
works are recognised by God as His people. These may fall into three classes:
Mt.24:43,44
Now that be knowing,
for
if the householder were aware in what watch the thief is coming,
he
would watch, and would not let his house be tunneled into.
Therefore
you also become ready,
for
in an hour which you are not supposing, the Son of Mankind is coming.
Mt.24:45-47
"Who, consequently, is the faithful and prudent slave
whom
the lord places over his household to give them nourishment in season?
Happy
is that slave whom his lord, coming, will be finding doing thus.
Verily,
I am saying to you that over all his possessions will he be placing him.
3b.1.
The Woman With Child
Vigilant
believers in Israel, together, are depicted as a woman in labour pains
who, after delivering her 'child' is taken to a place of safety, protected
by God from the impending Great Affliction.
Rev.12:1-6
And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with
the
sun,
and
the
moon underneath her feet, and on her head a wreath of twelve stars.
And
being pregnant, she is crying, travailing and tormented to be bringing
forth.…
And
she brought forth a son, a male,…...
And
the woman fled into the wilderness,
there
where she has a place made ready by God,
that
there they may be nourishing her a thousand two hundred sixty days.
3b.2.
The Male Son
An
elite group of 144,000 celibates, who were originally part of the woman,
are separated from her and specially protected for the period in the precincts
of Mt.Zion.
Rev.12:5
And
she brought forth a son, a male,
who
is about to be shepherding all the nations with an iron club.
And
her child is snatched away to God and to His throne.
Rev.7:3-8
"You
shall not be injuring the land, nor yet the sea, nor yet the trees,
until
we should be sealing the slaves of our God on their foreheads."
And
I hear the number of those sealed: a hundred forty-four thousand.
Sealed
out of every tribe of the sons of Israel are:
out
of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand are sealed;
out
of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand;.....
Rev.14:1
And I perceived, and lo! the Lambkin standing on mount Zion,
and
with It a hundred forty-four thousand,
having
Its name and Its Father's name written on their foreheads.
Rev.14:4,5
These
are they who were not polluted with women, for they are celibates.
These
are those who are following the Lambkin wherever It should be going.
These
are bought from mankind, a firstfruit to God and the Lambkin.
And
in their mouth falsehood was not found, for they are flawless.
3b.3.
The Rest Of Her Seed
Those
outside the land of Israel, such as those of the seven ecclesias to whom
John writes, have to face the onslaughts of Satan and the Antichrist. They
are encouraged to hold on to their faith in spite of the trials that they
are about to face. Those who take heed of the advice refuse to compromise
with the ruling power, and do not accept the 'mark of the beast'! Though
some of this group will not survive the Great Affliction, the rest will
come out of it alive.
Rev.12:17
And
the dragon is angry with the woman,
and
came away to do battle with the rest of her seed,
who
are
keeping the precepts of God
and who
have the testimony of Jesus.
3b.3a.
Those Who Do Not Endure
Those
who give up on their faith after holding on to it for a time are considered
to be as bad as apostates and unbelievers. For them there is no reward
and no place in the kingdom that is to be set up. The reward for those
of the Circumcision is always contingent upon a continual worthy
walk. They will have to contend against intense persecutions from
apostates and the forces of the Antichrist as well as against the false
teachings of the Balaamites, of the Nicolaitans, and of Jezebel.
Rev.2:9
I am aware of your acts and affliction and poverty (but you are rich)
and
the calumny of those saying that they themselves are Jews, and they
are not,
but
are a synagogue of Satan.
Rev.3:9
...those of the synagogue of Satan,
(who
are saying that they themselves are Jews, and are not, but are lying
3b.3b.
Those Who Die
Those
who die in this affliction are numbered among the martyrs, all
those
who have died for their faith in God.
Rev.6:9,10
And
when It opens the fifth seal, I perceived underneath the altar
the
souls of those who have been slain because of the word of God
and
because of the testimony which they had.
And
they cry with a loud voice, saying, "Till when, O Owner, holy and true,
art
Thou not judging and avenging our blood on those dwelling on the earth?"
And
to each of them was given a white robe,
and
it was declared to them that they should be resting still a little time,
till
their number should be completed by their fellow slaves also,
and
their brethren, who are about to be killed even as they were.
Rev.2:10
Fear nothing that you are about to be suffering.
Lo!
the Adversary is about to be casting some of you into jail that you may
be tried,
and
you will be having affliction ten days. Become faithful until death,...
3b.3c.
The Survivors
Those
who survive this terrible period, whether having to undergo the traumatic
experiences or not, will be numbered among
the vast throng
who come out from all over the world where they have been since the start
of the confrontations. For all the hardships and the privations that they
have gone through, they are accorded special comfort.
Rev.3:10
Seeing
that you keep the word of My endurance,
I,
also, will be keeping you out of the hour of trial which is about
to be coming
on
the whole inhabited earth to try those dwelling on the earth.
Rev.7:9-17
After these things I perceived, and lo!
a
vast throng which no one was able to number,
out
of every nation and out of the tribes and peoples
and languages,
standing
before the throne and before the Lambkin,
clothed
in
white robes and with palm fronds in their hands….
"These
are those coming out of the great affliction.
And
they rinse their robes, and they whiten them in the blood of the Lambkin.
Therefore
they are before the throne of God
and
are offering divine service to Him day and night in His temple.
And
He Who is sitting on the throne will be tabernacling over them.
They
shall not be hungering longer, nor yet shall they be thirsting any longer;
no,
neither should the sun be falling on them, nor any heat,
November 2001
Back to:
....Main
menu of articles
....Section
1 - Introduction
....Section
2 - God's Different Operations
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- The Different Evangels of Scripture
....Section
3 - The Different Operations
of Holy Spirit
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- The Nations Are Being Called Now
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- What Lies Ahead
Proceed to:
....Section
5 - The Second Coming of Jesus Christ
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- Comparison Between Rapture and Second Coming
....Section
6 - Conclusions
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