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Revelation 13:5-10
Authorized (King James) Version
{Paraphrased}
The Great Tribulation is,
Satan Murders Christians Everywhere
5 And there was given {to the beast} a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies. And power was given {to} him to continue forty and two months. 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God to blaspheme His Name, and His Tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given {to} him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear. 10 He that {leads} into captivity shall go into captivity. He that {kills} with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Revelation 7:9-17
Authorized (King James) Version
{Paraphrased}
Christians Are Murdered in the Great Tribulation
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude which no man could number of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues stood before the Throne and before the Lamb clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands, 10 and cried with a loud voice, saying,
"Salvation to our God which {sits} upon the Throne, and {to} the Lamb".
11 And all the angels stood round about the Throne and about the elders and the four beasts and fell before the Throne on their faces and worshipped God 12 saying,
"Amen! Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and {honor}, and power, and might be {to} our God forever and ever. Amen"!
13 And one of the elders answered saying {to} me,
"What are these which are arrayed in white robes? And whence came they"?
14 And I said {to} him,
"Sir, {You know}".
And he said to me,
"These are they which came out of Great Tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb. 15 Therefore are they before the Throne of God and serve Him day and night in His Temple. And He that {sits} on the Throne shall dwell among them. 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat, 17 {because} the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall feed them and shall lead them {to} Living Fountains of Waters. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes".
In Rev. 13:5-10, it says in v. 7 that Satan will make war with Christians and overcome them. That's the Great Tribulation in one verse. Furthermore, v. 10 says that Christians will be taken as prisoners of war (POW's) and will be murdered.
In Rev. 7:9-17, it says in v. 14 that people will go to heaven out of the Great Tribulation. This means that they will be murdered by Satan in the Great Tribulation and in vv. 1-14 it says that the Great Tribulation is a world war against Christians.
As the title of this post declares, God never said that He would save us from dying in the Great Tribulation. He said that He would save us from His wrath with the Rapture when Jesus returns. I'll get to these scriptures later...
What God wants to show us this morning is that there will be Christians in the world when Jesus returns. They will go through the Great Tribulation and be murdered by Satan in the Great Tribulation. A world war against Christians. But some will remain until the Lord returns.
Before I continue, God wants me to give you one more scripture passage showing that there will be Christians on earth when He returns after the Great Tribulation.
God is Coming Back After this World War Called the Great Tribulation
Which Means that Christians Are Going to Go Through the Great Tribulation
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
Authorized (King James) Version
{Paraphrased}
16 For the Lord {Jesus} Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 then we which are alive and remain shall be {raptured} together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord {Jesus} in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
The Rapture Does Not Happen Before the Great Tribulation
The Rapture Happens After the Great Tribulation
When does Christ return? Before or after the Tribulation? After (Mt. 24:3-35). The church will go through the Great Tribulation because the Apostle Paul says that the Lord Jesus shall descend from heaven, then we which are alive and remain will be raptured with the dead in Christ into the clouds to meet the Lord Jesus in the air. This implies that there will be Christians on the earth when Jesus returns. Thus, the Rapture does not happen before the Great Tribulation, it happens after.
In v. 16 it says that the Lord Jesus shall descend from heaven. This implies the day that Jesus returns. On the day that Jesus returns, He will gather His elect with a shout while He's in the air before He reaches earth. Zec. 14:4 says that Jesus' feet will touch to the Mount of Olives on earth when He returns. Before Jesus' feet touch the Mount of Olives while He's in the air during His descent from heaven to earth, that He will call the church to heaven forever with the Rapture. This says that there will be Christians on earth when He returns after the Great Tribulation.
The Lord Returns After the Great Tribulation
God is with this post addressing a misbelief in His church about the Rapture. People think that there will be no Christians on earth when the Great Tribulation happens. That God will rapture the church to save them from the Great Tribulation. Those three scriptures passages above, Rev. 13:5-10, Rev. 7:9-17 and 1 Thes. 4:16, 17 say that there will be Christians on the earth when the Lord Jesus returns.
The following Bible passage says that the Lord Jesus returns after the Great Tribulation.
Matthew 24:29-31
Authorized (King James) Version
29 {And Jesus said} "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30 and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other".
Note also that the Lord Jesus says in this passage that He will be in the clouds when the trumpet is blown for the Rapture...while He is in the air after the Great Tribulation on the Day that He returns before His feet touch the Mount of Olives in Israel.
Furthermore, the Apostle Paul in 1 Cor. 15:51, 52 says that the Rapture will happen in the twinkling of an eye. This insinuates that the Rapture happens this fast as God's way to get His church off the earth before Jesus' feet touch it at the Mount of Olives, because as soon as they do, Christ will cleave the Mount of Olives into a great valley from the east to the west and begin wiping out the devil and his people in this world with a war. Christ is going to kill this world.
Thus, God is saving His church with Christ from His wrath with the Rapture in the twinkling of an eye while Christ is in the air before His feet touch the earth. Read Zec. 14 and Rev. 19 to understand that Jesus is executing the wrath of God on those who killed His church in the Great Tribulation and throughout history.
Thus, the Holy Spirit is saying with these Bible passages that there will be no Rapture before the Great Tribulation. That Christians will come out of the Great Tribulation to heaven.
The Wrath of God and the Wrath of Satan
The Wrath of Satan is the Great Tribulation (Rev. 12:13-17)
The Day that Christ Returns is the Wrath of God (Rev. 19:11-21)
What confuses people is grammaticism of the word "wrath" in the Bible. People are mixing up the wrath of God on the day that Jesus returns with the Great Tribulation, which is the wrath of Satan (Rev. 12:13-17). The Tribulation is not the wrath of God. It is the wrath of Satan. Jesus never said that He would save us from Satan's wrath. But there are scriptures all over the Bible that talk about Christians getting murdered during the Tribulation. God never said that He would save us from dying in the Tribulation. Jesus said that He would save us from God's wrath when He returns, and Jesus does that in the twinkling of an eye with the Rapture before His feet touch the earth at the Mount of Olives to burn this world in God's wrath. Rev. 13:7 and Rev. 7:14 say that the Great Tribulation is the wrath of Satan because that's when he murders Christians from every nation all over the planet.
Now, here are the scripture passages that say that Jesus is going to save us from God's wrath when He returns, not from the Tribulation.
Mt. 1:21
Rom. 5:6-11
Ti. 2:12-14
2 Tim. 1:9-11
Jn. 3:36
Zec. 14
Rom. 2:5, 6
Col. 3:5, 6
Rev. 14:9-11, 18-20; 19:11-16
2 Pt. 3
Ps. 58:10
Dt. 32:43
Isa. 34:7-9; 61:2; 63:4
Jer. 46:10
Mic. 5:15
Nah. 1:2
2 Thes. 1:7-9
Jd. 1:7
In Closing,
God Loves You
God says,
"Don't Be Afraid to Be Killed in the Tribulation".
The Lord says that this message is first to a coward, a man, who won't admit that God doesn't save us from the Tribulation. Second, the Lord says that this message is to His people who won't admit that they're going to be killed in the Tribulation. They won't admit it and deny this truth and teach that the Rapture happens before the Tribulation.
The Lord doesn't want to disrespect your cowardice. He says He loves you but there will be no Rapture before the Tribulation. To leave this world in the Rapture, you have to want to be with Jesus more than this life.
John 12:23-26
Authorized (King James) Version
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, 'Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour'".
If you love your life more than Jesus, you'll not want to be killed for Jesus in the Tribulation. Are you ready for the Rapture? Love not your life more than Jesus. Hate your life in comparison to being with God...
Revelation 12:10-12
Authorized (King James) Version
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren {Satan} is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. 12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
If we get right with God and want to make the Rapture, we've got the Apostle Paul to quote,
Philippians 1:21
Authorized (King James) Version
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Galatians 2:20
Authorized (King James) Version
{Paraphrased}
20 I am crucified with Christ.
Nevertheless, I live. Yet not I. But Christ {lives} in me.
And the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,
Who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Galatians 6:14
Authorized (King James) Version
{Paraphrased}
14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
By whom the world is crucified {to} me, and I {to} the world.
Postscript,
I got baptized into the Holy Spirit in 1991. That's twenty-three (23) years that I've been studying the Bible in the Holy Spirit. In 2020 during the coronavirus outbreak, the Lord told me,
"Preach. There's no one left to stop you".
I understand...all the great preachers that I learned from and that fed me on TV, radio, the Internet and at live crusades, they all died. It's me and you left to carry on the preaching, teaching & prophesying. All my enemies are dead and so are all the great leaders in the Body of Christ. It's just us and what I'm telling people here online, died with those great preachers.
What I said in this post today is new to some new Christians who haven't been around for 23 years...God is using you and me to take the Mantle and carry on & occupy until Jesus comes back.
I learned this stuff years back...about 20 years ago...but today, most people don't know this about the wrath of God and the wrath of Satan. So, God is using me and you to preach and teach. What I mean is, that God is using the people that were students in the Body years ago. People who don't have ministries and who are using YouTube, WIX and other platforms to carry on the Gospel, because everyone died from the coronavirus. All my enemies are dead except maybe one or two and they are turning Christian...people, you have no idea how many people died from the COVID...my friends in Los Angeles are saying that there's no one in LA no more...that it's quiet at night in Big L.A. because everyone's dead.
What's happening is that this country is recovering from a mass wipeout from the coronavirus, and no one knows the extent of how many people died in this world...we're all coming out of quarantine quietly not knowing how many people died and it's just us left...all the leaders are dead in church, the government, everywhere...as my friends in Los Angeles said, "Everyone's dead". We don't know what's going on. So, the Lord says to grab that torch and run with it cos you and me are the only ones left. Everyone else is dead...
What I'm saying is that we're alive cos we weren't outside when that COVID hit...I was inside my house studying in college online with New York while the coronavirus killed everyone. I was inside alone, eating, studying for months and when I found out about the COVID, everyone was dead...I usually shop once a month and store up food for months. People like me survived because we stayed indoors for one reason or another...while I was inside eating and studying for weeks and weeks...everyone was dying outside around me, and I didn't know...when I found out about the coronavirus. I just stayed in and continued with my college...people that were indoors when the COVID hit are alive today...what I'm saying is that studying saves us from the devil. I never caught the coronavirus.
2 Timothy 2:15
Authorized (King James) Version
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God,
A workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
Rightly dividing the word of truth.
World without end. Amen.