Wednesday, August 05, 2009

End Times

Back in the early days of our nation, George Washington had a vision and prophesied that the US would go through a time of extreme hardship. For years, people from closed countries have been telling us that the Church in America will be persecuted. The historical church believed in a post-tribulation rapture, until the early 19th century. The time is near. Persecution and tribulation aren't the same. Persecution is the devil's wrath against Christians. Tribulation is God's wrath against the kingdom of this world. Many would like to believe that the Church will be raptured before the start of trouble in the US. But trouble in the US doesn't signal the start of tribulation. Who are we to think that we will be spared any more than the Church in other parts of the world? The whole history of the Church is the history of persecution. The Church in Cuba, China, Southeast Asia, North Korea, and Muslim countries was not raptured before takeover by oppressors. In fact, when Communists took over China, Christians who believed the church would be raptured before the tribulation stayed in the cities, and were killed. Christians who believed the Church would go through the tribulation fled to the mountains (Matthew 24), and lived. The global government is ready to roll. Be prepared to suffer, Church in America.

2 Comments:

Blogger Irv said...

Just found your Biblical and interesting blog. Wondering if you are familiar with the writings of journalist/historian Dave MacPherson. BION, he has focused for 40 years on the earliest beginnings of the pretribulation rapture view and has found more long hidden documents than all other researchers put together. His most important and most documented work is "The Rapture Plot" (see Armageddon Books online or borrow it thru inter-library loan via any library). Some of his many web articles are "Famous Rapture Watchers," "Scholars Weigh My Research," "Pretrib Rapture Diehards," "X-Raying Margaret," and (the most shocking of all) "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty" (now featured on the "Powered by Christ Ministries" site). You are to be congratulated for bringing this subject to the attention of all true believers; the American church is woefully unprepared for even ordinary disasters! Lord bless you much! Irv

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Blogger Rocky2 said...

Another web piece that is quite informative is "Famous Rapture Watchers - Addendum" which I ran into on engines like Google.
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