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.