Can People Be Saved After the Rapture?
What about those who have already heard the Gospel but rejected it?
Most of you know about Jimmy Evans’s new book Where Are the Missing People? He wrote this fantastic resource to leave behind for people to find and read after the Rapture. It explains what has happened and what they might be facing in the years to come.
It’s a great idea for a book, because the Bible makes it clear that millions of people will disappear from the earth when the Rapture of the Church takes place. The question all of us have is what happens next?
One question I get asked more than any other question—and it’s certainly related to Jimmy’s book—is whether or not people can still be saved after the Rapture.
Revelation 7 speaks to this, and the answer is a clear YES. I think millions will be saved during the Tribulation period.
But most people who ask me that question have a specific scenario in mind: What about someone who had heard the Gospel preached before the Rapture, but rejected it? Does that person get a second chance at salvation?
They are asking on behalf of friends and family—people they love—who know the truth of God’s Word but keep saying “no” to Jesus. Can they still be saved?
There are a lot of different opinions about this. I explore them in this video.
Thanks, Mark!
One thing I believe God showed me recently is that the Tribulation is a mercy. If Jesus just showed up unannounced and treads the winepress of the Wrath of God, most people would go straight to Hell. This 7-year period allows God to take away all of the false comforts that separate people from admitting they are sinners in need of a Savior (and that Jesus is that Savior). This World is propped up on lies and denial, and God brings it all crashing down, so they must turn to Him for all their needs. Of course Satan will offer his version, having to take his Mark of the Beast in order to continue limping along in untruth, but I believe people will see through this and see the Truth of Jesus through all that suffering.
If you grow a crop of wheat and do not make it suffer (thresh it), you end up with no grain, everyone starves, and the wheat gets thrown away (burned). Similarly, if God doesn’t thresh the non-Church folk, there won’t be a harvest, and they will all be burned in Hell fire.
I tend to disagree. I think it will be easier to believe after the Rapture. They will be asking, those who were left behind, ("what the hell just happened"), and many that were told by friends about the Rapture, and they didn't believe what their friends were saying, and thinking we were "wack Jobs", laughing at us. Of course many will get sucked in believing we all were abducted by UFO's.