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Jeremy Smith's avatar

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.

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Richie's avatar

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.

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