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God’s Wrath, the Lamb Slain, and the Tribulation Period

At What time in the future will God unleash His eschatological wrath? This has been a question of considerable debate in the past few years and deserves a Biblical answer. God’s Wrath, the Lamb Slain, and the Tribulation Period A major point that pre-tribulation adherents must come to grips with is how to answer mid-tribulationists, pre-wrathers, and post-tribulationists concerning the fact that the church will be kept from the hour of trial and the wrath of God poured out during the coming tribulation period. For pre tribulationists this is our defining moment – our blessed hope. The issue surfaces when those of other camps who are purists to their eschatological persuasion agree in principal that all Christians will be protected from God's wrath. The difference is, they (mainly pre-wrathers and post-tribulationists) for the most part and among other reasons, teach that God has placed the seal of the Spirit upon all believers as a protection from God's wrath du...

Global Panic, the Rapture of the Church, and the Coming Antichrist...Some Thoughts.

  Global Panic - dreamstime image Up front I want to say that I do not believe that we can know the exact day or hour when the Lord will call (rapture) His church to heaven (but we can know the season in which it will occur, (1 Th 5:1-10), and it is soon. Please be aware the things written in this post have to do with the panic and upheaval of current life in light of the Coronavirus Pandemic spreading across the world. Adding to that, we must also realize that the worst of this pandemic may soon pass allowing life to return to a semblance of normal...maybe. Now, concerning the coming Antichrist, it must be said that future and specific prophetic events in the Bible do point to a time when the world will one day turn their attention and allegiances toward a global leader. In order for that to happen, "something" or "some things" must occur that place the world under or within a dire situation that calls for a leader to rise with answers. The Bible refers...