Do you Believe that the Church (Christians) will go through?

Question

The Tribulation? And Why or Why not? Give verses for your reasons please.

What about Matthew 24:29 -31 Immediately after the tribulation------31 and he shall send his angels with a great sound oa a trumpet and shall gather together his elect from the four winds and from one end of heaven to the other..

Answer 1

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 This is the Resurrection and rapture of man. They was taken on to be with Jesus, no mention of tribulation. Good question. May God Bless You

Answer 2

I don't believe they will, for if you refer to Jesus' return at the END of the Tribulation to clean up Armageddon, you'll see where the Scripture says that he returns with "...a great cloud of witnesses...." Who are these witnesses? It's not the people on Earth, for they are unbelievers and converts of the 144,000 ministry who were never TAKEN AWAY! The word "rapture" used to describe the "in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye..." whisking away of the Church leads me to believe that the "...great cloud of witnesses" IS THE CHURCH for you can't RETURN with something you didn't TAKE AWAY, can you? Besides, the Scripture says that it's not His will that ANY should perish! If the Church were to go through the Tribulation, we would face certain death at the hands of the Antichrist for refusing the mark of the beast, or from starvation and disease from trying to live while being economically cut off from the world and etc.

Answer 3

No I do not.......I lean heavily towards a pre-tribulation rapture according to:

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 & 1 Corinthians 15:51-58

Biblically speaking, God never allowed His children to go through tribulation (Noah & Lot are 2 examples)

Answer 4

The primary Scripture passage on the Rapture is 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. It states that all living believers, along with all believers who have died, will meet the Lord Jesus in the air and will be with Him forever. The Rapture is God removing His people from the earth. A few verses later in 5:9 Paul says, “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” The Book of Revelation, which deals primarily with the time period of the Tribulation, is a prophetic message of how God will pour out His wrath upon the earth during the Tribulation. It would seem inconsistent for God to promise believers that they will not suffer wrath and then leave them on the earth during the Tribulation. The fact that God promises to deliver Christians from wrath shortly after promising to remove His people from the earth seems to link those two events together.

Answer 5

There is nothing wrong with the tribulation, but it is only mentioned once in the bible and it refers to righteous people who died and have an honored place before God.

Revelation 7:13-15
13 Then one of the twenty-four elders asked me, "Who are these who are clothed in white? Where did they come from?"
14 And I said to him, "Sir, you are the one who knows."
Then he said to me, "These are the ones who died in the great tribulation. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white.
15 "That is why they stand in front of God's throne and serve him day and night in his Temple.

But if you are referring to the “rapture,” there is no biblical reference to this event, therefore it is fictional representation of the time of revelation.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
13 And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope.
14 For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died.
15 We tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not meet him ahead of those who have died.
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the Christians who have died will rise from their graves.
17 Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever.
18 So encourage each other with these words.

Answer 6

JC notably gave NO PLACE to great tribulation: Mt 24:21b,
saying it "was not since time began, no, nor ever shall be".

The "great" part of "great" tribulation is law: Deut 34:12,
and it's a "great terror"-ist to all Israel of Jacob-->Israel.

Jesus: is the Saviour of Israel... by law partiality
Christ: is the Saviour of the world... by grace impartiality
To "wit", that God was in "Christ" reconciling "the world".
So then, maybe you should start thinking more globe-all.

Not to mention "Great" the latter part of Baby-lon the Great;
And Baby-lon is twice fallen to Great<--Greater<--Greatest.
Pst: only the "Greatest" of three things never fails: 1Cor 13.
Pst: Greatest of 3 things: neither greater of 2 nor great of 1.
Pst: "charity" is neither of two "love"s: "law"s in Mt 22:36-40.
POINT: His Grace is NEITHER Law Law NOR Law vs Law.

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 7

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The Last Judgment will come when Christ returns in glory. Only the Father knows the day and the hour; only he determines the moment of its coming. Then through his Son Jesus Christ he will pronounce the final word on all history. We shall know the ultimate meaning of the whole work of creation and of the entire economy of salvation and understand the marvellous ways by which his Providence led everything towards its final end. The Last Judgment will reveal that God's justice triumphs over all the injustices committed by his creatures and that God's love is stronger than death.


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The message of the Last Judgment calls men to conversion while God is still giving them "the acceptable time, . . . the day of salvation." It inspires a holy fear of God and commits them to the justice of the Kingdom of God. It proclaims the "blessed hope" of the Lord's return, when he will come "to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all who have believed."

Answer 8

I believe in pre-tribulation rapture. The first two posters pretty much covered why.

Answer 9

Agree with the first two posts. Absolutley right. 2 Points!

Answer 10

no we will be raptured first. We are not appointed to rath.