ESCAPING THE GREAT TRIBULATION

Matthew 24:21,22.

Revelation 6:17 says "For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"

The Great Tribulation will start after the Rapture. It will be a period of unprecedented suffering on earth. This is when Satan will unleash the fiercest cruelty upon the earth through the Antichrist.

The divine judgment of God will also be poured upon the sinners without measure.

Prophet Zephaniah vividly describes the period of the great tribulation in Zephaniah 1:14,15. It is a period that every wise individual should endeavour to escape by all means.

PURPOSE OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION

Zechariah 12:10,11

The purpose of the Great Tribulation among others, is to punish sinners of all ages. Any individual who eventually miss the Rapture will partake in the Great Tribulation. That means that he/she will suffer terribly in the hand of the Antichrist.

The Great Tribulation would be so terrible that kings, the rich, great and small men would prefer that mountains fall on them in order to escape the wrath from God. There will be untold persistent pain from the bite of the locust.

During the period, there can be no buying and selling without the mark of the beast (666), and receiving the mark excludes one from God's presence forever. The tragedy is recorded in Revelation 14:11.

LYRICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE FUTURE SUFFERING OF SINNERS

The song goes thus;

1
I dreamed that the great judgment morning
Had dawned and the trumpet had blown;
I dreamed that the nations had gathered
To judgment before the white throne;
From the throne came a bright shinning angel,
And stood on the land and the sea,
And swore with his hand raised to heaven,
That time was no longer to be.

2
The rich man was there, but his money
Had melted and vanished away,
A pauper he stood in the judgment,
His debts were too heavy to pay;
The great man was there, but his greatness,
When death came, was left far behind!
The angel that opened the records,
Not a trace of his greatness could find.

3
The widow was there with the orphans,
God heard and remembered their cries;
No sorrow in heaven for ever,
God wiped all the tears from their eyes;
The gambler was there and the drunkard,
And the man that had sold them the drink,
With the people who gave him the license,
Together in hell they did sink.

4
The moral man came to the judgment,
But his self-righteous rags would not do;
The men who had crucified Jesus
Had passed off as moral men too;
The soul that had put off salvation,
"Not tonight; I'll get saved by and by,
No time now to think of religion!"
At last they have found time to die.

Chorus
And O, what a weeping and wailing,
As the lost were told of the fate;
They cried for the rocks and the mountains,
They prayed, but their prayer was too late.

PREPARATIONS TO ESCAPE THE GREAT TRIBULATION

Acts 3:19. Jeremiah 3:22. Luke 21:36.

After the Rapture, the Great Tribulation will commence. It will last for seven years. The first three-and-half years will be period of worldwide peace while the second three-and-half is going to be a period of untold sufferings.

To escape this period therefore, every wise individual must prepare for the Rapture

Sinners must confess their sins, forsake them and accept Jesus as Lord and Saviour.

Backsliders should urgently return to the Lord.

Believers should watch, pray and be in constant readiness for the Rapture.

IF YOU MISS THE RAPTURE, YOU WILL NOT MISS THE GREAT TRIBULATION

Stories like this hardly sell these day. People are already having a changed form of consciousness because the Age of Aquarius has dawned fully while Jehovah and Allah remain caged in their spiritual prison. Peace.

What if there is no heaven or hell anywhere?

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