Glad you find the article encouraging!

Bob.

This article really encouraged me to be more faithful in reading the Word, not just daily, but every morning and night. I still fall short of the 9 a day, but I read maybe 1 or 2 each morning and night, averaging maybe 3 + per day, which is improvement, but I am still planing for improvement. Thank you for the encouragement!

Also you mention several interesting verses. I would see the 1000 year, 7 year, tribulation, etc, as being before the Resurrection as you do because the Resurrection is the last day on earth, I believe. When the bible talks about the Tribulation, Mark, and persecution, etc, remember that there are true Christians on earth who do not submit to wrong, etc and who are persecuted.

This alone seems to me to prove that the church must also go through these trials that the bible mentions, rather than escaping in an early rapture. Many people who believe in an early rapture must be forgetting that the church has already went through many horrible persecutions, like in the 1 and 2 century under Rome, the reformation, Inquisition, Martyrs Mirror, etc.

Why did the Pilgrims, Puritans, Amish, Quakers, etc come to America? The true church is being persecuted in the Islam world today. However, everyone who has ever claimed to know all about Revelations has always been proven wrong on something major after some time passes, and I sure don’t understand much.

The only thing that really matters is that we keep our lamps trimmed like the wise 5 virgins, and then if there is an early rapture we get to get out of here and miss persecution, and if there is not an early rapture we are fine because we are ready and don’t need a fake “second chance”.

Did you notice that most “second chance” people are also sin-you-must people? I don’t think that is no coincidence. It sure does sound like at the very end there will be major persecution worldwide like has never been seen, and this could be from Islam, as Islam is taking over Africa, Europe, moving into Asia (Asia already persecutes christian), Growing fast in Latin America, and plans to destroy the US.

If God lets time go another 30 years, aggressive Islam keeps growing, and the US goes down economically or from a 20 nuke terrorist attack, I could then very easily see Islam causing this worldwide persecution.

I think Islam is one of them frogs, evil spirits, or something major in Revelations that persecutes the church. We do not know the future, but the good thing is that we know who holds the future!!!!

And life is worth a living just Because He Lives. My life is in His Hands. Death could not hold its prey, JESUS My Savior, He Arose!!!! muhammad and buddah are dead but we serve a Living Savior! Please remember me and my family in prayer.

Paul