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Date Posted: 13:23:22 05/04/03 Sun
Author: Cecil Spivey
Subject: What's Ahead?

WHAT’S AHEAD?
Dee L. McCroskey

“THOUSANDS Disappear!” “Driverless Cars Crash!” “Strange Events Shrouded in Mystery!” Such will be the headlines of tomorrow. God does intervene in the of Affairs of man. In the beginning of our calendar time, God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to pay for the sins of mankind upon the cross. Now, the time is drawing near when God’s Son will return to judge this world and rule over it. Hire is the order of the coming events:

THE RAPTURE
This will be the greatest evacuation of all time. Our English word, “Rapture,” means “to be caught up.” Here is the statement from the Bible:

“For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first: “Then we (believers_ who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord “ (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).

This startling event is due at any moment now. For the world is now in the “last days” of this dying age (11 Timothy 3:1-5). It will occur “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,” as we read in (1 Corinthians 15:52).

“In a moment!” All living people who have received Christ as their Savior and Lord will be “caught up” in the air to meet Him. There will be no time to receive Him then. God’s Word says, “Behold NOW is the accepted time” (11 Corinthian 6:2).

THE TRIBULATION
According to the prophecies of God’s Word, there will be an unprecedented rejection of God, a worldwide revolution against God after the Rapture. Three times the Bible tells us that there never has been, nor ever will be again, such a period in human history—of wars, violence and terror upon earth!

“For then shall be Great Tribulation, such as was nor since the beginning of the world to this time, no nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:21). See also (Mark 13:19 and Daniel 12:1). It will be a time of violence and terror, death and destruction, nuclear wars, earthquakes, famines. It will last about seven years. Peace will be removed from the earth, “that they should kill one another” (Revelation 6:4-8,9-15).

A world dictator, the Antichrist will come into power. The Bible calls him “the man of sin,” Satan’s man (11 Thessalonians 2:3-4). This awful period of time will culminate in the great and terrible “Battle of Armageddon” (Revelation 14:20 and 16:13-16). This will be in the Valley of Megiddo, near Jerusalem, World events today are hastening mankind toward that awful day!

CHRIST SECOND COMING
In great glory and power the Lord Jesus Christ will then return to earth. “in righteousness He doth judge and make war” (Revelation 19:11). See further details in verse 12 to 16).

“When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ” (11 Thessalonians 1:7-8).

THE KINGDON AGE
After the destruction of His enemies at Armageddon, the Lord Jesus Christ will reign on earth, as “King of kings, and Lord of lord, “ for one thousand years. See (Revelation 1920-21 and 20:1-4). It will be a reign of peace and true righteousness.

The Kingdom age will close with the Great White Throne judgement, where the unsaved of all ages will be raised to stand before the Great Judge (Revelation 20:11-15). “And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire” The Great Judge will be Jesus Christ, whom they rejected!

He must be your Saviour now, or your Judge in that day!

BUT WHAT OF TODAY?
Yes, what of today? God put enough resources in the earth to last until the Great King comes back to renew all things. Man is now rapidly depleting the earth of all of these resources—oil, minerals, arable land, water and even good air itself. Tension mounts, and war and violence are filling the earth. The Great Tribulation is just ahead!

But God has a wonderful promise to all who will now receive His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour. Speaking of the coming Tribulation “wrath,” He says: “For God hath not appointed us (believers) to wrath but to obtain salvation (or deliverance) by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that weather we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him” (1 Thessalonians 5:9-10).

Is He your Saviour? He died on the cross to save you “from the wrath to come” (1 Thessalonians 1:10). “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31).

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Believing Christ died, that’s HISTORY.
Believing Christ died for YOUR sins and rose again, that’s SALVATION.

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