We have a blessed hope!
The wrath of God is different from the Judgement at the throne of God.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18
We know what the future holds for us and the world that rejects the forgiveness that comes through Jesus Christ. For us that are in Christ we know that we have an eternal future with Him on the new earth that will come after this earth has been devastated after the tribulation, the wrath of God is poured out upon the earth.
There are some that say that we will go through the tribulation, but the tribulation is the wrath of God being poured out upon the earth. God’s word says that we are not subject to wrath. We escape from the wrath of God. We are adopted as sons of God. Think about it; would God pour out His wrath, as described in the Revelation, upon His beloved children?
For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. Romans 5:6-9
There are some within the churches that say that we will go through all or part of the tribulation. God is our Loving Heavenly Father. Who will protect us from His wrath by sending Jesus to take us from this earth at the rapture. This is our blessed hope! Above is one of several scriptures that tell us that we will escape the wrath of God.
He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” John 3:36
Here we see that Jesus says that through believing in Him, (having been born again of the Spirit), we have eternal life, already set free from the wrath of God. Those who do not believe in Christ have the wrath of God remaining upon them. The only escape is through Jesus. Jesus said, “I am the way, The truth, and The life.” The wrath of God has been removed from us.
Jesus told the disciples that He was going to prepare a place, In His father’s house there are many rooms. There is a place prepared for us in the Fathers house in Heaven for us to live while the wrath of God is being poured out upon the Earth. Be cause when Jesus comes back for the millennial reign, we will return with Him to live on the earth again.
We will have eternal bodies amongst any that are left through the tribulation. Jerusalem will become the Capitol of the world. For 1000 years, until the New Heaven and New Earth comes. God has taken us out of the kingdom of darkness and transferred us to the Kingdom of His Son Jesus.
For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore, do not be partakers with them; for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Ephesians 5:5-10
Those who reject Jesus are the sons of disobedience. We are warned not to do the things that they do or agree with their acts of idolatry, immoralities, covetousness. We are to walk as children of light. We are to stand in the truth of the Lord, recognising the righteousness that the Lord has clothed us with. Looking for our blessed hope of redemption from the wrath to come.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. Romans 1:18-19
We are not destined to wrath for we are in Christ. There are some who argue that there will not be a rapture of the church, they say that the rapture is the same as the second coming when Jesus will set His feet on the mount of olives, after defeating the armies that have gathered to battle against Him. Does this sound like no one knowing the day or hour for the us meeting the Lord in the air and being transformed from mortal to immortal.
People who deny the rapture are those who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. We who are in Christ are not destined to the wrath that will be poured out on the earth during the seven years of tribulation. That is why we are to comfort one another with these words!
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
Be blessed.
Charlie
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