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POST Rapture Jesus Christ, the one true Son of God, will return soon to "rapture" those who are truly saved out of this earth and into heaven before a seven year period of human trials and tribulations. Consider that it is estimated that one third of the earth's population is considered to be of the Christian faith. The estimated current population of the earth is currently (September 2006) in excess of 6.5 billion people. If one third of the population is truly Christian, that will account for the immediate absence of over 2 billion people, in an instant. Now, imagine what type of an effect that will have on the Christian nations of the world. Let's assume that the one third of the Christian population applies to airline pilots. In an instant, one third of the thousands of aircraft that are flying at any given moment would become unmanned. Even just one airplane crash is a tragedy. Multiply that times hundreds, perhaps even thousands. Not to mention the absence of one third of the aircraft traffic controllers. Imagine one third of all of the cars driving on all of the roads in the Christian nations being driverless. Talk about traffic tie-ups! Now imagine a third of all of the emergency responders (police, fire rescue, military, etc.) who would be responding to this massive amount of emergencies being gone. Who ya gonna call now? These are just some of the examples of how much of a profound effect the rapturing of Christ's followers into heaven will have on those who are left behind. Next consider how the loss of one third of the Christian nations' economy will effect those countries, and the world. A third of all the job market will be lacking employees. That alone would cripple most businesses. Multiply that billions of times over and consider the consequences.
The point I am trying to illustrate is that once the rapture has occurred, the Christian nations will effectively be ruined and surely come to quick destruction. If we think we are the target of terroristic nations now, the Christian nations will no longer be able to withstand the enemies desire to overthrow them and gain world domination, as is their self-admitted and indisputable goal. No wonder the Bible prophecies regarding the end times make reference to so many of the worlds' countries but nothing is mentioned regarding the United States. Next to Christianity, the second largest world religion is Islam. With the Christians gone, the Muslim world will now be able to propagate their desire to impose their beliefs on all of those who remain. Anyone refusing to accept their beliefs, their times, their dates, their ways, will be destroyed as a result of their "holy jihad." The warning that I have to give to any who may be left behind and reading this, is that in the Bible scriptures, Jesus clearly warns us that during the seven years of the tribulation there will be a man who will be claiming to be him. The anti-christ will claim to be the awaited messiah of the Jews and the Christ prophecied in the Muslim Quran. He will try to teach that Jesus Christ was a false prophet sent to deceive the Jews, and that the God of the Jews is the same as the Allah of the Islamic faith. He will set all the nations of the earth at that time against any who remain who believe in the real Jesus Christ, and many will be killed for their refusal to renounce Jesus Christ and accept him, the anti-christ, as the true messiah. Jesus warns us that we are absolutely not to believe this anti-christ, even though many, many people will be deceived by the magical things he will perform. A false prophet will arise and lead many astray to believe in this false Jesus who will claim to be God and the ruler of the world.
PLEASE do not believe these lies. Jesus will NOT ever return to this earth as a man. Furthermore, HIS return will be "as the lightning flashes from the east to the west," meaning that it will happen immediately and unexpectedly, and will be seen by all as He returns to the earth with HIS army of believers to conquer the the false prophet, and the anti-christ who is in reality, Satan. This return will occur at the end of the seven years of tribulation, and once the anti-christ has set himself up in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, claiming to be the God of this world. Keep in mind that this return is different from the rapture. The rapture is the rescuing of all of those who have previously accepted Jesus Christ as their savior and who believe in HIM as the son of God. The rapture will come as a "thief in the night" and the disappearance of the billions will be a mystery to the rest of the world. There will be no sign of Jesus coming at that time, no signs of God. Nothing. Just the immediate snatching away of all of the true Christians. Will this mean the disappearance of our earthly bodies? It is really unknown. The scripture says that in a twinkling of an eye, we shall be changed. Our corrupt earthly bodies cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whether that change happens as an actual physical changing of our raptured earthly bodies, or as our spirits are raptured from the earth and then given new heavenly bodies, no one can say for certain. The reason I discuss that topic is because, whether the rapture results in the actual physical disappearance of billions of Christians' bodies, or whether it appears to those left behind that instantaneously billions of Christian's died, the false prophet and the anti-christ will likely claim the phenomenon to have been caused by them. It is reasonable to predict that the anti-christ will claim to have conquered the Christians of the world by the means of this mass death or disappearance of them at the time of, or just before, his and the false prophet's arrival.
The Islamic prophecies state that their Mahdi, or the Twelfth Imam, will appear after a time of great world calamity (such as will happen as a result of the Christians being raptured.) This will be the false prophet. The Islamic prophecy continues to say that shortly after the return of the Mahdi then Christ will make himself known to the world. Their prophecy specifically calls this person CHRIST. They prophecize that he will support the Mahdi, giving him great world power, and will perform great miracles and magical sights. The prophecy states that this "CHRIST" will announce to the world that he is the true messiah, and he will destroy all of the Christians who believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God. I am sure that if you have read this far, that by now you may be questioning what I have written. ALL of what I have written here is in the Bible. Even what I have told you regarding the Islamic prophecies is factually based. You can research it for yourself. I am not on some wild tangent here, or off on some crazed religious ranting. I really am a very sane, sound person. Not knowing me, you will just have to take my word for it. The only thing that I have described here that is open to the least bit of speculation and is of my own interpretation is my prediction that the false christ and the Mahdi will take claim and credit for the missing or seemingly "dead" Christians that are taken by the true Jesus Christ in the rapture. I arrived at that prediction by considering that the Islamic prophecies state that their "Christ" and the Mahdi will destroy all of the Christians and rid the world of them. If all of the truly saved Christians are taken away in the rapture, the only way that their prophecy could be fulfilled is if they claimed to be responsible for the absence of the world's Christians. After the rapture, there will be a few who will come to accept Jesus Christ as there savior and will be accepted into heaven, after the tribulation. However, that number will be very small in comparison to all of the Christians who will be raptured. The destruction of those few and ridding the world of them would not be the great feat that the Islamic prophecies foretell. Yet, the immediate disappearance or "death" of billions of Christians would.
Please, for the sake of saving your eternal soul, please get a Bible and read the scriptures: especially, The Revelation. Even if you have been left behind, IT IS NOT TOO LATE. If you accept Jesus Christ as your savior and believe in HIM as the Son of GOD, faithfully believing in him and following HIS commandments in the Bible, you can be saved. I am not going to try to "sugar coat" it for you. Because of the way the world will become during the seven year tribulation beginning after the rapture of those who truly believed and followed Jesus Christ beforehand, it will be very difficult, dangerous, and probably life threatening for you to become and remain a Christian during this time. If you truly believe in God and HIS Son, Jesus Christ, you can do it and still have the promise of eternal life in Heaven, after the tribulation. The Bible states that there will be a special blessing upon those who turn to Jesus Christ during this time and remain true to the end. DO NOT under ANY circumstances, receive what will be the mark of the beast. I don't know exactly what this will be. You, the true believers, will know during the tribulation what that is. The Bible clearly states that anyone who receives that mark cannot and will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. With the United States probably having been destroyed during this time, you will need to flee for your safety. The Bible prophecizes that the one place that will be safe for you will be the mountains east of Israel, in Jordan. I know that is a hard one to get to, especially during the tribulations; but, that is where God instructs HIS people to flee to during this time. Again, the good news is that you can still be saved. The better news is if you are reading this before the rapture occurs, you can, or rather Jesus Christ can save you from the tribulation and save your souls. Here's how:
God's gift to each of us is the opportunity to be forgiven of our sins through the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ, who shed His blood on the cross and died that we might live.
Pray this prayer and change your life today. Tomorrow may be too late! |