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To: spacejunkie01
...as he has done through the ages for his people, even though they never left.

Remember, there is a difference between Satan's wrath and God's wrath.

Mankind has been suffering the wrath of Satan, for about 6000 years now, because of man's own sin. Christians are never promised by God that He will always protect us from Satan's evil and the evil of a fallen human race. He chose to protect Daniel, and his friends, from Satan's wrath in the furnace, but we are never promised that we will be immune from the consequences of living in a sin-sick, fallen, evil world.

However, as the examples of Noah and Lot show, God will always remove His people from the scene before He sends judgment. We also have Enoch, whom God "raptured" off the face of the earth-Enoch was here one second and gone the next. He never experienced death.

So God has provided us with assurances through His Scriptures and through His historical dealings with those who trusted Him and lived their lives in His will and in obedience to Him, that those who will be in the generation during which the end-time signs would be occurring would be removed before He judges and cleanses this earth. That generation is the one we're living in; it's our generation.

Don't get Satan's wrath and God's wrath confused. They are like apples and oranges.

72 posted on 10/17/2009 4:44:19 PM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

I absolutely believe God will remove us before the judgement but NOT before the tribulation necessarily. The tribulation is NOT the judgement.

The tribulation will be the ultimate set of plagues to make the remaining unbelieving people turn to Him, just like in Egypt. If you read about the time of Pharaoh, God did NOT remove the children of Israel but He did shelter them from the plagues.

I don’t think we’re removed during the tribulation though, but we are removed before the wrath.


74 posted on 10/17/2009 4:59:38 PM PDT by spacejunkie01
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