The Holy Spirit will not indwell and seal believers as He does now in the Church Age...but He will come upon them as He did in Old Testament times and minister to believers. But believers in the tribulation will be tasked with keeping their faith. It is not guaranteed as ours is now. The following sites can give more insight.
http://www.pre-trib.org/articles/view/the-holy-spirit-and-the-tribulation
http://gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/in-the-tribulation-who-are-sealed/
Dr. Thomas Ice of the Pre-Trib.org website is the executive director and a list of his articles is here:
http://www.raptureready.com/featured/ice/ttcol.html
http://gracethrufaith.com/topical-studies/prophecy/understanding-the-olivet-discourse-parables/
Here is the difference, AFPC: Catholics are not Christians and as such fall under the same admonition from Christ for evangelization that unbelievers outside the Catholic church do. No difference. They have not been born again of the Spirit and filled with the Spirit. So I am under no obligation except to proclaim the Gospel to them as I would to a Muslim, a Hindu, a Mormon, or anyone else in a false religion.
Catholics are professing Christians, or Christians in Name Only. You may think that I am harsh and so may many others here but where matters of an eternal soul are concerned, I will be as harsh as I need be to wake people up, stop appeasing their false doctrine, and bring them out of that abomination that is leading them all to Hell.
The only allegiance I have is to the Lord. Time is short and you can either pussyfoot around so as not to hurt their feelings or you can stand up for Christ and display righteous anger over their unsaved status.
Thanks for your post,
jodyel
Catholics are professing Christians, or Christians in Name Only.
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I think you mean well, but you are not correct about this. Though there are some Catholics who are so in name only (just as there are others who identify themselves as Christians but do not live that actively), there are also many who have an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ and know Him to be their Savior.
Those who DO have this intimate relationship with the Savior should be working together to help others to see the power of the Good News. Now THAT would be a great witness!
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Dispensationalism (theory promulgated by John Dasrby in 1830s) versus partial preterism (understood by churches since the Reformation) depends so much upon the date of the writing of the Book of Revelation. If written after 70 AD, it points to dispensationalism, else partial preterism. Because of a lack of mention of the destruction of the Temple, I believe that Revelation was written early, hence partial preterism makes more sense to me.
In the end, if your focus is preaching this, versus preaching the love of God, we Believers being the hands and feet of Jesus on the earth, those who choose to buy in to your preaching may fall easily when trials come. I have a friend from church who ‘preaches’ this to everyone he meets. He travels 700 miles from Calgary each year to attend an ‘end times’ prophesy conference in Winnipeg, another in Sakatoon, another in Regina and one in Edmonton, in addition to whatever comes to Calgary. He also chooses not to read the Bible because he gets ‘all he needs’ from these conferences.
The hope that I have is in eternity with Jesus, not in being scooped up, unhurt and unscathed, snatched to Heaven while the remainder on the earth almost destroy it. The idea that the people of the rich church in the West (Christendom) will be wisked away with no troubles makes no sense, especially when I see the trials and tribulations of Christians in Africa and the Middle East. I am here for the long haul, with Him in me. If it turns out a ‘pre-trib rapture’, I welcome it, though I do not believe that it is a proper interpreting scripture.