We are much in agreement.
The upcoming period of tribulation is to create suffering in order to turn people toward God. People like to think they are incontrol, until bad things start to happen.
Tribulation forces the ego to surrender and make room for God. At a lower level it is horrible, but if you rise up above it and see its purpose, it is wonderful. That is what rapture is. Merely being raised up in consciousness. As a neuroscience researcher, I can explain this process in medical and scientific terms.
It is much more difficult to experience by walking the walk than having the knowledge and merely talk the talk.
Yep. We’re in agreement.
I learned about this when I had problems with my feet a year ago. It could have been life changing. Suddenly all that stuff I want to do on my 32 acres would not have been possible. But prayer and a $22 set of shoe inserts changed everything.
We all must live our life as if today is both the first day of our life and our only day. It keeps me from taking anything for granted. And this life IS a mist. It’s not the end-all, be-all. I compare people who fear death to a fetus that fears birth. What waits for them outside the womb is, for them, unimaginable. :)
Sigh - the tribulation - read in the book of the Apocalypse of john - is about the tribulation experienced by the Jews(including the Christ-followers) in 69 AD with the destruction of the 2nd Temple
During the Tribulation Christians who had not heard gospel before will be ‘slaughtered in the thousands’ for their faith in Jesus Christ’... The final world dictator, the Anti-Christ, will launch a full scale worldwide attack against Jews and Christians.......THAT is in no way the Rapture - that’s a blood bath...
It’s a Time of Unrestrained Evil, Deception, Dissension, Disloyalty, Delusion, Devastation, Disasters and Death.. and I also believe the increase use of mind–altering substances such as narcotcs and hallucinogens will be associated with false religions, doubtless with the approval of the government. People will turn away from God not toward Him and from each other.
... nor is the Rapture being “raised up in consciousness” as you stated..which is New Age Spiritualism peddled allot these days.
Just as death terminates the day of grace for those who reject Christ, so the Rapture will end the day of grace ‘for those who have rejected Him’...... Those who have resisted the Gospel message will be given a “strong delusion” during the Tribulation. Second Thessalonians 2:10–11 tells us, “Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie” (KJV). According to Revelation 13, the Beast and the Antichrist will imitate the life of Christ and bring deception. Believing these deceptions, the day of grace will end for anyone ‘who rejected the Gospel prior to the Tribulation’....
Don’t expect to outwit God’s plan. One day soon, the Lord will return. If people today have rejected Him, their day of opportunity will be lost..they will be deceived in the tribulation period.