“After this nation has killed 60 million of God’s innocent babies, we don’t have the right to expect anything better.”
Noah was saved in the Ark before the Lord flooded Earth.
Lot was saved out of Sodom before God rained fire down on the city.
Israel was protected in Goshen while all the plagues fell upon Egypt; Goshen even had light while darkness was upon the face of Egypt.
Elijah was given sanctuary in the brooks of Kidron and fed of Ravens while Jezebel raged about trying to find him.
Matthew 24-25 mentions the latter days and Jesus mentioning Noah again saying that the days of Noah were wicked, that people were buying and selling marrying and being given unto marriage until he was taken into the ark and the rains fell and the Earth was destroyed. So would it all be again like those days of Noah in the day of the coming of the Son of man, when the righteous would be removed and the nations mourning to see it. One woman with another grinding at the mill and one would be taken and the other left. And then the judgment of God falls.
There is a coming event in which those alive in Christ who are upon the Earth will suddenly be changed in a twinkling of an eye...that the dead in Christ will rise first and then all the rest who are alive in Christ would follow. I make no argument as to the timing, I just remind you that the Bible, yes even the Catholic Bible speaks of that singular event. Forget faulty church doctrine, read your own Catholic Bible!!! Even the Latin Vulgate uses the term Rapiemur which means “we who are caught up”. The latin root is Raptus which means “a carrying off”. We get our word “rapture” from those root words and that is where the doctrine of the rapture came from; that is from the latin terms for the Rapture in the Catholic Latin Vulgate bible!!! In modern usage the term rapture is used to describe a sense of being over come by joy and elation, to have a sense of being lifted off and away from Earthly miseries, even if only for a few moments. One can feel enraptured in the presence of a new loved one or in the joys of a beautiful spring day. That sense of being “carried away” still lingers even in our modern usage.
I repeat I’m not arguing over the timing of when such an event will occur; I’m arguing that at some point prior to or in the midst of the absolute deluge of judgment that will fall upon the Earth, Christ will take his righteous up. Before that happens many Christian souls may indeed become martyrs as Revelation says...yet we may take heart for as Christ says...even now...”Be of good cheer, for I have already overcome the world!”
Matthew 24:
38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.
That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
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Note who it is that gets “taken” by the flood.
So who will get “taken” when the Son of Man comes?
Maranatha! Watching and waiting!
As I say: make contingency plans. It's what traditionalists used to call "the virtue of prudence".