Thank you for this reminder. God has NOT appointed us unto wrath. It only makes sense - and there are plenty of Scripture passages that support it - that the Bride of Christ is taken out before the Tribulation begins. Its terribleness should spur us to preach the Gospel to all those God brings into our lives as the time IS short.
Makes me wonder just WHO will be getting their heads chopped off.
...there are plenty of Scripture passages that ...
..show that believers get all kinds of nasty things done to them!
Revelation 20:4
And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God.
Hebrews 11:36-38
36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.