God promised the Church of Philadelphia that they would be "kept from the hour of temptation, which will come upon the all the world to try them that dwell on the earth" (Rev. 3:10). I'm sure the millions of Chinese believers and Koreans and the many Muslim also that are being miraculously saved will be in that number.
Nevertheless, "he now withholds until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed..." (II Thess 2:7-8).
The fortunetelling comes from the futurist misinterpretation of these prophetic books. E.g.,:
God promised the Church of Philadelphia that they would be "kept from the hour of temptation, which will come upon the all the world to try them that dwell on the earth" (Rev. 3:10). I'm sure the millions of Chinese believers and Koreans and the many Muslim also that are being miraculously saved will be in that number.
The reference in Rev. 3:10 was not to the entire surface of the earth. “World” has a biblical connotation that does not comport with futurist speculation. See here .
Now this is curious:
Nevertheless, "he now withholds until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed..." (II Thess 2:7-8).
Let’s get the entire context:
1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,This is written to believers (aka the Church) and is clearly a reference to the “Rapture”* (aka the Second Coming). See verse 1. But is also a reference to judgment day. See verse 8. Both verse 1 and verse 8 speka of the same, single, end time event.
2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. (2 Thess. 2)
* not the Pre-Trib Rapture Distinct from the Second Coming (PTRDSC); aka the rapture of futurism.