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There is a way for you to know the Rapture comes before God's Wrath arrives. The work of the Holy Spirit in the Church of believers acts to restrain each believer from the sins he or she would naturally fall into, leap into even. The Holy Spirit works in the believer and works in the world as a restraint which holds back the evil tide of the man of sin. The Holy Spirit will not be gone from the Earth during the Tribulation because the Bible plainly shows salvation will be happening during the Tribulation. So which work of the Holy Spirit is going to be removed, which restraint is to be removed so the man of sin can be revealed? Yep, the presence of the Holy Spirit in the individual believer. And If He is leaving in that capacity, well, ZAP, you whom He indwells will be taken away too.

You want scripture for that little sermon? See:

IThess 4:18 (how comforting would it be to have to go through the wrath of God in order to be gathered up by Christ as His Bride?)
John 14:1-3 He is preparing a place so we may be there with Him, not here with Him ... He brings us back when He sets foot on earth the Second Time
IThess 4:13-17 Gathering happens in a moment and caught up together in the clouds, not on Earth, whereas the Second Coming will happen as an unfolding of events
Rev 3:10 and IThess 5:9 we are not appointed to wrath and He will keep the Church from THE HOUR of the testing, not keep us from the testing
IThess 1:10 and Titus 2:13 The Rapture can happen at any moment, without any signs to fulfill first, whereas any event timed in the Tribulation or after has signs attached to know the thing isspecifically timed
Matthew 25:31-46 Sort out the sheep and goats, and if The Rapture is at the end of Tribulation there are no sheep to separate from the goats, and the Bible says living believers saved during the tribulation will populate the Earth in the Millenial Kingdom whereas The Church will reign with Christ embodied 'as the Angels in Heaven, neither marrying or giving in marriage
Revelation 19 And finally, The Church is pictured in Heaven already having gone through the Judgment and clothed in white, not yet returned with Christ for the Second Coming

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