You seem deeply grounded in your beliefs. So am I. I suppose you are prepping for the Tribulation. Keep your Bible close, it will explain to you what is happening at that time and why. It will be a Survival Guide to the Tribulation.
I am not the least bit worried about the tribulation. If it comes in my lifetime, so be it. What I “prepare” is my relationship with Christ and what He tells me through the bible. If I were to die tomorrow (and I hope I don’t), my fate is sealed one way or the other. Same for any human on this planet. Same for you. Same for MTNinTN. Same for everyone...... Those who do go through the tribulation and are not sealed by God (vs the mark of the beast) are done for. They will not be in heaven. Thinking that one will be pulled out of all of it and not have to deal with the tribulation, mark of the beast is a delusion of the devil. Once save always saved? not biblical. Same for a secret rapture. Same for what a lot of the Christian world teaches. The bible states that the tribulation/plagues will be worse than anything the world has ever seen. Do I look forward to that? not really. But, in the same token I would look forward to being alive at the every end and seeing the end of the world and Christ coming in the clouds in all his Glory. That will be something to see.
21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’… (there’s that word, Lawlessness, again)
10Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? 12Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. 13Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 15Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
There will be many professed Christians that will not be in heaven.
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Yeah, believe what you will. Listen to who you will. It’s only your salvation that’s at stake.
So I suppose you and MTGinTN don’t have to worry about the mark of the beast? Good luck with that. (Amen)