The Bible does not give any prophetic events that must happen before true believers in Jesus will be taken up to meet Jesus in the clouds (called the Rapture) and then taken to the current Heaven. Then, at that time, God will judge the works of true Christians that they had done after they had put their faith in Jesus and reward them. This is a good judgment.
On the earth below, 7 years of Tribulation will begin. It will begin when a man that people become very impressed with, whom the Bible calls the Antichrist, who is indwelt by Satan, signs a 7-year treaty with Israel. Yes, that will happen! He will become a one-world ruler. The first 3 ½ years he will be a peacemaker, but then, the Antichrist will eventually show himself to be evil. He will expect people to have the Mark of the Beast put on their hand or forehead. If they don’t have that they will not be able to buy or sell anything, including food. At the beginning of the second 3 ½ years, the Antichrist will have a huge statue of himself made and put in the new Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and demand that people worship him by worshipping that statue. If they don’t, they will be killed, even beheaded. So many even more horrible things (none like this world has ever experienced before…earthquakes, pestilences, wars, etc.) will happen during that time because God is tired of the sin in this world. They will be horrible. It will all culminate with the war at Armageddon. The Antichrist will be leading it. It is a war of the armies of the world, Satan, and God. God ultimately wins because Christ will return to earth with His Heavenly armies. He will defeat evil. Christ will then reign a thousand years on earth.
He will bind Satan in chains and throw him into the Abyss and lock and seal it for the thousand years, called the Millennium. Revelation 20:7-10, says:
“When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” Just so you know, the beast and the false prophet are the Antichrist’s helpers.
Those who have rejected Jesus and His salvation will be judged at the Great White Throne judgment. God will open the Book of Life and when God does not find their name listed, they will be sentenced to eternal hell. No one in this judgment will escape hell because they rejected Jesus. They will be judged according to what they had done on earth and different grades of punishments will be given, but they will still be forever and ever very hot in hell. This is called the second death.
God will create a new Heaven and a new Earth because the first Heaven and earth had passed away. Then God will send down to the new Earth, a New Jerusalem where God will dwell among His true believers. This will be the new Heaven that will be now on the new Earth. There will no longer be any sin or death, or tears, or pain or mourning. God will make all things new!
So, are you thinking that this sounds very far-fetched? Well, the Bible says it is true and it has come from God, Himself. If I were you, I would take Jesus Christ’s offer of salvation through faith in what He did on the cross by shedding His blood and dying for your sins, very seriously, and in humility, confess your sins to Jesus and repent of them (stop doing them) and put your faith in Jesus Christ.
We don’t know when the Rapture of the true Christians (the Church, as God calls them) will happen and if it happens soon, you might be left behind and have to experience the Tribulation. Now, you will have an opportunity to put your faith in Jesus during that time, but that time will be a very difficult time and since all the true Christians will be up in Heaven that means the Holy Spirit will not be on earth, either, as He indwelt the true Christians. He also worked as somewhat of a restrainer of evil. Now evil will be on the rampage. Don’t wait. Make your decision to follow Jesus today.
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Sharon
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