THE CHURCH WILL BE GONE BEFORE GOD'S WRATH IS POURED OUT

The Tribulation, God's judgment upon Israel and the rest of the world who rejected Jesus, is fittingly called "The Time of Jacob's Trouble" (Jer. 30:7), and "Daniel's Seventieth Week" (Dan. 9:27).  It is described in the sixth chapter through the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation.  Many false teachers of the Bible warn born again believers that they need to prepare for what lies in store for the world.  Some false teachers believe there will be a removal of Christians in the middle of the Tribulation (Mid-Tribbers), while others either believe in no removal of the Church at all, or that the Church rises to meet Jesus as He is returning to establish His Millennial Kingdom (Rev. 20:1-9).

However, there are passages of Scripture which clearly tell of the true Church (made up of born again believers) being removed prior to God's wrath being poured out.  John 14:1-3 says:  "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me.  In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.  I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself (in the air); that where I am, there ye may be also."

1 Corinthians 15:51-54 says:  "Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 says:  "For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

Then, there are these verses which teach that the wrath of God is not going to be poured out on the Church:  "But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him" (Rom. 5:8-9). 

And again:  "For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come" (1 Th. 1:9-10).

The Church does not deserve to be protected from the Tribulation,

but by the grace of Almighty God, we will be! 

Praise the Lord for His unmerited favor on His Church!