HEAVEN OR HELL: YOU CHOOSE!

The next event on God's time-table, will be the removal of His Church in what is commonly known as The Rapture.  All genuine born again believers, both the living and dead, will leave this earth and meet Jesus in the clouds.  We know this from the following:

Acts 1:9-11 - "And when (Jesus) had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight.  And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; (who) also said, 'Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?  This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.'"

John 14:1-3 - "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; that where I am, there ye may be also."

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 - "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."

Following the Rapture, God will again focus upon His people, Israel!  The prophet Daniel was told that Israel would experience "70 weeks" (these are actually weeks of years, or 490 yrs.).  The first seven "weeks," (49 yrs.) involve the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the Temple; then there will be "sixty-two weeks" (434 yrs.) between the completion of the Temple, and Christ's Crucifixion (a total of 69 weeks or 483 yrs. - Dan. 9:25-26).  One "week" remains to be fulfilled.  Following the Rapture of the Church, God's people, Israel, will make a seven-year covenant with the Antichrist, who promises Israel peace and the freedom to worship God in a new Temple, but three and a half years into it, He reneges on his promise, and demands Israel to worship him (Dan. 9:27; Mt. 24:15; Rev. 13:1-18).  This seven-year period is known as The Tribulation, or The Time of Jacob's Trouble (Mt. 24:29; Jer. 30:7). 

 

Jesus died for your sin, but His Father raised Him from the dead according to the Scriptures (1 Cor. 15:23).  You have a choice.  You can believe in Jesus, and be with Jesus in heaven during the Tribulation, or you can deny Him and experience seven years of "hell on earth!"  Since no one knows when the Rapture will occur, my advice is to trust in Jesus today, while there is still time!