GOD'S PROMISE TO REMOVE HIS CHILDREN FROM THIS WORLD BEFORE HE POURS OUT HIS WRATH!

THE LORD'S PROMISE TO THE FAITHFUL CHURCH!

Revelation 3:7-8, 10 (according to my understanding) - And to the Pastor of the church in Asia Minor, in the city of Philadelphia, write; These things says He that is Holy, He that is True, He that has the key of David (see Isaiah 22:22), He that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens; I know your works:  behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it:  for you have a little strength, and have kept My Word, and have not denied My name. - - - Because you have kept the Word of My patience (see 2 Peter 3:8-9), I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

THE LORD'S PROMISE DESCRIBED!

John 14:1-3 (according to my understanding) - Let not your heart be troubled:  you believe in God, believe also in Me.  In My Father's house are many mansions (dwelling places):  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 you may be also.

1 Corinthians 15:49-54 (according to my understanding) - And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.  Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump (the last trumpet call for born again believers to "come up hither"):  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 1:10; 4:13-18; 5:9-10 (according to my understanding) - And to wait for His Son from heaven, Whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, Who delivered us from the wrath to come. - - - But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have died, that you sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so they also who died believing in Jesus will God bring with Him.  For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who have previously died.  For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God (the last trumpet call to born again believers): and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  then we who 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.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words. - - - For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we are living or have previously died, we should live together with Him.

[Note:  The Church Age is described in Revelation Ch. 2-3; the first verse in Ch. 4 is God's call to the Apostle John, who represents those living in the Church Age, to "come up hither!]

WARNING:

ONLY THOSE WHO BELIEVE JESUS DIED FOR THEIR SINS, 

WAS BURIED, AND THAT GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, 

ARE GOING UP TO BE WITH THE LORD WHEN HE COMES FOR US!  

THOSE WHO REJECT HIM AS THEIR LORD AND SAVIOR,

WILL REMAIN HERE TO FACE THE FULL WRATH OF GOD! 

TIME IS SHORT!  

CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD WHILE YOU STILL CAN!