UP, UP, AND AWAY!

EXAMPLES OF INDIVIDUALS PROTECTED 

WHEN GOD POURS OUT HIS WRATH BELOW!

Noah and his family were lifted up in the ark:

Genesis 6:5-8 - And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  And it repented the LORD that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart.  And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repented Me that I have made them.  But Noah found grace (undeserved, unmerited favor - The Church Age is known as the Age of Grace) in the eyes of the LORD.

Genesis 7:15-17, 23 - And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.  And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him:  and the LORD shut him in.  And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. . . . And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth:  and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

Lot and his daughters taken up out of the plain:

Genesis 19:13-17 - For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great (growing louder) before the face of the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.  And Lot went out, and spoke unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city.  But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.  And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters, which are here; lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.  And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful (not giving them what they deserve) unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without (outside) the city.  And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for your lives; look not behind you, neither stay in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

Born again believers caught up to Jesus:

John 14:1-3 - Let not your heart be troubled:  you 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 you may be also.

1 Thessalonians 1:10; 4:13-18; 5:9-11 - 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 are asleep (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 those also who sleep (have died while 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 prevent (precede) those who are asleep.  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 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 wake or sleep (are still living or have already died), we should live together with Him.  Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also you do.

THE REMOVAL OF BELIEVERS BEFORE THE 

POURING OUT OF GOD'S WRATH IN THE TRIBULATION, IS KNOWN AS THE RAPTURE.  

THE PASSAGES ABOVE WERE WRITTEN TO COMFORT THOSE WHO ARE TRUSTING IN THE LORD!