THE TRIBULATION OR THE RAPTURE: THE CHOICE IS YOURS!

THE TRIBULATION IS THE LAST SEVEN YEARS OF ISRAEL'S

HISTORY PRIOR TO THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST!

Daniel 9:24-27 - Seventy weeks (of years or 490 years) are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.  Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks (of years or 483 years): the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.  And after threescore and two weeks (of years after the rebuilding, or 434 years) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself:  and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.  And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week (1260 days; 42 months; a time, times, and a half time) he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Note:  The Tribulation, a.k.a. Daniel's Seventieth Week and The Time of Jacob's Trouble, is described in Matthew 24:3-29; Mark 13:3-24; Luke 21:7-25; Revelation Chapters 6 - 19.  The Church is last mentioned in Revelation Chapter 3.  Chapter 4:1 has been suggested as a type of the Rapture, John, like the Church, being called up into heaven.

THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH, OUR CATCHING UP INTO HEAVEN PRIOR TO

THE TRIBULATION, THE TIME OF THE OUT-POURING OF GOD'S WRATH!

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 Corinthians 15:50-54 - Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.  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 1:9-10 - . . . 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, Who delivered us from the wrath to come.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 - But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep 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.

1 Thessalonians 5:9-11 - For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.  Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Revelation 4:1 - After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven:  and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.

GOD PATIENTLY WAITED AND WARNED PEOPLE FOR 120 YEARS WHILE NOAH BUILT THE ARK!  NOW, HE HAS WAITED AND IS WARNING PEOPLE FOR THE LAST 2000 YEARS OF THE HORROR THAT AWAITS THIS WORLD.  TIME IS RUNNING OUT! ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME!