Originally Posted by
Bowdrie
Oh, and by the way, if you don't believe in a rapture then the next time you're trying to lead someone to the Lord, tell them that after the 1st horseman, (the anti-christ,) arrives and signs the covenant that the other 3 horsemen will bring war, (probably nuclear,) and famine and a bunch of other horrors, and pestilence from all the rotting bodies that will get buried with bulldozers, and there'll be no Walmart's, no electricity, no sewage, and no gasoline.
And this is all BEFORE the anti-christ goes into the Temple.
And then there won't be any buying or selling without the mark, and then you can tell them that without the mark they can watch their children and dogs die of starvation, and since they will have no money, they'll lose their home and can live in a cave and boil pinecones for food if they can find any clean water.
Then tell them that their neighbors who have taken the mark will turn them in to the authorities, where if their "lucky" they'll just get their heads chopped off.
And what about all the islands vanishing and the 100lb hailstones, the demons set loose, the sun that will burn-up everything.
I could go on for pages, hopefully you'll have even 1/10th of an idea of what that 7 years is going to be like.
If you told that person what they had all that to look forward to, do you think any of them would want to follow the Lord?
And then you tell them that "those who endure" will be saved?
Get real, those who think they'll just go in a bunker with some C-rations and "stick-it-out" are severely misguided.
The "Bridegroom", (that's Jesus,) is NOT going to let His Bride/His Church/His Children all be slaughtered.
Those who accept the Lord during the tribulation WILL have all that to look forward to.