Who will stay in the great tribulation?
6. Who will stay in the great tribulation?
Chapter 7 of Revelation is about those who remain in the natural disaster, including Christians who do not love the Lord and those in Israel who keep the law. These people who have not been raptured must adhere to the truth on earth and refrain from worshiping the image of the beast or receiving the mark of the beast until death, in order to enter the thousand-year kingdom.
Anyone who compromises to worship the image of the beast and receive the mark of the beast has sold his soul, and when he dies, he will go to the lake of fire and suffer pain forever and ever. Here are the people who were left behind during the Great Tribulation:
1. People who love the world
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. (NIV, 1 John 2:15/16)
Never think that you will definitely be raptured. You need to hold on to a trembling and fearful heart, lest you be left in the great tribulation. If you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall! (NIV, 1 Corinthians 10:12) Just think about it, do you have the burden to preach the gospel during consecutive holidays? Still plan to eat, drink, have fun outside, go hiking and play in the water, and enjoy all kinds of entertainment!
Spiritual fathers serve God and have many virtues. I will only list evangelism. Do you imitate him as he imitates Christ? Please evaluate yourself. Have you done this? If not, you must be humble and try your best to live up to this standard; otherwise you may remain in the great tribulation.
⑴. Every Sunday afternoon, the spiritual father takes the brothers and sisters out to preach the gospel without interruption for decades, regardless of whether the weather is good or bad, whether the sun is shining in summer or the wind is biting in winter.
⑵. On the eve of a typhoon, it was windy and rainy outside, and co-worker Sister Wang Junyi stayed behind. Her spiritual father ordered that the brothers and sisters in the church should continue to preach the gospel as usual in the arcade below and not stop. So Sister Wang took a brother to do the main work in the wind and rain, and four of them were baptized, giving glory to Jesus Christ!
⑶. Sister Wang Junyi is pregnant. Under the leadership of her spiritual father, she still has to go out to preach the gospel every Sunday afternoon.
⑷. The spiritual father has three children. He must go out to preach the gospel every Sunday afternoon. The children are all taken care of by God’s servant Sister Zuo. In addition to taking care of the children, Sister Zuo is also responsible for the meals for the gospel team when they return.
⑸. The spiritual father took advantage of the consecutive vacations to personally lead the brothers and sisters of Shipai Church to carry out evangelism around the island and spread the gospel throughout Taiwan.
⑹. The spiritual father pastored in Magong, and a Presbyterian sister donated one-tenth of her annual income. With this fund, he went to the islands of Magong to preach the gospel, and gained many young people, and the church was greatly revived. ! After he left Magong Church, the shepherd did not continue to preach the gospel, and the light of the golden lampstand went out!
⑺. The church only goes out once a year, and the spiritual father takes the brothers and sisters out to play and enjoy nature outside. Later, because of the winter and summer conferences, it was changed to twice a year, once in the winter and summer vacations.
2. Those who keep the law cannot be raptured if they do not believe in Jesus
Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith. (NIV, Gal. 3:11)
If a person does not believe in Jesus, he cannot be raptured; for the Bible says:
Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. (NIV, Romans 10:4).
7. Disasters caused by wind in the great tribulation
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” (NIV, Revelation 7:1-3)
1. the four winds of the earth
The four winds of the earth refers to the winds of catastrophic judgment, including tornadoes, typhoons (hurricanes)...
The strong winds brought by a "typhoon (hurricane)" can knock down houses, uproot trees, fly sand and rocks, and harm people and animals; rainfall that is too rapid and has no time to vent may lead to flooding in lowlands; flash floods, surges in rivers, and even the destruction of houses and roads , bridges, these are disaster phenomena directly caused by wind and rain.
A "tornado" has great suction power. If it occurs on the sea, it can gather into tall water columns and even suck ships into it. If it occurs on land, it can suck up a large amount of sand and dust, uprooting trees and flipping off roofs. , or roll up people, vehicles, livestock, etc., causing fires, gas explosions, etc.
2. The consequences of the United States selling out the land of Israel
In 2005, the United States supported the Israelis' withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and allowed it to be dominated by Palestinians. This was tantamount to forcing the Israelis to give up the land promised to them by God. The United States received a response from God. On August 25, 2005, Katrina made landfall in Florida, USA, with the strength of a Category 1 hurricane. At dawn on August 29, Katrina once again made landfall in New Orleans, Louisiana, with the strength of a Category 3 hurricane. Landing on Liangwai coast. It took more than 12 hours after landfall before it weakened into a tropical storm. Katrina caused unprecedented hurricane disaster for the United States, and flags were flown at half-mast the next day, and the name was removed from the hurricane naming sequence.
In 2021, as soon as Biden took office, he overturned Trump's friendly policy towards Israel and warned in the strongest tone that the United States does not support Israel's settlement plan; the settlement plan is that Israel through building houses, they take back the land God gave them. To put it simply, once a house is built and the Jews live in it, the land belongs to Israel. The God’s wrath the United States received from the Lord Jesus Christ was that a tornado swept through four states in the United States in just 4 hours, breaking the historical record.
3. Four angels who bring down winds
This is what the Lord Almighty says:
“Look! Disaster is spreading
from nation to nation;
a mighty storm is rising
from the ends of the earth.”
(NIV, Jeremiah 25:32)
The "four angels" control the winds in the four directions of the earth, preventing them from blowing on the earth, on the sea, or on the trees. These four angels of judgment, who are responsible for carrying out extremely large hurricane disasters, stand at the four corners of the earth, which refers to the four directions of the global horizon, ready to be ordered to issue disasters. This vision is related to the great tribulation. Terrifying and astonishing storms will occur throughout the earth, which are beyond anything mankind has ever seen before.
When the strong wind blows, there will be drastic change of the face of the earth, signboards are blown away, roofs are lifted, cars roll over, pedestrians fall to the ground, objects fly everywhere... People tremble and are scared out of their wits when they see it! As soon as the storm blew, heavy rain poured down, followed by hail, thunder, lightning, and loud noises, and darkness fell on the sky and the earth! People think of the coming great disaster. The disaster will be shocking and terrifying. Who can stand!
4. People with divine seals on their foreheads can avoid wind disasters.
An angel came up from the rising sun, having the seal of the living God. Then he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, saying, Do no harm to you, the earth, the sea, or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.
During the Great Tribulation, those Israelites who have the seal of God on their foreheads mean that they are set apart by God and protected by Him. As long as those who have the seal of the eternal God on their foreheads are devout and law-abiding Israelites, they can all escape the "storm" of judgment and not be harmed!
8. People in Israel who are sealed by God
Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,
from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,
from the tribe of Gad 12,000,
from the tribe of Asher 12,000,
from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,
from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,
from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,
from the tribe of Levi 12,000,
from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,
from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,
from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,
from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.
(NIV, Revelation 7:4-8)
1. Judah was the strongest of his brothers and a ruler came from him, so the tribe of Judah is first in this list (1 Chronicles 5:2).
2. Reuben was originally the firstborn, but he lost his rights as firstborn when he defiled his father’s marriage bed (NIV, Genesis 49:3-4); thus, Reuben was ranked second in the above list.
3. The rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, a double blessing (NIV, 1 Chronicles 5:1).
4. There is no "Dan" tribe in this list, which may be related to their idolatry (Judges 18:30-31; 1 Kings 12:29-30; 2 Kings 10:29). However, the tribe of Dan will still have one portion in the thousand-year kingdom (Ezek. 48:1).
5. "Joseph" here replaces his son "Ephraim". The latter may have been removed because of his association with idolatry (Hosea 4:17-19)
6. The number of those who were sealed from each tribe of the Israelites was 144,000
There were 144,000 sealed people in Israel. They all feared the Lord and walked according to the law of Moses. Therefore, they were protected during the great tribulation and could avoid the harm of wind and disaster. But these people only keep the law and do not believe in Jesus, and they will all remain in the great tribulation.
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