Surely Paul could have made the gospel more palatable – and less dangerous – by saying it was about something else. Something cleaner and less ridiculous than the cross. Something more glorious. Less disgusting. He didn’t do that, though. “I decided,” Paul said, “to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2). In the face of the worst cultural prejudice imaginable, he fixed the entire gospel squarely and immovably on the fact that Jesus was tacked to a stauros and left to die. If he had been trying to find a surefire way to turn first-century people off from his “good news,” he couldn’t have done better than that! So why did he do it? It’s simple. He did it because he knew that leaving the cross out, or running past it with a glance, or making it peripheral to the gospel, or allowing anything else to displace it at the center of the gospel would make it, finally, no gospel at all.
Greg Gilbert

A guide For Those Left After T

A guide For Those Left After T

A GUIDE

To Those Who Are Left To Go Through The Great Tribulation

AFTER THE RAPTURE

Of The True Church

Many true Christians are deeply concerned about those who will be left to suffer in the “great tribulation” after the Lord Jesus Christ has called His true Church to meet Him in the air. This meeting is referred to as the rapture.

We do not believe in a second chance, but we do believe that salvation will be offered to a person until his death. The opportunity of salvation during the tribulation is merely a continuation of the present opportunity now offered to accept the Lord Jesus as Saviour. Faith in the atoning work of Christ is the only hope for lost humanity, sold under sin, either before or after the rapture.

This message is especially for those who are left in the great tribulation (Matt. 24:21), and its object is to bear witness that the Scriptures teach that even then many will be saved by giving their lives as martyrs (Rev. 7:13,14) and will escape the final doom of the eternal lake of fire (Rev. 20:15).

TO THOSE WHO ARE LEFT:

THE GREAT EVENT foretold in the Holy scriptures (the Bible) and which is believed and taught by the evangelical and true blood-bought body of Christ concerning “the rapture of the Church of the living God” from this earth to glory HAS TAKEN PLACE. Both the living believers and the dead in Christ (who have been raised from the dead) have been caught up to meet the Lord in the air, in accordance with the following Scriptures:

“For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, md with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which 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” I Thessalonians 4:15-17.

Now that the true Church (all believers and followers of the Lord Jesus Christ) have been taken from the earth, the powers of Satan will have full sway, and the terrible, indescribable tribulation will take place during which the inhabitants of the earth (Jew and Gentile) will suffer much.

To live for Christ now, under the reign of the antichrist, and to confess Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, that you may escape the eternal damnation of hell, may cost you your very life. But salvation is still promised to those who endure to the very end (Matt. 24:13).

Those who are saved out of the great tribulation are described in Rev 7:14 as having ‘washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Your robes are stained with UNBELIEF, WORLDLINESS, PLEASURE-SEEKING and OTHER SINS. Separate yourself unto God absolutely, and seek cleansing by believing in the blood of Christ which was shed on Calvary for the remission of sin (John 3:16). “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom. 10:13).

Study your Bible earnestly while you have it, and memorize as much as possible before it is taken from you.

The antichrist will be the great world dictator; he will compel men to wear his mark, and worship him and his image.

REFUSE THE MARK and REFUSE TO WORSHIP THE ANTICHRIST or his image at any cost (Rev. 13:15-17). It is better to suffer for a little while, now and soon be with Christ, than to escape suffering by yielding to the beast and suffer the torments of hell forever (Rev. 14:11).

Be of good courage. Hold fast to the Word of God. Be kind to the Jew. “He that shall ENDURE unto the end, the same shall be saved” (Matt. 24:13).

Perhaps even now as you are reading this tract the rapture is history, and you are left.

If so look to Him, Jesus Christ, for the strength and courage to suffer for Him, for He suffered for you even unto death.

The Bible bears testimony that during this period you can neither buy nor sell without the mark of the beast, and this will bring great suffering and death to those who refuse the mark. BUT HE THAT RECEIVES THE MARK IS ETERNALLY DAMNED, AND THE WRATH OF THE LIVING GOD ABIDES ON HIM.”

Whether the RAPTURE has taken place or is still future when you read this message.

ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST NOW as your personal Saviour, by believing that He died and shed His blood for you. Surrender wholly to Him.

“Ye must be born again” John 3:7

“Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins” Acts 2:38.

“If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus (as Saviour), and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” Romans 10:9.

“And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” Rev. 13-15.

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