JESUS ON THE GREAT TRIBULATION By Sister Michele I
am
interested in why one would
quote Revelation and other
parts of the
Bible
and neglect to go directly
to Jesus to find out what he
meant by
tribulation.
In listening to Jesus, I
find that all who believe in
His Word suffer
tribulation to different
degrees from the time he
began His ministry to
now,
and will continue until the
end of this world. From
listening to his
Parable of
the Net and his description
of the Last Judgment, I find
that all will
rise
together. All will be drawn
together to be separated the
one from the
other, as
the sheep are separated from
the goats. Tribulation is
not an end of
times
event. It is an
over-the-course of history
event. Jesus is also quite
clear on
his view of this world:
John 8 23
He
said to them, You
are from below,
I am from above; you are of this
world,
I
am not of this world.
John 16 28 I
came from the
Father and have come into the world;
again, I
am
leaving the world and going to the
Father.
36
Jesus
answered, My
kingship is not of this
world;
if my kingship were of
this world, my servants
would fight, that
I might not be
handed over to the Jews;
but
my kingship is not
from the world.
The
following link will shed more light
regarding the topic of
pre-tribulation
and/or rapture.
www.voiceofjesus.org/harvest1.html I
find that in listening to the
Great
Principal, everyone must make
the choice
of life in this world or life
with the Father. There will be
no end of
times
event that will allow for those
who claim to follow Him to be
excused
from
making this choice either by
being "taken up" or "left
behind". Everyone experiences
death in this world. And those
who
believe
in the Truth of His Word and
abide by the Great Principle's
choice
which is set
before us all, will find life
after death. This is, of course,
what I
believe,
from listening to Him.
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