This is an Email of Ray's a short time ago.
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Do you believe we are in the "tribulation" now ?
Dear Reader:
GOD'S PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IN TRIBULATION--for going on two thousand years now!! There is no such thing as "THE" great tribulation, you know? There IS, WAS, AND WILL BE, "great tribulation" on God's saints, but there is no tribulation that is called "THE" great tribulation. Just another heresy of the Church like "THE" antichrist. There is no such thing as 'THE' antichrist.
God be with you,
Ray
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The Rapture as the churches teach is unscriptural.
God's elect go through triulation daily, as we are now judged.
Our tribulation will end, only with our physical death.
If we are in the first resurrection, then we shall immediately see the Son of Mankind coming, when we are resurrected with all the elect and then those still alive shall be changed and join Christ too.
1Th 4:15 "For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep."
1Th 4:16 "For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first."
1Th 4:17 "Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord."
This is when Christ returns to earth and brings His elect with Him to reign and rule on earth for 1000 yrs.(this is not a literal period of time tho).
Rev 20:4 "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years."
Rev 20:5 "The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection."
Rev 20:6 "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years."
Hope this helps.
Kat