By Gerlinda

Corrie Ten Boom told how that Christians in her day expected the Rapture to save them of the horrible tribulation that had come upon them and the Hebrew Children but it didn't happen. It almost seemed as if God had forsaken them.

Her family died and her sister suffered greatly before her own death in the Camp... along with millions of others. They were all tried; many came to faith in the Lord through that great trial. 'Don't tell me that the Rapture saves the church" is basically what she declared.

There will be Great Tribulation in the days prior to the Wrath of God. That is a promise thus it is called "Great Tribulation". It will be much worse than even the holocaust of WWII. In fact, the world hasn't ever seen days such as are coming upon the world. Again, it is 3 1/2 years/42 months unless God will shorten it so that mankind is not totally wiped out.


This does not add up to 7 years of normal tribulation, does it... with another 7 years of Great Tribulation? Yet we have those that "believe and teach" that Jacob's life of working for one wife and then another for the one he loved, is the guide for this strange belief that just does not conform to Biblical teachings. They believe, since it is about a bride/wife, that it must be talking about the Believers in Christ.

My question: Who is it that is the wife he loved? Is it the Gentile Bride or the Jewish Bride? The answer is that it is neither one. The closer we come to the Return of Jesus Christ/Yahshua, the more idiotic these ideas become. At least, it does to those that are searching out all of the Bible.

We learned from Joe Ortiz's great teaching of "The End Times Passover" that the ecclesia is made up of BOTH natural Israelite and the Gentile that get grafted in. They become One. Doesn't that make you question your theology if you still think there are two brides?

And where does it call the ecclesia the Bride? We, the Believers are called "The Body of Christ". We are the Living Stones that make up His Temple.

However, there is a Bride of Christ and it is seen in Revelation as the New Jerusalem coming down. Rev. 21:21. Why would it have that name? Do you suppose it has something to do with the fact that it is the abode of the First Fruit, the Resurrected Ones, which followed the First Fruit of the Grave, Yahshua out of Abraham's Bosom, which was part of Hades below the earth?

Doesn't that fit together within the teaching of the Bible rather than assuming that Jacob working 14 years for his wives is proof of a 7 year Tribulation?

For those that don't understand their thinking, the Gentile church that doesn't know who it is, believes that they are Leah and that they have to be caught out before Jacob (a type of Jesus) can come and get his Jewish Bride, Rachael. Leah was Jewish also. Thus, they come up with a 7 year Great Tribulation. Oh, My!

God's Wrath is not Great Tribulation. Great Tribulation will be the doing of the A/C, the one who hates Yeshua haMashicah. He will act against Christians all over the world and goodness, if one is keeping track of what is happening in the Middle East, the Christians, such as those in Syria alone, which make up the true Hebrew and other ethnic groups are facing horrible tribulation, one would know there is tribulation building daily. And that isn't even mentioning the rest of the world's tribulation that are magnifying each and every day so quickly.

America has become the capitol of the spiritual dead, whose easy living has brought her down, down, down to the very edges of Hell itself. It is Tribulation that causes the Believer to toughen the spiritual back-bone to appreciate the Salvation Gift. It is Tribulation that drives us on to try to better understand the whole of God's Word rather than focus on just Salvation & the Ten Commandments.

The Gospel message, right out of the mouth of Jesus Christ Himself in Matthew 24 spoke about all of the things that must take place before His return. That is why we try to stay atop of all these events. By time one becomes an adult Believer, one should be preparing oneself to help others understand the craziness around us.

At this time, I am hearing people ask, "Of what value is there in knowing that the Earth is not round but a huge flat plain with 10,000 ft. Ice walls around it? And so what if it is sitting upon a foundation which sits upon pillars?"

The value of it is two fold. It shows how long the minions of Satan have pulled the wool over our understanding because we did not make it a point to really read all of the Word of God AND to understand it. It is God's Word, isn't it? It is all His Gospel message. After all, the Creator is The Word. To know this is to be able to expose the enemies of the ecclesia.

THAT IS WHAT THE VALUE OF IT IS; IT IS HIS WORD AND WE ARE TO STUDY ALL OF IT. We should be prepared to explain the hope within us but do we stop there or do we want to know more as the Holy Spirit reveals it to us? We say "Give us the complete Word, as Your Spirit leads."

So, let's not say that the church is not appointed unto Great Tribulation. That lie perpetrated by the Jesuit led Seminaries have done nothing but keep the church in an "Escape Mode" and not prepared for worse days coming upon them.

And, why do some people think it is only Israel that will receive the Wrath of God when she is surrounded by nations who hate the Son of God, whom those Jews of the Southern Kingdom have denied themselves? The Devil knows that Jesus Christ will come to the defense of 1/3 of Israel who will cry out, "Blessed is He that commeth in the Name of the Lord" and then He will come. Satan wants to stop that day from happening. That is part of His Word also, isn't it? Yahshua isn't coming just to deal with those Jews but He is coming to deal with the nations that are coming against HIS LAND, Israel.


Here is something to think about. The Wrath of God begins in Chapter 8 of Revelation when the 1/2 hour of silence is finished. Then the 7 angels angel begin to sound their trumpets. Notice:

Rev. 10:7 "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the Mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." (KJV)

Notice the word "mystery"? Where else do we read about that word and the last trumpet (7th)?

I Corinthians 15: 51-53. "Behold I show you a Mystery; We shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." (KJV)

Notice something....Both of the scriptures speak of the same thing. The Mystery is finished and both happen at the blowing of the trumpet by the 7th angel. Isn't that amazing?

It sounds like the Resurrection of the Dead and the changing of those living at the time from corruptible bodies into incorruptible bodies has been achieved and God's Mystery of it all has been accomplished. I Thess. 4:16-17

And it all happened at the time of the SEVEN angel's trumpets.

Gerlinda

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2 Corinthians 1

1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

Let this Word of God be a confirmation to your Soul that there was Tribulation in the early church as it will continue to be to the time until the 7th Trump will finally blow that will call the Dead in Christ to Rise and then the Living just as I Thess. 4:16-17 and then:

Daniel 7:27
"Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will worship and obey him."

Notice that Daniel says, the kingdom will be handed over to the holy people? Well, who are the holy people?

Is it natural Israel?

Is it just Jews?

Or is it the Natural Israel (The Lost Sheep of the House of Israel) and Gentiles that have been grafted into her and whom all have been saved by the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ/Yahshua and who are now a Peculiar People who make up Spiritual Israel?

Therefore, if you are made up of the whole of the Body of Christ, then what are you doing trying to skip out on your duty as a Believer to go through your portion of Tribulation just like the early believers did with JOY and PERSERVERANCE.

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