When Christ redeems us, the Holy Spirit transforms the way we think (Romans 12:2). Jesus is inviting us to realize that He is better than anything this world can offer. Don’t waste your life chasing after things you can’t keep. You can’t keep money. You can’t keep influence. You can’t keep power. But you can be kept by Jesus, and He has promised to hold you in His grip regardless of which direction this fallen world attempts to pull you.

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When Jesus informed Peter, James, John, and Andrew about His future return, he shared many details with them about what to expect. He told them about future conflicts and a severe season of tribulation unlike the world has ever experienced. Ultimately, it was His desire that they pass this information along to others as well, which they certainly did.

God is not a haphazard being. He has a perfect plan and the timing of when He chooses to do what He’s doing in this world is ideal. He planned when we would be born. He has ordained the exact number of days we will walk this earth. God the Father sent Jesus the Son into this world at the exact right time to atone for the sins of humanity and provide redemption for His people. He has also foreordained the day when Jesus will return.

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Jesus speaks of a day to come when the earth will experience a time of tribulation that is more severe than it has ever experienced since the beginning of creation. The book of Revelation shares many of the details regarding the wars, plagues, and persecutions that will take place during that era.

There are several views regarding this time of tribulation, but the view that has always made the most sense to me and seems to lend itself to the most plain reading of Scripture teaches that the tribulation will take place over the course of seven years. It will be a time of God’s judgment on this unbelieving world, and a time of wrath shown toward Israel in connection to their historical idolatry and rejection of the Messiah. (see Daniel 9 and Revelation 13)

I believe the church will be “raptured” or carried away to heaven prior to this seven-year period of judgment taking place. I believe this will be the case for several reasons. First of all, the church is not mentioned in the book of Revelation once the book begins speaking of the wrath that is to come. Secondly, Scripture tells us in 1 Thessalonians 5:9 that believers are not destined for wrath. Third, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 describes additional details of this rapturous event.

“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. 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.” (1 Thes. 4:16-17)

I also believe that Scripture teaches that during the seven-year tribulation period, people will come to know Jesus and experience the blessing of His gift of salvation. Jesus even says that for the sake of the elect, those days will be divinely cut short.

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