TRIBULATION
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Let's define "Tribulation": Gr. Thlipsis, difficulty, oppression, also translated as affliction, pursuit and distress. The Tribulation is the general experience of those who want to live piously in Jesus Christ ; " but you have followed my doctrine, conduct, intention, faith, long-suffering, love, patience, pursuit, sufferings, as which unexpectedly in Antioch, in Iconio, in Listra; pursuit that I have suffered and of all the Lord has freed me ". And also all those who want to live piously in Jesus Christ will endure pursuit ... " (2 Timothy 3:10-12).
The writings inform us that the first Christians were merry because of the pursuit (tribulation) Acts 11:19, this one has come to be a way for which God produces in the believer more excellent weight of glory; " Because this slight momentary tribulation produces in us one increasingly excellent and eternal weight of glory " (2 Corinthian 4:17), and also it is a medium of communion with Christ (Colossians 1:24) The Word teaches us that the same Lord helps theirs in all his tribulations (Psalms 46:1), and that will be freed finally of them (Proverbs 12:13).
The Great Tribulation
The Sacred Writings say to us that it is a brief period of time of terrible judgments and that it will precede immediately the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and that it will coincide with the reign of the anticrucifix. The expression "Great tribulation" comes from the Book of Revelation 7:14, but the prophecies speak frequently of the epoch of unusual distress for which the world would pass at the end of the times (Daniel 12:1; Isaías 26:20-21); " The terrible day of Jehova " (Isaiah 2:12, Isaiah 13:6, Ezekiel 30:2-3, Amos 5:18-19, Zephaniah 1:14-18), Jesus the Lord speak (prophesying) not only of Jerusalem's sufferings in the year 70 A.C. also specially in the time that will precede Will be great tribulation at the time which it has not been from the beginning of the world till now there will not even be " (Matthew 24:21).
The prophet Daniel and the Sr.Jesus relate the anticrucifix and the distressing abomination with this Great tribulation (Daniel 7:25, Matthew 24:15), the Revelation adds that the reign of this personage will be characterized by terrible pursuit and by punishments of a terrible cruelty (Revelation 13:7-8, 15-17). The Great tribulation will be, by one part, a time of distress for Jacob (Israel (Jeremiah) 30:7)), on the other part it will be for the Christianity Apostate and also for all the inhabitants of the Earth (Revelation 16), the Great tribulation will come of:
The God's Great ire against a rebellious humanity and
apostate (Revelation 8:6-13, 9:15, Ephesians 5:6) rebels since having
listened to the God's Word rejected it again and again, wanting his vain
way of living doing his own will, they rebelled this way to the God's
perfect will. Apostates for whom experiencing and knowing the God's love
in his lives chose to continue living in his own greeds, denying this way
the efficiency of the Power of God.
The ire of the Devil was demonstrating prosecuting and
killing the Church and the Humanity who will remain (Rev. 12:12-17) Satan
always had been and he will be enemy and a destroyer of the God's
creation, in his character of this "Dragoon" will make adore by the men
(Rev. 13:4) and together with the Beast and the False Prophet there will
practise authority over the whole human race (Rev. 13:7).
In 8 opportunities and using 4 different expressions
the Prophet Daniel and the Apostle John announce that this shaded period
Daniel will last 3 years and a half (on one part) (12:7, Rev 11:2-3).
God will not
stay without testimony in the middle of this turbulence, will reserve a
certain number of Israelites (Rev 7:3-8) and he was saving across them to a
multitude that will suffer the martyrdom for the Faith (Rev 7:9-14)There are 4 principal positions on the Church in the Great tribulation which we will share:
Post-tribulation: In this point of view the Church pass across the
tribulation (Daniel 12:1-3, Rev 20:4) without the
God's Holy Spirit there will be salvation?
Mid-tribulation: In this position the Church is wrested from the half of the
t ribulation, there is assumed that the last trumpet (I Corinthians 15:52)
is the same that the seventh trumpet of Revelation 11:15 and that sounds in
the middle of the Tribulation. Partial rage: those who propose this position defend
that alone the Believers who are guarding will be snatched before the
tribulation, whereas the lukewarm believers will be left to happen for the
tribulation. Nevertheless the promise of the rage is for all the believers
in the Salvation, that, by means of the Sacrifice of the
Lord Jesus was granted us. ( I
Corinthians 15:51-57 ).
Pre-tribulation: The position that the Church will be snatched before the
Great tribulation is based on the following points:
a) The Doctrine of the Imminence before the coming of the Lord in Glory to the Earth: this speaks that will meet many signs; nevertheless the Church is called to live in the waiting for of Christ's imminent return (John 14:2-3, Philippians 3:20, I Thessalonians 1:10, I Timothy 6:14)
b) The promises given in Revelation 3:10 affirm it " I will guard you of the hour of the proof ", does not say during or in the middle of, if we read well I Thessalonians 1:10 affirms to us that we are to wait from the skies for his son, for Jesus who will free us of the future ire, to finish in I Thessalonians 5:9 that insists that God has not put us for ire, but to reach salvation by means of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Note: Being the great tribulation the triggering of the God's ire on the inhabitants of the Earth in a guilty world and knowing that the Church is not resident is peregrinate and foreign in this one, it is evident that all these accumulative indications can give the safety to all the believers in the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ that his Church will not be in the Earth during the Great Tribulation.
Kids of the eternal Father, is ours deeply feel in the Spirit, that you understand and know the importance of stick in obedience and holiness to the God's gift, which by means of our Lord Jesus Christ us was dedicated. The motive of his sacrifice and pain in the cross is that you and I do not endure these sufferings, enjoyment while we wait for our final redemption, Amen.
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