{"id":2641,"date":"2017-02-25T17:07:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T22:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.com\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2017-02-25T17:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T22:07:50","slug":"q-will-church-go-tribulation-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/q-will-church-go-tribulation-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Will the Church go through the Tribulation Period?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q (3 of 3): [Dr. Mike] Thanks for the informative Q&A about the Rapture of the Church and Christ\u2019s Second Coming. You touched on an important subject to a lot of us: The Tribulation Period. Can you provide Scriptural references to the Body of Christ escaping the Tribulation? <\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> Like most theologians and Bible scholars, I [too] believe that the Bible clearly teaches in prophesy that the Lord\u2019s Church will be removed before the start of the Tribulation Hours, which is the judgment of a Holy God, poured out on an unbelieving world. As a matter of fact, it\u2019s the one major event that pushes the world into the great Tribulation, after Christ returns in bodily form, in the air, for His waiting Church, to reward them according to their earthly works.<\/p>\n

Some of the major Scriptures that we use for justification are found on the Book of Thessalonians:<\/p>\n

1Thessalonians 4:13-18<\/strong>, \u201cBut we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep. 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. 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. 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. Therefore encourage one another with these words.\u201d<\/p>\n

2Thessalonians 2:1-12<\/strong>, \u201cNow concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,c<\/a>]”> <\/sup>who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And you know what is restraining him now so that He may be revealed in His time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only He who now restrains it will do so until He is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of His mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.\u201d<\/p>\n

1Thessalonians 1:6-10<\/strong>, \u201cAnd you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything. For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

1Thessalonians 5:9-11<\/strong>, \u201cFor God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with Him. Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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