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  • farouk
    You can tell him that it's what Scripture actually says that counts. Where is the comfort of evangelizing people about the love of the Lord Jesus for sinners shown by His dying love for them at the Cross and He's coming back to take them home to Himself...and then we are supposedly meant to tell them, But oh all you've got to look forward to for years ahead is tribulation on earth while the enemies of God suffer; and despite the fact that the Cross was supposed to have borne all the wrath of God against His people, yet on earth now we have got to suffer with the enemies of God? where is the Gospel comfort in this, and in worrying the Lord's people about newspaper headlines day by day? Blessings.
    farouk
    'Even so, come Lord Jesus' (Revelation 22) is the church's prayer. 'I will come again, and receive you unto myself' (John 14) is what we are waiting for. There is a distinction between the tribulation principle ('in the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world') and the Great Tribulation, a unique and terrible series of events, which do not involve the church.
    farouk
    This may well be so; I think it's important to remember that it's not connected with the church, however. The church will have gone; the Rapture will already have taken place and meanwhile it's our task to concentrate on evangelizing the lost, while we wait for the Lord's coming for His church. Blessings.
    farouk
    PS: But distinguishing between the different events all makes for good Bible study. Blessings.
    farouk
    I do indeed; what I would also say is that as John's First Epistle says there are many antichrists already in the world. But we are not looking for the Antichrist (who will come), but rather to the coming of the Lord Jesus for His church. These other events are to do with what will happen on earth after the church has gone.
    farouk
    Interesting; as far as the church is concerned, as I see it, it's the stage of the second coming that involves the rapture (1 Thess. 4) that is what we are looking for; and while the scene may be set meanwhile for the temple events in Jerusalem, it's not directly what concerns the church, but it's all in the Lord's hands, of course.
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