Scripture Provides the Answer.
Jesus Christ will take His earthly throne as King of kings and Lord of lords, and the kingdoms of this world will all become “the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ” (Revelation 11:15). However, according to Biblical prophecy, He must first come to catch away those who have made spiritual preparation for that event—those known in Scripture as the “Bride of Christ” or the “Church.” This occurrence, the Rapture of the Church, is the next great event to take place after the gospel of the kingdom have been preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; then shall the end come in God’s plan for the ages.
The Holy Spirit is in the world today, dwelling in the hearts of believers, and He is holding back a terrible tide of destruction that will come upon the world when the Bride has been taken away. (See 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8.) God’s wrath will then be poured out upon those who have rejected Him, in a period of time referred to in Scripture as the Great Tribulation—a literal time of terror and torment like has never been known.
How do we know that these cataclysmic events are just ahead?
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