And this
gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all
nations; and then shall the end come. When ye
therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the
prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) For then
shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to
this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except
those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the
elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Mat 24:14,15,21,22
It is not until the gospel
of the kingdom is preached to all nations that Jesus Christ will come to
rapture the Church from the earth, rather when the gospel of the kingdom has
being preached to all nations shall come the end of the age. The end of the age
is not when Jesus comes to take the church to heaven. The end of the age (of
this age) comes after the reign of the antichrist. For at the end of his reign
shall Christ descend from heaven upon mount Olivet as He ascended into heaven
before the 500 disciples that saw Him received into heaven with a cloud(Acts
1:9). Scriptures [Matt. 24] teaches that the present age will end in the
greatest tribulation the world has ever seen and that immediately after that
tribulation the Lord will return to destroy the wicked and reward the
righteous.
And then
shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes
of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of
heaven with power and great glory. And he
shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather
together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mat 24:30,31
People will still be saved
during the tribulation through the blood of Jesus and not by their own blood,
although they might be killed and their blood thus shed.
And I said
unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out
of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the
blood of the Lamb.
Rev 7:14
And I saw
thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw
the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word
of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had
received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and
reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Rev 20:4
So the Holy Ghost will not
be taken from the earth at the rapture although majority of saints who are His
Living Temples are taken away. During the tribulation, the ministry of angels
shall be made most manifest as seen in the book of Revelations, for before the
rapture of the saints, angels are rarely allowed to preach the gospel as
directly as believers can, rather they do orchestrate that the sinners and the
believers meet, for the salvation of the sinner as seen in the various accounts
from the book of Acts of the Apostles, Peter and Cornelius, Philip and the
Ethiopian Eunuch. It is during the tribulation that by the ministry of angels
and believers working most supernaturally like as the angels (i.e. the left
behind believers) in the company of the two witnesses which is revealed to in the spirit of Moses and Elijah in the light of the fulfillment of the laws and the prophets in the New Testament (Revelation 10 - 11) shall the gospel of the Kingdom, which is
the witness and testimony of Jesus Christ be preached in all nations.
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall
prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the
days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and
to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. And when they shall have finished their
testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war
against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And after three days and
an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon
their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven
saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud;
and their enemies beheld them.
Rev 11:3,6-7,11-12
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having
the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to
every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice,
Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and
worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of
waters.
Rev 14:6-7
Many Christians are
reasoning and believing that since the gospel had not be preached in every
nations of the earth yet and also that there are many languages and tribes that
are yet to be learnt before even the move to evangelize these tribes for Jesus
in these languages, also considering the seemingly slow speed of the gospel and
the increase of wickedness, Jesus Christ is far from coming. Even some hath
become to scoff as Apostle Peter prophesied as we see our comedians do without
restraint
Knowing this
first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own
lusts, And saying,
Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all
things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
2Pe 3:3,4
Even the agents of Satan
in not having understanding of the scriptures believes that with the numerous
strategies which their master had laid out and is implementing, with the
seemingly exploding population rates, the gospel will never be preached to all
nations. (For Satan, though knew the scriptures with such memory and accuracy
to tempt Jesus in the wilderness understood not the mystery of Christ crucified)
Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet
not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to
nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom,
which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes
of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the
Lord of glory.
1Co 2:6-8
As long as the preaching
of the gospel is thus hindered all through the ages, Jesus will never come and therefore
the possibility of remaining the god of this world for as longs as man walks
this planet. For according to the strategy that is distracting the world with
worldly things and filling it with apostasies in leavening the lump, will the
Church be corrupted and Christ will never come. Never the less the counsel of
the Only Wise God will forever stand
For this
they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of
old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
Mat 24:35 Heaven and
earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Mar 13:31 Heaven and
earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Luk 21:33 Heaven and
earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
But of
that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father
only.
But as the
days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Mat 24:37
The Lord is
not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all
should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:9
The saints have a choice
in the light of these truths above, either to get ready for the rapture or prepare
to escape through the tribulation (possibly become the tribulation evangelists). That the whole world not being evangelized
will not stop Jesus Christ from coming should not deter believers from seeking
to preach the gospel to the ends of the world as the Lord commissioned and
empowered us to do, being His witnesses, for it is only in our preaching the
gospel shall the powers in heaven and in earth which is given to Jesus be
manifest in us, and also that Christ shall present to Himself a glorious
Church, a Church without spots and wrinkles (Eph. 5:27) which can only be
manifest by a church whose heart beats for the lost as the Lord does.
Finally, remember, the
Lord is that Faithful witness (Rev. 1:5) who is sitteth upon the white cloud
(Rev. 14:14), upon the cloud of witnesses (Heb. 12:1) beholding all that we do,
and He shall reward us according to our deeds. (Rev. 22:12)
Therefore, awake oh
Jerusalem, awake thou daughter of Zion (Isaiah 52:1). Arise from thy slumber,
shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself
from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Buy of me gold tried in
the fire that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be
clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine
eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see (Rev. 3:18)
And the
Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him
that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life
freely.
He which
testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord
Jesus.
The grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Rev 22:17,20,21
He that hath an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches … Revelations
2:7,11,17,29; 3:6,13,22
