Will the Church Go Through the Great

Tribulation?

Message for June 14, 2020

1 Thessalonians 4:16,17 (NKJV) 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

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17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

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Matthew 28:19 (NKJV) 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

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The Great Tribulation is a special period of God’s judgment which is spoken of by Christ and the prophets. It begins 3 ½ years after the AntiChrist makes a seven year covenant or defense treaty with Israel.

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The Antichrist will break this treaty after the passing of 3 ½ years by entering and seating Himself in the Holy of Holies in the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem and claiming that he is God.

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2 Thessalonians 2:4 (NKJV) 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

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Revelation 16:16 (NKJV) 16 And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.

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2 Thessalonians 2:8 (NKJV) 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.

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John 16:33 (NKJV) 33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

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I. THE CHURCH WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO THE WRATH OF GOD.Revelation 6:17 (NKJV) 17 For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"

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1 Thessalonians 1:10 (NKJV) 10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

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UNBELIEVERS –1 Thessalonians 5:2,3 (NKJV) 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.

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BELIEVERS –1 Thessalonians 5:4,5 (NKJV) 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

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1 Thessalonians 5:9-11 (NKJV) 9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. 11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

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II. THE TRIBULATION CHAPTERS OF REVELATION 4-19 DO NOT MENTION THE CHURCH ON EARTH. Revelation 4:1-2,4 (KJV) 1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it

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were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. 2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

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4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

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Romans 14:10-12 (KJV) 10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

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11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. 12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

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Revelation 19:6-9 (NKJV) 6 And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, "Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!

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7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready." 8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

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9 Then he said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!' " And he said to me, "These are the true sayings of God."

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