KEPT FROM THE HOUR OF TRIAL COMING ON ALL THE EARTH

Why Believers Suffer for Christ

Thomas believed that Jesus had risen when he saw the marks left upon His body before He died on the cross. He later gave his life as a martyr. Christians celebrated Christ’s death and resurrection during Passover week until AD 325. Then the first Sunday after the full moon of the first day of Spring was chosen, at the Council of Nicea, to celebrate the Resurrection. Jesus, Paul and Peter show the necessity for Christians to be willing to suffer with Christ.

What is God’s purpose in our suffering? Peter wrote that Jesus was the example for us to follow and we have been called to suffer with Him. Paul reveals we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ provided we suffer with Him in order to be glorified. Paul adds that all believers, in God’s eyes, are already glorified. Rom.8:17, 30. The big debate among Biblical scholars is whether Tribulation Saints who survive to the End will be glorified. Saved after the Rapture, would they be glorified with Christ or must they remain in their mortal bodies when Christ comes to establish His Kingdom on the earth?

Tim LaHaye, author of the Left Behind books, explains Titus 2:13 by stating: "The Rapture is our blessed hope and is unique for the church. On the other hand, the glorious appearing of Christ is not for the Christian; but is for the remnant left at the end of the tribulation. It will primarily affect the Jews and those who have been good to them and somehow survive the tribulation. If Christ does not rapture the church before the Tribulation begins, much of the hope is destroyed and thus (for Tribulation Saints) it is a blasted hope rather than a blessed hope". The Rapture, P.71. On this basis he claims there is no reason for the church to remain.

Notice LaHaye does not say it is a "blasted hope" for martyred Tribulation Saints! If the hope of those who endure to the end is blasted, what a let down for being faithful!! Looking for the Rapture is our blessed hope; but looking for His Glorious Appearing is a blasted hope!!!? In this view God resurrects those saved before the Rapture as well as martyrs after the Rapture; but does not keep His promise to glorify those who survive to the end…even with their names having been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life from the foundation of the world. Rev.13:8; Rev.17:8.

Revelation says Believers will "love not their lives unto death" because they are told, if they "overcome to the end, they will rule the nations on earth with a rod of iron". If beheaded, they will "serve God as Pillars in the Temple of heaven for 1000 years"! Rev. 3:10-12; Rev.7:14-17. The Lord will "keep all believers from the Hour of Trial coming on all the earth"!! Not one Believer will be "left behind" at the coming of Christ in glory!!!

Because Jesus said that Believers who endure to the end will be saved, they will suffer for Christ because they know they will be glorified with Him. One: We already know suffering teaches us patience. Two: Many of us have learned to accept suffering as God’s will. While we pray for deliverance, we should commit everything to Him. Three: We know we are to suffer because it is our calling to do so. But Four: God revealed to Paul that Christians must suffer (especially during the great tribulation) to make Israel "jealous". Rom.11:11.

The new Left Behind book, "Kingdom Come", hit the book stores on Passover Day, April 3.

These books claim unbelievers "left behind" at the Rapture, but who are saved and survive to the end, must be left behind again when Christ brings the souls of Tribulation Martyrs with Him. They would remain in their mortal bodies to bear children for the Kingdom! Left behind the second time unless they are killed during the Tribulation!! It would be better to be killed and be resurrected and glorified than to survive and remain mortals!!!

What should a young husband do, say his name is Bill, who is saved and deeply loves his wife who is not saved? Bill would help her to understand what lies ahead and pray and hope. If she were then saved during the tribulation, they would meet again. Jesus promised to "raise up all Believers on the last day, to gather them from the earth to the sky on one of the days after the tribulation and to send the angels to gather them from the ends of the sky". Holman Bible. Mark 13:24-27; Matt.24:31. According to Tim LaHaye, if she survived to the end, she would be "left behind" a second time to bear children in the Jewish Kingdom.

Tim LaHaye claims there is no clear reason for the Church to go thru the tribulation. Yet he finds a necessary role for surviving Christians to remain on earth to populate the Kingdom. I have two sons who married sisters. Wesley and Kenneth are Christians but Christine and Donna are not. Wes continues living with Christine though she remains unfaithful to him. Ken and Donna love each other deeply; but she believes in a form of voodoo.

If Donna should be saved after the Rapture, should she hope to be reunited with Ken and both reign on the earth for 1000 years with Christ...or remain in her normal body and not be glorified? If Christine were saved in the tribulation, she might prefer martyrdom knowing she and Wesley would continue being separated for 1000 years…for the Martyrs will serve God in heaven while survivors to the end reign remain on the earth. Rev.7:14-17; Rev.2:25-26.

In Tim LaHaye’s book on "The Rapture", He states there is "no clear purpose for the Church to be on the earth during the tribulation". But the purpose for suffering will become clear. Believers will know by their testimony that Jews are made jealous and millions of the tribes of earth will beg for mercy. Jesus revealed that, of the millions "left behind", one of every twosome will be "kept alive" on the day He comes. Luke 17:30-33.

When Jesus said "no one knows the HOUR of His coming", He was not referring to being taken to heaven to escape the Tribulation; but to the Hour when one is taken and one left after they survive the Tribulation! But until 1970 the scholars assumed the one "taken" will go to heaven before the Tribulation!! Then they suddenly added that, if they were saved and survived the Tribulation, they must again be "left behind" to populate the Kingdom!!!

We have shown why both Rev.16:14-17 and Rev.6:14-17 refer to the Day of God Almighty when He declares "It is Done". This signals the Lamb to open Seal 6 for the Day of Wrath. God’s endtime Judgments are not over the entire earth. The Hour of Trial comes "suddenly, as a thief" only when armies gather to the plains of Armageddon. Rev.16:15-17. During 5 Seals, 6 Trumpets and 6 Plagues the Beast will be killing the Saints! No Believers die during Seal Six! As long as Believers suffer martyrdom and the wicked could "repent", God’s wrath has not arrived!! As long as Believers become Martyrs, there will be no "Hour of Trial" for Believers to be "kept from" or for the Jews to escape and be "kept alive"!!!

NO BELIEVER WILL DIE DURING THE HOUR OF TRIAL

If the Great Tribulation were the Hour of Trial, Trib-Saints would be kept alive. If only pre-tribulation Saints are "kept from the Hour of Trial", what is the persecution and martyrdom from which Tribulation Saints will be kept by "overcoming to the End"? Rev.2:26; Rev.3:10. What Scripture is there that even suggests the "End" occurs prior to the Great Tribulation?

God’s wrath begins only after the last Martyr has been killed and their killers have refused to "repent" during 6 Trumpet and 6 Bowl Judgments. Rev.6:9-11; Rev.9:20-21; Rev.16:6-11. The Great Tribulation demonstrates that "God is holy and just in His Judgments"! Rev.15:1; Rev.16:6. At the End Believers will be kept from the Hour of Trial and only unbelievers who call on the Lord and beg for mercy will be kept alive during that Hour!! Luke 21:36; Luke 17:33. On the day of God’s wrath Christ comes to "deliver every believer and in flaming fire to take vengeance on all who know not God and who obey not the Gospel"!!! 2 Thess.1:7-10.

THOSE LEFT BEHIND WILL SEE THE SAINTS COMING WITH JESUS

In the only direct reference to "the called, elect and faithful" coming with the Lamb, He will destroy the armies of Ten Kings gathered to make war against Him! Rev.17:14. Paul writes that "all the Saints come with Christ"!! I Thess.3:13. Millions seeing the Saints coming with Him are "blessed after begging for mercy and to stand before the Son of Man"!!! Luke 21:36.

The last event mentioned in Revelation before "Heaven opens and Christ descends to destroy the destroyers of earth" applies to those about to be blessed by invitation to the Lamb’s wedding Supper". Rev.19:9-11. Nine out of 11 verses from Rev.19:1-11 begin with "AND"! This shows the sequence of events immediately after the fall of the great harlot Babylon!! Heaven rejoices at her fall and because the Lamb’s Wedding "has come"…the 7^th of ten things that will occur on the Day of God’s wrath…and because the Hour of Trial has come!!!

1. And those in heaven are summoned to REJOICE. Rev.18:20; Rev.19:1-7.
2. And the bodies of the Martyrs must be RESURRECTED. Rev.20:4-6.
3. And their loved ones will be RAPTURED from the earth. I Thess.4:17; Mark 13:24-27.
4. And they are REUNITED at the "Synagogue in the Sky". Matt.24:30-31; 2 Thess.2:1.
5. And Jesus brings His REWARDS "with Him for every Saint". Matt.16:27; Rev.22:12.
6. And All Israel fills with RESENTMENT and REMORSE. Rev.1:7; Rom.11:11; 11:25-26.
7. And, kept alive, they will be RESCUED to "stand before the Son of Man". Luke 17:30-33.
8. And God's RETRIBUTION in Wrath destroys ALL who refuse to repent. Rev.19:15.
9. And creation RELEASED from bondage; Paradise RENEWED. Ezek.36:35; Joel 2:1-3.
10. And the RESTORATION of all things puts Israel at the head of nations. Acts 3:21.

All these things take place "on one of the Days AFTER Great Tribulation ends AND time shall no longer" be subject to an exact countdown of prophetic days! Matt.24:29; Mark 13:24; Rev.10:6-7. Events of that day begin with the sun turning dark AND the whole moon to blood AND with stars falling from heaven AND a great quake!! Rev.6:12-14. The HOUR of Trial that no one knows in advance begins with Jesus "gathering the Elect from the earth to the Sky"!!! (The Holman Bible. Matt.24:36; Mark 13:27). Not all the Elect arise in the same HOUR! God brings Enoch and 144,000 blameless Jews and the Two Witnesses and souls of all the Martyrs with Jesus when heaven opens on the "last day" and He fulfills the above…including the SUPPER to which those in #6 and #7 are invited!!!

CHRIST WILL NOT RETURN ON THE LAST DAY OF GREAT TRIBULATION!

Pre-Tribulation Rapturists reject the Post-Trib Rapture by claiming we would know the exact day of Christ’s return in advance. Jesus said the "Day and Hour" of His Presence will occur "on a day after the great tribulation". To cover up their inaccuracy of that day coming prior to the Tribulation, they assume the Two Prophets finish demonstrating God’s Kingdom Power during the first half of Daniel’s 70^th Seven! Instead, the Jews who flee to the desert will be protected and fed by the Two Prophets during the entire great tribulation!! Then, "after 3½ days", the final martyr will be killed and the Two Witnesses will suddenly rise up to heaven on the "last day"; for all Believers must rise up on that Day!!! John 6:38-40, 44,54.

On the Last Day, 144,000 Jews will also be taken to heaven before Christ appears in glory!

They are the "Firstfruit unto God and the Lamb and will follow the Lamb wherever He goes" as soon as they are sealed with the Lamb’s name and rescued after initial signs of the Day of Wrath occur!! Rev.7:1-8; Rev.14:1-5. They and the Two Witnesses, taken to heaven "on one of the days after the Great Tribulation, present the Son of Man to the Ancient of Days" and appear in the Tribunal of Seal 7 to convict those guilty of killing the Saints!!! Dan.7:13; Rev.8:1-5.

Only when…(1) the Last Martyr has been killed; (2) God has demonstrated thru the Two Witnesses His kingdom power for 1260 days; (3) The Plagues manifest His deeds are holy and just; (4) The wicked refuse to repent and (5) Gather to Armageddon…will the Day of God’s wrath occur. Rev. 6:9-11; Rev.15:1, 4; Rev.16:6, 9-11; Rev.6:12-17. Only then can anyone enter the open Temple to praise God and the Lamb and witness the Court’s Judgment and verdict that "God’s wrath has come". Rev.15:5, 8; Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5; Rev.11:11-18.

HOUR OF TRIAL OCCURS AT CHRIST’S DESCENT

The Hour of Trial is time for the "Tribes of earth to mourn and beg to escape God’s wrath"!

This Hour is the time all Israel will say: "Blessed is He that comes in name of the Lord"!!

Wherever two are working in the field or mill, "one will be taken and one will be left"!!!

To reject the Post-Trib Rapture view it is assumed the "one who is left" refers to Believers left behind to populate the Millennial Kingdom. It refers to all who are "willing to die and who beg for mercy". Luke 17:33; Luke 21:36. Those "left behind" cannot refer to Believers since "all the Saints accompany Jesus. God will bring the souls of those who sleep in Jesus WITH Him at His coming". Since the souls of Trib-Martyrs "come with Jesus, those caught up to meet them in the air" refer to the Believers who are "alive and remain" until the last day and hour! They are "kept from the Hour of Trial" and will be glorified!! All who beg for mercy will be left behind; but "kept alive during that hour rather then being fed to the birds"!!! I Thess.4:13-17; Rev.3:10-12; Luke 17:30-37.

GOD’S PURPOSE FOR TRIBULATION MARTYRS

The first meeting of Saints in heaven to praise God and the Lamb for their salvation features countless Martyrs who come out of great tribulation. Rev.7:9-17. For 1000 years they will "serve God in heaven’s temple and the Lamb will lead them into fountains of living water". They experience blessings of the New Jerusalem for 1000 years before the rest of the Saints join them. Saints who survive to the End will reign on earth while Martyrs serve God and reign with Christ in heaven as "pillars in the temple". Rev.2:26; Rev.3:12; Rev.7:15-17; Rev.20:4-6.

Martyrs win this special reward offered to the Church in Rev.3:12 because they are willing to suffer in order to "make Israel jealous" of Gentiles who serve their Messiah. They know they must suffer to make the Jews envious. Rom.11:11. Giving the Kingdom to Israel and removing their blindness, once the total number of Gentiles has been saved, sets the stage for blessing to all mankind! God’s Grace to the Gentiles is found over and over in Romans!! Then mercy to Israel is found ten times in Rom.9-11; first to Israel at Messiah’s coming and then to all mankind!!! God calls Saints to suffer with Christ so as to glorify Him. I Pet.2:21; Rom.8:17.

This truth of suffering for Christ is utterly ignored by "Left Behind" books. April 3, the first day of Passover week, was the date chosen to introduce the final Left Behind book of God’s "Kingdom Come". They have mentioned nothing about Martyrs "serving God in heaven" nor of showing mercy for 1000 years to all mankind. Instead of those who survive to the End reigning with Christ in glorified bodies, these books require Christians to remain in their non-glorified bodies in order to raise children to populate the kingdom of Israel on the earth.

They argue that no one with the "mark of the beast" can be saved! They ignore the promise of God to show mercy to all after demonstrating that Gentiles as well as Jews have rejected the Gospel of grace!! Rom.11:32. They fail to see the ones with no hope are the wicked who refuse to "repent" during 6 Trumpets and 6 Plagues of Judgment!!! Rev.9:20-21; Rev.16:9-11.

Tim LaHaye teaches the "blessed hope" applies only to Pre-Trib Saints; not to surviving Trib-Saints; they will have nothing but a "blasted hope" at Christ’s "Glorious Appearing". Tit.2:13. My two sons married sisters who are not Believers. If their wives are left behind at a Pre-Trib Rapture, they may be saved and kept from going to Hell. But they would not be caught up to meet their husbands unless Jesus keeps His promise to "raise up all/every Believer from the dead on the last day and to gather surviving Saints from earth to the meeting in the sky"!

My daughters-in-law would be "left behind" a 2^nd time and denied the "glorification" that God promises every one who believes! God has "called, justified and glorified" every Believer!! Rom.8:30. What a let-down for everyone who is faithful to the End if they are forced to bear more children who in turn must be "ruled with an iron rod" for 1000 years!!! Rev.2:26.

Here is a "double-take" on those left behind, i.e., those "left behind" at a Pre-Trib Rapture and those "left behind" a 2^nd time at Christ’s coming. They are saved too late to be glorified. These Believers would not be taken to meet Jesus in the sky but left in their mortal bodies on earth. Tribulation Martyrs will be resurrected, glorified and taken to heaven to serve God! Believers who survive to the End are glorified and God shows mercy to all of Israel!! God will then show mercy to all men after Israel is made jealous by Believers whom He has chosen and justified and glorified!!! Rom.11:32. ["Glorification" is in the past tense in Rom.8:30].

The greatest evidence that Christianity is the only true religion is that Christ died and arose to save us and that, being "heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, we suffer with Him" and even forgive those who would take our lives away. A story in "The Hope of Glory" tells of 3 young girls decapitated by a Muslim extremist with one girl being left at the doorsteps of a church! When the killer was caught and he confessed, the mother expressed her forgiveness by giving him a hug!! The overwhelming evidence since Stephen was martyred reveals that Christians suffer and then forgive their enemies and glorify God without hesitation!!!

Failed Arguments for Not Accepting A Post-Trib Rapture

Until the 1970’s the argument against a Post-Trib Rapture of the Church to heaven was that only Pre-Trib Saints will be kept from the "Hour of Trial". Rev.3:10. But does that period include the Trumpets? They affect only a 3^rd of earth and mankind. Even the armies from the East will kill only a third of mankind. Rev.9:15. Global catastrophes destroy all the wicked only at the end. Not a single Christian will be left on earth at the 2^nd Advent! I Thess.3:13.

Since the early 70’s, after running out of arguments against a Post-Trib Rapture, the "trump-card" emerged to eliminate its possibility! Before 1970 those "left behind" were allegedly non-Christians; but after 1970 only Believers would be "left behind" to populate the earthly Kingdom!! It became too obvious that Believers could not be left behind at the Rapture!!!

It is unbelievers who are left behind! They must "stand erect, look up and pray to escape all things coming on all the inhabitants of all the face of all the earth…on the Day Christ comes in glory"! Luke 21:34-36. Escape applies to all who mourn or beg for mercy!! They are "kept thru the Hour of Trial" as Believers are "kept from it"…for God would not glorify Saints if they must "pray to escape all these things" and remain behind to populate the Kingdom!!!

A third of Israel will survive great tribulation to enter the Kingdom; so a third of mankind may be "kept alive" and a third of Christians may survive "to the end" and rule over them. Say there are 15 million Jews, 600 million Christians and 1200 million unsaved tribes of earth who enter the great tribulation. A third of each group kept alive would leave 200 million Christians and 5 million Jews to rule over 400 million of the tribes of earth descended from Ishmael.

God requires Believers to die for Christ to make Israel "jealous". Rom.11:11. He will not establish Israel’s Kingdom by burdening victorious Christians with more travail in childbirth! Gentiles who beg for mercy must come annually to Jerusalem to worship God or receive no rain for their crops!! Zech.14:16. From the offspring of these Gentiles will emerge the goat nations over whom overcoming Saints will rule 1000 years "with an iron rod"!!! Rev.2:25-26.

Martyrs will "serve God as Pillars in the temple of heaven for 1000 years". Israel becomes the channel of blessing for millions of Gentiles among the tribes of earth. If they treat Jews as they would treat Jesus, they become the sheep nations that inherit the Kingdom forever. The Saints finally inhabit the New Jerusalem eternally while sheep nations inherit the earthly Kingdom. Matt.25:32-34. "The Kings of the sheep nations will bring their glory and honor into the New Jerusalem day or night" forever after God creates the new Earth! Matt.25:31-46; Rev.21:24-26; KJV. And so finally, after God shows mercy on mankind for a thousand years, "the will of God shall be done on earth as it is in heaven"!! God has called Believers to show mercy and be willing to suffer for Christ so that all this might glorify His name!!! Rom.8:17; I Pet.2:21.

Mankind will "know the Lord, from the least to the greatest"! Heb.8:8-12. "The whole creation waits for the manifestation of the Sons of God" and the promised release from the bondage of corruption …"at the adoption, i.e., the redemption of our bodies"!! Rom.8:19-23. The adoption will occur at the Last Trump when every Believer who has died is changed from corruption to incorruption and every Believer who survives is changed from mortality to immortality"!!!

[Even the last Left Behind book includes "glorified" Tribulation Martyrs]. I Cor.15:50-52.

"THY KINGDOM COME"

This book suggests God’s Kingdom comes when sheep and goat nations are separated at the beginning of the Millennium rather than at its end. In the introduction to the Kingdom, Tim LaHaye sees three groups looking forward to eternal life, i.e., the saved, the Jews as a nation being redeemed during the Hour of Trial and the sheep nations after Christ separates them from the goat nations. In addition, without distinguishing between Christians and Jews on the one hand destined for the New Jerusalem and the nation of Israel being "renewed" as His earthly people, he sees the sheep and goat nations entering the Kingdom with the Jews for a very short time until these two groups of nations are separated from each other and the goats sent to Hell.

There are two groups of people up to the Hour of Trial…the saved and lost. There are only two groups who continue to choose between God and Satan during Christ’s Millennial reign. The sheep nations begin with those "left behind" and are finally separated from the goats at the end of His reign based on their treatment of the Jews. Matt.25:32-46. There are not three groups of Saints (N.T., O.T and Trib-Saints) before the Millennium; nor four groups to start the Millennium, i.e., the nation of Jews, surviving Trib-Saints, sheep nations and goat nations.

Only on the "last day of the Millennium" does LaHaye finally recognize the separation of lost and saved begins and continues forever. The saved and lost exist together in this age and also in the Kingdom on earth after Christ appears. Those who are "left" and who see the increase of sheep nations during the Kingdom reign will inherit the Kingdom on earth forever. LaHaye creates the goat nations based on their treatment of Jews during the Endtime great tribulation.

During the Endtime, only Christians will treat the Jews as they would treat Christ Himself!

Christians will all be glorified; but Gentiles who beg for mercy, and their offspring, will remain in mortal bodies during the Millennium to populate the kingdom!! Christians "overcome to the end of this age, and then reign with Christ over the nations on earth", or else are martyred and "reign with Christ in heaven and serve God as pillars in the Temple of heaven for 1000 years". The New Jerusalem becomes the eternal abode of those written in the Lamb’s Book of Life"!!!

While the Saints reign with Christ on earth or in heaven for 1000 years, God will not penalize those who survive to the end by forcing them to remain in their mortal bodies and suffer travail in order to provide the goats over whom they "rule with an iron rod" for 1000 years. Just as all who are of the "Holy Temple in the Lord" include both Old and New Testament Saints, so all of them will receive glorified bodies "at the adoption, the redemption of the body"! They are "children of God and joint heirs with Christ since they suffer with Him so as to be glorified with Him; yet they have already been glorified" in the sight of God!! Rom.8:17-30. Trib-Survivors, as well as Trib-Martyrs, are members of the Body and Bride of Christ!!!

How is God glorified by excluding John the Baptist from the Bride of the Lamb because he died before the Gentile Church began at Pentecost? See "Kingdom Come". P.37. All Believers constitute the Bride!! Rev.21:2, 9. Those who are "kept alive" thru the Hour of Trial constitute the beginning of Sheep Nations that "inherit the eternal Kingdom" coming to earth after the Millennium!!! Matt.25:32-34; Rev.21:24-26; Rev.22:2, 14. KJV.

May Issue: "Is the 7^th Trumpet the Last Trump?" Mel Miller at lastday.net

PERSONAL EVALUATION OF "KINGDOM COME"

Many will come to know Christ thru the Left Behind messages of salvation…now and during the tribulation! We owe Dispensational teaching the revival of belief in the Millennial Reign of Christ…especially emphasizing that Israel, as a nation, will become the channel of blessing for all nations!! God’s future "covenant of peace with Israel is an everlasting covenant"!!!

"The nations will know that I, the Lord, have sanctified Israel, now that my

Sanctuary is in their midst forevermore". Ezek.36:23; 37:28; 38:23; 39:27.

LaHaye clarifies the purpose of millennial sacrifices is to test obedience of the sheep nations! "No lamb will be slain at Passover". But these nations develop during the Millennium rather than the tribulation!! Treatment of Jews has nothing to do with salvation during or at the end of the tribulation when Christ appears!!!

The doctrine of those who launched the Reformation did not recognize God’s future plan for Israel. That doctrine is reflected in the teaching that no unbeliever who worships the Beast can be saved during the Great Tribulation or on the Last Day following its 1260-day countdown.

Dispensational doctrine falls short of recognizing that God will be glorified among all the nations by showing mercy to all who "beg to escape" God’s wrath and to "stand before the Son of Man" during the Hour of Trial coming on all mankind on the Last Day. Luke 21:34-36.

God’s purpose for earthlings to be "full of the knowledge of the Lord" not only anticipates God is righteous and holy and worthy of glory; but that mankind, even at the restoration of Eden’s Paradise, will still show their rebellion and hopeless estate apart from His grace! It is the extension of God’s mercy, for 1000 years, that leaves men totally without excuse!! All those who "beg for mercy" will be "kept alive" to populate and inherit the Kingdom forever!!!

LaHaye mentions nothing about the 1000-year reign of the Martyrs with Christ in heaven who will "serve God as pillars in the Temple and be led by the Lamb in fountains of living water… while faithful Trib-Survivors reign on earth". If those who survive are not among the "children of God who are glorified at the redemption of our bodies" as promised by Romans 8:30; but segregated and discriminated against for 1000 years; then the hope of Endtime Believers is indeed "blasted" as Tim LaHaye has taught for 37 years. Rev.3:12; Rev.7:14-17; Rev.20:4-6.]

RESULTS OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION

1. Reason for the Exclusivity of the Christian Faith. "We will never die". John 11:26.

2. Justification for the Defense of our Faith. All must come to God thru Jesus. John 14:6.

3. Foundation for Victorious living and Certainty of Eternal Life. Phil.3:10; I John 5:13.

4. Guarantee of Glorification for all of God’s children. Rom.8:30.

5. Firstfruit of the Resurrection of all the Saints. I Cor.15:20-23.

6. Basis for Establishing Israel as the channel of blessing for all nations. Rom.11:25-32.

7. Promise of Deliverance for all creation from corruption at the "adoption". Rom.8:19-23.

8. Anticipates the "Last Trump" at the 7th Trumpet of Revelation. Rev.11:15-19.

9. Links all Believers thru the Last Martyr in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Rev.13:8; Rev.17:8.

10. Offers salvation to all who "mourn" at Christ’s Presence, "coming with all the Saints".

11. All mankind will GLORIFY God at Christ’s Presence. Phil.2:10-11.

12. Future Nations will be saved and "inherit the earth forever". Mt.25:32-34; Rev.21:24-26; Matt.24:31; Rev.1:7; Joel 2:32; Luke 17:33; Luke 21:34-36; I Thess.3:13; Rev.17:14.

Mel Miller