Bible lessons- Rapture and Anti-christ

Bible lessons- Rapture and Anti-christ

Posted on December 14, 2008 Updated on December 14, 2008

LEFT BEHIND?

Memorise: “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come ” (Matt 24:42)

Read: Matthew 24:36-42

The ten virgins heard a cry announcing the arrival of their long-awaited bridegroom and they woke up (Matthew 25:6-7). But the question is, Were they happy to hear the announcement of the bridegroom? The virgins were probably afraid and jittery because they were caught napping.

 Anyone who looks forward to the day of rapture with tremendous happiness may not be well informed. When the virgins heard the cry, they knew that the moment of truth had come at last! The day of reckoning had come! It is on that day the world will know those who are serving God and those who are not. Any pastor or Christian can pretend to serve God until that day, but not beyond it.

 Are you playing church? Are you pretending to serve God while in secret you serve something else? Are you publicly preaching the undiluted Word of God but secretly living in fornication, lies, and unforgiveness?

On that day, your secret will be exposed to the whole world. After the saints have been raptured, the hypocrites that are left will suffer greatly. Even before the suffering of the Great Tribulation, which will be general, believers who are left behind will suffer shame and disgrace they never imagined.

Everyone who knows you as a Christian or man of God will come looking for you. When they see you, they will say, ‘So upon all the preaching, you did not go with your colleagues? So you were faking your faith in Christ all along? But you must be a big fool, you know. How could you refuse joining us to take bribes, womanize, booze, embezzle government funds, marry as many wives as possible, etc. only to end up being left behind with chronic sinners like us? In any case, what did you do to your Jesus that made Him leave you behind?’

As a minister or pastor, how can you stand to talk to members of your congregation who were also left behind? They will blame you for their inability to make the rapture. They will say it was because you were living in secret sin that they, too, fell into sin.

By the time the wrath of God will be poured on the inhabitants of the earth, the Antichrist will stir up people to look for those who call themselves Christians and ask them to be killed because their Jesus is raining judgement from Heaven. Christians left behind will then be used to settle scores! You can prevent this by ensuring that you make the rapture.

What vices capable of hindering you from making the rapture persist in your life? Repent and deal with them before it is too late