What to Do if You Miss the Rapture
by John Bisagno
| Title: | What to Do if You Miss the Rapture |
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| Bible Book: | John 1 : 1-4 |
| Author: | John Bisagno |
| Subject: | Rapture |
| Objective: | One day Jesus is going to come back to get His redeemed Church out of this world. He will do that before the Great Tribulation occurs. Dr. Bisagno offers an intriguing sermon on the subject of what one can do if he misses the rapture. |
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Introduction
Luke 1:31 God made this world by and through the power of His Son, Jesus Christ. The world has turned against him. But one day for a thousand years Christ is going to come back and rein on this earth in an era of peace. When he does he'll showcase to all the universe what life could have been like if Jesus Christ had been allowed to be Lord in every body's heart. Before that happens the world is judged in a might seven-year period called "The Tribulation". Christians don't go through the tribulation. We are removed before that happens.
The Holy Spirit Indwells Believers 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17.
Understand that the Holy Spirit indwells believers. He is the only force in society that keeps evil in check, restrained, held back. When the believers are removed then there is no restraining force left in society against evil. There will be a tremendous vacuum on this earth when Christians are removed. Government will be in disarray. There will be tragedy and tribulation everywhere. Into that resulted vacuum the anti-Christ is going to set for those seven years. He's going to sit down on the throne promised to Jesus and demand that he is go and demand the world to worship him.
Christ Is Coming To Remove His Bride 2 Thessalonians 2:3-9. The next thing that happens is Christ comes and removes Bride, His Church, His saved people. Then the world is going to go into tremendous confusion. For seven years tribulation and death and judgment will be poured out on Babylon and mystery Babylon. That is the false religious system and the false political system. In the confusion somebody is going to step forward and say that I've got the answer. This is the anti-Christ. People are going to worship and accept him. At the end of this seven year period Jesus Christ is going to come from heaven and he is going to slay the armies of the anti-Christ as they are conversion on Jerusalem. The time will come that who rules Jerusalem rules the world. Christ is going to come back and rescue Israel from annihilation. This is called the battle of Armageddon.
If you don't know Christ, if you are still left and not caught up in the rapture, you'll go through seven years of hell and tribulation under the control of the anti-Christ.
Then at the end of the anti-Christ control then Christ will come and destroy him and his armies and He'll reign on this earth for a thousand years. That is the first phase of eternity.
Revelation 13:15-18. In the Roman empire, Caesar would say I demand that you honor me and you had to say that Caesar is lord. Christians would not do that. Those who reject and honored Caesar as lord did so at the cost of their life.
Revelation 19:11 -16; 20:4. Jesus Christ created this world for himself to be honored. Sin entered. He was dishonored. He has let life go on and sin continued. One day he's going to say that is enough. This world will get what it has always really wanted, all the sin at once. People will be pleading to die. But they want. They will continue on day and night. In that confusion the anti-Christ will step forward. He will bring order out of chaos and confusion. Then Jesus will come from heaven with all of the holy angles and all the saints and destroy this wicked world system. And will set up a beautiful kingdom.
What happens inside the seven-year period call the Tribulation? How can one man control the world? He does so because he controls the power to buy and sell. You control money, you control the world, no medicine, no money for rent, no food to buy. Your kids dieing out of desperation you will do anything. If you have the mark you can buy and sell. Many stores in America already have the scanning method that you don't even have to money.
A few people may be being saved during that time. The Holy Spirit will be moving in saving power not in restraining power against evil. But, if you do receive Christ, you do reject the mark of the beast. You'll be beheaded. You'll be saved, but by a martyrs death. It will cost you your life.
What to do if you miss the rapture?
I. Don't Look For Any Christians
Nobody born again will be there. They have all been removed. There will be religion; politics, school, government and life will go on. It will seem all right for a while. Then with no restraining force people will realize that when you rape, murder and plunder there will be no 911. Nobody cares. There will be sexual assault, and murder, plunder, burning, disease and ravage like you can't imagine. It will be so terrible that people will try to die but they want be able to find those ways.
II. Don't Try To Explain It Away
All of a sudden people will be disappearing. Don't add insult to injury. Don't insult God by trying to explain away what he said clearly in black and white was going to happen. If you miss the rapture you will only enhance the pain and lose you are already going to experience because you are here without Christ.
III. Whatever You Do, Don't Take The Mark Of The Beast
If you do take the mark of the beast his soldiers, police will hunt you down and kill you. If you take this mark you die and go to hell forever. There is no out. You can't win. If you say that you have received Christ it will cost you your life. If you say no and receive the mark but you will live in hell forever. It is better to suffer a few years on earth than an eternity in hell.
IV. Don't Expect To Escape A Martyr's Death
There will be no exceptions.
V. Don't Expect Any Help From God
God doesn't give a martyrs grace until we face a martyr's death. But when that time comes, if you have to suffer for Christ in this life as a believer now in this time. The Lord helps you. The Spirit sustains you. The Holy Ghost strengthens you. Christians pray for you. The body of Christ supports you. You can do it. But there will be no help for the Holy Spirit, or God. You will be here alone.
If you don't have the guts to walk down this aisle before a thousand friendly people that love you, pray for you and support you. You don't have the guts to walk into your high school tomorrow morning and stand up on your back feet and say that I am a Christian. If you don't have the guts to be the only one in the office that says that I don't fool around in Christ I stand and I am faithful to my wife/husband. And you expect to be a martyr without any help from anybody? Oh no! You'll take that mark so fast it'll make your head swim. It will cost you your life. Lose, lose situation.
VI. Don't Bet Your Soul That You Will Have The Chance To Be Saved
If all of your Christian friends are gone in the morning. If there is panic and an attempt to bring peace out of chaos and you realize that you can accept Christ but it will cost you your life. Don't bet your soul that you will even have that chance. Many people, sound theologians, doctrinally conservative do not believe we will have any chance.
