My friend, by answer above, it tells me that you have not studied the seals, trumpets and bowl judgment and thereforef have no idea of the severity and their magnitude. With just the 4th seal and the 6th trumpet (a fourth and a third) over half the worlds population will have been killed. These are God's plagues of wrath and will affect all of the inhabitants on the earth during that time. You're having the church who have been waiting for the blessed hope, watching and anticipating the Lord's appearing and are having them punished right along with the wicked. The coming wrath of God is not the same as the trials and tribulations that Jesus said believers would have because of their faith. This is God's coming wrath, which no longer rests upon the believer and that because Jesus already satisfied it on behalf of every believer. Think about what I am saying here. What is it going to take to get you to understand this scriptural principle? If the Lord was to send his church through His wrath, what difference would there be between the righteous and the wicked? According to you there would be no difference!
Those above is referring to the great tribulation saints, not the church, which will have been resurrected and caught up several years earlier prior to God's wrath. After Jesus returns to the earth to end the age, the beast and the false prophet are thrown alive into the lake of fire, Satan is sealed in the Abyss for a thousand years and those saints who will have died during the great tribulation are those who be resurrected in Rev.20:4-6.
You guys continually come in here with only partial scriptural information, which you base your conclusions on and begin to teach the same.
You State that the plagues of Revelation will come upon the Church present on earth?
Your claim is a big false fairy tale, Pinocchio's nose is growing.
You will closely note that the plagues "Specifically" are brought upon the Beast and His Kingdom/Followers.
You will closely note, the "Two Witnesses" in Rev 11 below control all plagues coming on earth, the good guys pitching for "Team Jesus"!
Revelation 16 King James Version (KJV)
16 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And
the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For
they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and
thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues:
and they repented not to give him glory.
10 And
the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
"ALL PLAGUES AS OFTEN AS THEY WILL"!
Revelation 11:3-6KJV
3 And
I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6
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.
God's divine protection and promise during the tribulation.
If they try to jail or kill, in return they will be jailed killed?
Open your ears to God's protection!
This is the patience of the Church during the tribulation.
Revelation 13:9-10KJV
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
The final hours of earth's temptation, the Church is instructed to enter their dwellings until the indignation of wrath is past, just like the Passover in Egypt.
Isaiah 25:119-21KJV
19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.