A Great Multitude of Christians are killed during the Great Tribulation. This is an incontestable fact!!!
Rev 7:
[SUP]9 [/SUP]After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
[SUP]14 [/SUP]And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Now look where Satan makes war with Israel. A portion of Israel escapes so Satan then makes war with "Her offspring." Her offspring is throughout the world with a predominate percentage in the USA. The 10 Northern tribes left Babylon some 2,500 years ago, went over the Caucus Mountains and settled Europe then eventually the Americas.
Rev 13:
[SUP]13 [/SUP]And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
[SUP]16 [/SUP]And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
[SUP]17 [/SUP]And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
If there was a Pre-Trib Rapture (AN EVENT WHICH IS NOT TAUGHT) then there would be ZERO Christians on earth the moment the Rapture occurred, right? So, where did the Great Multitude come from??? If you claim they are new Christians who came to Christ upon seeing the glorious Rapture, then why does Paul teach a "FALLING AWAY - Great Apostasy" just prior to the MAN OF SIN appearing? If this alleged GM of Christians just came to Christ having just seen the real Christ how can they then be deceived into thinking the Man of Sin is Christ when they saw the real Christ just a few short years earlier?? That makes no sense whatsoever.
Jesus himself teaches us in Mat 24:
[SUP]23 [/SUP]Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
[SUP]24 [/SUP]For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
[SUP]25 [/SUP]Behold, I have told you before.
[SUP]26 [/SUP]Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
So, the ELECT (Chosen from the foundation of the earth) are still on earth during the Great Tribulation or Hour of Temptation. The Elect are not deceived but the Non-Elect Saints are deceived. The Rapture doctrine teaches that Christ comes before the events Jesus is describing above. So again, if Jesus already came then why would anyone think He came back again before the False Christ??? Even the Rapture believers believe that Christ comes for the Rapture, then the AntiChrist comes, then the real Christ comes again, right??? So clearly if Christ came for a Pre-Trib Rapture, the whole new Christian world would know that AntiChrist comes next thus they would not be deceived!!!
Paul teaches us very clearly this in 2 Thes 2:
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
To give such a warning there must be a deception involving people thinking the Christ comes before the Man of Sin. Hmm. I wonder, is there a teaching today, that is not clearly taught in the Bible, that has Christ coming before the Man of Sin????????
