Pray that you might escape
Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
This word occurs seven times in the New Testament and this is the only place in any of the gospels where we are told to pray that we may be accounted worthy to escape. That strongly supports the interpretation that Luke is to the believers prior to the tribulation, Mark is to the tribulation saints and Matthew is to the Jews. After all it would be foolish to tell someone to pray that they might escape if they haven't escaped. No reason to rub it in, you weren't accounted worthy to escape, got it, that is why Mark begins with them repenting.
Let's look at the next six times this is used.
Acts 16:27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
The word fled could be translated here as "escaped". They had been beaten, put into stocks, and were praying and singing hymns at midnight when there was a great earthquake. Certainly reminds you of the tribulation and also of the sixth seal being opened. But we should learn from this, instead of complaining, let us pray and sing hymns to the Lord as a testimony to those around us.
Acts 19:16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
Once again this word is translated as "fled" rather than escaped. Again, we are reminded that during the tribulation there will be demon possession just like they saw at the time of the apostles. These ones tried to cast the demons out, adjuring them by "Jesus whom Paul Preaches"! What? Jesus needs to be your personal savior. Enough with this name dropping. "I adjure you by Jesus who pastor so and so preaches". You need to cast them out by "Jesus, Lord of all and my personal savior who has covered me with His blood, I am redeemed, I am a child of God and by the name of Jesus, come out from him."
Romans 2:3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
This is stunning. If you read Romans 2:1 Paul is referring to our judgement of people who are sinners. Paul is saying do you think you will escape the judgement of God if you who are a sinner judge others who are sinners? Paul is not referring to sin, he was very clear in his judgment on sin, but he is talking about the person who is a sinner. Just like the expression: "Love the sinner, hate the sin".
So far we have seen several lessons on how to be worthy to escape.
1. Pray and sing praises rather than complain and murmuring.
2. Put your trust in Jesus and have a personal relationship with Him, rather than having your faith based on an intermediary.
3. Judge not lest you be judged.
2 Corinthians 11:33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Paul refers to this as his glorying in his weakness. It is a glory to God when someone who is a fool puts the wise to an open shame, when those who are weak, bring down those who are strong. Here is a person in a little basket being lowered down to escape from the leaders in that city and yet his ministry will bring down Rome, flip the entire world from the elites to the people, and bring in the Lord's millenial reign.
1Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Did you catch that! Wow! The people who are saying "peace and security" are the same that shall not escape! These are Christians, churches, Pastors and leaders of the church saying this! The apostasy is compromising themselves for "peace and security". They go along with a mask mandate, they go along with shutting the church doors, they go along with the vaccine mandate because we need "peace and security". They go along with the whole trans argument for the bathrooms. Basically they cave to the woke mob and the leftists lunatics for "peace and security".
Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
The context of neglecting so great a salvation is neglecting to take heed to the word spoken to us by Jesus and the apostles. If you neglect time in the word of God you are neglecting so great a salvation.
Now look at the last three times it is used:
Paul boasts in his weakness, compare that with this apostate church compromising with Satanic worldly leaders, because why? Because who are we to stand up to them, we are so weak. Where do they get that attitude? It is the result of neglecting so great a salvation. We are like a tire on a car. If the tire is filled with air it will behave much better than if it is low on air pressure and is flat. The apostate church is a flat tire. Paul was no one, he was really weak, and yet he has been one of the most influential people next to Jesus to turn the age.
