I'm a repentant sinner who needs the Grace of Jesus daily--Lord I need YOU Every Hour----minute by minute--second by second---Thank YOU LORD for the victory which has rescued me...a humbled sinner
We still have to reach others for Jesus Christ no matter what the situation around us. Who knows exactly when the rapture will happen but we need to take as many with us as will go.🙏🏼💙🌎🌍✝️🕊️
Love you Pastor Greg! We all are so thankful that God always has His men in the world that speak for Him, teach us, guide us, love and encourage us and show us what true, lifelong devotion and commitment in the Lord brings=Blessings for all! The Lord will always have his witness on the earth! Praise!
Fear is a weapon of the enemy. Peace comes from knowing God and his purpose. Thanks for sharing Gods plan so that we may have comfort in our knowledge of the future.
Keep our eyes looking up and be careful to not get wrapped up in world events, God is using all things for His ultimate purposes and we are glad that He has it all worked out for the good of those who love and obey His commands 🎉❤
Love you Pastor Greg. I listen to you everyday at work , while I work . I've had a hard life still have hard times . But listening to you help me . Praise Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. Thank you Greg . Keep it coming . I just ordered your new book . Can't wait to read it. God bless you Greg
Know that a pre-tribulation ideology is not TRUTH. There is a lot of confusion, and many false teachers. You might consider my post above.. 15 hours after this one.. for explanation and clear Scriptural reference.
I pray this prayer (something close to it) whenever I feel scared and my heart condemns me for my past sins or tries to make me doubt my faith in Jesus.
What truths Pastor Laurie gives us. Very concise and easier to understand than a lot of teachers of the Bible. No slight toward them at all, I’m speaking about, for me, Pastor Laurie’s teaching truly was easier for me to make connections. I love to read Bible Prophecies, and it makes me sad that a lot of Preachers won’t even talk about them, at least in the Church’s that I’ve attended. But then again, I live in a town with a population of only10,000 people.
Amen preach brother pastor, the implications resulting from the rapture immediately after and in the first few seconds and minutes afterwards will be devastating
29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.....
I cannot comprehend how people can read Mathew 24 and think that jesus takes us before the tribulation. Verse 29 jesus says immediately AFTER the tribulation the sun and the moon turn dark and then he will send his angels to take us. Matthew 24:29 Revelation 6:12 Joel 3:15 All explain the sun and the moon turning dark after the tribulation. All of Mathew 24 is Jesus explaining the tribulation and what the saints are going to go through and then he takes us up. Then after that God pours his wrath out. Then we come back with Jesus and jesus conquers and reigns for a thousand years. Then it is all destroyed and Jesus creates a new heaven and earth. I dont understand how people mix up Jesus' teaching. Love you pastor Laurie I loved the movie about your life as well God bless
WOW PASTOR! What you said is true, but imagine what the rapture will do to the Christians of the whole world! Israel will indeed be left alone, being forced then to cry out to G-d, to say blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!
So Jesus returns two times, once in secret, and then again when everyone sees him? I thought there was only one second coming of Jesus. I pray you are right Pastor Greg, because the tribulation would be an awful time to live through. I just can’t think of a time that Christians before us have ever escaped tribulation or persecution. Even Christ’s own disciples were martyred for their faith. Whether pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation, or after tribulation we must trust that God will sustain us by His grace.
Yes, Jesus comes twice. Once in the Rapture, when He will not actually set foot on the earth, but believers who have died will be caught up to meet Him in the air first, then we Christians who are alive will go up to meet Him. At the second coming, Jesus returns to earth on the Mount of Olives. This event will be witnessed by everyone.
@@katrina6437hi Katrina, I’m glad you told him! But I’ve always wondered about how the dead are raised 1st. Cuz when my Dad passed over to be with JESUS, I assumed he went straight 2 HEAVEN🕊️🕊️🕊️so where are they NOW??? Hope you have a GOOD ans. Cuz no one knows??? Blessings Kim x
NO.. nowhere is it shown in Scripture that Christ will come again.. twice. We are never promised to escape tribulation. (only wrath). We WILL be here to see the antichrist and beast, and must not accept the mark. There is a lot of confusion and false ideology in these last days... SEEK TRUTH AND DISCERNMENT! One might consider my post, a day after/above this one.. for explanation and clear Scriptural reference.
@@princesssweetpea9205 so you don’t believe we will be taken out, B4 the 7yrGreat Tribulation ??? We won’t see the anti-christ? Then we return with JESUS & HE will rule & reign 4 ,1,000yrs!!! The millennium!! That’s wot I’ve always been taught !!! Anyway I’m 67 & I think the pre Trib won’t be in my lifetime, as the WORLD is NOT bad enough 4 us 2 be RAPTURED YET??? Maybe 2030, I use 2 think, but anyway GOD KNOWS & we just have 2 stay CLOSER 2 HIM as this WORLD grows darker day by day🦅🎵🎶🕊️🕊️🕊️ I am in constant WORSHIP & PRAYER, I Evangelise 2 the lost & TRUST & THANK JESUS 4 every new day HE gives me BREATH💞💞💞
Rapture? That's when JESUS comes in the clouds and the angels raise the dead from their graves that were asleep. They'll arise and their bodies will change into bodies fit for heaven and the ones left on earth that were saved and believed will join the others in the air and go to be with JESUS and His host of heavenly angels.😊 Don't be misled or deceived, study the scriptures. There is no secret rapture. Everyone will be there for the first part of the tribulation. Theres no escape route. Pay attention be alert. Look for the signs of the times. Blessings
Greg has this exactly right about Revelation and the Rapture. Well Done. The only word he needed to add was the word “NEW”when he said the New Jerusalem will come down from Heaven to the Earth. Please add NEW to Earth. The old Earth will be replaced by a New Earth which he did mention earlier when he said the Earth will be burned up.
If you're not in your '90s yet get your eyes off of the rapture and going on vacation to heaven! We have great work to do in this great global harvest that's beginning to break upon us now. We were supposed to be "occupying" all of this time, but instead we've been scared of bad man 666 and the Trib, so we've been distracted about the rapture and forgot to occupy. That's why the nation, the society and culture descended into moral chaos, and evil men and women have taken over. We allowed the vacuum. The enemy was more than happy to fill it. Get with the Lord. Let the Holy Spirit direct you to the right harvest field. Wear the Full Armor of God every minute. Join with brothers and sisters on that school board, County commission, voting precinct, or wherever you're asked by God to serve. Carry the Gospel of the Kingdom. Own it in your heart so that it guides you in your thoughts and desires. NOW GO DO IT!
The concern in this pre-trib rapture idea is that it creates a false hope among believers that the church will escape hardship/persecution. How many will truly remain in faith and be spiritually fortified to endure until the end if they were expecting to avoid the tribulation. With respect, Pastor Laurie and other pastor's apologies won't mean much when persecution is at your doorstep because they got it wrong. Consider this brethren! Even if there is a rapture and it happens to be pre-trib, there will still be the birthing pains, the wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilences and earthquakes that will occur BEFORE the end. These will be the BEGINNING of sorrows (Matthew 24:6-8).
So true, and how refreshing it is to see another that's a true berean of scripture study that searches the scriptures daily to see if what's taught is true or not!!!😊😊😊 I'm much like minded as you are, and also know that this pre trib doctrine is not a solid biblically based doctrine, but much rather a new doctrine that itches the ears of church goers that don't like the idea of suffering biblical persecution and tribulation. If you do your research this pre trib rapture doctrine started in the early 1800's by William Darby
In five places in Revelation, we are told that no christian survives the Tribulation and the antichrist. So there will be no one who "is alive and remains". The five scriptures are: Rev 6:11 "They were told to wait a while longer until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been, was complete." Rev 7:14-16 "These are they who have come out of the Great Tribulation...they will no longer hunger or thirst nor be scorched by the heat." Rev 13:7 " He was given power to make war with the saints and overcome them." Rev 13:15 " He was given power to give breath to the image so that it could even speak and cause all that refused to worship the beast or take his name or number, to be killed." Rev 20:5 " And I saw the souls who were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus Christ." Jesus Christ dealt with two things when He "came in the flesh"...our sin...and God's WRATH, the WRATH we deserved for our sins. What is the Tribulation? It is God's WRATH poured out on ALL Christ rejectors. When you believe that the church will go through the Tribulation, you are really saying that Jesus never dealt with our WRATH problem. If this truth is rejected, we are undermining the person and work of Jesus Christ...that's the devil's job...so why would we do it? All interpretation of prophecy must be centred in Christ...like it says in Revelation "The testimony of Jesus Christ IS the SPIRIT of prophecy."
@markanthony3275 This doesn't seem to align with verses like: Matthew 24: 21-22 ] For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Also, keep in mind that just because Christians are present on the earth during tribulation doesn't mean that they are on the receiving end of God's wrath. All throughout scripture, we see believers enduring through persecution and hardship, and God was still with them and providing for them in the midst of it all. Last point, Revelation 6:9 is about the fifth seal and specifically those who were martyred for the faith. If all Christians are removed from the earth via Rapture, then why would there be martyrs mentioned in that passage. It doesn't specify whether those believers came to faith before the tribulation or after it began, so we can't assume.
Sorry, my OCD is distracted by the Tribulation section of the timeline because it goes from 1 to 7 with dots for half-years between, and has the mid-tribulation arrow pointing at the 4, which is central to the eye on the number line. But! The midway point, as Pastor Greg says, is at 3&1/2 years, thus the number line ought to have begun at zero with dots for half-year increments between the numbers up to where it ends at 7, then the midway point arrow would point at 3&1/2. Thank you to anyone who tolerated reading this comment.
Isaiah 18 may be a prophecy about America in the End Days and why she is not mentioned in the events of Ezekiel 39 & 39, etc. Isaiah 17 and 19 discuss why Syria and Egypt are not there, as well.
Thank you Pastor Laurie for your commitment to spreading of the Word I do have a question as it relates to the rapture…. If those in Christ get caught up to be with the Lord and then the Anti-Christ arrives at the start of the Tribulation who are the saints that the AC is at war with?
You are correct in your question. How people can follow ideology without holding up against Scripture!!! There will not be a pre-tribulation rapture. We will not be whisked away.. He has promised to COME for us. We are not promised to escape tribulation. (only wrath). We are called to REJOICE in tribulation, and to not accept the mark. Yes, the antichrist will make Great War against the saints... (remember this is SPIRITUAL.warfare) In Daniel we are told that THOSE WHO KNOW THEIR GOD. (who are not deceived) will make great resistance to the evil one who will declare that he is god. You might see my full post just above for explanation and clear Scriptural reference.
The Out-pouring of the Holy Spirit What is it? How shall we know when it happens? We will be needing God's protection before this is over, so please consider doing all you can. Jesus told us that His words are spirit and they are life. So the Holy Spirit is the words of Jesus. No one is holy that is found on earth today. So, the only thing here that is holy is the very word of God. God sent us His Word so we can enter into the Holy Spirit, the very word of our God, which we should do as directed in Deut.6:8-9 in order to have His spirit protect, lead, guide and instruct us in the way we should go, It doesn't matter if they choose the Sermon on The Mount, Ten Commandments, any prayer, song, or any other Word of God. We will know when the out-pouring begins, when we see the results, or as God begins to keep His promises found in His Word, our protection, our healing, longer life, etc.. Some of it has been working because of the word of mouth, but we haven't seen the best until we enter into the Holy Spirit. Maybe it is time we each do what we can from the whole Word instead of just the one third, being the N.T., alone. Put on Jesus,The Word of God, Deut.6:8-9. Remember, we have God the Father (the Old Testament), God the Son (the New Testament), and The Holy Ghost (The prophets and other forms of inspiration). If we only follow the New Testament, then we only have one third of the power that God offers us. By keeping what we can from the Scriptures, we show that it is because of love. We are to love God and our neighbours. Those Scriptures teach us how and shows us what God sees as love. He has given so much, perhaps we can give more? May our Father bless and keep us all.
I love Jesus however in my opinion it's selfish to want Jesus to return today or soon since I am sure there are people family, friends sons and daughters that haven't made Jesus their Lord and savior for whatever reason. My prayer is for a revival so many can be saved PLEASE LORD WAIT A LITTLE LONGER
Here's a thought Greg. If WWIII breaks out, which is essentially a nuclear war, then humanity would be annihilated. How could there be a rapture then if nobody is left? So that scenario to me doesn't make sense. So maybe we are raptured before that happens.🙏🙏
Revelation 12 : 17 and Revelation 14: 12 describes those who will be faithful at the end. Also who it is that Satan is going to war against. Psalms 111 7,8, 10 gives of which Commandments will last forever. If you read Exodus 20 1 - 17
👍, "You're lips say you Love me, you're Actions say otherwise" ~ Jesus "Oh he's coming alright..." ~ Billy Graham. And some Christians we'll be left behind (still in the field) come Rapture. "Make sure you're Heart is right with God" ~ Billy Graham You could be sitting up front each pew up front each Sunday, a deacon, a Leader in praise music, Usher or clergy faithful - but is your Heart right with God.
Pastor Greg. Believers are noted in two of these phases. In the Rapture, then in the persecution by the AntiChrist. What is the difference between those who are to be raptured, and those who would then be persecuted? Is it a difference of those who believed prior to the rapture and those in those last 7 years who came to believe then? Honest question. I am a believer. I remember when you were a skinny surfer kid in the tent in the early days. Thank you!
Whether someone believes in the rapture or not does not affect their salvation thankfully. However anyone who does not believe in a rapture has to explain how it is that Christ comes on a cloud, then on a horse.
Revelation chapter 9 the fallen star.... coming from archangelmichael.... Revelation will play out in real life after the whole world has seen the movie about the fallen star with a key 🗝️ unleashing centaurs half man half horse (digital effects) onto everybody in the world... When will we see a movie 🍿🎥 about the fall of the star?
Good teaching... But, he has the rapture way off. Jesus takes up the church at the coming of the Lord just before the day of the Lord. According to scripture.
I've never understood what is meant by "the dead in Christ will rise first". I'm sincerely confused. Aren't the dead already in Heaven?? Please someone explain this to me.
NO, they are not already in heaven. (only the few who are 'chosen' to ascend) We are NOT eternal beings... We do not live/exist... anywhere. (only those who are saved are glorified and eternal, at His coming) We were created of the dust of the earth, to which we shall return. We were given/lended God's breath of life which goes back to God when we die. ONLY the saved are both resurrected AND are TRANSFORMED CHANGED INCORRUPTIBLE (eternal) as the angels who do not die. The SECOND resurrection, all who are not in-Christ, happens after the 1000 years. At this time, they are judged. And those who are not written in the book of life will die.. THE SECOND DEATH. THE WAGES OF SIN IS.. DEATH. That we PERISH. For God so loved the world that he gave His only Son... that we might not PERISH but have everlasting life. ( There is NO eternity in hell or hell-fire for us mortal human beings.. Lake of fire has been prepared for satan and his demons, who are eternal beings) Those who are saved, and are now eternal beings (like the angels who do not die) The SECOND DEATH has no power over them.. Thus they can be with the Lord, forever. AMEN!!!
No pre trib rapture Jesus said those that are Alive and remaining that’s after the tribulation that’s the last trumpet Jesus is only coming one more time
You misunderstand then. Yes Christ only comes back one more time to Earth but when the rapture happens He won't actually come back to Earth physically. There will be many after the rapture happens that will become devout Christians during the tribulation time and those Christians of the future are who He is referring to.
🤷♀️ Hep me wrap my mind around this. please. I’m not understanding how the antichrist is going to persecute believers because I thought all the believers will have been brought up in the rapture. Please explain.
You are correct in your question. How people can follow ideology without holding up against Scripture!!! There will not be a pre-tribulation rapture. We will not be whisked away.. He has promised to COME for us. We are not promised to escape tribulation. (only wrath). We are called to REJOICE in tribulation, and to not accept the mark. You might see my full post just above for explanation and clear Scriptural reference.
If the rapture of the church happens before the anti Christ turns up, how is he able to persecute beleivers after he comes? Why are the beleivers still around when the anti christ turns up? Sorry confused here.
How do we know the Bible is true? We have the sure word of prophecy. Jesus said,"I tell you what will happen, before it happens, so when it happens, YOU WILL BELIEVE." I have studied Bible prophecy for coming up on 50 years. We are living in amazing times. Jesus tells us 365 times in the Bible not to be afraid. One time, for each day of the year. Look up, for our redemption draws near.
I love Pastor Greg Laurie, but I'm one of those that disagree about the timing of the rapture. Because, every pastor - my dad included - always teaches that the rapture happens, then the antichrist comes, but clearly this isn't the case- that's backwards. It's the antichrist first, then the rapture. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: (HERE IT IS) for that day (THE COMING OF THE LORD... REFER BACK TO VERSE 1 & 2) shall not come (HERE IT IS AGAIN) except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; And this is why I don't believe this doctrine.
That's dangerous false doctrine. The passage in 1 Thessalonians clearly says that those things will happen at the same time Jesus returns. There's only one second coming. But it's a popular false doctrine, because people love to hear that they won't ever have to suffer the hardships of Earth's final years. Those who prefer to have their ears tickled will reap the fruits of their complacency.
I'm a repentant sinner who needs the Grace of Jesus daily--Lord I need YOU Every Hour----minute by minute--second by second---Thank YOU LORD for the victory which has rescued me...a humbled sinner
Praying for many souls to come to Jesus Christ.!
❤amen, so do I
How do you do for not show your whole name when you want to add your comments
We still have to reach others for Jesus Christ no matter what the situation around us. Who knows exactly when the rapture will happen but we need to take as many with us as will go.🙏🏼💙🌎🌍✝️🕊️
It's to be ignorant to not want to know what's to come. I can't wait for Jesus's return! 🎉❤
Love you Pastor Greg! We all are so thankful that God always has His men in the world that speak for Him, teach us, guide us, love and encourage us and show us what true, lifelong devotion and commitment in the Lord brings=Blessings for all! The Lord will always have his witness on the earth! Praise!
God doesn’t watch his church most perform same unions m….which is an abomination to God maybe read Jude 1.7., rapture is a false teaching.
Jesus Christ is Lord! 🙌🏻☝🏻
Watching for the blessed hope! See you in the clouds
Loved this Very Truthful Message ❣️ God Bless You Pastor Greg ❣️
Thank you Jesus for everything I love you.
He Reigns☝🏻👑
Fear is a weapon of the enemy. Peace comes from knowing God and his purpose. Thanks for sharing Gods plan so that we may have comfort in our knowledge of the future.
Keep our eyes looking up and be careful to not get wrapped up in world events, God is using all things for His ultimate purposes and we are glad that He has it all worked out for the good of those who love and obey His commands 🎉❤
Thank you Pastor Laurie
Come Lord Jesus!!
Resist the devil and he will flee.
Pray for our Nacion USA 😢
Love you Pastor Greg! Thank you for standing true with the word of God! 💖🕊️💖✝️💖
MARANATHA!!!
Almost Home
Love you Pastor Greg. I listen to you everyday at work , while I work . I've had a hard life still have hard times . But listening to you help me . Praise Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. Thank you Greg . Keep it coming . I just ordered your new book . Can't wait to read it. God bless you Greg
Thank you pastor for preaching the truth, God bless you and your family.
Know that a pre-tribulation ideology is not TRUTH.
There is a lot of confusion, and many false teachers.
You might consider my post above.. 15 hours after this one.. for explanation and clear Scriptural reference.
I pray this prayer (something close to it) whenever I feel scared and my heart condemns me for my past sins or tries to make me doubt my faith in Jesus.
Jesus is king of kings lord of lords❤
Thank you!!!!! For TRUTH of the BIBLE that you teach! You are APPRECIATED 💯❤️
Amen Pastor Greg…much appreciated! God bless you & yours! Maranatha…come quickly Lord Jesus 🙏🏻🙌🏼🥰🤗
Amen✝️🙏
What truths Pastor Laurie gives us. Very concise and easier to understand than a lot of teachers of the Bible. No slight toward them at all, I’m speaking about, for me, Pastor Laurie’s teaching truly was easier for me to make connections. I love to read Bible Prophecies, and it makes me sad that a lot of Preachers won’t even talk about them, at least in the Church’s that I’ve attended. But then again, I live in a town with a population of only10,000 people.
Amen preach brother pastor, the implications resulting from the rapture immediately after and in the first few seconds and minutes afterwards will be devastating
Thank you for this message Pastor Greg ❤
THANK YOU FOR THIS MESSAGE!
Thank you for continuing to stand with me for my breakthrough while God is at work and I long to see what He is doing behind the scenes :)
29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.....
My husband and I always appreciate you Pastor Greg.
I appreciate you, Pastor Greg. I read your email devotional every morning. See you soon on the top side. Maranatha ☝️
Best listen ever. Holds my interest every session. Great sense of humor and teaches so well. Thankyou pastor Greg
Pastor Greg, thank you for your time, and great preaching. It has done wonders for my faith. Bringing the word of God so real.
Thank you Pastor Greg! You are a light to us in the world today...I am awake and ready!
I’m ready!!!! 🙌
Amen 🙏🏼
Very Grateful Pastor Greg for this Sermon ❤ Thank You for How You So Wonderfully Explained This❤ God Bless You ❤ You Are An Amazing Man of God ❤
Thank you on so many fronts Greg!
I wish it was today!! But it feels like it won’t happen for another 1000 years!
I cannot comprehend how people can read Mathew 24 and think that jesus takes us before the tribulation. Verse 29 jesus says immediately AFTER the tribulation the sun and the moon turn dark and then he will send his angels to take us.
Matthew 24:29
Revelation 6:12
Joel 3:15
All explain the sun and the moon turning dark after the tribulation.
All of Mathew 24 is Jesus explaining the tribulation and what the saints are going to go through and then he takes us up.
Then after that God pours his wrath out. Then we come back with Jesus and jesus conquers and reigns for a thousand years. Then it is all destroyed and Jesus creates a new heaven and earth.
I dont understand how people mix up Jesus' teaching.
Love you pastor Laurie
I loved the movie about your life as well
God bless
Thank God for a real pastor
You proselytize very well. I wish true Christian churches could do as well. I admire your effort.
Thank you. Pastor Laurie ☝️☝️☝️☝️
Salamat
There are ways that seem right unto a pastor
I look forward to your words. I so need them
Thanks pastor for your insight and knowledge
Amen
Can't even find the word accident in the Bible because God is sovereign!
Greg, please pray for my marriage.
❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Amen!!!!
WOW PASTOR! What you said is true, but imagine what the rapture will do to the Christians of the whole world! Israel will indeed be left alone, being forced then to cry out to G-d, to say blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!
"love" all men
So Jesus returns two times, once in secret, and then again when everyone sees him? I thought there was only one second coming of Jesus. I pray you are right Pastor Greg, because the tribulation would be an awful time to live through. I just can’t think of a time that Christians before us have ever escaped tribulation or persecution. Even Christ’s own disciples were martyred for their faith. Whether pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation, or after tribulation we must trust that God will sustain us by His grace.
Yes, Jesus comes twice. Once in the Rapture, when He will not actually set foot on the earth, but believers who have died will be caught up to meet Him in the air first, then we Christians who are alive will go up to meet Him. At the second coming, Jesus returns to earth on the Mount of Olives. This event will be witnessed by everyone.
@@katrina6437hi Katrina, I’m glad you told him! But I’ve always wondered about how the dead are raised 1st. Cuz when my Dad passed over to be with JESUS, I assumed he went straight 2 HEAVEN🕊️🕊️🕊️so where are they NOW??? Hope you have a GOOD ans. Cuz no one knows??? Blessings Kim x
God reunites the soul with the new incorruptible body of those who went before us. They are currently in the presence of God in soul only right now.
NO.. nowhere is it shown in Scripture that Christ will come again.. twice.
We are never promised to escape tribulation. (only wrath). We WILL be here to see the antichrist and beast, and must not accept the mark.
There is a lot of confusion and false ideology in these last days...
SEEK TRUTH AND DISCERNMENT!
One might consider my post, a day after/above this one.. for explanation and clear Scriptural reference.
@@princesssweetpea9205 so you don’t believe we will be taken out, B4 the 7yrGreat Tribulation ??? We won’t see the anti-christ? Then we return with JESUS & HE will rule & reign 4 ,1,000yrs!!! The millennium!! That’s wot I’ve always been taught !!! Anyway I’m 67 & I think the pre Trib won’t be in my lifetime, as the WORLD is NOT bad enough 4 us 2 be RAPTURED YET??? Maybe 2030, I use 2 think, but anyway GOD KNOWS & we just have 2 stay CLOSER 2 HIM as this WORLD grows darker day by day🦅🎵🎶🕊️🕊️🕊️ I am in constant WORSHIP & PRAYER, I Evangelise 2 the lost & TRUST & THANK JESUS 4 every new day HE gives me BREATH💞💞💞
Hallelujah so glad you are teaching your church about this!!! The RAPTURE IS A COMING!!
Rapture? That's when JESUS comes in the clouds and the angels raise the dead from their graves that were asleep. They'll arise and their bodies will change into bodies fit for heaven and the ones left on earth that were saved and believed will join the others in the air and go to be with JESUS and His host of heavenly angels.😊 Don't be misled or deceived, study the scriptures. There is no secret rapture. Everyone will be there for the first part of the tribulation. Theres no escape route. Pay attention be alert. Look for the signs of the times. Blessings
I'm not old, and I always want a sandwich and a nap.😁
Greg has this exactly right about Revelation and the Rapture. Well Done.
The only word he needed to add was the word “NEW”when he said the New Jerusalem will come down from Heaven to the Earth.
Please add NEW to Earth.
The old Earth will be replaced by a New Earth which he did mention earlier when he said the Earth will be burned up.
Antichrist is INTERNET !!
If you're not in your '90s yet get your eyes off of the rapture and going on vacation to heaven! We have great work to do in this great global harvest that's beginning to break upon us now. We were supposed to be "occupying" all of this time, but instead we've been scared of bad man 666 and the Trib, so we've been distracted about the rapture and forgot to occupy. That's why the nation, the society and culture descended into moral chaos, and evil men and women have taken over. We allowed the vacuum. The enemy was more than happy to fill it.
Get with the Lord. Let the Holy Spirit direct you to the right harvest field. Wear the Full Armor of God every minute. Join with brothers and sisters on that school board, County commission, voting precinct, or wherever you're asked by God to serve. Carry the Gospel of the Kingdom. Own it in your heart so that it guides you in your thoughts and desires.
NOW GO DO IT!
Rapture of the church is coming soon . Maranata.
The concern in this pre-trib rapture idea is that it creates a false hope among believers that the church will escape hardship/persecution. How many will truly remain in faith and be spiritually fortified to endure until the end if they were expecting to avoid the tribulation. With respect, Pastor Laurie and other pastor's apologies won't mean much when persecution is at your doorstep because they got it wrong. Consider this brethren! Even if there is a rapture and it happens to be pre-trib, there will still be the birthing pains, the wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilences and earthquakes that will occur BEFORE the end. These will be the BEGINNING of sorrows (Matthew 24:6-8).
So true, and how refreshing it is to see another that's a true berean of scripture study that searches the scriptures daily to see if what's taught is true or not!!!😊😊😊 I'm much like minded as you are, and also know that this pre trib doctrine is not a solid biblically based doctrine, but much rather a new doctrine that itches the ears of church goers that don't like the idea of suffering biblical persecution and tribulation. If you do your research this pre trib rapture doctrine started in the early 1800's by William Darby
In five places in Revelation, we are told that no christian survives the Tribulation and the antichrist. So there will be no one who "is alive and remains". The five scriptures are:
Rev 6:11 "They were told to wait a while longer until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been, was complete."
Rev 7:14-16 "These are they who have come out of the Great Tribulation...they will no longer hunger or thirst nor be scorched by the heat."
Rev 13:7 " He was given power to make war with the saints and overcome them."
Rev 13:15 " He was given power to give breath to the image so that it could even speak and cause all that refused to worship the beast or take his name or number, to be killed."
Rev 20:5 " And I saw the souls who were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus Christ."
Jesus Christ dealt with two things when He "came in the flesh"...our sin...and God's WRATH, the WRATH we deserved for our sins. What is the Tribulation? It is God's WRATH poured out on ALL Christ rejectors. When you believe that the church will go through the Tribulation, you are really saying that Jesus never dealt with our WRATH problem. If this truth is rejected, we are undermining the person and work of Jesus Christ...that's the devil's job...so why would we do it? All interpretation of prophecy must be centred in Christ...like it says in Revelation "The testimony of Jesus Christ IS the SPIRIT of prophecy."
@markanthony3275 This doesn't seem to align with verses like:
Matthew 24: 21-22
] For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
[22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Also, keep in mind that just because Christians are present on the earth during tribulation doesn't mean that they are on the receiving end of God's wrath. All throughout scripture, we see believers enduring through persecution and hardship, and God was still with them and providing for them in the midst of it all.
Last point, Revelation 6:9 is about the fifth seal and specifically those who were martyred for the faith. If all Christians are removed from the earth via Rapture, then why would there be martyrs mentioned in that passage. It doesn't specify whether those believers came to faith before the tribulation or after it began, so we can't assume.
Maybe someone can answer this question.... Why does the Word say we sleep after we pass away, if we go straight to Heaven?
Believers dont want satans power
The Bible says it’s the glory of God to conceal. It’s the owner of kings to search out a matter.
Sorry, my OCD is distracted by the Tribulation section of the timeline because it goes from 1 to 7 with dots for half-years between, and has the mid-tribulation arrow pointing at the 4, which is central to the eye on the number line. But! The midway point, as Pastor Greg says, is at 3&1/2 years, thus the number line ought to have begun at zero with dots for half-year increments between the numbers up to where it ends at 7, then the midway point arrow would point at 3&1/2. Thank you to anyone who tolerated reading this comment.
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Isaiah 18 may be a prophecy about America in the End Days and why she is not mentioned in the events of Ezekiel 39 & 39, etc. Isaiah 17 and 19 discuss why Syria and Egypt are not there, as well.
Thank you Pastor Laurie for your commitment to spreading of the Word
I do have a question as it relates to the rapture…. If those in Christ get caught up to be with the Lord and then the Anti-Christ arrives at the start of the Tribulation who are the saints that the AC is at war with?
You are correct in your question. How people can follow ideology without holding up against Scripture!!!
There will not be a pre-tribulation rapture. We will not be whisked away.. He has promised to COME for us.
We are not promised to escape tribulation. (only wrath). We are called to REJOICE in tribulation, and to not accept the mark.
Yes, the antichrist will make Great War against the saints... (remember this is SPIRITUAL.warfare)
In Daniel we are told that THOSE WHO KNOW THEIR GOD. (who are not deceived) will make great resistance to the evil one who will declare that he is god.
You might see my full post just above for explanation and clear Scriptural reference.
Many will become believers during the tribulation.
Those who accept Jesus during the tribulation.
The Out-pouring of the Holy Spirit
What is it? How shall we know when it happens?
We will be needing God's protection before this is over, so please consider doing all you can.
Jesus told us that His words are spirit and they are life. So the Holy Spirit is the words of Jesus. No one is holy that is found on earth today. So, the only thing here that is holy is the very word of God. God sent us His Word so we can enter into the Holy Spirit, the very word of our God, which we should do as directed in Deut.6:8-9 in order to have His spirit protect, lead, guide and instruct us in the way we should go,
It doesn't matter if they choose the Sermon on The Mount, Ten Commandments, any prayer, song, or any other Word of God.
We will know when the out-pouring begins, when we see the results, or as God begins to keep His promises found in His Word, our protection, our healing, longer life, etc.. Some of it has been working because of the word of mouth, but we haven't seen the best until we enter into the Holy Spirit.
Maybe it is time we each do what we can from the whole Word instead of just the one third, being the N.T., alone. Put on Jesus,The Word of God, Deut.6:8-9.
Remember, we have God the Father (the Old Testament), God the Son (the New Testament), and The Holy Ghost (The prophets and other forms of inspiration). If we only follow the New Testament, then we only have one third of the power that God offers us.
By keeping what we can from the Scriptures, we show that it is because of love. We are to love God and our neighbours. Those Scriptures teach us how and shows us what God sees as love.
He has given so much, perhaps we can give more? May our Father bless and keep us all.
I love Jesus however in my opinion it's selfish to want Jesus to return today or soon since I am sure there are people family, friends sons and daughters that haven't made Jesus their Lord and savior for whatever reason. My prayer is for a revival so many can be saved PLEASE LORD WAIT A LITTLE LONGER
Here's a thought Greg. If WWIII breaks out, which is essentially a nuclear war, then humanity would be annihilated. How could there be a rapture then if nobody is left? So that scenario to me doesn't make sense. So maybe we are raptured before that happens.🙏🙏
Revelation 12 : 17 and Revelation 14: 12 describes those who will be faithful at the end. Also who it is that Satan is going to war against. Psalms 111 7,8, 10 gives of which Commandments will last forever. If you read Exodus 20 1 - 17
I would think the antichrist would be the same age as Christ when he was resurrected since the Antichrist imitates him
Isn’t it challenging that 1 Thes 4: 13-18 doesn’t mention timing of any kind? It only describes an event. No mention of when.
...and these "teachers" take advantage of this by adding to it what isn't there.
My Big Question -- How Bad Do Things Have To Get Before The Rapture???
👍, "You're lips say you Love me, you're Actions say otherwise" ~ Jesus
"Oh he's coming alright..." ~ Billy Graham.
And some Christians we'll be left behind (still in the field) come Rapture.
"Make sure you're Heart is right with God" ~ Billy Graham
You could be sitting up front each pew up front each Sunday, a deacon, a Leader in praise music, Usher or clergy faithful - but is your Heart right with God.
I am 30 miles from the border and I'm not doing anything
Pastor Greg. Believers are noted in two of these phases. In the Rapture, then in the persecution by the AntiChrist. What is the difference between those who are to be raptured, and those who would then be persecuted? Is it a difference of those who believed prior to the rapture and those in those last 7 years who came to believe then? Honest question. I am a believer. I remember when you were a skinny surfer kid in the tent in the early days. Thank you!
What about the 3 days of darkness??
Anyone hear
Why do Catholics not believe in rapture?
Too steeped in their catechism?
Because they're confused, always have been.
@@ugiustuskeiserus8066 It was Catholics that compiled the Bible, so I doubt this is the case.
Whether someone believes in the rapture or not does not affect their salvation thankfully. However anyone who does not believe in a rapture has to explain how it is that Christ comes on a cloud, then on a horse.
Revelation 13:7 says that the antichrist will wage war against the saints. How can that be if we are raptured?
Revelation chapter 9 the fallen star.... coming from archangelmichael.... Revelation will play out in real life after the whole world has seen the movie about the fallen star with a key 🗝️ unleashing centaurs half man half horse (digital effects) onto everybody in the world... When will we see a movie 🍿🎥 about the fall of the star?
I AM NOT THE LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.
So if the rapture has already happened, who
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Is being persecuted?
Good teaching... But, he has the rapture way off.
Jesus takes up the church at the coming of the Lord just before the day of the Lord.
According to scripture.
I've never understood what is meant by "the dead in Christ will rise first". I'm sincerely confused. Aren't the dead already in Heaven?? Please someone explain this to me.
Absent in the body, pr sent with Lord….our spirit is with the Lord.
We get our glorified bodies in a twinkling of an eye….at the time of the Rapture!!
@@warreng7683 thank you. Everyone else has just ignored my question. 👍✝️
Yes, the souls of the dead are already with Jesus but at the Rapture their bodies will be joined with their spirit.
NO, they are not already in heaven. (only the few who are 'chosen' to ascend)
We are NOT eternal beings... We do not live/exist... anywhere. (only those who are saved are glorified and eternal, at His coming)
We were created of the dust of the earth, to which we shall return. We were given/lended God's breath of life which goes back to God when we die.
ONLY the saved are both resurrected AND are TRANSFORMED CHANGED INCORRUPTIBLE (eternal) as the angels who do not die.
The SECOND resurrection, all who are not in-Christ, happens after the 1000 years.
At this time, they are judged. And those who are not written in the book of life will die.. THE SECOND DEATH.
THE WAGES OF SIN IS.. DEATH. That we PERISH.
For God so loved the world that he gave His only Son... that we might not PERISH but have everlasting life.
( There is NO eternity in hell or hell-fire for us mortal human beings.. Lake of fire has been prepared for satan and his demons, who are eternal beings)
Those who are saved, and are now eternal beings (like the angels who do not die)
The SECOND DEATH has no power over them..
Thus they can be with the Lord, forever.
AMEN!!!
@@princesssweetpea9205 I'm pretty sure everybody meant those that are saved.. Have a blessed day.
No pre trib rapture Jesus said those that are Alive and remaining that’s after the tribulation that’s the last trumpet Jesus is only coming one more time
You misunderstand then. Yes Christ only comes back one more time to Earth but when the rapture happens He won't actually come back to Earth physically. There will be many after the rapture happens that will become devout Christians during the tribulation time and those Christians of the future are who He is referring to.
You miss when he returns on a cloud. When is the wedding feast?
Or Not.
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Hep me wrap my mind around this. please.
I’m not understanding how the antichrist is going to persecute believers because I thought all the believers will have been brought up in the rapture.
Please explain.
You are correct in your question. How people can follow ideology without holding up against Scripture!!!
There will not be a pre-tribulation rapture. We will not be whisked away.. He has promised to COME for us.
We are not promised to escape tribulation. (only wrath). We are called to REJOICE in tribulation, and to not accept the mark.
You might see my full post just above for explanation and clear Scriptural reference.
There will be many coming to Christ during the tribulation.
this was posted last year?????
January 13, 2024
Possibly a could be, these short (27 minute) videos are for radio and TV spots. The videos that are longer are today's.
If the rapture of the church happens before the anti Christ turns up, how is he able to persecute beleivers after he comes? Why are the beleivers still around when the anti christ turns up? Sorry confused here.
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How do we know the Bible is true? We have the sure word of prophecy. Jesus said,"I tell you what will happen, before it happens, so when it happens, YOU WILL BELIEVE." I have studied Bible prophecy for coming up on 50 years. We are living in amazing times. Jesus tells us 365 times in the Bible not to be afraid. One time, for each day of the year. Look up, for our redemption draws near.
Greg, it's sad that you overlook the Palestinians in your past videos.
I love Pastor Greg Laurie, but I'm one of those that disagree about the timing of the rapture. Because, every pastor - my dad included - always teaches that the rapture happens, then the antichrist comes, but clearly this isn't the case- that's backwards. It's the antichrist first, then the rapture.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: (HERE IT IS) for that day (THE COMING OF THE LORD... REFER BACK TO VERSE 1 & 2) shall not come (HERE IT IS AGAIN) except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
And this is why I don't believe this doctrine.
That's dangerous false doctrine. The passage in 1 Thessalonians clearly says that those things will happen at the same time Jesus returns. There's only one second coming.
But it's a popular false doctrine, because people love to hear that they won't ever have to suffer the hardships of Earth's final years. Those who prefer to have their ears tickled will reap the fruits of their complacency.