Shalom All:

Regarding Pepperpot's post (8 Aug 2005)
"Re: Diana - What is the Great Tribulation"
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/aug2005/pepperpot88.htm

You betcha conventional teaching has been misleading!

Pepperpot, maybe your way of putting it will make others see the issues.  I've not been very successful in getting that point across.  You wrote:
"So that leaves us with the question - what is the Great Tribulation? From the reading of the text and its timing there are only 2 possibilities:
a. Living a life following Christ in this fallen world.
b. Living through the opening of seals 1-6."

All the fantastic teachings/ministries that are based on the seals  NOT  YET  being opened ... and the cast of characters everyone is lining up ... are going to have to undergo a major metamorphosis when Seal 6 opens!

Suddenly we are in the MIDST of the SEALS, not the BEGINNING?!?!

Those who come out from under that debris of Seal 6 will think they have gone through the worst and they will willingly follow the "Saviour" who presents himself.  Only as time goes on will they realize just who they have been following.  It will be like the frog in the simmering pot.

Considering how mislead the "teachers" were about the Seals, how credible do you think they will be as they warn about the mark of the beast?  As I read in Revelation YHVH is not going to let that warning rest in the hands of men!!  He will also have angels warning the world - Rev. 14:6-13.

Dianne
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