I know most of you believe in rapture to occur before the Great Tribulation starts, maybe on Oct 3rd?, but I just wanted to point you to somethings related to those dates.

Wouldn't it be a shame not to avoid possible death for the purpose of God? (I know you believe you will be catched away before that but what if ?)

Especially now you have all these pieces of information about the impending attack, maybe it's time to do something about it rather than just waiting for the rapture to happen.

I really don't think he will take away all the elites and leave only rag-tag soldiers to fight the biggest battle of all time against the forces of Evil.

The scripture says the return of Jesus and our being gathered to him(rapture!) will not happen unless the antichrist sits on the temple and declare himself, G-d.

^"1Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers, ²not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has already come. ³Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for (that day will not come) until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness^[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. ⁴He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God." 2 Thessalonians 2

If this is true, then I don't think there's enough time for all these things to happen before the Rosh Hashana this year. I don't know if the temple can be rebuilt in 2 months.

1. I don't think the disengagement plan will go forward and something will happen to cancel that all together. I think someone will destroy the Dome of the Rock in an effort to disrupt or stop the disengagement. (or Vendyl Jones will find the Ark of the covenant thus prompting Israel to abandon peace effort and build the temple. Anyhow, they will get rid of the Dome of the Rock.)

2. Alquaeda lauches a nuclear attack on America in retaliation of the destruction of the Dome of the Rock and as a pre-emptive strike to disable America before the all out war against Israel. -- before or around Aug 17.

3. Arab countries aided by Russia, Turkey, and few others, will surround Israel to make war. (Prophesied in Ezkiel and Luke. Some say the war in Ezkiel will not happen until close to amargeddon war but I think 'on that day' should be interpreted carefully. It will be too long to explain that here.)

4. Israel wins that war and the Antichrist mediates 7 year peace agreement between Israel and the countries that participated in the war, signalling the start of the Great Tribulation.

5. Due to the collapse of America(world's police and economic engine), war and econonomic panic will continue during the first half of the tribulation. (Revelation seal 1-4)

7. The antichrist will begin to subdue countries under him and overcome the saints, and after 1,290 days he will have control of all the earth.

8. The sign appears in the sky and natural catastrophe occurs (the sun darkened, stars fallin, etc - the 6th seal) and followers of the Antichrist tremble becase of the coming Wraith of G-d. The saints being tortured look up because the redemption is near.

9. Jesus returns on the cloud and gathers the saints up onto the cloud to be with him. The saints killed by the Antichrist and its followers are resurrected before the rapture. The rest of the dead will be resurrected when the 1000 year kingdom is ended.

10. The 7th seal opens, and while Jesus and the raptured saints hover up on the air, a bowl containing G-d's wraith is poured onto all the earth everytime a trumpet is blown. Total of 7 times.

11. After the 5th bowl has been poured, Jesus, riding a white horse, descend onto the earth with his angels, and kill the kings and the people who are gathered at Amargeddon to fight him. The antichrist and the false prophet thrown into the lake of fire.

Many will fall away from the faith during the tribulation but many will also be saved. I believe that there will be an unprecedented harvest during the tribulation. Many people will want to believe when they see the things forwarned in the Bible happen for real; mark of the beast and all. Many who were first will be last and many last will be first during the tribulation.

The first 3 & 1/2 years will be the time of preparation (and also of evangelization) for the saints, because during the reign of the beast which will be during the last half of the tribulation, he will not allow anyone to buy or sell, unless they receive the mark of the beast.

So, we have to prepare to be able to feed not only ourselves but other saints who could not prepare in advance, and to guide the confused and evangelize them, and to help them escape the hunting beast followers.

AND DON'T GET CAUGHT! If you get caught, you can't do God's work but tortured to death. Under ground church work will be necessary during that time, I think. Some may work in the city but Jesus warns in the book of Mathew to get out of the city and not to return to the city once out, because the cities will be under control of the beast. Maybe, we need to setup a remote base in wilderness and venture into the city to operate? I don't know.

So, I think it's time to brace for the final battle against the evil(not a battle to fight with swords but to save as many as souls as possible) and prepare. When Jesus returns and sees us feeding other saints, we will be greatly rewarded.

^"45Who then is the faithful and wise servant (FWS), whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? ⁴⁶It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. ⁴⁷I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions." Mathew 24