Christian rapture-watching friends waiting for Jesus, I KNOW this IS LONG! ~ but thought perhaps you’d want to either print it out, or at the very least leave it on your computer for others to find…. It’s a culmination of various articles, all for the sole purpose of pointing the people who’ll be left behind to the real answers.

Tick, tick, tick, tick!! The clock is running OUT OF ticks!! I believe ANY DAY NOW Jesus will step out on a cloud to get us!! I mean literally just any moment!!

They are talking about PERMANENT PEACE in the MidEast & I believe the ‘covenant’ is ALL READY on the table & ready to be confirmed – all that’s holding it back is the rapture!! Right now: Psalm 83 happening. Soon: Isaiah 17 (where Damascus will be nuked) ~ I personally believe the rapture may happen right before that, or perhaps simultaneously.

Maranatha!

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This is to tell you exactly what is involved in the sudden disappearance of people around the world. It’s as simple as this: We who belong to Christ were called into the air above the planet in the rapture. Yes, that kooky, ridiculous, pie-in-the-sky, fly-away event that Tim LaHaye and other preachers of what you’ve thought of as fantasy have been proclaiming could happen at any moment did, in fact, happen.

You are hearing, or will soon hear, every conceivable explanation of what caused this astonishing disappearance. Here are our guesses as to some of those explanations:

* Some will say it was some sort of quantum evolutionary leap, which will ultimately be great for mankind.
* Others will say it was a mass abduction by extraterrestrials --an outgrowth of the singular abductions that have been reported over the years.
* Still others will teach it was a natural, scientifically explainable cosmic interaction that some human physiologies could resist, and others couldn’t.
* Perhaps another delusion: it was a supernatural movement into a higher form for those who disappeared – an ascension to godhood.
* OR ~ it was punishment from the great cosmogonical mind, removing the evil from the world.

Don’t believe any of these or other explanations. To find out the absolute truth about what the mass vanishing actually involves, read in the Bible 1 Corinthians 15: 51-55 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. Also read John 14:1-3 to find out where we who vanished are presently located.

Now that we are gone –and our leaving has everything to do with your immediate future—the following will happen in order very similar to that listed here. These and other events will occur over the next seven years.

Total chaos will rule for a time.
**Governments will get control through sometimes-harsh methods.
**One world government will come together.
**A one-world church will form (more than likely headed by the pope) teaching & promoting the ALL roads lead to God theory ~ and denouncing that one has to go thru’ Jesus alone.
**A world leader from Europe will step to the forefront and take charge of the peace process.
**Israeli government and Israel’s enemies will sign an agreement of peace that ensures peace and safety.
**Peace will not last, as a coalition of nations--led by Russia--will invade the Middle East.
**God, Himself, will destroy all but one-sixth of the invader forces.
**Much of the world will be hit by the deadly effects of the invasion. This will possibly include chemical, biological and nuclear aftereffects.
**The world leader will solidify his power following the Russian-led coalition’s destruction.
**Two Old-Testament-type prophets will come on the world scene and stand in the streets of Jerusalem and preach about Christ while condemning the world’s evil. Many will try to kill them, but instead they will be killed when fire comes out of the mouths of the 2 guys! They will also keep it from raining as often as they want & to strike the bodies of water into blood. {Rev. 11:5,6}
**Meanwhile, God will put His protection upon 144,000 Jews who have converted to Christianity so that they can begin to preach God’s saving message to the people of the Tribulation.
**At the same time, God will allow strong delusion to come over those who heard the Gospel before the Rapture, but refused to accept Christ because they LOVED their unrighteousness more and refuted the offer of salvation through Jesus Christ. These will believe Antichrist’s and Satan’s lies. BIG NOTE: those who are willing to TURN FROM their love of unrighteousness whether following the wrong road to get to heaven (or other kinds of sins ~ whether big or small) CAN indeed become Christians. But they must not only place faith in Jesus alone to save them, but also be willing to repent from these things {Acts 20:21; Rev. 9:20,21} and simply decide to love the Lord more than such habitual sins. See if this excellent article is still available online: http://www.raptureready.com/rr-second-chance.html

**Antichrist, after months of trying, will finally murder the two Old-Testament-type prophets around the middle of the 7 years, but they will come back to life 3 1/2 days later and be taken into Heaven while the world watches. Then, within the hour, a great earthquake will occur that will take the lives of 7,000 people. {Rev. 11:13}
**Antichrist will receive a supposedly deadly head wound.
**Antichrist will appear to resurrect from the dead, being then possessed by Satan, the ENEMY of every man’s soul!!
**Antichrist will stand in the Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. He will claim to be God, and demand worship.
**The false prophet will direct all worship to Antichrist, and will erect an image of him.
**Antichrist’s regime will institute a computer mark and numbers system. It will be both to control the world’s populations, and to cause all to worship Antichrist, whose number in all of this is 666.
**Those who refuse to accept Antichrist’s mark will be murdered. Beheading will apparently be the regime’s chosen method of offing these “traitors.”
**Antichrist will begin a systematic genocide against the Jewish race that will make Hitler’s Holocaust look mild by comparison.
**Antichrist and the false prophet will have all new believers in Christ they can find rounded up, tortured, then murdered.
**While Antichrist hunts down and murders people by the millions, God’s judgments will begin to fall directly on the rebellious people of planet earth.
**Millions upon millions will die while God’s wrath pours out in a series of three types of judgments, each consisting of seven specific judgments, for a total of 21 judgments.
**When all is said and done, more than one-half, possibly as much as two-thirds to 90%, of all human life on earth will die of the plagues.
**God will prepare, and the Jewish remnant will flee to a hiding place, probably Petra, the ancient city carved in the rose red-colored rocks of the Jordanian wilderness. This will happen in the middle of the 7 year span, right after Antichrist sits in the temple & declares himself to be God.
**Antichrist and his forces, led by Satan, will pursue the Jewish people and try to murder them, but the pursuing forces will be swallowed up by the earth.
**While the Jewish and many of the Gentile people still alive remain safely protected, God’s wrath will fall in greater force.
**The sun will go partly dark, while at the same time heating up to seven times hotter than normal.
**A great object will fall into the ocean from space. Its impact will kill life in the sea, and most likely will destroy coastal areas with tidal waves.
**Another asteroid or other mass from space will strike Earth and will poison much of the planet’s fresh water sources.
**Great, unprecedented earthquakes will happen simultaneously all over the Earth.
**People will be so frightened they will have heart attacks, just from the things they see are yet to come.
**A supernatural plague of huge insect-like creatures will be released from the abyss, and they will sting all who have the mark of the Beast. Men and women will try to commit suicide because of their great pain from the stings and bites of these demonic creatures.
**God will then move in the minds of all military forces on earth to gather in the valley of Jezreel, the plains of Esdraelon, near the ancient city of Megiddo. This is Armageddon.
**The “Kings of the East,” a huge army out of the Orient numbering more than 200 million troops, will invade to make war with Antichrist’s and the other world’s forces.
**Jesus said of this time, that if He didn’t come back, everyone and everything would die because of the fighting about to take place.
**Jesus will return with the armies of Heaven. His armies consist of the mighty angels and Jesus’ Church, which will have been raptured at least seven years earlier.
**Antichrist’s armies and all others will try to prevent Christ’s return.
**Jesus will simply speak, and all armies on earth will be rendered helpless, most killed.
**You have only one chance to survive: Accept Jesus Christ as Savior (Read John, chapter 3). This will require you to refuse to take the Antichrist’s mark when it is instituted. If you accept the mark, you are eternally doomed.

Sound like a Star Trek episode? Have trouble believing it? {You didn’t believe there was going to be a literal disappearance of Jesus’ followers either, did you? Perhaps now is the time to reconsider your thoughts.}

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The Book of the Revelation was not written as simply a bunch of symbols, which have no meaning for us. Here is WHAT TO EXPECT from here on out:

SEAL JUDGEMENTS

* AntiChrist comes in PEACEABLY, with talk of stomping out terrorism (Rev. 6:2) he may actually bring peace for a short time, until WW3 breaks out
•Peace taken, global war, great weapons (Rev. 6:4).
•Famine, a day’s food for a day’s wages (Rev 6:5, 6).
•1/4 world’s population will die, war, hunger (Rev 6:8).
•Christians will be slain for their faith (Rev 6:9-11).
•Earthquakes, sun darkened, stars fall (Rev 6:12, 13).
•Mountains and islands will be moved (Rev 6:14).
•PANIC AND TERROR will be universal (Rev. 6:15-17).

TRUMPET JUDGMENTS
•Hail and fire falls, mingled with blood (Rev. 8:7).
•1/3 in sea destroyed; fish, ships and crews (8:8-9).
•Many will dies from bitter poisoned waters (8:10, 11).
•Sun smitten, affecting light and temperatures (8:12).
•Demonic creatures torture unsaved people (9:1-11).
•Another 1/3 of the world’s population die (9:13-18).
•More great earthquakes and great hail (11:13, 19).

BOWL JUDGMENTS
•Malignant, horrible cancerous sores plague all the people who've accepted the mark (Rev. 16:2).
•Sea becomes blood, all in the seas will die (16:3).
•Only blood to drink from rivers, springs (16:4, 5).
•Men scorched with fire and great heat (16:8, 9).
•Preparation for “Battle of Armageddon” (16:12-16).
•Greatest earthquake since men on earth (16:18).
•Cities throughout the world will crumble (16:19).
•Every island and mountain will disappear (16:20).
•Huge hailstones fall, about 100 pounds each (16:21).

Here is a more detailed list:

Seal #1 (Rev. 6:1-2) The Antichrist arrives on the scene on a white horse with a crown and a bow as a victor to conquer. He becomes the ruler of the world and given the authority to be the world dictator.
Seal #2 (Rev. 6:3-4) The red horse here indicates much bloodshed. There will be wars waged and slaying. The "rider" will take peace from the earth.
Seal #3 (Rev. 6:5-6) The black horse. Suddenly, the economy is affected on a global scale as well as crop failure, making the agony of famine and hunger commonplace. It will cost one day's wages to buy a loaf of bread!
Seal #4 (Rev. 6:7-8) The pale horse, representing death. In this seal, many people die of various causes: some are torn by beasts, some by plague, some by hunger. In all, a quarter of the earth's population dies this way. Right now the global population stands at 6.8 billion people. Pretty terrible!
Seal #5 (Rev. 6:9-11) The seal of the Martyrs. After the Tribulation starts, many people who find themselves left behind, who had the Gospel preached to them before the Church was taken but did not respond at that time, realize that they had made a huge mistake. These people ask the Lord into their lives at this time, then subsequently they are killed by one of the Seals. They ask the Lord how long until they be avenged, and the Lord tells them to wait for a season until it is fulfilled. They are symbolically given white robes, but at this stage they are souls without bodies. They are tribulation saints who have not been raptured like the Church. They receive their glorified bodies at another time.
Seal #6 (Rev. 6:12-17) There is a lot of symbolic language in these verses, but they describe literal events. In essence, what we see unfolding here are earthquakes, volcanoes and meteorites hitting the earth. It turns everything dark, the world is in complete chaos, and people are very fearful. Needless to say, a lot of people are dying, and there is no place to hide. These impacts on the earth are probably enough to cause a severe shift in the earth's axis, turning the earth over on its side or displacing it severely enough to wipe out all of civilization's infrastructures.
Seal #7 (Rev. 8:1) Everyone in heaven is seeing what is happening on the earth, and they are so appalled as to be speechless at what they see. There is not one sound in heaven for a half an hour, by multitudes of millions of Saints.
Trumpet #1 (Rev. 8:2-7) Severe hail and fire, mingled with blood (more death). A third of the grass and trees are burned up, destroying nature and wildlife.
Trumpet #2 (Rev. 8:8-9) A burning mountain falls into the sea (probably a super volcano), destroying the sea creatures, the ships and turning a third of the sea into blood.
Trumpet #3 (Rev. 8:10-11) A meteorite or asteroid probably hits the earth, turning the waters bitter. The language for "star" is symbolic for a cosmic rock, and it's probably large enough to be called a "star" as well as causing severe damage to the water. At this point, there is not only contaminated sea water, but now the fresh water supplies are compromised. How does a human being possibly survive without water?! But it gets worse, far worse than this!
Trumpet #4 (Rev. 8:12-13) The world becomes darkened by more cosmic events. Because of all the cataclysmic physical changes that have occurred on the earth it causes a polar shift. Now, each day it will be dark by mid to early afternoon since the sun has been dimmed by a third; and the nights will be extremely dark as the moon & stars will be dimmed by a third as well.

Trumpet #5 (Rev. 9:1-12) Another "star" falls from heaven onto the earth, creating a very large hole, like an abyss, causing smoke to rise along with many locusts that are given the edict to hurt nothing except man. Man is tormented for five months by these extremely hurtful beasts, and they long for death but it flees them.
Trumpet #6 (Rev. 9:13-21) Another one-third of the world's population is killed. Four angels are loosed over the River Euphrates. People will be killed by many plagues and will die violent deaths.

Trumpet #7 (Rev. 11:15-19) Great voices declaring the sovereignty of God, saying the Kingdoms of the world are become the Kingdom of God and of His Christ that He rules over them forever. The twenty-four elders who are sitting close to the Throne worship God, giving Him glory. They declare that this is the time of God's great wrath and to judge those who are wicked, in which an earthquake and great hail come to the earth.
Bowl #1 (Rev. 16:1-2) The plague of sores. Everyone up till now who gives their allegiance to the Antichrist by taking the "mark of the beast" is now marked by God with grievous, cancerous sores. Not only that, but all who choose to take the Mark (and thus are able to buy and sell), and thus give their allegiance to Satan himself, are now lost forever. Their destiny is certain eternal, everlasting punishment in the Lake of Fire! Once anyone gives their allegiance to Satan by taking his Mark in their right hand or forehead, their fate is sealed forever and ever. (Rev. 13:17; Rev. 14:9-11) Those who choose not to participate (who become Christians during the Tribulation), are hunted down and killed, many by beheading. (Rev. 13:14-15)
Bowl #2 (Rev. 16: 3) Plague on the sea. Sea water is poisoned so it becomes like the blood of a dead man. No sea creature lives -- those that had been left after Trumpet #3 are now totally gone.
Bowl #3 (Rev. 16:4-7) Also, the springs are turned into blood. So, now instead of water there is blood to drink! How bad can this get?
Bowl #4 (Rev. 16:8-9) Another angel was given authority to scorch men with fire, and alter the sunlight so that it would cause tremendous heat. So, up to now, men have been plagued with sores from locusts, all the water is turned into blood so it's undrinkable, and now they are scorched with unbearable heat. If that doesn't make a person insane with agony, I don't know what does!
Bowl #5 (Rev. 16:10-11) People are in such agony from all this, they are literally gnawing their tongues for pain! And they are still cursing God and are unrepentant!
Bowl #6 (Rev. 16:12) The River Euphrates is dried up, so the way of the Kings of the East are prepared for the great battle of Armageddon. This battle will be so bloody that the blood will rise up to as high as a horse's saddle and extend for 200 miles! It will take seven months to bury the dead.
Bowl #7 (Rev. 16:17-21) This is the climax of all the judgments that came before. In this judgment we see a huge, massive earthquake that was so great it was never before seen in the earth. Here it says that cities are divided, mountains fall, and every island flees away (another super volcanic eruption?). Then hailstones fall down on the earth that are 100 pounds each! Imagine that! And men blaspheme God because of the plague of the hail.

As if the judgments aren't going to be enough, midway in the Tribulation the Antichrist will go into the Temple of God, declaring himself to be God. It is known as the Abomination of Desolation (2Thess. 2:3-4). Christians who don't take the Mark of the Beast (the global system of buying and selling instituted by the Antichrist) will be hunted down and killed/beheaded.

Antichrist will also turn on the Jews at that point (after he breaks the peace agreement made with them at the beginning) and the Jews will have to literally FLEE to an obscure spot where they will be preserved until the end of the Trib. Also, the one world false religion will be destroyed (Rev. 17), as will commercial Babylon (Rev. 18). Not to mention the final Battle of Armageddon.

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It's true that you have been left in this hell-hole that is planet earth, to live out a miserable existence for probably a short time, BUT THANK GOD it will also serve to wake you up TO TURN TO HIM, as you now understand He is not only a God of Love, but a God of judgment, too. This duration will be your last & final chance to turn to Jesus -- the ONLY WAY into heaven.

If you go into eternity without Christ, all you can only look forward to is a fiery forever-lasting hell under the earth!

Do believe us; don't believe us ~ that choice is yours. You may not have believed about the rapture either -- but it literally happened.

We hope to see you in heaven. Please make the choice to follow Jesus!

How could a loving God possibly do this, you may ask? Well, actually it’s been prophesied in the Bible for some 2000 years ~ that it WAS going to happen; people just went their merry way though, and continued to ignore it.

Actually while many will view Him as a THIEF ~ for taking their children or loved ones from this earth, the ones who are missing now are the ones who are enjoying bliss in heaven, now living in a sinless, glorified body & mind. We will be with Jesus forever.

The ones who have been left here (which is most of the world) now have the tough choice to make to follow Jesus, regardless of the cost; and it may seem a strange thought -- as probably you are very mad at God right now for doing this -- but as ironic as it may sound, now is the time to THANK HIM, because had He not come back as He said He would, then He couldn’t be trusted on anything else either. Now is the time to thank Him, for offering you this opportunity to turn to Him in humble repentance, and by trusting Jesus as the only way to enter into heaven, to soon enter heaven with all its splendors.

Some advice for someone “Left Behind”:

Call out to Jesus as Savior & Lord to save you so you can escape eternal hell!!
As previously discussed, this also includes turning one’s back from habitual sinning. {Rev. 9:20,21; Acts 20:21; 1 Cor 6:9-11}
Hide your Bible in a secure location and immediately memorize key passages for use in the event it is discovered and destroyed.
Never use the home phone or cell phone to discuss anything spiritual because every conversation will be monitored. But be careful to not out & out deny Jesus either.
Locate as much non-perishable food as quickly as possible. Clean off a large lot (probably out in the lone, secluded wilderness) and learn to garden. No guarantee of safety, as nature is now going to get really, really strange; my tomato plants will not even bear fruit right here before the tribulation hour. But the time will come (by or before mid-tribulation) when you will not be able to BUY anything ~ canned goods or anything else.
Get used to walking or riding a bicycle because you will not be able to buy without the Mark of the Beast.
Find a genuine Christian friend for fellowship but be careful because betrayals will be a high honor offered by the New Order. Perhaps you can do some bartering of food & sundries.
Do not, do not, DO NOT take the mark!!!!!!!!
Learn to pray (this means CONVERSATION) with the Lord; and pray like there’s no tomorrow.
You have to face facts that you may well be killed by martyrdom, or weather (quakes, etc), or famine. For those who make it till mid-trib, many will be killed for refusing to take the Antichrist’s mark.

All this “torture stuff” will be completely alien to soft-cushioned Americans, who have lived their whole lives on beds of ease. Better to suffer for a just a tiny amount of time though, then to give in and be tormented in the lake of fire forever & ever.

Differences between Hell & Heaven:

This is what one can expect if they find themselves in hell at their death:

A place of blackness forever. (2Pet. 2:17)
A constant stench that permeates everything. (Is. 34:3)
Dismal scenes of unending sorrow. (Psalm 78:66)
Fire that is never quenched; worms on you, surrounding you that never die. (Mark 9:43-46; Isaiah 14:11)
Abandoned to the love of sin. (John 3:36)
The living dead: unending, excruciating pain. (Rev. 14:10)
Lost to the presence of God forever. (Matt. 7:23)
Loss of heaven. (Jud. 1:6)
Loss of all pity. (Ezek. 8:18)
Unspeakable torment. (Luke 16:28)
Simultaneous torment (all parts of the body are tormented at the same time) (Jer. 8:21)
Extreme torment. (Luke 16:24)
Perpetual torment that never ends; no rest away from it, no vacations day or night. (Mark 9:43; Rev. 14:11)
Everlasting punishment (Matt. 25:41)
Place of torment: dungeon, prison, bottomless pit, furnace of fire. (Matt. 13:42)
Tormentors are cruel. (Prov. 17:11)
There is greater torment for false witnesses and false preachers. (2Pet. 2:1)

On the other hand, this is what awaits the true Christian, who turns to Jesus to follow & obey Him:

Beautiful beyond imagination. (1Cor.2:9)
Desires fulfilled. (Psalm 37:4)
In the company of Saints. (Heb. 12:23)
In the presence of the Lamb. (Rev. 13:8)
We behold His Glory. (Song 5:16)
We receive His welcome. (Matt. 25:21)
Jesus makes it heaven. (Acts 5:41; Is. 53:5)
We share the Master's joy. (Matt. 25:21)
We see friends and family who had died in the faith. (John 14:2)
We know the Saints who went before us. (Matt. 22:30)
There is perfect unity. (Heb. 12:23)
There is perfect love. (Psalm. 16:3; John 17:22-23)
Perfect friendship. (Song 5:11)
United praise. (Psalm 35:28; Psalm 22:23)
The mysteries of Scripture are revealed. (1Cor. 2:10)
Fellowship with God. (1Cor. 1:9)
Perfect happiness. (Rom. 14:17)
Joy of the blessed is ever fresh. (Is. 35:10)
Joy of the blessed is immeasurable. (Col. 3:4; Psalm 36:8)
Earthly relationships are perfected and experienced in their fullness. (Matt. 22:30; Matt. 25:6-10)
God's faithful promises fulfilled. (2Pet. 1:4)
Martyred glorify God. (Rev. 7:10, 12)
Praising, worshipping, serving and glorifying God. (Rev. 4:10)
Providence of God revealed. (Eph. 4:1,6)

And please do not think you can just “accept Jesus” and then ~ well, take a bottle of sleeping pills or something to ease yourself out of the pain, because even though there are different schools of thought on what happens to one who commits suicide, we must always go by the authority of God’s Word!! And that is: If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. {1 Cor. 3:17}

The persecution, though heavy & horrendous as it will be, will last only a short duration ~ compared to PARADISE for all eternity!! So take heart! From my understanding of Scripture, I would guess most tribulation saints {those who become Christians AFTER the rapture} will not live to see the conclusion of the tribulation. If you are facing a situation that requires you to lay down your life, I promise you that the brief moment of pain will be nothing compared to the pleasures of an eternity in God's glory. I pray for your courage and bravery even now.

Jesus Himself said this would be the WORST time of all history to be living, so enter your adventure as a new Christian (there will be many, many who will become Christians soon after the rapture; Rev. 7:9); and we’ll be glad to hear your life stories after you arrive in heaven.