TO CHARLES HOLLER / THE SAINTS

 

Hi Charles!

 

I read all your posts yesterday and really enjoyed the information you shared. I also watched your you-tube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMzvrMnUdow) and heard you say that the saints mentioned in Rev.13:7 could be talking about us, the born again Church. You remarked that this would point to a Pre-Wrath position on the Rapture.

 

Rev. 13:7: "It was granted to him (the AC) to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation."

 

I, too, used to believe more in a Pre-wrath position, but upon further study have come to see that a Pre-Trib rapture in much more in line with what Scripture tells us. I don't know if you read my letter posted June 20th about Rev. 11 and the 70th week, but in it I mentioned that the Church is gone before the beginning of the 70th week and after that there will be only unbelieving Jews and Gentiles. The Two Witnesses and the 144,000 born again Jews will be evangelizing for the first half of the 70th week and their testimonies over a three and one half period of time will save millions of both Jews and Gentiles.

 

Thus, the saints spoken of in Rev. 13:7 and also spoken of in Rev.12:17 as the rest of the Woman's offspring who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ are referring to the Tribulation saints, all those unbelieving Jews and Gentiles saved during the first half of the 70th week, by the Two Witnesses and the 144,000. These saints will not be raptured, they will have to pay with their lives as they refuse the mark of the beast. They will be the only saints that the antichrist can make war against, and he can only do this after the Two Witnesses and the 144,000 have finished their three and one half year ministry.

 

There will be more people saved during the Tribulation than in any other time in history, so there will be millions of born again saints that qualify for these passages. This by no means indicates that the Church is still on the scene.

 

Thanks for all the information on the upcoming important watch days. I really enjoy reading your letters they are a blessing.

 

CHRIST IS ALL AND EVERYTHING TO HIM BE THE GLORY!!!

 

YSIC

Patti C.