If you hear that I've disappeared clear off the face of the earth, here's a few facts I want you to have on hand to review.
I can tell you now where I've gone and how. You can have my stuff, if you need a home and can get here; I'll just give you a few hints. Also, I can tell you generally what to expect over the seven years that follow, and how to escape to where I am.
First, I can't trigger this disappearance by myself. It's pre-set to happen when Christ shows up in the sky with His cloud bus, and an angel blowing a trumpet, to gather all those who love Him and who truly desire and long for His coming. He Himself will cause us to disappear from here and arrive in that cloud in the flick of an eye. Nobody will see it happen!
You'll know by the clues of unfinished work clattered to the floor, and perhaps clothes and shoes positioned as if we've been evaporated out of them. Serious searches are only going to turn up more and more missing people.
But there will be many who insist up and down that they are Christians and since they are still here, that prophesied rapture did NOT happen. You'll know in your heart not to believe them.
If it happens that you are left behind and looking for this article, (check on my website), I want all my family and friends to know that you may have my stuff. I'm leaving it all behind. Whoever gets here first and needs it, can have whatever they want. The house is mine, and though I haven't got the latest and newest of anything, there's a bed and food, and clothing. Depending on the season, the garden could be full of produce... help yourself.
Mainly, I expect those who are left behind will be desperate for answers about the future, Heaven, and how to get there. I'm starting to drop clues and info now already, so feel free to go through my books and computer files at that time, and by all means, read my dear marked-up Bible. That has the answers!
What to expect next? Everything will be global instead of national, with one world leader taking charge and turning into a despot worse than any in previous history. A harsh police state will - in the name of security - will tie up all your freedoms, and will attack especially Israel and anyone who says they revere and obey God. The attacks will be bloody and cruel.
Should you decide to cry out to God for mercy, and vow to obey Him, in the hope of also getting to Heaven yet, you will be marked out, or rather, obvious for lack of the official mark, and you are highly likely to be beheaded for your stand. Don't worry, that's martyrdom, and it is a valid ticket to Heaven. In fact, be very sure that being true to God, and making it to Heaven is worth far more than your life.
A very small number, about quarter of the earth's population of that time, will live to the end of the seven years, when Christ will return again with His Bride the Church (that's us who got to go to the seven year wedding feast!) to wipe out the enemies arrayed against Israel, and to take the throne in Jerusalem. He will then reign for a thousand years of peace, and you will get to be a citizen of that bright era in history, if you survive to see His return then.
I understand people will go back to living hundreds of years at that time. Death will be very rare.
Those of us who come with Christ at that time, will be co-reigning with Him, for we are abiding and united with Him. I'm not sure of all the details of that, but perhaps angels are sort of a pre-cursor, or example of our roles for that time.
Oh my! Then I'll really be busy serving the Lord all over the world! How marvellous! How wonderful!
Won't you get ready to disappear when I do? That looks like the best option to me!
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