A Second Chance in the Tribulation?????

“For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the Christians who have died will rise from their graves. Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever.” 

 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

 Praise the Lord, I am READY for this day! As I look all around and watch the news, I see the unfortunate degradation of our country. It breaks my heart, really, because I am a patriot. I LOVE the United States of America and I am SO thankful to have been born and raised here and to be raising my kids here. NO denouncing of citizenship for me, thanks! But even so, this place is getting worse and worse. It seems to be slipping away faster than it did in the 90's. I can remember when we thought rap was our worst enemy. Now you can turn on TvLand (which was originally family programming) and see shows like Happily Divorced. Seriously? But let me not get off on that for it is not the topic of this blog.

But I did say all of that to say this....there is a heresy out there in church congregations telling people that they will have a chance in the tribulation to get saved if they don't get saved now. I sat in the beauty parlor (yeah I need lots of that--haha) yesterday and heard a woman begin to talk about how she thinks Obama will be president again because America does not play a part in end time prophecy according to God's Word and that he is the guy to bring us down. I happen to agree with her, but again...not what this blog is about. We all talked about how we believe the Anti-Christ is getting ready to come on the scene and how we were ready to see Jesus. She seemed very on top of things as far as that was concerned but when she said, "of course people will have a second chance in the tribulation if they don't get saved before the rapture", I nearly swallowed my tongue! I sat there and thought about how this nice lady had been lied to and began to pray silently how I could give this lady the truth without making her irate. After all, I didn't know her from Adam's house cat! As I prayed, my hairstylist spoke up about a book she had read and how the book said once we have heard the gospel, we won't have a chance in the trib. Thank you Jesus for that quickly opened door to share truth! My hairstylist looked at me and I at her and the scriptures flowed!

                                                                               

2 Thessalonians 2:⁹ This man will come to do the work of Satan with counterfeit power and signs and miracles. ¹⁰ He will use every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they refuse to love and accept the truth that would save them. ¹¹ So God will cause them to be greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies. ¹² Then they will be condemned for enjoying evil rather than believing the truth.

Look at these verses! The man coming to do the work of satan (Anti-Christ-the beast) will do miracles and use every kind of deception he can to fool people. FOOL WHO??? Those who refused to love and accept the truth that would save them!!!! Those who heard the gospel and walked away from it! KEEP LOOKING! God Himself will send a strong delusion to these people's minds that they will believe everything the devil is putting in front of them...and they will be satan's. They will be condemned for having their sinful pleasures instead of taking hold of truth!

 This is the reason Paul said in 2 Corinthians 6:2 For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Today ya'll! Today is the day to give your all to Christ! If you have heard the gospel, you won't have another chance once the rapture...or as the bible puts it...the catching away of the saints...has happened! And people, it is close! It is at the door! We do not have much longer on this earth! A second chance in the trib? Nope, not a chance.


So I put it to you...are you saved? Are you building your house on the Rock which is Christ or the shifting sands of this world system or maybe the quick sand of self!?!?!?  Do you know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior? He loves you and He died for you and He wants you to be able to escape the mess that is coming to this world. WILL YOU?


And Christian, I put it to you....are you sitting on your bum doing nothing for the Kingdom? Are you wrapped up in self-preservation? Or are you making a difference and changing someone's life with the glorious truth of Jesus Christ?!?!

HE IS COMING SOON AND TIME IS TICKING AWAY! DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! NOW IS THE TIME FOR SALVATION!!!