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NASB | 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain [on the earth] will simultaneously be caught up (raptured) together with them [the resurrected ones] in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord! [John 14:3; 1 Cor 15:52; 2 Cor 5:8; Phil 1:23; Col 3:4] |
Bible Question:
Hello CDBJ, What is the differance between the tribulation and the wrath of God? M.Royal |
Bible Answer: Hi M.Royal, The tribulation, as it were, is satanic vengeance against God people. Luke 21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. The Lord will remove His loved ones and as soon as He does He will pour out His wrath on the one left that have refused His grace message of the gospel. The day of Christ and the day of the lord are two different events but both taking place on the same day, once we are removed up to safety. God is literally going to hammer those that are responsible for making our lives miserable in the last days. Those believers that endure the worst persecution that God’s people have ever endured since will be delivered, i.e. saved from the hideous working of Satan’s man the antichrist. Matthew 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) 2 Thes. 2:1-5 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? Speaking of Jesus and when He comes for His own. 2 Thes. 2:9-12 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. The big problem is that believers “are being deceived” into thinking that they won’t have to endure any persecution so as a result they won’t be ready for what’s going to befall them. But will pour out His wrath on the tormentors and it will be on the very same day that Jesus come to be glorified in His elect. 2 Thes. 1:8-9 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; Just like it was the day Noah was put safely in the arc and just like “the day” that lot left Sodom. 2 Thes. 1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. CDBJ |