A verse by verse study from the Bible
The timing of the rapture (or the gathering) is not a mystery. Scripture repeatedly says in plain and simple language that it will occur immediately after the tribulation of those days…He will send out his angels to gather His elect. Matt. 24:29-31 The prophets, Jesus, and the disciples plainly tell us the timing; we need not look to shadows and types in Scripture nor…
Followed 1 Thessalonians by only a few months. Persecutions had begun. Pliny, the Elder: “It was in Thessalonica that the first Gentiles were killed in the Roman Empire. The local Roman governor in that part of the country said that every Christian had to bow before a statue of Augustus Caesar. He had been deified and statues of Caesar were erected everywhere. Christians who didn’t obey the edict were perse- cuted.” It was in Thessalonica that they dreamed up the procedure of offering a cask of wine on the altar to Venus or Caesar, and then publicly taking it out to the marketplace, sprinkling all the vegetables, meat, and other goods, announcing that it had all been dedicated to the god. Anyone who bought or ate any of it thereby worshipped a false god. Christians who stopped buying in the marketplace as a witness immediately became marked. The first crucifixions, the first…
Who Is “Gog”? Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grass- hoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.Amos 7:1 “Behold” appears as an abrupt participle…What on earth does this verse mean? And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. Amos 7:2, 3 Amos intercedes, like Moses did (Num 14:11-21). “It shall not be”: So the Lord changed His mind: thus, this prophesied event never…
