
Zep. 2:3 “Seek the LORD, All you humble of the earth Who have carried out His ordinances; Seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden In the day of the LORD’S anger.”
It is quite odd to think that there are a lot of scriptures that talk about believers being “hidden'” during the Great Tribulation that is coming to earth so that they will not see its wrath, but at the same time, there are a lot of voices within “the church” also who speak out forcefully against such ‘escapist theology’. Some even get quite angry about it like those who teach that the rapture will not happen before the Great Tribulation. They seem to imply that believing that believers will escape these things is a cowardly belief and that the church will go through this tribulation like it has any other tribulation.
Others think that the church has to go through this period of time to “clean the bride up” and “get her ready” to meet the Lord Jesus (like a Protestant purgatory – which in itself implies that Jesus’ death was not enough to make the bride sinless in God’s sight!). It is all a little sad, for those against this ‘escapist mentality’ should believe the word of our Lord concerning this time. He not only said that there is an escape but He also told us to pray that we are part of it!
Luke 21:36 “Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”
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