The danger in believing Pre or Mid trib

[Guest dustycanvas]

I want to ask all of you, Would it shake your faith (as a pre pr mid trib believer) to wake up in the tribulation? To turn on your Television and see and reconize the anti christ on your television. Would you think that you were left behind? Or would you just shrug your shoulders and say, "oops, I guess I was wrong...we are going to have to go through this".

The reason this is something to be talked about is because there will be alot of christians who believe in pre and mid trib that will lose out with God when they wake up in the middle of the great tribulation. This is something to be concerned about. will we lost a significant percent of christians at the last minute?? A long with winning lost souls to God we should also be concerned with those who believe this way. It has the potential to be dangerous.

Back to my original question, Would it shake your faith (as a pre pr mid trib believer) to wake up in the tribulation?

Sabrina

[Jedi4Yahweh]

I want to ask all of you, Would it shake your faith (as a pre pr mid trib believer) to wake up in the tribulation? To turn on your Television and see and reconize the anti christ on your television. Would you think that you were left behind? Or would you just shrug your shoulders and say, "oops, I guess I was wrong...we are going to have to go through this".

The reason this is something to be talked about is because there will be alot of christians who believe in pre and mid trib that will lose out with God when they wake up in the middle of the great tribulation. This is something to be concerned about. will we lost a significant percent of christians at the last minute?? A long with winning lost souls to God we should also be concerned with those who believe this way. It has the potential to be dangerous.

Back to my original question, Would it shake your faith (as a pre pr mid trib believer) to wake up in the tribulation?

Sabrina

Yes.....I really believe this will be the great falling away when Christians who have been taught that they will not see tribulation find themselves in the middle of Great Tribulation. They will feel they have been lied to and reject there belief in God and the Church.

[Guest dustycanvas]

Yes exactly! They will feel so betrayed that they reject everything.

Some people think whether being pre/mid or post trib is negligable. But, I think it's an important issue that we should address. And it exists because of mis- education...and hopeful thinking that we won't have to suffer anything.

Sabrina

[gypc]

This is something that has concerned me for quite some time. There are ministries who have put so much into the pre-trib and have spent so much money on this. There are thousands of videos, tapes and books that people have put their trust in.

If it were up to me, the Lord would come before anything bad happens but it's not.

The pre-trib is based on presumption not truth.

I say pray for the Lord to come soon but prepare for the worst. If we do go through the tribulation, he will never leave us or forsake us.

In his love,

Brian

[One Way]

If, perchance, that were the case. No, it wouldn't shake my faith, it would invigorate it. If I had been wrong, well, too late now. Let's get busy!

But, I don't think that I, as a per-tribber, am wrong.

I think that one' view of the imminency of Christ's return will have a marked affect on the way they live out their lives.

Face it, if you are mid-trib, or especially post-trib, under your theological viewpoint, Christ cannot return today. This is because you have a whole series of events that MUST unfold before He can come back. Therefore, these words from Jesus are meaningless.

Mar 13:35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

The only position that is in keeping with the biblical idea that our Master can arrive at any moment is the pre-trib view.

But, again to answer the question, waking up in the GT would likely have even more of a refining action in my life!

[whatsitmean]

Back to my original question, Would it shake your faith (as a pre pr mid trib believer) to wake up in the tribulation?

Sabrina

This is an extreemly offisive question to me. The implication is that my faith and others who know their bible well enough to know the correct timming of the rapture is only good as long my bank account is full .. blah blah blah.

Tickle your own ears with this nonsense.

If the pre trib is wrong we will know it at the time. I can only die once and in the Lord's time I will, or be raptured. I accept that, either one.

[Guest kitkat]

I want to ask all of you, Would it shake your faith (as a pre pr mid trib believer) to wake up in the tribulation? To turn on your Television and see and reconize the anti christ on your television. Would you think that you were left behind? Or would you just shrug your shoulders and say, "oops, I guess I was wrong...we are going to have to go through this".

The reason this is something to be talked about is because there will be alot of christians who believe in pre and mid trib that will lose out with God when they wake up in the middle of the great tribulation. This is something to be concerned about. will we lost a significant percent of christians at the last minute?? A long with winning lost souls to God we should also be concerned with those who believe this way. It has the potential to be dangerous.

Back to my original question, Would it shake your faith (as a pre pr mid trib believer) to wake up in the tribulation?

Sabrina

Well I'm a pre-trib believer and all I can say is, if that bridge comes across my path, I'll cross it when it does, but NO my faith would not be shaken, if the scenario you presented actually happened. There's more danger in not believing in Pre-trib than believing in it.

God doesn't intentionally deceive any man. I think the scriptures have made it quite clear that we can trust Him at His Word.

Kat

[whatsitmean]

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[Guest dustycanvas]

I never meant that I have a higher spiritual experiance than someone who believes in pre or mid trib. theology. Some of my brothers and sisters in the church believe that way. I respect them all the same but, if and when the subject of the end times comes up I do share my point of view. My question was not meant to offend...just stir the mind a bit. This is only a concern of mine because there will be some people who will think that God has forsaken them or that they have been lied to and as a result lose out with God at the last moment. If that would not shake your faith..then more power to you! I commend you for that. My question is only for those who are depending on God coming before the tribulation. Those that there perception and understanding of God would be crushed if they thought that we would have to endure any kind of persecution.

The scriptures that say that He will come as a thief, etc...No, we will not know exactly what day or time of day. But, the scriptures do give us a timeline.

No, I do not believe in an emminent coming...but that does not mean that I do not live as though that is possible. The scriptures say to watch and be sober...study to show thyself approved...and i could go on. I'm not saying anything you guys do not know already...I just view them in this way.

Sabrina

[One Way]

The scriptures that say that He will come as a thief, etc...No, we will not know exactly what day or time of day. But, the scriptures do give us a timeline.

But, if you are post-trib then you will know the day as long as you can count according the writings of Daniel.

No, I do not believe in an emminent coming.

This is what Jesus taught all throughout the gospels, Paul teaches on in the epistles, and Jesus proclaims in Revelation. So, it is pretty much laced all throughout the NT.