Source of the Great Tribulation

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From: dwellman@zoomnet.net (Pastor Dan Wellman)
To: higher-fire@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Saved out of Tribulation -Reply

 DW> This life is the tribulation period that all men must go through.
 DW> We will be purged, by fire. I know college is rough, I pray that
 DW> you apply yourself, then you will make it. 

     Because the posttribulation rapturist refuses to distinguish between
the tribulations of this age, which the church will endure, and the unique
and unprecedented period of tribulation which shall come on the earth, they
insist that the rigors of the tribulation come only through the agency of
man or of Satan, but disassociate God from the period entirely.

     The tribulation period will witness the wrath of Satan in his animosity
against Israel (Revelation 12:12-17) and of Satan's puppet, the Beast, in
his animosity against the saints (Revelation 13:7). Yet even this
manifestation of wrath does not begin to exhaust the outpouring of wrath of
that day.

     Scripture abounds in assertions that this period is not the wrath of
men, nor even the wrath of Satan, but the time of the wrath of God.

	Isaiah 24:1 ...the LORD maketh the earth empty...

	Isaiah 26:21 ...the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
	inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity...

	Joel 1:15 ...as a destruction from the ALMIGHTY shall it come.

	Zephaniah 1:18...Neither their silver nor their god shall be able
	to deliver them n the day of the LORD's WRATH...

	Revelation 6:16-17 And said t the mountains and rocks, Fall on us,
	and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and
	from the WRATH OF THE LAMB: for the great day of HIS WRATH is come; 	and
who shall stand?

	Revelation 11:18 And the nations were angry, and THY WRATH is
	come...

	Revelation 14:7...Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of
	HIS JUDGMENT is come: and worship him...

	Revelation 14:10 The same shall drink the WRATH OF GOD....

	Revelation 14:19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth,
	and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great
	winepress of the WRATH OF GOD.

	Revelation 15:7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven
	angels seven golden vials full of the WRATH OF GOD, who liveth for
	ever and ever.

	Revelation 16:1...Go your way and pour out the vials of the WRATH
	OF GOD upon the earth.

	Revelation 16:7...Even so, Lord god Almighty, true and righteous
	are THY JUDGMENTS.

	Revelation 16:19 ...give unto her the cup of the wine of the
	fierceness of HIS WRATH.

	Revelation 19:1-2 Salvation, and glory and honour, and power, unto
	the Lord our God: For true and righteous are HIS JUDGMENTS: for he
	hath judged...

	From these Scriptures it cannot be denied that this period is peculiarly
the time when God's wrath and judgment fall upon the earth. This is not
wrath from men, nor from Satan, except as God may use these agencies as
channels for the execution of His will; it is tribulation from God. This
period differs from all preceding tribulation, not only in intensity but
also in the kind of tribulation, since it comes from God Himself.

 DW> It is so sad that so many are waiting for Jesus to come.

	Unfortunately this is all too true. While discussion of the period is one
thing it is entirely a different matter to focus on the "rapture" rather
than the one "rapturing."

Walter Copes
The joy of the Lord is my strength
(wcopes@communique.net)
Walter L Copes