World wide chaos, untold number of deaths as a direct result of the rapture….Planes pilotless, cars crashing with no drivers…..etc…Looting will commence right away. Evil unleashed that had previously been held back. Think how evil the world has become in our lifetime, its unimaginable how evil it will become after the Holy Spirit stops restraining.
Another area I think about is if the Age of Accountability is true, and all children under a certain age will be raptured. If this is true, then all countries will feel the devastation not just those countries with a higher percentage of Christians.
I forgot about the children. Yes I agree.
What I was thinking when I quoted the narrow way, few there be that find it - from Jesus In Matt 7:13-14
"13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."
When Jesus said that he was referring to all of humanity. Over the generations there have been many wide spread revivals, and there still will be. Where huge numbers get saved.
But
as a percentage of the overall population, the numbers compared to the overall population remain small. It's still a narrow way.
Yes that post Rapture/Tribulation period will result in a HUGE number of martyrs, and something else to consider.
Enough Gentiles and Jews are saved AND HAVE TO SURVIVE during the post Rapture thru to end of Trib that they repopulate the Millennial kingdom- even remaining distinct nations so there HAVE to be a lot who are saved, and still miraculously survive to resettle their national areas and repopulate the various nations.
While those numbers are good, and viewed as a group they are huge, when seen as a percentage of humanity entering the post Rapture period, they are still much smaller. The earth dwellers - the unbelievers still out number them.
Rev 7: 9-14 - a great multitude, which no man could number- v 14 specifies -out of great tribulation
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After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
I hope and pray my unsaved loved ones grow a brain cell and buy a vowel and get up and get saved, if not before the Rapture then after. Because the alternative is dreadful.
But I've watched the numbers over the years. Most go thru that wide gate to destruction. Its' the "default" setting for most people.
My dads side are all unsaved. All that I prayed for with the exception of my sister are in hell or on the way. My mothers side, most are in heaven and those who remain down here about 13 are saved, the other 6 aren't. Not counting spouses marrying into the family.
As Erika pointed out - God has no grandchildren.
While I hope and pray every single night for the unsaved in my family and George's, I look at the current situation and barring a miracle, very few of the unsaved in my family will go in the Rapture if any.
I think a certain number might give their head a shake after the Rapture and turn to Christ- I've told them all about the Rapture and their need to get saved.
But realistically knowing what I do of their attitudes - many of them would double down in unbelief and anger that God would dare to do something they didn't approve of.
You see amongst my family members now residing in hell fire - and there are quite a few- their consistent pattern is "God wouldn't send me to hell" or "I could never believe in a God who would send people to hell" The older they got the more hardened and set in that attitude they became.
God will certainly save a huge number of people, the martyrs and the survivors- as the Word says in Revelation 7- it's an uncountable number so it's huge.
I think that will come about from the 2 Witnesses, the 144,000 and the angels proclaiming the Everlasting Gospel.
Some will definitely be from people whose friends and family warned them about the Rapture, the Tribulation and their need to get saved. Many will have been on the fence, and this will pop them over the edge to salvation. I hope and pray some of my family is in that number.
I think the parents of small children will be most likely to want to get saved once they realize what's happened and where their children are. Again I hope and pray some of my family who adore their children and aren't saved yet, will remember things I said and get saved.
But out of the now 8 billion I think it is on the planet, most will proceed to destruction preferring the lie to the truth.
The Tribulation period is going to result in an enormous salvation of multitudes.
However a larger number will be aware that it is God- they talk about the Wrath of the Lamb- and would prefer a mountain fall on them than to kneel before the King of Kings and humbly admit they need Him to save them.
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