Err I don't get your argument about leading a sinful life
anyway
There's no doubt it will be hard and horrible but I believe God
wants all to go through to the end.
Revelation 13:7-10
It was allowed to fight against God's people and defeat
them. It was also given authority over the people of every
tribe, nation, language, and race. The beast was worshipped by
everyone whose name wasn't written before the time of creation in
the book of the lamb who was killed. If you have ears, then listen!
If you are doomed to be captured, you will be captured. If you are
doomed to be killed by a sword, you will be killed by a sword.
This means that God's people must learn to endure and be
faithful.
That is God want us to endure until the end
Rev 9:4 The locust were told not to harm the grass on the earth or
any plant or any tree. They were to punish only those
people who didn't have God's mark on their forehead.
Meaning that there will be people whose forehead is marked to be
God's people. They are still in this world.
Other verses too indicate strongly that during tribulation God's
people will still remain in this world.
Gentile beilever [you and me, unless you are jewish] are known
as the church in the book of revelation, Before the first seal, the
books of revelation still talks about the church, after that there
is only mention of the church in heaven no church on earth.
The 6th or 7th seals revelation 7 i think seal the 144000 jewish
evganist with the seal of God on their forehead.
Danial passage can refer to converts in the tribulation, I can
imagine those atheist father[like mine] after seeing their entire
family raptured will turn to God in tears.]
Yes abosultly, there is nowhere in the bible is there a single
verse that explicitly states that the rapture will take place
before the great tribulation, but if you examine all the endtime
verse, you will unfold the logical flow that harmonize with
multiply cross-ref of the bible.
However Jesus always warn the believer to be ready and to be
ready.
But not to be ready of the tribulation but be ready for when the
son of man cometh[mathew 24:44, matthew 25:13]
there is a passage in the bible that states that God will keep
his believer FROM the great tribulation, not IN. I cannot find it
man, sorry will post if I found it.