Post by Shepherd on Jan 26, 2009 23:20:35 GMT -6
Why this terrible period? At least six scriptural reasons are forthcoming.
1---To harvest the crop that has been sown throughout the ages by God, Satan, and mankind.
2---To prove the falseness of the devil's claim, since his fall.Isiah 14:12-14, "hOW YOU ARE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O lUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING! HOW YOU ARE CUT DOWN TO THE GROUNG ,YOU WHO WEAKENED THE NATIONS! fOR YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR HEART: i WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, i WILL ALSO SIT ON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION ON THE FATHEREST SIDES OF THE NORTH.
i WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS, I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH." Satan has been trying to convince a sceptical universe that he rather than Christ is the logical and rightful ruler of creation. Therefore, during the tribulation the souvereign God will give him a free and unhindered hand to make good his boast. Needless to say Satan will fall miserably.
3---To prepare a great martyred multitude for heaven. Rev. 7:9, and verse 14. "AFTER THIS I BEHELD, AND LO, A GREAT MULTITUDE, WHICH NO MAN COULD NUMBER, OF ALL NATIONS, KINGDREDS AND PEOPLE AND TONGUES, STOOD BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD. THESE ARE THEY WHICH CAME OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION AND HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES, AND MADE THEM WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB."
4---To prepare a great living multitude for the Millennium, Mt. 25:32-34.
5---To punish sin, to cleanse the world of sin and evil. Romans 1:18, 2 Theas. 2:11-12.
6--- To purge IsraelEzekiel 20:37-38, "AND I WILL CAUSE YOU TO PASS UNDER THE ROD, AND I WILL PURGE FROM AMONG YOU THE REBELS.
MALICA 3:3 "AND HE SHALL SIT AS A REFINER AND PURIFIER OF SILVER; AND HE SHALL PURIFY THE SONS OF lEVI, AND PURGE THEM AS GOLD AND SILVER, THAT THEY MAY OFFER UNTO THE LORD AN OFFERING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS."
I hope this will help you to understand some of why the awful tribulations. same reason of the flood, except this time the devil and all his angels will be in the lake of fire forever and no more evil. The world will be like the garde of Eden was supposed to be for a thousand years and then we will have a new heave and new earth. Praise God, who wouldn't want to live right and make it?
Written by Sunshine.
1---To harvest the crop that has been sown throughout the ages by God, Satan, and mankind.
2---To prove the falseness of the devil's claim, since his fall.Isiah 14:12-14, "hOW YOU ARE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O lUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING! HOW YOU ARE CUT DOWN TO THE GROUNG ,YOU WHO WEAKENED THE NATIONS! fOR YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR HEART: i WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, i WILL ALSO SIT ON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION ON THE FATHEREST SIDES OF THE NORTH.
i WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS, I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH." Satan has been trying to convince a sceptical universe that he rather than Christ is the logical and rightful ruler of creation. Therefore, during the tribulation the souvereign God will give him a free and unhindered hand to make good his boast. Needless to say Satan will fall miserably.
3---To prepare a great martyred multitude for heaven. Rev. 7:9, and verse 14. "AFTER THIS I BEHELD, AND LO, A GREAT MULTITUDE, WHICH NO MAN COULD NUMBER, OF ALL NATIONS, KINGDREDS AND PEOPLE AND TONGUES, STOOD BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD. THESE ARE THEY WHICH CAME OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION AND HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES, AND MADE THEM WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB."
4---To prepare a great living multitude for the Millennium, Mt. 25:32-34.
5---To punish sin, to cleanse the world of sin and evil. Romans 1:18, 2 Theas. 2:11-12.
6--- To purge IsraelEzekiel 20:37-38, "AND I WILL CAUSE YOU TO PASS UNDER THE ROD, AND I WILL PURGE FROM AMONG YOU THE REBELS.
MALICA 3:3 "AND HE SHALL SIT AS A REFINER AND PURIFIER OF SILVER; AND HE SHALL PURIFY THE SONS OF lEVI, AND PURGE THEM AS GOLD AND SILVER, THAT THEY MAY OFFER UNTO THE LORD AN OFFERING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS."
I hope this will help you to understand some of why the awful tribulations. same reason of the flood, except this time the devil and all his angels will be in the lake of fire forever and no more evil. The world will be like the garde of Eden was supposed to be for a thousand years and then we will have a new heave and new earth. Praise God, who wouldn't want to live right and make it?
Written by Sunshine.
