So when we read, “we are saved from God’s wrath,” it is as if Jesus himself is giving us this promise. And I can only surmise that for those of you who doubt these words, Jesus may have used a modern day phrase to emphasise what he is saying, namely;
“READ MY LIPS…YOU ARE SAVED FROM THE COMING WRATH.”
As we have seen, there are 3 wraths coming in the Apocalypse. God’s wrath, the Lamb’s wrath and the wrath of the Devil. So take your pick. One way or another, we are saved from the coming wrath. Jesus either spoke the truth or he lied. This is plain to read and easy to understand with a cursory reading of Thessalonians.
Some in Thessalonica were teaching that the day of the Lord had already begun. They did this because of the ferocious persecutions against the Christians at that time by the Romans and the Jewish hierarchy. Paul wrote 2 Thessalonians 2 to ally their fears and assure them that the day of the Lord could not come until there first came a “falling away” or departure, and only then could the man of sin be revealed. ( For a fuller explanation of this topic, please see my essay with the unfortunate title, “Apostasy? Apostasy?…We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Apostasy,” at my column at www.raidersnewsnetwork.com).
Having explained to the saints in Thessalonica that the Church would be gathered together and be taken to be with Jesus in heaven, Paul goes on in 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 to tell the brethren:
“But of the times and the seasons brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.”
Why “no need?” Because Paul had just told them in the previous chapter that they would be caught away to meet the Lord in the air.
“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.”
It is the “day of the Lord” or the Apocalypse, which is going to come as a thief in the night. But watch the sudden change of pronouns in the latter verses.
“For when THEY shall say, “peace and safety,” then sudden destruction cometh upon THEM…and THEY shall not escape.”
“But YE brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake YOU as a thief.”
We know what is coming for we have been repeatedly told so in the Church Epistles which are addressed to us. We know what the signs of the coming Apocalypse are because they have been revealed to those of us who have the Spirit of God in us. We are not in darkness because we have the light of Jesus.
But THEY… those who are not born from above and who are in darkness, THEY shall not escape. We, the believers or saved of God, we shall escape because we are rescued from the wrath to come.
Therefore the day of the Lord or the day of Wrath will come upon those who do not believe, like a thief in the night.
Here, our point is distinctly, emphatically and categorically stated, with a precision and explicitness which leaves nothing to be added. Can anything be more clear than the fact that the Church of God is not the subject of the Apocalypse?
Patrick Heron is bestselling author of Apocalypse Soon (Anomolos Publishing www.survivormall.com) and The Nephilim and the Pyramid of the Apocalypse (Kensington www.neph.ie).
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