Is this the end?

Mar 13, 2022

Passage: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Preacher: Dr. Doug McCart

Category: Hope

Keywords: church, jesus, god, believers, rapture, tribulation, end of the world, souls, sleeping, anti-christ, caught up gods time

Summary

Many people feel like that this is the end of the world. Putin invading Ukraine, North Korea testing ICBM nuclear missiles, Iraq and Iran anti-American and on and on. There are floods, earthquakes, fires and other natural disasters. We have seen pestilences and diseases all around us. So it must be the end. Well, stop worrying, it is not the end of the world. Now we all need to understand that Jesus can come anytime and call his people up to Heaven but that still is not the end, that is just the rapture. There is 7 years from the rapture to the end of the world and so we know for sure we have at least 7 more years.

Detail

What is happening now, while very bad and not good for the world and especially those in Ukraine and Eastern Europe does not mean it is the end of the world.  God has made it very clear how the World will end and He will destroy not human dictators and power hungry greedy politicians.   Also, what has to happen is Jesus stepping out onto a cloud and calling his Church home.  All the dead in Christ will rise and we will meet those that are sleeping in death in the sky as we are raptured up.  We will meet the those that have gone before us as their souls are joined with their bodies and then we will all be with Jesus.   That is the rapture of the church, then the anti-Christ will come and there will be 3.5 years of peace and then the anti-Christ will claim he is God and there will be 3 1/2 years of wars and tribulation.  IT will be a terrible time on the earth and the Jesus will come a 2nd time, unlike when He calls his church home, this time He will leave the clouds and come to Earth to defeat the devil and all the evil.   We have nothing to be afraid of as far as the world being destroyed.  It is not time yet and the wrong people are trying to do it.  

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