AV Bible Believers Fellowship

1. Prepare to die. Throughout the Tribulation period, which is what follows the rapture, nearly four billion people will die according to Revelation. What that means to you is, that if are in it right now, do not plan on making it out.
2. Read the King James Bible. Realize you are a hopeless sinner in need of a Savior, Jesus Christ. Believe He died, was buried, and rose again. Ask Him to forgive you of your sins, and the best way you know how receive Him into your heart. Make the KJB your best friend, there will be plenty of false Christs out there, don't trust anyone or anything but the KJB.
3. Educate yourself a little on what is coming in the next seven years. In the first three and a half years, expect chaos, famine, disease, earthquakes, and plenty of war. Don't be fooled, it won't be nice. Once the three and half year mark hit, things will go from bad to worse. The World Church will be replaced, and now everyone will have to worship what the Bible calls the Antichrist. If you don't worship him and take his mark, you get your head cut off. Also expect strange creatures and supernatural plagues, that is God judging the Earth.
4. Become a fanatic. You know the truth; don't sit on your hands. In Revelation chapter seven, you'll see a lot of people get saved during this time. Get in on it! Share the hope you have of Jesus Christ returning openly while you still can!
5. Liquidate everything. There is no point in owning as much stuff as you have, sell it and prepare to enter survival mode by the middle of the Tribulation period. You'll have to be vigilant, adaptive, and resourceful. Your money will be useless in a few years, so spend it on what you'll need then. It's going to take a lot more than a shotgun and a mattress stuffed full of beef jerky to endure to the end. If you can, get yourself over to the Middle East and find a way to live in a place called Petra.
6. Stay away from organized state religion. There will be a World Church that may offer peace and hope, but it's only there to keep you occupied with a false sense of security. The truth is in the King James Bible, the same place it has always been. Beware of false prophets.
7. Do not take the mark. A new monetary system will be introduced by the world leader, and it will involve taking something on your right hand or your forehead. It has something to do with the number "666", and it is a mark of allegiance to the beast. If you don't take it, they'll torture and kill you; if you do take it, you'll go to Hell. No matter what, do not take it. Fear not him that is able to destroy body, but Him that is able to destroy both body and soul in Hell.
8. Do everything you can to help the Jews. They are God's chosen race, and part of reason for this Tribulation period is to bring them back to God, that is, for them to accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah. They will eventually, in fact, you'll probably hear some amazing stories about a group of 144,000 soul winners and then two other men somewhere around the middle of the Tribulation.
9. Live life every day in anticipation of the Lord's return. Encourage yourself every day in His word, in prayer, and with other believers. Some of the greatest Saints of all time will come out of this period, and if you're fortunate, you may be one of them.
10. Put regret behind you. You live in the most horrific period of time ever known. Jesus said there's never been a time like it before, and there will never be a time like it again. If you manage to survive the first six months you can consider yourself extremely fortunate. You can't do anything about it now, you probably had a chance to get saved before the rapture - and if you didn't consider yourself very fortunate that you can now!

If you are reading this, and the rapture hasn't happened yet, you can do something and should do something about it now. If you don't you may never get another chance again, and your odds in the Tribulation are very slim at best. Read point number 2 of this list, and then read 1st Corinthians 15:1-8, Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, and Romans 10:9-13

http://revelationroadmap.blogspot.com/20...pture.html

You know, most of that is really good advice for right now!

I was challenged on this in another forum. Basically, someone questioned whether or not people who've heard the gospel before can get saved in the Tribulation. In case you've ever wondered about that, this may help you:

II Thess. 1:1-12, "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
[2] That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
[3] Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
[4] Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
[5] Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
[6] And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
[7] For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
[8] And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
[9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
[10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
[11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
[12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."


The context of the passage is clearly Mid-Tribulation, those who reject the gospel in the first half of the Tribulation are sent strong delusion and will worship the Antichrist and take the mark. This is the ONLY passage to support the idea that people who hear the Gospel now will be decieved then. There is no other passage to support the idea, and it is obvious the deception comes in the middle of the Tribulation, not the begining - leaving the door wide open to people accepting Christ in the first half.

Rev. 7:9-14, "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."

People get saved from every nation, kindred, people, and tongue in the Tribulation - so great a number that no man can number them.

I still say if you wait until the Tribulation to get saved, you've waited too long! I'd rather be saved now and miss the Tribulation, thanks!

Great points though, brother!

(06-04-2010 04:22 PM)Laura Wrote: [ -> ]I still say if you wait until the Tribulation to get saved, you've waited too long! I'd rather be saved now and miss the Tribulation, thanks!

Great points though, brother!

Amen Sister.

Rick this is a great thread.

(06-04-2010 04:22 PM)Laura Wrote: [ -> ]I still say if you wait until the Tribulation to get saved, you've waited too long! I'd rather be saved now and miss the Tribulation, thanks!

Great points though, brother!

That's the underlying point of the whole thing! :-)

(06-04-2010 04:38 PM)Rick Schworer Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-04-2010 04:22 PM)Laura Wrote: [ -> ]I still say if you wait until the Tribulation to get saved, you've waited too long! I'd rather be saved now and miss the Tribulation, thanks!

Great points though, brother!

That's the underlying point of the whole thing! :-)

Yup, but not everyone thinks the same way we do, LOL!

(06-08-2010 08:30 PM)100%saved Wrote: [ -> ]Hopefully this post can be read by someone during the Tribulation.

Well yeah, but who will volunteer to stay behind and moderate?

(06-08-2010 08:35 PM)Daniel Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-08-2010 08:30 PM)100%saved Wrote: [ -> ]Hopefully this post can be read by someone during the Tribulation.

Well yeah, but who will volunteer to stay behind and moderate?

I have some good friends that are mid trib and post trib, they'll be there to help them out.

(06-08-2010 08:30 PM)100%saved Wrote: [ -> ]this is good, really good. Hopefully this post can be read by someone during the Tribulation.

I am glad I won't have to deal with that. I will be doing a study on Revelation with my Bible study group here soon, having verses to refer back to in other books of the Bible will be a great help to me too.

I'm no expert or scholar, but I am a student and I did write a book on it, so if you have any questions I'll try to help you out there I can.