Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: alan@syacus.acus.oz.au Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: re: Isaiah 13, Jer 49-51 Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 23:50:55 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 28 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu >Beware - you may be surprised to find yourself gladdened by the war, >because it means that your personal salvation is near. I don't want >to diminish the joy in your heart, but with the return of the Lord >will also come the beginning of the end of the world (or the end of >the end, depending upon how you interpret). This will not be a time >of happiness for those left behind. And yet, there are probably some >who would even want to "help" God along with his plans by encouraging >what they see as the final signs. Darin, I didn't mean to seem too flippant about those people left behind during the tribulation period, but they are without excuse, ie those who have heard the Gospel and rejected it. 2 Thess. 2:10-12 "....because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie: That they should be damned who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." For those who haven't heard the Gospel, they will hear it during the tribulation period. Lots of my relatives and friends who have been told how to be saved and scoffed at it will receive the mark during the Great Tribulation and be destroyed by Christ at his second coming. If it were simply annihilation, I probably wouldn't mind so much, but the Bible says they will suffer eternal punishment in hell. When I think of this, it does sadden me. Alan