Gospel of Matthew

After the Rapture

After the Rapture, God could easily walk away from all of humanity left on earth. Instead, God gives it yet another chance!

Matthew 24:14 says the gospel will be preached to the whole world during the tribulation period:

This Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Matthew 24:14

The eyes of the Jewish people will be opened. God’s chosen people will experience a massive revival in Israel. Revelation 7 says that 144,000 Jews, 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel, will preach the Gospel of Jesus!

When Will the Rapture Happen?

The Bible tells us that every true believer will literally be caught up to be with the Lord. Some people say the rapture is not going to happen until midway through the tribulation period. Others say the rapture will not happen until the end of the tribulation.

The church, the body of believers, is talked about through the Scripture 77 times between Matthew and the end of revelation 3 where Jesus talks about the seven churches. You don’t hear the church mentioned again until the last chapter of Revelation. And when you go Revelation 4 & 5, there’s the gathering and we’re all worshiping the Lord. That happens before the tribulation period begins. All throughout history when God has judged the world, He always removes his people first.

In the same way God is going to remove his sons and his daughters first and then the apocalypse will begin.

Wars and Rumors of Wars

In Matthew 24:6-8, while foretelling what events will take place in the last days, Jesus says, “You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.”

With all that’s going on in the world today, it’s easy to understand that we are indeed in the last days. And Jesus said that’s just the beginning! That can lead people to have an anxious heart or an overwhelmed soul. But in the midst of all the insanity, the believer in Christ can have His peace.

We know the God who holds tomorrow in the midst of His hand. Jesus has given us His peace (John 14:27). Have you taken hold of it? Have you allowed the peace of God to inhabit your heart and mind? Having a relationship with God doesn’t always mean that we take all of what God has made available to us, which He gives to all His sons and daughters.

God’s peace can calm our hearts and minds! When you seek the Lord in prayer and in His Word, He reveals himself to us. As we understand Him more and more, we become like Him. We gain a tranquility that fills our whole being, and we become that example that He can use to bring more people to know Him.

The New World Religion Is Already Here

The New god

Man now looks to himself and his belief system over what God tells us in His Word. Man says we are good, we have our own values, we can solve our own problems. We don’t need God, we can do it all ourselves. Man worships himself. He has made himself into god.

When the Wise Become Fools

This new world religion of humanism has made mankind morally and spiritually bankrupt. A broken people led astray from the truth. As a result, America has excommunicated God from government, removing the ten commandments from the walls of all schools, courtrooms, and civic & governmental buildings.

The Bible warns us in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 when it says, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.”

How To Find the Truth?

For this reason, we’re called to test, or critically examine, what we hear. But what do we examine it against? Our own feelings and emotions? No. Because if you have given in to your own lust and someone tells you it’s okay, you will accept it. And stay in that sin.

We have to examine it against what God has said in His Word. It doesn’t matter what we think or how we feel, or even how much we agree with it. We are all going to stand before God one day, and we will be judged for everything we have ever done. And His judgement will be based on His Word.

This Is the Way

This is why Jesus came and died on the cross. He bore on His own body the punishment of sin that ALL of us should have to bear. He sacrificed Himself so that we can all be forgiven and cleansed for every evil deed we have done.

What Jesus Told Us – Matthew 24:5

For many will come in My name, saying, “I am the Christ,” and will mislead many.

Matthew 24:5

In the Olivet discourse, Jesus stresses the importance of not allowing anyone to mislead you. In fact, this is the only thing that Jesus repeats four times the entire sermon (in verses 4, 5, 11, and 24). The word ‘mislead’ means to deceive, and deception has proven to be a crippling blow to humanity.

It all started when Jesus pronounced in Matthew 16 that He would build the Church on the Rock (Himself) and the gates of hell would not overpower it. And satan certainly cannot overpower the True Church that puts its faith and trust in Jesus. But if satan can’t beat the church, he did the next best thing. He joined it.

There are so many different faiths and religions from Catholics to Baptists, from Islam to Buddhists. Satan joined the Church and for those who choose not to read the Bible, the truth of God’s Word, they will get lost in the web of religion!