Will christians go through?

Question

the tribulation.Will we have to pick up our own cross so to speak.Some preachers say yes and some say no.Which is it.

Answer 1

The way I read Revelations, and I have done sermons on this, the 'rapture' will not occur until half way through the tribulation period, which is where the Bible is always talking about 42 months, or 3.5 years. So, there will be a build up of destruction leading up to Christ's return, then He will pull out His people and there will be another 3.5 year downhill slide straight into Armageddon. At that time, the raptured folk will return with Christ again, this time as an occupation army to wipe clean the field of battle and set up the Kingdom. Instead of comparing preachers, go to the book of Revelations for yourself. Read it slowly and have a notebook ready to take notes on the order of events as they are written out. Such a deep, directed study will tell you more than any preacher ever will.  

Answer 2

We are already in the tribulation. The reason some say no is because they are premillenialists. They believe the book of Revelation is not yet fulfilled. But I have done a lot of study in the book of Revelation, and the church believed for nearly 1800 years that it was already in the tribulation, and that when the Lord comes back, the party's over. No anti-christ, no beast, no big war of armaggedon between China and Russia and Israel. The church was amillenial, up into the 1800's. They believed that most of Revelation was fulfilled, and that Rome was the beast spoken of in Revelation, that the tribulation is basically the persecution of the church. Just because we are not experiencing great persecution in America- try telling the Christians in Sudan or China or Islamic nations that there is no tribulation. These people are dying by the thousands for their faith, because they are hated by Muslims and Communists. They suffer unimaginably. We are lucky to be in a country where the tribulation is limited to fussing with atheists on R & S, and being ridiculed by the Hollywood movie producers and liberals.  

Answer 3

It depends on whether you are pre-trib or post-trib. There are good arguments to both. No one knows, and not all Christians believe there will be a tribulation at all. Research and find out what you believe.

Answer 4

there are those who teach that Christians will be raptured before the tribulation starts.

and there are those who teach that Christians will be going through the tribulation.

each view has scriptural foundation. though some on both sides say that the other side doesnt have the correct interpretation of scripture. and some say that the other side has no foundation at all.

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the truth is that yes. there will be Christians going through the tribulation.

one reason is because during the tribulation there will be those who will be saved.

another reason could be.. i say, could be .. that some Christians arent looking for the eminent return of Jesus for the church.

and only those who are ready will be raptured at a time when others think not that he would come.

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Answer 5

depends who you talk to. i have heard both ways.most believe in pre-trib. the real question is the rapture and the second coming of christ, are they one event or different.if you believe there the same then your probally post- trib.

Answer 6

I am 100% positive that believers will not go through the tribulation.  Believers will be raptured before it.

I am 100% positive of that based upon Bible study and prayer.  

Answer 7

Some things just aren't well spelled out in our study of last things. Theologians do differ greatly on these matters, so please don't think you will receive a definitive here. The majority report of the Christian church has  been, since the Fourth Century, that Christ will return unexpectedly and that's that. It's called the amillennial view. Catholics, Lutherans and many other protestants are in this camp (or were before liberal theology took center stage and pushed eschatology out altogether),

Most evangelicals seem to be in the "Left Behind" camp which is a fairly modern interpretation of last things.

For me, the matter is entirely irrelevant. Christians have endured great periods of Tribulation since the beginning, and the 20th Century was the worst of all world-wide -- at least as far as numbers killed for their faith. Check out Voice of the Martyrs for a good look at what's going on today.

No one in his right mind would want to go through tribulation, but I suspect there are those who have a little bit of a martyr complex and desire to see such a time. This might drive some of the mid-trib thinking. If a tribulation is coming and the Left Behind folk have it right, I certainly hope for a pre-trib rapture.

But I'm not counting on it in my current understanding. As C.S. Lewis says, "When the author comes onto the stage, the play is over."

Come Lord Jesus!

Edit to Strenph of Air A... Christians who have sinned? That's a pretty high percentage isn't it?

Answer 8

We will definitely be here when it happens....yes..

..According to Scripture...The 'rapture ' of the Church occurs simultaneously with Christ's second Coming in glory and the resurrection of the dead.............All occur together,(see  I Thess. 4:15-17); ..."AFTER the Tribulation of those days"(Matt. 24:29-31)

"...At the LAST trumpet"... I Corin. 15:52

Don't be deceived by the fictional  "Left Behind" series....which is based on a common misconception that claims the 'rapture' occurs years before Christ's Return.  This is not found in Scripture.

Answer 9

I think that the example pointing to the church (or at least the part of it that believe), not going through the Great Tribulation is shown in the story about Moses striking the rock twice. God punished Moses for that. He was only supposed to strike it once, and that rock was Christ (or one of the types of Christ).

The Church is the body of Christ, it is said. And God would only spend His wrath on the body of Christ once. That was done on the cross.

Picking up one's cross is the life a Christian lives for God. As far as I know, it doesn't have to do with the Great Tribulation unless you are in the Great Tribulation.