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                         The Rapture and the Resurrection of the dead   
                         come after the great tribulation   
      
   Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be   
   changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for   
   the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and   
   we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and   
   this mortal must put on immortality. 1 Cor. 15:35-53. At the resurrection   
   we get heavenly bodies.   
      
   For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive   
   and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are   
   asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with   
   the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in   
   Christ   
   shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up   
   together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall   
   we   
   ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.   
   1 Thess. 4:15-18.   
      
   Here we see that the Assembly of God comes to arise when Jesus comes.   
   This is the first resurrection, as we also can read about in Rev. 20:4-6.   
   And   
   I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them:   
   and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and   
   for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his   
   image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their   
   hands;   
   and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the   
   dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the   
   first   
   resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first   
   resurrection:   
   on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and   
   of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.   
      
   Some mean that Jesus shall take the Assembly to heaven before the great   
   tribulation, before the Antichrist appears. But this is the first   
   resurrection.   
   And those who have suffered through the regime of the Antichrist and   
   refused to take the mark of the beast, they have part in the first   
   resurrection.   
   They belong to the Assembly of God. We see here that at the first   
   resurrection   
   the great tribulation has taken an end. Then Jesus comes and delivers us   
   from the wrath to come. 1 Thess. 1:10.   
      
   In Matt. 24:29-31 says Jesus: "Immediately after the tribulation of those   
   days   
   shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the   
   stars   
   shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And   
   then   
   shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the   
   tribes   
   of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds   
   of   
   heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great   
   sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four   
   winds,   
   from one end of heaven to the other." (This shows that the dead do not lie   
   unconscious in their graves. Paul says in 2 Cor. 5:8 and in Phil. 1:21-24   
   that   
   the death is for a Christian the same as to be with Christ).   
      
   They have preached that the great tribulation will begin when the Antichrist   
   appears, and that it will last for seven years. But it began already on the   
   days   
   of the apostles and it has been going on since then. Both the Jews and the   
   Assembly of God have suffered through a dreadful hardship. It is a well-   
   known historical fact. Satan and his churches have persecuted, tortured and   
   murdered many millions of Christians. And yet still more people have the   
   churches deluded to hell through the false doctrines of the Church. Can a   
   tribulation become worse?   
      
   In Luke 21:20-27 we see that the great tribulation began already when   
   Jerusalem was surrounded with armies and was destroyed. In verse 23   
   Jesus says, "But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give   
   suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and   
   wrath   
   upon this people." In Matt. 24:21 he also speaks about this. "For then   
   shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world   
   to this time, no, nor ever shall be."   
      
   For Israel's people the great tribulation began when Jerusalem was destroyed   
   by the Romans, the year 70, and the people became forced away from their   
   country. But for the Assembly of God the great tribulation began yet   
   earlier.   
   The persecution against the Christians, which we can read about in New   
   Testament, was the beginning to the assembly's hardship.   
      
   Nevertheless, there are many Christians that never experience persecution   
   or anything of menaces. They have gone on meetings for many years and   
   feel safety. They have so calmly and pleasant in their church, is it   
   anything   
   wrong with that? Yeah, the fault is that they are spiritually sleeping, and   
   they do not know where they are in spiritual meaning. If they do not wake   
   up from their apati it is big risk that they will soon awake in hell.   
      
   The devil does not start a persecution unnecessarily. He sees rather that   
   the   
   Christians fall in sleep, then he has least inconveniences of them. He lets   
   them have their pleasant meetings and fellowship with song and music.   
   They do not struggle for the truths of the Bible and do not show any care   
   about the Assembly of God. Instead they have ecumenical meetings where   
   they try to modify together their different denominations and churches and   
   are speaking about unity and fellowship.   
      
   Their memberships in church or the denomination are no evidence for that   
   they have a correct condition before God. And their membership cards are no   
   free tickets to heaven. One can wonder, have they given any membership   
   card to Jesus? Have they forgotten him? Certainly, He does not want to have   
   any membership card. Certainly, Jesus does not want to be a member in any   
   denomination or a church, which are founded and built up on an incorrect   
   doctrine about the Assembly of God. And where Jesus is not a member I   
   neither want to be a member.   
      
   Many believe that Jesus Christ is the head for the Church. This is a church   
   lie. Jesus is not even a member in any church. The head for the Church is   
   the pope, the black pope and the devil. The biblical name of the Church is   
   the great harlot, and the great Babylon. The great Babylon is not only the   
   Catholic Church, but also all other churches, religious sects, freemasons   
   and all false religions. It will be a mutual religion for the whole world.   
   All   
   people on the earth will worship the devil, the beast (Antichrist) and the   
   beast image. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the   
   beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast?   
   who is able to make war with him?   
      
   And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not   
      
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