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What
To Do In Case You Miss The Rapture
MILLIONS DISAPPEAR! FACT OR FICTION?
Written by Peter S. Ruckman
drawings by Peter S. Ruckman
Matthew 24:36
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels
of heaven, but my Father only.
37 "But as the
days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be.
38 "For as in
the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day
that Noe entered into the ark,
39 "And knew not
until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also
the coming of the Son of man be.
40 "Then shall
two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other
left.
41 "Two women
shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and
the other left.
42 "Watch
therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 "But know
this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what
watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would
not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 "Therefore be
ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son
of man cometh."
Some day soon,
the Lord Jesus Christ is going to return and take all the
born-again Christians to heaven. These instructions are
written to the people who are left behind, to tell them what
to do after they have missed the Rapture. We
are
warning you about this now, because we won't be around then.
All of these instructions are found in the Holy Bible, which
is the first thing you're going to need to find out what is
going on.
----1. Don't get
excited.
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If you never
worried about the Rapture before it happened, then it is
absolutely useless to worry about it after it's already
over. If you had wanted to get right with God before the
Rapture, you could have, but you chose to wait. Now your
only chance is to stay on the earth and to endure to the end
of the Tribulation. Matthew 24: 13 says, "But he that
shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." It
is useless for you to bang your head on the wall and scream
and holler.
The Christians
are gone-they are all gone. If you had a little baby, the
little baby is gone. "Sin is not imputed when there is no
law" (Romans 5: 13). Sin is not charged while the child
is still innocent, so you don't have to worry about the
baby. The baby is with Jesus.
---- 2.
Start working
your way to heaven.
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If the Lord
comes and you remain behind, then start working like a
madman to get to heaven, because you're going to have to.
You have entered a period of time called "The Great
Tribulation," and the plan of salvation in the Tribulation
is faith in Jesus Christ plus your own good works.
Revelation 12:11
"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the
word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto
the death."
Revelation 6:9 "
... I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain
for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:"
Revelation 14:12
"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep
the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
Revelation 22:14
"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may
have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the
gates into the city."
Revelation
7:14 "
... These
are they which came out of great tribulation, and have
washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the
Lamb."
You must keep
the Ten Commandments (all of them, Ecclesiastes 12:13),
keep the Golden Rule (l John 3:10), give your money to the
poor, get baptized, take up your cross, hold out to the end
of the Tribulation, wait for Jesus Christ to show up at the
Battle of Armageddon, and be prepared to die for what you
believe. In the Tribulation, you cannot be saved by grace
alone like you could before the Rapture.
Before the
Rapture, you could have been saved by grace through faith
plus nothing (Ephesians 2:8-9), but one minute after the
Rapture took place you must get out the Ten Commandments
and the Golden Rule and start learning them, because you're
going to be judged by them (Matthew 25:31-46). The way to
get to heaven in the Tribulation is to earn it: do right by
God, and do right by your fellow man as well.
Isaiah 1:16
"Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 "Learn to do
well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the
fatherless, plead for the widow."
----3.
Don't take
any mark or any number.----
The Bible says
whoever takes the mark of the beast goes to Hell.
Revelation 14:9
"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud
voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and
receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 "The same
shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured
out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he
shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence
of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 "And the
smoke of their torment ascendeth up for
ever and ever.
and
they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and
his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name."
When somebody
comes around and wants to put any number on your body or
give you a number, especially the number 6-6-6, DO NOT
take it. People have heard so much about the "mark of
the beast" that they think it's a joke that will never
happen. Well, a few decades ago in Germany, every Jew was
required to wear a six pointed star. It would be just as
easy for the government to require every citizen to take a
number and a mark.
In the book of
Revelation a man shows up on this earth called the
Antichrist. His number is 666. He comes from Rome. He has
connections with Moscow, but he comes from Rome (Revelation
17: 18). This fellow will take over the entire world and
become the main political and religious leader. When he
does, he will pass legislation and establish a global
economic system, designed so that you can't buy, sell, or
eat unless you take his mark or the number of his name. Now,
it isn't that you won't have enough money. You will be in a
store buying your groceries, and when you get in line they
will say, "Put your hand in the machine." You put your hand
in the machine, and if that mark shows up in your hand, you
can take the groceries, and if it doesn't, you can't buy
anything no matter how much money you have.
" ... no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name
of the beast, or the number of his name."
Revelation
13: 17
Revelation
13:16 "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and
poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand,
or in their foreheads:
17 "And that no
man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the
name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 "Here is
wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of
the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is
Six hundred threescore and six."
It must be a
terrible thing to be a mother and hear your little baby cry
for milk and be unable to get any milk. It would be a
terrible thing to have your baby crying, "Momma, I'm
hungry," and the fellow at the store saying, "Lady, all you
got to do is get this mark."
They will tell
you to conform. They will point out that even the world
leaders have the mark. Presidents, kings, queens, prime
ministers, governors, mayors, city councilmen, neighbors,
friends, and even relatives have the mark. It's only the
Bible that says it's wrong.
The baby's
sick, and you want medicine: "Do you have the mark?" You
pull into a gas station: "You got the mark?" It doesn't
matter whether or not they have the gas, it matters if you
have the mark .
Don't take a
mark, and don't take a number. You will go to Hell if you
do. The Bible says so; if you don't believe this booklet,
then check it out, read the Bible for yourself.
---- 4. Get
fanatical.
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"...but he that shall endure to the end,
the same shall be saved." Mark 13:13
"Here is the patience of the saints: here
are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of
Jesus." Revelation 14:12
Be a
religious fanatic. Die as a martyr. Be fanatical after
Christ comes, because when Christ catches the Christians off
this earth and takes them up, you are going to be up against
the devil, with his people trying to control you or kill
you.
Revelation
12:11 "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and
by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their
lives unto the death."
It will take
faith in Christ's shed blood, plus works-exactly as in the
Old Testament it took faith in shed blood and works. Notice:
Isaiah 1:16
"Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 "Learn to do
well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the
fatherless, plead for the widow."
Proverbs 28:13
"He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso
confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy."
Psalm 51:1
"Have mercy upon me, 0 God, according to thy lovingkindness:
according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out
my transgressions.
2 "Wash me
throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin."
Revelation
14:12 "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they
that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
13 "And I heard
a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the
dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the
Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their
works do follow them."
If somebody
calls you in and says, "Raise your hand and swear by God
that the Antichrist is King of kings and Lord of lords,"
then keep your hand down and say, "Jesus Christ is the
Lord." Stand up against your friends and against your boss
and against the way your parents raised you. It is too late
to give up a few hours on Sunday for the Lord. In the
Tribulation, you may have to lose your job for the Bible,
lose your money for religious convictions, and lose your
life for the Lord Jesus Christ.
Most people
were indifferent to God, indifferent to the Bible,
indifferent to Christ, and indifferent to the Second Coming.
The only thing that upset most people was what affected
their finances or their egos. But now in the Tribulation,
you have to put first things first. Nobody in the
Tribulation gets to heaven unless he escapes the Antichrist,
or else he faces the Antichrist and refuses to take the mark
of the beast or the number and has his head cut off.
Revelation
20:4 "
... 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."
---- 5.
Support the Jewish people.
"And the woman
fled into the wilderness, where she [Israel] hath a place
prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand
two hundred and threescore days."
Revelation 12:6
When Jesus
returns at the Second Coming, all will face "The Judgment of
Nations":
Matthew 25:31
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the
holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of
his glory:
32 "And before
him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate
them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from
the goats:"
The test for a
Gentile is how he treated Jesus' brethren: the Jews.
Remember Hitler? Well, the Antichrist will be ten times
worse. At first, he will negotiate a peace treaty with the
nation of Israel (Isaiah 28:15), but three and a half years
later he will break the covenant and try to destroy them
(Daniel 9:27; Mark 13:13-25; Matthew 24:4-51). But whatever
you do, don't assist the Holocaust, because the Lord will
judge anyone who stops the Jews from escaping:
Obadiah 14
"Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut
off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou
have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of
distress.
15 "For the day
of the
LORD is
near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be
done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own
head."
Always help the
Jewish people. Go against the government, go against
established religion, be willing even to sacrifice yourself
and your family to save the lives of Jews, because they are
God's people, and He gave them His blessing. He said to
their father Abraham:
Genesis 12:3
"And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed."
Later, God said
to the nation of Israel:
Isaiah 41:11
"Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be
ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they
that strive with thee shall perish."
So no matter
how much pressure you are put under, never hurt a Jew. Your
own soul depends upon it.
What you should
have done was to get saved BEFORE the Rapture. However, the
vast majority of people on this earth missed out on the
Rapture. This is because there has never been a time in
history when the majority were right about spiritual things.
Jesus Christ was the one who said, "BROAD is the way,
that leadeth to destruction, and MANY there be which go in
thereat" (Matthew 7:13). The same Saviour said, "The
love of MANY shall wax cold ... MANY shall be offended ...
MANY false prophets shall rise" (Matthew 24:10-12). The
world does not care to believe these warnings, exactly as it
rejected the warnings in Noah's day of the coming Deluge
which was to destroy all of the civilizations of that time.
For more than 120 years before the Flood, men were warned
about the approaching catastrophe. It came. Christ said,
"AS
IT W AS
IN THE DAYS OF NOE, so shall it be also in the days of THE
SON OF MAN"
(Luke
17:26).
 “For
then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the
beginning of the world to this time, no nor ever shall be.”
Matthew 24:21
“… and there
followed hail and fire mingled with blood…” Revelation 8:7
If you were in
the company of a saved person when the Rapture took place,
you have no doubt about the catastrophe, for you found
yourself standing next to a heap of clothing soaked in blood
(1 Corinthians 15:50). The terrible and tragic truth is
apparent that the believers have gone, and you are left
behind. The prophetic word says that you are now in
"the time of
Jacob's
[Israel's]
trouble"
(Jeremiah 30:7), which Christ called
"great
tribulation"
(Matthew
24:21). This period of
time
will be approximately SEVEN years long and has been referred
to by Biblical scholars as "Daniel's Seventieth Week"
(Daniel 9). If the Rapture has preceded your reading of this
booklet, then you are NOW in this period. This period will
be unparalleled in trouble and horror. Jesus Christ said:
Matthew 24:21
"For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since
the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall
be. "
Now what must
you do? You have to do all the things explained above, and
you must do them quickly and thoroughly if you ever hope to
obtain eternal salvation and be accepted by God. If you want
to know whether or not these instructions are absolute truth
or only someone's opinion, get a Bible as quickly as you can
and read Matthew 24 and 25, Hebrews 6 and 10, and Revelation
13 and 19.
Start now. The
salvation of your soul depends upon it. Act now and
determine that, come what may, you will not take
"the mark of
the beast."
You still have
a chance to be saved, but this time you will have to be
"faithful
unto death."
You may have
anywhere from a month to seven years until the Second
Coming, depending upon when you read these lines. But the
Great Tribulation will end, and it will end with
"the
glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ"
(Titus 2: 13).
May God find you ready in that hour.
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WARNING:
Almost all of the past Christian literature about the
way of salvation is now obsolete. Beware that you are
not deceived:
Matthew
24:11 "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall
deceive many."
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if the Rapture has not taken place as yet,
don’t procrastinate: tomorrow may really be too late.
2 Corinthians
6:2 “…behold, now is the accepted time; be hold, now is the
day of salvation.”
If this sounds
like foolishness to you, consider this verse:
1 Corinthians
2:14 “But the natural [unsaved] man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God: for thet are foolishness unto him:
neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned.”
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