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LEFT BEHIND: CAN YOU STILL BE SAVED? (Seven Things To Remember!!)

THE SADDEST DAY IN HUMAN HISTORY WILL BE THE DAY FOLLOWING THE RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS OF GOD! Once it sinks into the minds of a multiplied number of “Left Behind” individuals that Jesus has literally come to get the prepared saints and gone back to Heaven, it will be a traumatic moment of heartbreak and regrets. Some will commit suicide; some will go and kill preachers that did not preach the truth, while many will fall on their faces in sad and soul-searching repentance.

The idea of an Antichrist and the number 666 is understood by millions of people. Most ot these do not live a surrendered life to Jesus Christ. Many people are religious, but show no evidence of being truly “born again.” Even among the religious of our day, the “fear of God” is almost totally absent. There is a kind of religious facade that has come to characterize this present generation. Preaching the words of God, like Billy Sunday and D. L. Moody, etc., is utterly rejected by the church world. Many people literally hate old-fashioned ministers.

Suddenly, without warning, the Lord will descend into the clouds and the harvest of the earth will occur in a split second. The dead will rise and the saints that are still alive will be caught up with the resurrected and ascend to meet Him in the air. It will be over in less time than the benediction on Sunday morning. As the truth sinks in, the empty open graves are reported, and the missing ones are identified; an unexplainable fear will grip the hearts of millions. It will not be ordinary fear, but a kind of paralyzing fear that leaves the mind frozen in regrets. Many people who knew all about this event, but made no preparation, will be overtaken with insanity.

Preachers that bought into the liberal versions of Scripture or that did not preach the straightforward Gospel of the transformed life and holiness will be some of the saddest lost souls. Not only are they left, but also, many others are now left because of their compromise. The responsibility of misleading souls will drive some of these ministers to total despair. Liberal professors in church-related colleges and universities will be at the top of the hate list.

But No Escape! The most overwhelming of emotions that will slowly come to grip the “Left Behind” will be the hopelessness of their state. It is impossible to fully explain the kind of world that the “Left Behind” will suddenly discover. We can usually find a light at the end of our tunnels, but the world of that day will offer no such hope. No one who has any understanding of Bible prophesy will have any doubt that it is going to be hell on earth. It will never get any better from the moment the Rapture occurs until the Antichrist is defeated at the end of this future period. Satan will make his best effort to turn God’s creation into a wilderness beyond recovery. Only mercy can save the world from total destruction. The “Left Behind” crowd will find themselves in a world totally different from anything they ever dreamed possible. Let’s try to imagine some of the possible effects of the Rapture of the Saints.

1. The Church Will Be Gone! Nothing will be so overwhelming as the fact that the church will be gone. Whatever is left of church related activities or ministries will be out of business. Just like the Jewish Temple was “out of business” when the veil was rent and Jesus had died on the cross, so the New Testament church will be “out of business” when the church age ends at the Rapture. Whatever activity left in churches will be the false church that will promote the new false messiah or Antichrist. There will be no church revival or anointed evangelist. Religious television will be even more
deceiving than at this present time because all restraints will be lifted and utter deception will have a free reign.

2. The Tribulation Church will be a “One World Church” that is already developing between the Catholics, hyper-Charismatics, liberal Protestants, and the pagans of the world. They will produce a religious excitement and fanfare so overwhelming that the whole earth will worship Satan actually believing that he is God. The Antichrist and the false anointing will be so spectacular that miracles, signs, and wonders will flood mankind. It will be paranormal activity that looks so real that only Bible lovers can discern the difference. Anyone who experiences the Blood-cleansing of Jesus Christ and becomes a testimony for Biblical truth will immediately be subject to being martyred for his/her faith.

Those that refuse the One Word Church will be an enemy of the government and every principle the New World Order loves. The hatred for the multitude that will be converted after they realize they have been “Left Behind” will cause the false church and the unholy trinity to go mad with anger. Nebuchadnezzar’s fiery furnace will be light stuff compared to the evil designs used to martyr the young saints almost as quick as they are converted. The Bible gives a breathtaking picture of those quickly killed following the very beginning of the “Great Tribulation.”

Listen to the results of the fifth seal of Revelation six, “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.” (Revelation 6:9-11). Remember, every true saint of God was raptured at the beginning of chapter four. Those saints are around the throne of God in Heaven; therefore, all of these new saints have been washed in the blood during the early days after the Rapture. They “were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.” There will be no wimpy believers in the hotbed of evil during this period. It is all or nothing. Their deaths will be so vicious and evil that even “saints” will call on God to satisfy the injustice manifest against them.

These saints do not yet have their glorified bodies, but are awaiting their special resurrection and their crowns of martyrdom. The Lord’s word is “until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.” In other words it had just begun, it was still at the early days of the seven years and many more martyrs were to follow. Anybody who misses the Rapture and decides to surrender to Christ must be prepared to die the kind of horrendous death reserved for the darkest period of wrath and tribulation ever experienced.

3. The Restrainer Is God! The Spirit-filled life will not exist during the seven years of Great Tribulation. The Holy Ghost, as the “Believer’s Baptism,” will have ended that office and period of church history. This office of the Holy Ghost was to birth the church and prepare a Bride for the Bridegroom. While the Holy Spirit is omnipresent and in that sense is present in the world, His central focus during this seven years is to
present the Bride to Christ at the Wedding Supper in Heaven. John sees the Holy Spirit before the Throne as the “Seven Lamps Of Fire”. His life giving presence will still be universal and at least open the hearts of repentant sinners to be washed in the Blood.

The absence of the Holy Ghost as the Restrainer will unleash evil to a level never known by mankind. From creation to this dark period, the Holy Ghost has always restrained the devil and his legion of spirits. Satan’s ability to act unchecked and to exert his dark will on the earth will make for an environment so vile that no man can save another, even those of his own household. Listen as the Holy Ghost actually warned of this day in plain words to Ezekiel the prophet. “The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.” (Ezekiel 14:12-14). Hell is now almost ready to visit planet earth in its darkest acts of vileness known to humankind.

4. Those to be saved must be fully prepared to give their life. While much of the world will be under Satan’s delusion, any person that understands his lies will know the truth of what is happening. There will be a multitude that know they have missed the world’s greatest hope, to be part of Christ’s Bride, and they will see the devil for who he is: a liar, a deceiver, and an imposter of the true God. This multitude will also quickly understand that to own Jesus Christ as Lord is to incur the absolute vengeance of Lucifer. There will be no middle ground. The gray areas will have totally vanished.
It is Jesus Christ or Antichrist. It is God the Father or god the imposter. Suddenly, the will to die for Him (Jesus Christ) will become the only hope of the honest hearts that have escaped the deceiver.

The ones “Left Behind” now begin to wash themselves in the Blood of Jesus Christ. John describes the love of God that will be manifest in the very jaws of Satan’s fury. “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 12:11). Three things are clearly described. They are washed in the Blood of the Lamb, they are bold before the fury of the devil, and they love not their life even unto death. Nothing is so bold as a faith that is manifest when men see the devil for what he really represents. Our present society has lost the Biblical vision of how sadistic and sinister Satan and all of his horde can be. When the “Left Behind” sees the true picture, somehow the best of human action will be on display.

5. This “Left Behind” multitude will fall in love with the Word of God. John indeed calls it a “multitude.” “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.” (Revelation 7:9). When John saw this crowd, he was perplexed and one of the elders asked him, “What are these . . . whence came they?” (Revelation 7:13). Apostle John was wise and said to the elder saint, “Sir, thou knowest.” The elder answered his own question, ” And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” (Revelation 7:14-17).

Their love for truth, developed in the heat of the Great Tribulation, will earn them a place “in His temple” and the Lamb Himself will dwell in the midst of them to provide them Heavenly fulfillment.They are not called Elders as the saints that are His Bride; they have no thrones or crowns of the bridal position. These will probably be guests of the Bride at the Marriage Supper. Surely, they will wear crowns of martyrdom. It appears that they are the third order of the “First Resurrection,” which are “Caught Up” near the middle of the Seven Year Tribulation.

6. The Blood of the Lamb! The one factor that unites every victory over Satan and the wickedness on the earth is the “Blood of the Lamb.” Jesus Christ is identified from Revelation chapter four to the very end of this prophetic period (chapter 22) as the Lamb of God.” Twenty-six times in that period He is called the “Lamb of God.” These Tribulation Saints are never called elders; they are not a part of the church for there is no longer a true church. They are not identified in any action that suggest a church. No baptism in water, no opportunity to serve the Lord’s Supper, or any other great acts of His church before the Rapture. Individually, they have surrendered to the Word of God and washed themselves in the Blood of the Lamb.

There will be a fresh understanding of the power of the Blood that these Tribulation Saints will discover. The Bible emphasizes this because our generation has mostly forgotten the incredible power of faith in His shed blood. It’s faith in faith today or some strange kind of impartation that the false prophets have promoted. In the heat of the Great Tribulation, faith will return to its pure form and men will seek for simplicity of truth, not some titillation of flesh. These saints are certainly a robust multitude and must be reasoned in our understanding of redemption.

7. Left Behind: Can You Be Saved? Nobody in his/her right mind will dare take this article as an encouragement to wait for salvation after the Rapture. In fact, if you are unsaved or unprepared for His glorious appearing to Rapture the Saints and
you ignore this warning, that in itself is very dangerous. There is a multitude of disobedient people that have rejected the truth. They have loved the world more than the Word of God and the Bible warned of a false delusion to follow such action. The Holy Ghost gave us plain words. “And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; 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 all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (II Thessalonians 2:10-12). Please do not take this warning lightly. Only God knows when a man/woman passes this point of “no return.”

There will be a multitude of religious people in the Seven Years of Great Tribulation that are worshippers of the Antichrist, deceived to believe that he is the true christ. They will be damned forever. To be a part of this deceived crowd is to be the greatest of foolish souls.

Conclusion! There is a “lawlessness” that prevades the very atmosphere. Never has it been easier to put off serving the Lord or to reject Him outright. Jesus said, “And because iniquity (lawlessness) shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” (Matthew 24:12). There appears to be such a resistance in the world against anything that is narrow or straight-laced. Everything is broad and most people now believe that even Christianity has no sharp standards of right and wrong.

All of this is an evil delusion that Satan is masterminding. It is the last days and the way seems so broad and wide. It is hard to find people that will admit they are lost. Do not be fooled. Jesus gave a breathtaking warning as recorded in the Book of Luke. The Son of God stated,“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting (gluttoning on the world), and drunkenness (not just alcohol, but any state of undisciplined living), and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” (Luke 21:34-36).


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15 thoughts on “LEFT BEHIND: CAN YOU STILL BE SAVED? (Seven Things To Remember!!)”

  1. Bob Elliott

    Well preached and right on the mark. We must all sound our trumpets and wake up this sleeping Church for the time is at hand. God bless you brother Chambers and all your house.

  2. Steve Helmer

    A recent survey conducted by the Barna Group, a leading research organization whose focus is on the relationship of faith and culture, found that less than one percent of the young adult population in the United States has a biblical worldview. Even more startling, the data found that less than one-half of one percent of Christians between the ages of 18 and 23 has a biblical worldview.

    The Barna Group defined those as having a biblical worldview if they believed:
    • that absolute moral truth exists,
    • that the Bible is completely inerrant,
    • that Satan is a real being, not symbolic,
    • that a person cannot earn their way into the kingdom of God though good works,
    • that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth, and
    • that God is the supreme Creator of the heavens and the earth and reigns over the whole universe today.

    Another study by the Fuller Seminary determined that the most important factor in whether young people leave the church or remain steadfast in their faith was whether they have a safe haven to express their doubts and concerns regarding the Scriptures and their faith before leaving home. What is critical is that our youth have adults to provide them direction and guidance regarding the apprehensions they may have about their faith. Such a refuge is found in two places: in their parents and in their church youth ministry programs.

    However, it also found that most church youth programs tended to focus their energies on providing entertainment and pizza rather focusing on building up the young people in their faith. As a result, our teens are ill-equipped to face the challenges they will encounter in the world upon leaving home.

    Additionally, two studies conducted by both the Barna Group and USA Today, found that nearly 75% of Christian young people leave the church after high school. One of the key reasons they do so is intellectual skepticism. This is a result of our youth not being taught the Bible in their homes or in church. Statistics show that our kids today spend an average of 30 hours per week in public schools where they are being taught ideas that are diametrically opposed to biblical truths e.g., evolution, and the acceptance of homosexuality, etc. Then they come home to another 30 hours per week in front of a TV being bombarded by lewd commercials and raunchy sitcoms, or “connecting” with friends on Facebook staying online for hours, chatting with one another, or playing games. Whereas the time spent weekly in the church Bible classroom is 45 minutes. It’s no wonder that our young people leave the home without a Christian worldview. Not only are they not being well-grounded in the faith, but they’re also not being taught to intelligently examine the views of the skeptics who will inevitably challenge their faith. Most of these students are not prepared to enter the college classroom where more than half of all college professors view Christians with hostility and take every opportunity to belittle them and their faith.
    Your message Brother Chambers couldn’t be of more value then it is right now
    Blessing your Brother in christ
    Steve

  3. DR BLOOMQUIST

    The Christian saints yet alive at the Last-Trumpet Final Judgment, when heaven and earth dissolve
    with fervent heat as both pass away with a loud noise (which event will ONLY occur
    ONCE at the END of the Millennial Rule of Jesus Christ 1000 years AFTER Christ BODILY returns at
    Armageddon after the 42-months of great tribulation) will be “raptured” (or caught
    up to heaven and acquire glorified bodies) ONLY at THAT time….NOT at Christ’s
    Armageddon return to slay the Beast and False Prophet after that demonic duo impose the 42-month
    great tribulation.

    Thus, there will be ABSOLUTELY NO living saints caught up to the descending Christ
    at his Armageddon return (at THAT time NOR at ANY time previous to the 42-month great tribulation).

    Pre-Tribulation rapturists have given and continue to give an anti-persecution and cowardly-fearful WRONG impression as to the timing of THE ONE and ONLY Rapture of living saints (which ONE Rapture, again, occurs ONLY ONCE at the END of the 1000 Reign of Christ on Earth).

  4. James Lishman

    Amen Brother Joseph – preach the word in it’s full glory so that the hearts that have grown cold may ignite first in fear and then as they repent and turn to JESUS may the hearts burn with a zeal to touch those around them that others may see the healing power of the LORD while it is still free! Amazing Love and Unending Grace
    Maranatha HE COMES

  5. Fran Vincent

    Yes you can get saved after the rapture! Because there will be the 144,000. jews tht will preach the gosopel to others. Revelation 14:6 tells of an angel flying in midair and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth(To get people saved.)To every nation tribe language and people. He said in a loud voice “Fear God and give Him glaory because the hour of His wrath has come. Woship Him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.
    Then in Revelation 14:12> This calls for patient endurances on the part of the saints(Saved people after the rapture.)who obey God’s commandments and remain faithful to Jesus. 13> Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes says the Spirit they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.

  6. Barbara Bliss

    Brother Chambers, how I thank you for this article/essay. It says everything that I want to be sure is imparted to my loved ones. I will print this out to hand out to others.

    You’ve really nailed the problem: our schools and many homes have abandoned God. His name cannot even be uttered in most daily activities where, at one time, we began and ended with prayer and supplication to the Lord. God bless those ministers and parents, organizations and schools where they still honor His Word and are not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.

    God bless you.
    B Bliss

  7. David Baucom

    Very, very, true. I have come to understand that we are rapidly closing in on those last days. I have learned just about all I know about the true word of GOD from Bro Chambers. I have moved away and am no longer able to attend paw creek, but I to this day still refer to Bro Joe, am my pastor, no disrespect to mine now but he understands that Joe help lead me from a cliffs edge to now have an understanding of theology, that he respects. I am with Bro Chambers the time is here all the signs show it, the”arab spring” no end in sight to the afgahn war, and now China is talking a trade war. The sun is starting to set make sure it is not what you believe but what you know, I know JESUS is the way, the pure blood, and only by his grace. Make sure everday you know the same.

  8. Mark Steiner

    The saints indentified at the 5th Seal who cry out for vengeance must also include those who were murdered by abortion in this age. Since 1973 some 50’s millions of little once were aborted, thanks to Roe v. Wade. The number is much higher in China and elsewhere. Their lives were taken in a similar unrighteous manner, so they should also receive white robes.

  9. Bill Andrews

    Great article Pastor Chambers ! And, right when we are on the threshold of all this taking place.
    Again, thanks Pastor ! And Dr. Bloomquist, please do us a favor and buy a real Bible. Its seems you’ve been reading another book instead. Not the Bible I read everyday.

  10. Ed Wood

    Excellent analysis, Pastor Joseph.

    I’d say you got every detail exactly right. To get an idea of how hard it will be to accept Jesus post-Rapture, just look at how rebellious humanity is right now.
    It will be far, far worse once the “rstrainer”(the Holy Spirit) is gone. Most nominal Christians won’t make a stand for Jesus now, becuase if they had they would NEVER have allowed the Supreme Court to kick God out of our public schools in June 1963, or Wade vr.s Roe to legalize infanticide in 1974 or permit their church leaders to give a pass on homosexual behavior and just about every other heresy one can imagine.

    To be a Christian in the Tribulation time, these people will need courage and commitment – something in pretty short supply these days.

  11. Sandra

    DR BLOOMQUIST obviously doesn’t understand his bible. The one key scripture the a pretrib rapture is the one regarding the removal of the restrainer(holy spirit) from the earth. You CAN NOT do that unless you take the church. There is also Paul’s preaching on the great promise. The bible doesn’t go into detail on the rapture of the still mortal now 1,000 + year old saints that will need to be removed for God to destroy the old Earth and remake a new earth, where the New Jerusalum will be sat down. However, that is the only conclusion we can make. They will be remove at the end of the millenium. The bible is so true and obvious in scripture and what happens, and people like Dr. Bloomquist either are not a true born again Christian, or have not really read and understood their bible. Of course believing in a rapture as pre-trib is not basis for salvation, so if Dr. B is saved, he will get a very nice surprise someday. As to Mark’s view of aborted babies being the ones under the throan for martyr, that can not be true. Martyrs are killed or persecuted for their faith in God. If your view was correct, then any Christian wrongfully killed, as in car accident by drunk driver, shot on the street, beat and killed by spouse, etc. would be a martyr and that just ins’t true. As far Roe vs Wade. It needs to stand. Try telling a woman who was raped and got pregnant that she should be forced to carry a monster’s baby to term. Or a woman who is in grave danger of losing her life if she carries a child. Unplanned pregnancies happen. This world is unjust and will remain so until Christ’s return. Sometimes things just do not get handled and made right in this world. That is why there is mercy.

  12. RobiMac

    I agree this will be a sad day but, not the saddest. The extremely sad day will be the day of our departure from this rock when nonbelievers will be pouring into hell by the millions because they were killed by unmanned machines of every type. This is one of the reasons to pray for everyone to seek Jesus because there is no way of knowing who will die from a driver-less car or a pilot-less plane.

  13. Ed Wood

    Note to Sandra.

    Regarding Roe v. Wade, the problem here is that this has led to abortion being primarily used as a form of birth control. Children who were conceived because their biological parents did not exercise restraint can be killed because bringing them into the world is an “inconvenience.” Why not rather have them born and given up for adoption? Of course this means the woman might be “inconvenienced” by having to go full-term, but there are always consequences for unwise behavior. Why must he unborn child who had no choice be forced to bear those consequences?

    In the case of rape you mentioned, as a man I cannot possibly understand the trauma a woman must suffer who has been so violated. Yet I do think it is important to remember that the “monster” was the rapist, not the child that was conceived due to his assault.

    In the case where carrying a child full term would certainly doom both mother and infant, I would say it is better to save one life, the mother’s, than that both should die.

    We live in a broken world, Sandra, and there are sometimes no easy answers. Sometimes all we can choose is an answer less bad than another.

    I’m glad you brought this topic up and perhaps Pastor Joseph can do a presentation on this because I am the first to admit I don’t have all the answers.

    God bless!