BEWARE! DON’T LET ANYONE FOOL YOU, AND LEAD YOU ASTRAY. Mt.24v4. CONTENTS. Page 1. PREFACE. AWAKE! BEWARE! WE ARE IN THE PERILOUS LAST DAYS. Page 2. We must awake and realise the hour that we are living in. Corrie Ten Boom warns us to prepare for the Great Tribulation. INTRODUCTION. “BEWARE! DON’T LET ANYONE FOOL YOU. Mt.24v4. Page 4. 1. BEWARE! FALSE PROPHETS ARE ENTRENCHED IN THE CHURCH TODAY. Page 5. 2. THE ORIGIN OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH. Page 7. 3. WILL THE CHURCH GO THROUGH THE GREAT TRIBULATION? Page 9. Mysteries. Page 12. 4. WHEN WILL THE RESURRECTION OF CHRISTIANS TAKE PLACE? Page 17. N.B. 1. THE FIRST RESURRECTION WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE LAST TRUMPET. 1Cor.15v52. N.B. 2. THE FIRST RESURRECTION WILL OCCUR JUST BEFORE THE SAINTS BEGIN TO REIGN.. N.B. 3. THE FIRST RESURRECTION WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE LAST DAY. John.6v39,40,44,54. 11v24. 12v48. It is the last day of five things. 1. The Mystery of God. 2. The Mystery of Satan. 3. The Times of the Gentiles. 4. The Fullness of the Gentiles. 5. The Age of Grace. N.B. 4. THIS FIRST RESURRECTION IS CERTAINLY NOT A SECRET RESURRECTION. Page 20. 1. It will be accompanied with tremendous noise. 1Thes.4v13-18 Is.27v13. Mt.24v31. Rev.19v6. 11v15. 2. It will be accompanied with tremendous glory and a blaze of light. Mt.24v27. Lk.17v24. Is.24v23. Rev.19v11-16. 3. It will be accompanied by a rocking heaven and earth. There will be great earthquakes. Is.24v18- 20 Joel.2v30-32. Zech.14. all. Mt.24v29. 2Pet.3v10-13. Rev.6v12-17. 11v13,19. 16v18,20,21. A secret rapture? Never! Never! Never! N.B. 5. THERE IS NO PRE-TRIBULATION RESURRECTION OF THE CHURCH. 5. IS IT UNKIND OF GOD TO LET US TO GO THROUGH THE GREAT TRIBULATION? Page 21. 1. It is quite untrue to say that the great tribulation is the wrath of God. N.B. The great tribulation is the result of Satan's wrath, not God's wrath. Rev.12v12. 2. The Scriptures warn us to take the subject of Christ’s Second Coming very seriously. Rev.22v18,19. The claim that the early Church Fathers taught a pre-tribulation resurrection and rapture has no foundation. N.B. The early Church Fathers expected the Church to suffer at the hands of Antichrist. 6. JESUS SOLEMNLY WARNS US ABOUT THE DECEIVERS IN THE LAST DAYS. Page 24. AWAKE AND BEWARE! We are living in the “perilous times” that Paul warned us about in 2Tim.3v1. 7. JESUS WARNS US TO BEWARE OF THE DOCTRINE OF FALSE TEACHERS. Page 26. N.B. The theology of the apostles was poisoned by the leaven of the theology of the Scribes and Pharisees. N.B. In Lk.11v37-54. and Mt.23v13-37. Jesus repeatedly pronounced woes on the Scribes and Pharisees. In Luke.11v37-54. Jesus castigates the Scribes and Pharisees with six devastating “woes.” In Mt.23v13-39. Jesus denounces the Scribes and Pharisees with eight devastating woes.” 8. WE NEED TO OBEY GOD, AND TAKE EARNEST HEED TO THE TRUTH. Page 30. 9. W.F.P. BURTON WARNS AGAINST THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE THEORY. Page 33. 10. A SYNOPSIS OFTHE BOOK OF REVELATION. Page 34. 11. SOME EVENTS IN REVELATION RELATED TO THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH. Page 36. 1. Rev.10. The Angel and the Little Book. The Mystery of God. Page 36. 2. Rev.11. God’s Two witnesses oppose Satan’s Antichrist. The First Resurrection. Page 38. 3. Rev.12. The glorious Woman with full Melchizedek Priestly Ministry. Page 41. 4. Rev.13. Antichrist and the false Prophet. Page 51. 5. Rev.14. The 144,000 Faultless Christians, the Angelic Messengers, the two Harvests. Page 57. 6. Rev.15 and 16. The Seven Vials of God’s wrath. Page 62. 7. Rev.19v1 to 20v3. The Wrath of the Lamb and His Marriage Supper. Page 64. 8. Rev.20v4-10. The Reigning Saints. God Reigns Over all. Page 67. 9. Rev.20v11-15. The Second Resurrection and the Last Judgement. Page 70. 10. Rev.21v1 to 22v21. The Eternal Kingdom of God and the Ages of Ages. Page 73. CHARTS. Page 77. APPENDIX 1. THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN CHURCH HISTORY. Page 78. N.B. 1. The reasons why some Christians do not want to speak with the Holy Spirit’s gift of tongues. Page 84. N.B. 2. The great value and blessing of speaking with the Holy Spirit’s gift of tongues. Page 86. APPENDIX 2. GOD CONTIUALLY DENOUNCES FALSE PROPHETS. Page 91. PREFACE. AWAKE! BEWARE! WE ARE IN THE PERILOUS LAST DAYS. WE MUST AWAKE AND REALISE THE PERILOUS TIME THAT WE ARE LIVING IN! 2Tim.3v1. My aim in this book is to try to turn Christians from the error of believing in and teaching a pre- tribulation secret rapture of the Church, and inspire them to seek and receive the mighty armament of the Holy Spirit that God has provided for His Church in these perilous last days, so that we can be victorious in the dark days that the Bible warns us about. Corrie Ten Boom wrote in the Logos magazine, that those who teach that the Church will escape the great tribulation are the false teachers that Jesus warned us to expect in the latter days. She said that most of these teachers had little knowledge of what is already taking place across the world, for in countries, which she had visited, the saints are already suffering terrible persecution. Corrie states that the Christians in China were told: “Don't worry, before the tribulation comes you will be translated, raptured.” Then there came a terrible persecution; millions of Christians were tortured to death. Later Corrie heard a bishop from China sadly say, “We have failed, we should have made the people strong for persecution, rather than telling them, that Jesus would come first.” Turning to Corrie he said, “You still have time, tell the people how to be strong in times of persecution, how to stand when the tribulation comes; to stand and not faint.” Corrie states, “I feel I have a mandate, a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world, that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation.” End of quote by Corrie Ten Boom. Oswald Smith, in his book, “God's future Program,” sums up the argument against an “any moment” rapture of the Church: “Then when I remembered that the death of Peter, his prediction of corruption and apostasy after his decease, the death of Paul, and many other events had to occur before the rapture, my “any moment” theory took wings and flew.” It is with sadness that I find it necessary to write the following severe doctrinal criticisms of fellow Christians, who believe in the secret pre-tribulation advent and rapture of the Church of Jesus. For many, who believe this false doctrine, have good ministries in other areas of Christian doctrine and practice, and are a real blessing to the body of Christ. We admire the way that many of these preachers proclaim the redeeming blood of Jesus and His wondrous Cross, death and resurrection, which is the essential bedrock of the Christian faith. On many subjects their teaching is excellent, and their love for the body of Christ is beyond dispute, and God does real miracles through some of them. They follow Paul’s example with the Corinthians and preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified, and rely on their message being confirmed by the compelling miracles that are demonstrated by the power of God's Holy Spirit. 1Cor.2v1-5. A message and demonstration of God’s power, which is sadly lacking in the ministries of many preachers today. However, dark and dangerous days are just ahead, and the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine is preparing the Church for deception, destruction and sure defeat at the hands of the Antichrist in the great tribulation, so we must speak out forcefully against this false doctrine, and loudly cry, “Christians beware! Beware indeed!” My criticisms may appear to some to be harsh and even unkind, but they are intended to be positive and constructive, and are aimed to help the readers to a thorough and searching examination of their Scriptural foundations. I pray that this will result in a realisation of the critical hour in which we are living, and a correct interpretation of end time prophecy. I appeal to those who believe in the pre-tribulation rapture of the Church to thoroughly examine their doctrinal foundations in the light of Scripture. Many Christians have come to wrong conclusions about the second coming of Christ because their thoughts have been dominated by intuition, speculation, escapism, and the opinions of their spiritual fathers. Many Christians decide what they will believe before they have properly studied the Scriptures; and read the Scriptures with a closed mind, and with a determination to make them fit their theories. Persecuted Christians in other countries are not helped by an excessive and unwarranted emphasis on an escapist prosperity Gospel theology, that has corrupted affluent Western Christianity. Millions of Christians have been martyred and tortured to death in recent years. In churches under such severe persecution, a self-indulgent escapist theology fails to be appropriate, helpful, realistic, or Scripturally true. A dangerous theological escapism destroys the faith of those who are called upon to suffer for the truth, and the pre-tribulation rapture theory falls into this category.