“Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”
–Acts 14:23
Whether the notion has made an impression on the reader or not, it is the BELIEVER who will suffer from the period of TRIBULATION written in God’s Word.
ALL believers will face TRIBULATION.
“Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”
–Acts 14:22So, TRIBULATION is a necessary hard time believers must deal with during the last days.
Once, websites which addressed God’s Word, taught that ‘tribulation’ came from the Hebrew word which meant ‘a narrow or constricting place.’ ‘Tribulation’ therefore carried the meaning of ‘no escape’ OR ‘no way out of this.’
TRIBULATION was NOT necessarily PHYSICAL PERSECUTION–TRIBULATION was PRIMARILY the mental anguish of knowing one was in a circumstance of no escape. BUT believers were taught that God and Jesus Christ would help them deal with TRIBULATION.
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One woman was convinced that ‘tribulation’ meant she was going to get her head cut off. NOW, the woman may lose her head, but it is not due to ‘tribulation.’
TRIBULATION is that feeling that one gets when one KNOWS there is ‘no escape’ from coming difficulties.
TRIBULATION is that feeling that bad times are coming and there is nothing the believer can do to avoid them.
Along with the believer’s promise FROM GOD that there the believer will be given a peace ‘which passeth all understanding,’ there is the uneasiness of the believer–which makes an appearance from time to time (who KNOWS that the gathering storm is coming)–much of it caused by TRIBULATION.
“And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
–Philippians 4:7
So, before any period of PHYSICAL harm will be MONTHS (or longer) of MENTAL apprehensiveness–caused by TRIBULATION.
And lest the believer mistakenly believe that he will somehow escape the TRIBULATION of the end times, Acts 14:23 is there to remind him that his entry into the kingdom of God requires ‘MUCH TRIBULATION.’
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DOES the reader believe he will suffer from tribulation?
WHY or why not?
It is not YET too late–although time is surely running out: there is still a LITTLE time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.
DOES the reader believe he is saved?
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DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?
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THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
—1 Corinthians 15:1-8
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16
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[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: November 7, 2022.]
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