The following Bible passages talk about the persecution the Church will endure during the "time of the end" and throughout the "Great Tribulation", and how God will rescue his Elect before He pours His "Wrath" upon the world, right after the great tribulation.
In the Epistles we read...
Php 1:29 For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake.
2Ti 3:12 Yea, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
Jesus said…
Mat 5:11-12 Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for your reward in Heaven is great. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Jn 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogue. But an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think that he bears God service.
Mat 24:15 Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand).
Mat 24:21 for then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor ever shall be.
The prophet Daniel prophesying about the coming world leader, the Antichrist ...
Dan 11:31-36 And forces will stand from him, and they will profane the sanctuary, the fortress, and shall remove the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the desolating abomination. And he will ruin by flattery those who do evil against the covenant. But the people who know their God will be strong and will do exploits. And those who understand among the people shall teach many; yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by exile, and spoil, for days. And when they stumble, they shall be helped with a little help, but many will join them, with hypocrisy. And many of those who understand shall stumble, to refine and purge them, and to make white, to the time of the end. Because it is still for the appointed time; And the king shall do according to his will. And he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper until the fury is fulfilled. For that which is decreed shall be done.
These ones are obviously Christians- the people who know their God will be strong and will do exploits… those who understand among the people shall teach many; they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by exile, and spoil…these are none other than true outstanding Christians, as without the Son you don’t know, nor have the Father.
1Jn 2:22-23 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He who denies the Father and the Son is antichrist. Everyone who denies the Son neither has the Father. The one confessing the Son also has the Father.
War of the Antichrist against Christ’s Church:
And the king shall do according to his will… This is the Beast also known as the Antichrist who also… he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god.
2Th 2:1-4 Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand. Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.
Clear enough.
Rev 13:7-8 And it was given to him to war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given to it over every tribe and tongue and nation. And all dwelling on the earth will worship it, those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain, from the foundation of the world. See also Rev 12:17
After 3 and ½ years of Great Tribulation God’s Elect, the Church, the Israel of God is taken to Heaven & God’s Wrath is poured upon the wicked… Rev 13:5, Dan 7:15, Dan 12:7
Mat 24:29-31 And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in the heavens. And then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. See also 1Th 4:14-18, 1Cor 15:51-57
Rev 6:13-17 And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs when she is shaken by a mighty wind. And the heaven departed like a scroll when it is rolled together. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains. And they said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him sitting on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of His wrath has come, and who will be able to stand?
Dan 7:13 I saw in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. And dominion and glory was given Him, and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations and languages, should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Dan 7:26-27 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his rulership, to cut off and to destroy until the end. And the kingdom and rulership, and the greatness of the kingdom under all the heavens, shall be given to the people of the Saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. And all kingdoms shall serve and obey Him.
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