Pre-Tribulation Times                                                                                                   (2)

“Should the Lord decide at this time to cleanse the Church—and the need for that   cleansing seems to be

increasing—a famine in this land of one year’s duration could wipe out a large percentage of slothful members,

 including some Local churches. Yet we cannot say we have not been warned.”

Hos 4:6-9

6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,

 that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

KJV

Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they somehow will be set aside because of the

 righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and could rue the day they harbored such a delusion.

The Lord has warned and forewarned us against a day of great tribulation and given us counsel,

through His servants, on how we can be prepared for these pre-tribulation  difficult times. Have we heeded His counsel?

It is hard for me to understand why or how so many good and wonderful people can discount what the

 prophets have said, again, and again, and again, and again concerning what will suddenly happen to the world in the future.

 One Pastor said: “The revelation to produce and store food may be as essential to our temporal welfare today as boarding

 the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.”

It is important to note that the people who didn’t get on the ark, suffered and died by the very calamity that for over

100 years had been prophesied would come upon them. People, including members of the Church, have always had

a habit of believing that things won’t change drastically, or that terrible things could happen to them.

It is a part of human nature. However, the scriptures are very clear that these terrible cataclysmic events,

some perhaps 20-30 years prior to the actual return of the Savior in power and great glory, will come

suddenly upon the heart of the Church, and then be poured out upon the rest of the world.