We Received The Two Greatest Blessings That God Has For People

The seven years of tribulation starts immediately after the "Rapture" or the catching away of the church.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep (died) in him. According to the Lord's word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Notice Jesus doesn't set foot on the earth at this time as he does later.

John 14:1-3 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. (Also See: Matthew 24:1-25:13, Daniel 12).

The seven year tribulation period begins with the antichrist setting up his rules. Then life quickly changes with no hope of ever getting better. There are plagues poured out on the earth called Seals, Woes and Bowls. They are intended to destroy everything in the world system, physically, mentally, socially, monetary etc. Since God has removed his church and has made provision for the Jews, destruction will cover the earth. He will have absolutely no mercy on people who have rejected his son. This is an outline of His plan.

Because many people don't know what's available to them, through their salvation, they miss out on many of the blessing and miracles they are entitled to receive through faith. Learning what's in the scriptures is the beginning of living in a new and prosperous world; the world of God's Kingdom. Even though we still live on earth we have access to heavenly supply. The more we know and follow God's instruction the more real that supply becomes and produces freedom in our lives.

People often ask where does the curse come from and how does it affect us. Satan was cursed when he was thrown out of heaven. To be cursed is to be without the protection and blessings of God. The curse comes with sin and influences our life when we don't cover it through seeking God and learning His Word, The Holy Bible. He has outlined everything we are to do that will keep Satan from enforcing any part of his curse on us. Through salvation we have available to us all the promises of God and can live victorious over sickness, disease, poverty etc., as well as over sin. Learn what's in the curse and work hard to obey His Word, then the loving hand of the Lord will be upon you.

Many people don't realize that every thought that crosses their mind is not their own. Satan is allowed to speak in the minds of human beings. God gave us freedom to choose his way of doing right or Satan's way of doing wrong. When a person allows a thought, that is biblically wrong to develop in their mind, then Satan rules their life in that area. Once Satan establishes a wrong thought he can expand upon it with other thoughts contrary to the Word of God, which leads to the lack of God's blessings in other areas in our life. Thoughts in a human mind is how Satan rules. He isn't able to act out anything himself because he doesn't have an earthly body. So he uses people. He starts in the mind with just a thought, fear is just one of thousands of thoughts that he uses to hook people with because it has so many areas to work in. If we examine our thoughts, his are the ones that bring decrease in our lives, even death. Godly thoughts bring life, peace, joy and increase to us and those around us.

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

God is love (1 John 4:16 ) and works through love to increase a person's life in every area; but Satan's biggest tool is fear. It can be as small as "fear of being late" to "fear of harm and injury". Fear of any kind is not depending on the promises of God through our covenant of salvation.

What happens if we choose to accept fear? Fear is the opposite of God's truth and power, it can be a major take-over from the start or creep in slowly. Our society has accepted into our culture many expressions of fear, even when we speak words without believing they are true. Examine the expressions of fear you think or even speak during a 48 hour period. Satan will attack the mind of a person hundreds of times a day and make them believe it was their own thought.

Learn more about how to resist Satan from using your mind.

Where does it come from? How does it grow in a person so rapidly? Why does it consume a person so completely? How do we prevent it from capturing us?

To produce self-control by our own strength is difficult to manage when we've been allowed to act according to our feelings most of our lives. Somehow, what we say or do seems right but many times it turns out wrong.

Revised May 5, 2008

Renewing your mind with the Word allows faith to drop into your soul. Faith is total belief that what you are learning is true. It's what makes God's Word alive in our hearts with the ability to do what it says.

When you receive faith it's the power behind God's truth for your life, it become part of your most inner being. With faith we are not on our own to work things out for ourselves. Faith puts us in the position for God's guidance and help to accomplish the most difficult tasks. God watches closely over those that use His faith and backs us up against Satan who continually tries to defeat us.

Faith is the basis for receiving God's protection and miracle power for a happy and prosperous life. Practicing faith daily prepares us for the major problems that we all experience. When difficult circumstances arise God's Word will come out of you, in speech and actions as faith, with power and authority to put demons to flight. This is the way it worked for Jesus and He gave us the authority to do the same.

John 14:12 I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

When we use God's faith, we are using His Words, His strength and His power to accomplish our needs. Allowing people to receive and use His faith is one of His most marvelous gifts of love.

God is pouring out his power in these last days in greater ways than ever before because he wants to rescue all people from the bondage of sin. He has commissioned his body of believers to:

Jude 1: 23 snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear, hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.