06/04/2026
Excerpts from Terry James:
The Rapture is an issue incontrovertibly linked to Salvation — something Jesus did on the cross, which puts us in God’s Family when we truly Believe. That Faith keeps us from the time of God’s Wrath — both in the coming Tribulation and in Eternity. Wrath and Judgment must fall upon rebellious mankind because of Sin. Jesus paid the price for that sin. He said on the cross, “It is finished.” Sin was forever paid for at that moment, for those who would accept His Sacrifice –the only Sacrifice that God will accept — the precious Blood of His Blessed Son.
We are told that we, as Christians, while in the flesh, will have tribulations (troubles). Certainly Christians have had troubles down through the years. Persecutions — genocide, martyrdom, etc. These horrors are still happening in some places around the world. But this was not and is not God’s Wrath and Judgment, but was and is Satanic rage against God’s People. The Tribulation will include Satanic rage, but it will be within the horrific Storm of God’s Wrath and Judgment.
Christians (those who have been — as our critic says — saved following the Rapture- – will certainly suffer Satanic rage, but not God’s Wrath. Many will be martyred, as in the times of the early persecutions — like Christians are being martyred in some nations today. But we are told that we (Paul denotes the difference between Christians of the Church Age and those who aren’t in God’s Family by the use of pronouns) aren’t appointed to wrath but to Salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. We are told by Paul to “comfort one another with these words.” Not look to fear but to comfort… (Read 1 Thes 4:18 and 5:9-11.)
We will be kept out of “the time of testing (the apocalypse or Tribulation) John was told by Jesus (Rev 3:10).
Rapture Ready or not…
Now, you might not agree, and that’s fine. If you know Christ, you are going instantly to Him anyway when Jesus says, “Come up hither,” as He did to John in Rev. 4:1-2. You will have no other choice if you are in God’s Family.
But, please don’t ever think — or claim — that there are only scattered verses here and there, or that there is no tremendously deep body of Scriptural evidence and proofs beneath the Truth of the Pre-Trib Rapture.
Again, you can disagree, but please don’t accuse us of not knowing about the other views, and don’t just blindly accept what opponents falsely say when they lie, proclaiming that we just believe in something a 19th-century Englishman said, or that we follow some woman who dabbled in the occult. That isn’t true, and you should look more deeply into the evidence upon which we base these understandings than just to take the word of those who make such shallow and deceptive accusations.
Put this scripture in a place you can memorize it – and make it your model Truth for avoiding the pitfalls of intellectual and scriptural laziness.
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15).
