Christians persecuted during the Trib are blessed

[Originalist]

A teaching circulating on AFF states that allowing his saints to suffer physical persecution during the Tribulation would amount to Christ terrorizing his bride.

But what does the Bible say about these suffering and sometimes martyred heroes?

12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. (Revelation 14:12-13)

These people are not counted as weak, defeated and forsaken by God. Rather, they are called BLESSED ! They are not found going "limp as wet noodles" in the slightest. They are overcoming Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.

As saints and those holding to the testimony of Jesus, they will not be among those hiding in the caves from the wrath of the Lamb as depicted in Revelation 6 (which is actually depicting what happens in Matthew 24-29-31). These are saints who are not objects of God's wrath and thus do not fear it.

The insane misrepresentation of the Post-Trib position being promoted by a false teacher on this board is found to be extremely self-contradictory. On the one hand, the false teaching declares that the persecution of the Tribulation is a result of being left behind at the so-called "pre-trib rapture" and that the saints could never endure it. Yet, the false teacher, while quoting Revelation 14:12-13, completely misses the fact that the "left behind Tribulation saints" are facing this test of their faith with valor and boldness, being referred to as BLESSED! How could these left-behind, second-class Christians be found able to endure that which the "pre-Tribulation , already raptured bride" could not?

The person teaching this nonsense need not try to be a teacher as he/she has not learned the basic laws of biblical interpretation.

Furthermore, the false teacher compares the Tribulation to the time of Noah's flood. This is another example of poor hermeneutics. The flood was wrath. It destroyed the entire population of the planet minus 8 souls. The "Tribulation", which begins 3-1/2 years into the last 7 years, and lasts right at 3-1/2 years, is primarily that....TRIBULATION for the Saints. Sure, there will be some judgments as well. But what Jesus likened unto the "Days of Noah" was NOT the Tribulation, but the coming of the Son of Man as Christ depicted in Matthew 24-29-31, the ONLY coming taught by Christ in Matthew 24. That coming will bring with it the same kind of swift annihilation that the flood of Noah brought. A scant few will survive and remain to be ruled by Christ and the Saints in the 1000 year reign. When Christ returns as depicted in Matthew 24:29-31, saints having passed through the Tribulation will be being changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, rising to meet their Lord in the air.

False teachers and prophets should not be afforded the courtesy of a direct reply. We must do what the Bible says and not even bid them Godspeed.