How Can We Get Raptured Before the Tribulation?

Nowadays, disasters all over the world are growing ever greater and wider in scope. Four blood moons have already appeared. All these indicate the signs of the Lord’s coming have appeared, about which the Lord prophesied, “Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven” (Luke 21:10–11). Many brothers and sisters are very anxious and confused: Now the prophecy of the Lord has come true, why haven’t we welcomed the Lord? Why haven’t we been raptured and feasted with the Lord before the tribulation? What should we do to be raptured?

When it comes to the rapture, many people will think of 1 Thessalonians 4:17, which says, “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” So, they looked forward to being caught up to meet the Lord in the air before the tribulation when the Lord comes. But is this really the case? Nowadays disasters are frequently happening all over the world, and they are getting ever wider in scope. Most people who believe in the Lord feel that the Lord has returned, but why haven’t we been caught up to meet the Lord in the air? What exactly is being caught up? In the last days, Almighty God has come to unlock this mystery to us.

Almighty God say, “‘Being caught up’ is not being taken from a low place to a high place as people imagine. This is a huge mistake. Being caught up is referring to My predestining and selecting. It is targeted at all those I have predestined and chosen. Those who have gained the status of firstborn son, the status of sons, or people, are all those who have been caught up. This is most incompatible with people’s notions. Those who have a share in My house in the future are all people who have been caught up before Me. This is absolutely true, never-changing, and cannot be refuted by anybody. This is the counterattack against Satan. Anyone I predestined shall be caught up before Me.”

“when you have experienced each step of the work of God incarnate in the Age of Kingdom, you will feel that desires you have had for many years have finally been realized. You will feel that only now have you truly seen God face to face; only now have you gazed upon His countenance, heard His personal utterances, appreciated the wisdom of His work, and truly sensed how real and almighty He is. You will feel that you have gained many things that people in times past had never seen nor possessed. At this time, you will clearly know what it is to believe in God, and what it is to conform to God’s will. Of course, if you cling to views of the past, and reject or deny the fact of the second incarnation of God, then you will remain empty-handed, acquiring nothing, and ultimately you will be pronounced guilty of opposing God. Those who are able to obey the truth and submit to the work of God shall be claimed under the name of the second incarnate God—the Almighty. They will be able to accept God’s personal guidance, gaining more and higher truths, as well as real life.”

Almighty God’s words have made it very clear. “Being caught up” is not what we think—being taken into the air from the earth and meeting the Lord in the clouds. Nor is it being taken up to heaven. What it actually means is that when God returns to earth to speak and work, we hear His voice and follow Him and submit to His work in the last days. This is the true meaning of being raptured before God’s throne. Only those who can recognize the Lord’s voice, know the truth in the words of Almighty God, accept the truth and return to Him are wise virgins. They are the “treasures” the Lord has “stolen” back to His home. They are of good caliber, able to understand and accept the truth, capable of recognizing God’s voice, and are truly the raptured ones. Just as the Lord Jesus said, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me” (Revelation 3:20).

Thus it can be seen that being raptured before the tribulation refers to people recognizing God’s voice, accepting God’s work of the last days, and following the footsteps of God before the tribulation. Those who hold onto their own conceptions and imaginings and who reject God’s work of the last days will not be caught up to God before the tribulation. Instead, they will be exposed by God’s new work. They are the ones who will be forsaken by God. They are destined to suffer in the disasters, crying and gnashing their teeth.

Maybe some brothers and sisters are confused:The Lord Jesus has forgiven our sins and no longer regards us as sinners. When the Lord comes, we will be directly raptured into the kingdom of heaven and feast with the Lord to enjoy the blessing of the heavenly kingdom. Why do we still need to listen to God’s voice and accept God’s work of the last days? Why doesn’t God directly take us up into the kingdom of heaven? In regard to this, let’s see what God’s words say.

God says, “You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy” (Leviticus 11:45).

“Though Jesus did much work among man, He only completed the redemption of all mankind and became man’s sin offering; He did not rid man of all his corrupt disposition. Fully saving man from the influence of Satan not only required Jesus to become the sin offering and bear the sins of man, but it also required God to do even greater work to rid man completely of his satanically corrupted disposition. And so, now that man has been forgiven of his sins, God has returned to the flesh to lead man into the new age, and begun the work of chastisement and judgment. This work has brought man into a higher realm. All those who submit under His dominion shall enjoy higher truth and receive greater blessings. They shall truly live in the light, and they shall gain the truth, the way, and the life.”

“A sinner such as you, who has just been redeemed, and has not been changed, or been perfected by God, can you be after God’s heart? For you, you who are still of your old self, it is true that you were saved by Jesus, and that you are not counted as a sinner because of the salvation of God, but this does not prove that you are not sinful, and are not impure. How can you be saintly if you have not been changed? Within, you are beset by impurity, selfish and mean, yet you still wish to descend with Jesus—you should be so lucky! You have missed a step in your belief in God: You have merely been redeemed, but you have not been changed. For you to be after God’s heart, God must personally do the work of changing and cleansing you; if you are only redeemed, you will be incapable of attaining sanctity. In this way you will be unqualified to share in the good blessings of God, for you have missed out a step in God’s work of managing man, which is the key step of changing and perfecting. You, a sinner who has just been redeemed, are therefore incapable of directly inheriting God’s inheritance.”

We can see from the words of God that although the Lord Jesus has forgiven man’s sin, it does not mean that man is no longer bound by sin, nor does it mean that he is cleansed of his sins. Today, we still live in a cycle of committing sins in the day and confessing them at night, and we only have some good behaviors and changes on the outside, but our arrogant, selfish, and deceitful nature is still deep-rooted in us. For example, in the church, when others are more gifted in preaching than we are, we can still be jealous and exclude people; when others violate our interests, we can still hate people; when things go wrong, or when natural disasters and human calamities befall us, we can complain against God, misunderstand God, and even betray God. God is holy, and sinners like us are still unable to meet God’s will and are not qualified to enter the kingdom of heaven. In the last days, God has done a stage of judgment and chastisement work to completely remove our sinful nature. We have to go through the work of God’s judgment and punishment of the last days to get rid of the bondage of sin and stop rebelling and resisting God. Only in this way will we have the opportunity to be saved and be raptured into the kingdom of heaven.

Almighty God says, “Man lives amid the flesh, which means he lives in a human hell, and without God’s judgment and chastisement, man is as filthy as Satan. How could man be holy? Peter believed that chastisement and judgment by God were man’s best protection and greatest grace. Only through chastisement and judgment by God could man awaken and hate the flesh, hate Satan. God’s strict discipline frees man from the influence of Satan, frees him from his own little world, and allows him to live in the light of God’s presence. There is no better salvation than chastisement and judgment! Peter prayed, ‘O God! As long as You chastise and judge me, I will know that You have not left me. Even if You do not give me joy or peace, and make me live in suffering, and inflict countless chastenings on me, as long as You do not leave me, my heart will be at ease. Today, Your chastisement and judgment have become my best protection and my greatest blessing….’ … In his life, if man wishes to be cleansed and achieve changes in his disposition, if he wishes to live out a life of meaning and fulfill his duty as a creature, then he must accept God’s chastisement and judgment, and must not allow God’s discipline and God’s smiting to depart from him, in order that he may free himself from the manipulation and influence of Satan, and live in the light of God. Know that God’s chastisement and judgment is the light, and the light of man’s salvation, and that there is no better blessing, grace or protection for man.”