Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt | thebereancall.org

Hunt, Dave

Nuggets from “Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations” by Dave Hunt

After the Rapture, without any Christians left on earth to influence society morally, evil (posing as good) will take over to an extent that is beyond present imagination. Those not raptured who never heard the gospel of Christ will be given the opportunity to believe. Many will receive Christ, reject Antichrist, and be put to death for their newfound faith. They will be resurrected at Christ’s Second Coming at the end of the Great Tribulation. John saw it all in the vision he was given:

“I saw under the altar [in heaven] the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How ling, O Lord, holy and true, does thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And…it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their…brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled (Revelation:6:9-11).

“These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb (7:14)

“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death (12:11).

“And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived [i.e., were resurrected] and reigned with “Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead [who had not believed in Christ but had followed the Antichrist] lived not again until the thousand years were finished (20:4-5).”

Following and worshiping Antichrist, the world will be in complete rebellion and God will begin to execute judgment upon the rampant evil. Christ foretold this period of time with these words: “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be (Matthew:24:21). The Book of Revelation gives the details of God’s wrath being poured out upon this earth. It will be a terrifying time for earth’s inhabitants, yet they will not back down from their defiance of the Creator: “[They] blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and sores, and repented not of their deeds” (Revelation:16:11).