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Can I Be Saved After the Rapture?
By Dr. Max D. Younce
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 Question 

Hi! I am a young, teenage girl (15) who is concerned about the Rapture. I want to know if those who are left behind have a chance to get into Heaven after the Rapture?

 Answer 

When the Rapture occurs, all Christians are changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye (I Corinthians 15:52), and caught up to be with the Lord in Heaven. (I Thessalonians 4:17). At this point, the 7-Year Tribulation Period begins. At the end of the Tribulation, Christ returns to the earth and establishes His Kingdom which lasts for a 1,000 years. The last 3 and 1/2 years of the Tribulation Period is known as the Great Tribulation (Matthew 24:21). The reason: in the middle of the Tribulation, after 3 and 1/2 years, the Antichrist enthrones himself as being God and commands the whole world to worship him. (II Thessalonians 2:4).

The Antichrist’s worshippers will be required to take the mark of 666 on their foreheads or on their right hand. (Revelation 13:16-18). Those Christians who refuse and are apprehended will be beheaded. (Revelation 20:4). They will be labeled as trouble-makers, anti-establishment, and anti-world government; therefore, they must be eliminated. The true Christians will be labeled as "anti-christ"; while the real Antichrist, himself, will be worshipped as God.

With this in mind, let us go to II Thessalonians 2:10,12: "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved...And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie (the Antichrist), i.e., V.4):...That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

The Antichrist does not present himself as God until 3 and 1/2 years after the Rapture. Those who were lost and left behind at the Rapture can still be saved the first 3 and 1/2 years into the Tribulation. Remember the Two Witnesses in Revelation 11, the 144,000 Jews in Revelation 7, along with many others were saved at this time. Revelation 7:14 lets us know that, "These are they which came out of tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made then white in the blood of the Lamb."

The ecumenicalism of today is nothing more than "programming" the populous to accept all religions and worship together. Those who follow this philosophy are pre-programmed to accept the Antichrist as God, be a member of his world church, and support his one-world government. God’s warning is, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." (Acts 16:31). And, "Come out of her my people." (Revelation 18:4).