The World and the Word

                   The Advents and Judgments of Christ

The Tribulation saints will have to "endure to the end" in order to be saved by grace. Matthew 24:13. The Tribulation saints will not have the Holy Spirit in their hearts to guide them and assure them of their salvation by grace. They will have to depend on intellectual faith alone until they are either martyred or Christ comes to end the Tribulation period. God will send an angel to preach the gospel to the whole world and that will encourage them, but they still must rely on their certain knowledge that the Rapture did happen and that all claims that it did not will be a lie. Revelation 14:6. All Tribulation saints who give up their faith and receive the mark of the Beast will lose their salvation by grace, but God will still save their living souls and spirits from the regions of death with His lesser form of salvation. Revelation 14:9-13. Even though some of the Tribulation saints will lose their salvation by grace, God still knows all of His saints, and He will never lose a single one of them. John 10:26-30.

The goal of the Devil has always been that he will be able to find a way to so overwhelm the living souls and spirits of humans with evil that he will be able to annul them forever and thereby prove that God's Love can fail because the Devil will have caused God to lose something that He created and loves. The Devil believes that if he can succeed in this endeavor, then that will open a way for him to find a way to murder God and take His place. For this reason, the Beast will invent a powerful gadget called "the mark of the beast" that will cause all who receive it during the Tribulation to become totally evil to the extent that it will completely ruin their good souls and spirits that God created and loves. The Beast will then be able to trap these ruined souls and spirits in Hell forever and thus defeat God. Revelation 14:9-12. But the Beast will fail. Revelation 14:13 proves that those who receive this "mark" will "die in the Lord" which means God will recover His good living souls and spirits from them when they receive the mark for Him to hold in the regions of death until He can effect their lesser form of salvation. Revelation 5:11-14. Only the totally evil natures of these humans who receive the mark will be tormented in the lake of fire forever.

All Tribulation saints must rely on intellectual faith alone until they are either killed by the Beast or Christ comes to end the Tribulation period of seven years. Their salvation by grace cannot be completed until they become washed in the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross. God will translate the souls and spirits of those who endure to the end to Heaven where they will be washed clean in Christ's blood and water, and they will receive white robes and a home in Heaven forever. Revelation 7:9-17. Christ will invite all the martyred Tribulation saints to be guests at His marriage to His Church. But some of these Tribulation saints will have refused, because of fear or a lack of faith, to be washed in Christ's blood and water and receive their white robes. Christ will cast them out of His wedding to the bottomless pit where they will wait to receive their lesser form of salvation as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Matthew 22:1-14; John 3:29.