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3 For [gar] when [hotan] they shall say, [lego] Peace [eirene] and [kai] safety; [asphaleia] then [tote] sudden [aiphnidios] destruction [olethros] cometh upon [ephistemi] them, [autos] as [hosper] travail [odin] upon [en] a woman with
child [gaster]; [echo] and [kai] they shall [ekpheugo] not [ou me] escape. [ekpheugo]KJV-Interlinear
3 While they are saying,
"Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly
like birth pangs upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.NASB
The attitude of peace
and safety, come from the reliance on the attributes of security, engineered by
carnal means.
This is the reliance on
earthly or human systems of security.Whether it be a person relying on their individual talents to make them
prosperous, or government programs promising health and employment, or any of
the long list of things that people look to in this life for their sense of
security, none of these are real, and none of these will even accomplish their
intended purpose.
Mans plans are many, and
mans plans will always fail.They will fail
because they reject the one and only Maker and Planner and Sustainer of the
universe, namely Jesus Christ.
Just to demonstrate the
absurdity of the idea of mans sense of peace and safety, you can look no
further than Revelation, or Matt. 24:36-42, or 2 Peter 3:3-4.
The times immediately
before the Rapture will mirror the times immediately before the flood of Noah.
In Noah s time, society
was evil and degenerate to the core.In
the time immediately before the destruction of Sodom, the people were evil and
degenerate to the core.Evil and
degeneracy to the maximum are accompanied by every crime, violence, and corruption,
you can imagine.And yet the people are
so disillusioned they see only peace in their time.They relied on the generally accepted practices
of society of their day.
In our current day,
people are looking more and more to government to solve their problems and
provide for their livelihood. And as
these programs develop, we see more and more of the
corruption underneath them, which hold them up.
As governments become more
and more evil, we see the picture of a spiritually dysfunctional society, which
put them into power.
People will look less
and less to God, and more and more to their carnal support systems.They will ignore the flaws and believe their
safety is in good hands.
And then destruction, olethros, which means the total annihilation or
demolition, of something that once was identifiable, but now has become so
destroyed as to make it unidentifiable.This is what awaits those who reject God, Christ, doctrine, and their spiritual
lives and the responsibilities that accompany their spiritual lives.
This is not a
destruction which occurs at the moment of ones death,
and then they see the truth of their failure only after they leave this
life.This means that while they still
live, destruction will come upon them like a storm.
At the Rapture, the
people of the world will be mostly unbelievers.After the Rapture, when all believers are removed, then only unbelievers
will remain.Most will not recognize the
significance of the event, or of the repercussions about to fall upon them.
They will be caught off
guard, not realizing that the countdown clock for human history, has been set
for seven years, and that will be all that they will have to get their act
together.
And where can they go,
where can they escape to?
Well, in times past,
people, when they encountered oppression, could look to frontiers, to countries
where freedom was generally practiced.In recent decades or the past couple of centuries, people from all over
the world could come to the United States.
But, after the Rapture,
there will be no place to which anyone can run, or even look to for rescue.
The birth pains of the
pregnant woman come on her suddenly.This is the description of a first time mom.She knows of her pregnancy.She knows of her condition.She knows of the things of birth which she
can expect, but not having ever experienced them, and with no drugs (they did
not exist back in Pauls day),
then the mother will not know the actual pains until the moment of her labor
and birth, arrives.
A pregnant woman in labor, cannot escape her condition.She cannot say, Stop, I ve changed my mind.
She is stuck with her
birth and has no place to go until it is all over.
But unlike the birth, the
destruction of the world will last seven years and it will seem like it will never
end.And when it does finally end, with
the Second Advent of Christ, then everyone will be dead and in heaven because
they believed somewhere along the way, or they will be dead and in Torments,
because they rejected Christ throughout the Tribulation, or they will be among
the very, very few, who will remain alive, because they believed and advanced
to maturity under the most horrendous conditions ever in history, and will enter
into the Millennium to repopulate the earth under the Kingdom of Christ, for
the next thousand years.
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