Two very important things for YOU to know is that Satan is allowed to rule the earth during the last half of the SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD - "FORTH AND TWO MONTHS" - which is 3.5 years....and that he will rule over "all the people who belong in the world - who will be forced to worship Satan - and those are all whose names are NOT written in the Book of Life......the Book Of The Living.

NOTE** Everyone who is born is written into the Book of Life.  Jesus says He will blot out those names who have not followed or believed Him when He said in John 3:3, "Except a person be born of water and of the Spirite, they cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven."

When we hear our moms say, "My water broke" it's because we are born in water. Catholics twist that to mean that a baby must be baptized!  Then, to be "born of the Holy Spirit means that the living being who trusts Christ as the one who died on the cross for their sins....and who accepts Jesus as their Lord and Savior receive the gift of the Holy Spirit who will live with them and who will usher them into heaven at the time of their death or at the Rapture.

ACTS 2:38 - The apostle PETER said, "Each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."

So when I write, I do not write my opinion...I write about what God has said in His Bible.

Therefore, in Revelation 3:3-6, Jesus said this  - "So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Then if you are not alert, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you. ⁴ But you have repented and they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. ⁵ The one who overcomes will be clothed the same way, in white garments; and I will not erase their name from the book of life, and I will confess their name before My Father and before His angels. ⁶ The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

We now realize (or should realize) that a SEVEN YEAR GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD IS COMING, and it will happen right after the HOLY TEMPLE is finished...then desecrated by Satan ....then the RAPTURE will take place (when you see Jerusalem surrounded by Gentiles), and this apparently takes up the first 3.5 years.  Christ followers are spared the last half of the GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD because Jesus takes His followers to heaven with him at that time of TEMPLE DESECRATION.  Then, God allows Satan to rule the earth for "forty and two months"...3.5 years.

Revelation 13: ^{5-8 - "}Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. And he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for forty-two months.  And he spoke terrible words of blasphemy against God, slandering his name and his dwelling—that is, those who dwell in heaven.  And the beast was allowed to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And he was given authority to rule over every tribe and people and language and nation.   And all the people who belong to this world worshiped the beast. They are the ones whose names were not written in the Book of Life that belongs to the Lamb who was slaughtered before the world was made.

^{FORTY AND TWO MONTHS IS 3.5 YEARS}

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