How to be Worthy to Escape the Tribulation?
“Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”” (Luke 21:36 WEB)
“Counted worthy” in the original Greek is “katischuó” which means to prevail against or to overpower.
How do we prevail and overcome this world?
“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” (1 John 5:4-5 WEB)
Jesus didn’t mean that you have to pray all the time so that hopefully when the Rapture happens, you would be found worthy at that moment because you were praying and not committing a sin.
No that’s not what He means at all. In fact, Jesus told us to be watchful all the time not out of fear of sudden destruction, but to be excited at the signs of His impending return.
Just as a bride watchfully peers at the window when she knows that her groom is coming at a certain hour, it is the same for us when we see all the end times signs in the world today.
The only way we escape all the terrible things that will happen to this world during the Tribulation is by being born-again.
Through faith in Jesus, we are born-again as a new creation in Christ. Only this new creation will be caught up to be with Him at His return. It will be an amazing reunion in the clouds.
Our vile bodies will be transformed into glorified bodies, and we will never be sick, weak, or ugly ever again. We will be like Jesus, having a glorified body, soul, and spirit.
Don’t listen to those load you up with heavy religious burdens that they don’t even keep themselves when no one is looking.
“Don’t sin, if not you will miss the Rapture!” They like to frighten you with nonsense like that. A person who is always talking about sin is struggling with sin himself. He is so focused on it and the condemnation of failing by the flesh causes the cycle of sin and defeat to repeat in his own life.
It is not our Bible reading, praying ten times a day, fasting, tithing, or keeping the Ten Commandments that makes us eligible for the Rapture.
As long as you are born-again through faith in Jesus, which is a once-in-a-lifetime event, you will be going up when Jesus comes down!
God is looking at the type of creature, not the state of the creature. When you pass a magnet across a pile of metal paper clips and wooden pegs, only the paper clips will be attracted to the magnet. It doesn’t matter what shape the paper clips are bent into, or how old and beaten up the paper clips are. As long as they are metal, they will get attracted.
As long as you are a new creation in Christ, and not a son of Adam (unbeliever who is still dead in his sins) you will be going up once Jesus calls for His saints to meet Him in the air. Your spiritual growth and good works done are important for accessing your heavenly rewards, but they are not a factor at all to decide if you will be going up at the Rapture or not.
Jesus harshly rebuked the religious hypocrites (the chief priests, Pharisees, and scribes) so let us not be like them.
There is only one thing that can make you worthy to escape all the tribulations: the shed blood of Christ. His precious blood washed you, qualifying you to escape all the punishments of God and to freely receive all the good things that Jesus deserves.
“But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”” (Luke 21:28 WEB)
Expect to escape all these things. Jesus can come back any day now. Look up, for your bodily redemption is near!!
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