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May 20, 2017

GET SAVED NOW!




“Think I’ll Just Wait”
 

By Paul Tatham 
tatham47@hotmail.com

Evangelical Christians talk a lot about “getting saved, as in being “born again.” And they always tack on a sense of urgency when they do.

“You need to accept Christ as your Savior,” they often warn, “before it’s eternally too late.” And they are exactly right. One day, Christ will suddenly return to take all believers to Heaven, so we’d better be ready. We call that momentous day the Rapture (I Thessalonians 4:15-18).

But some who are not saved have been exposed to enough preaching that they know that many people left behind on Earth will be able to get saved after the Rapture, during a period we call the Tribulation. Seemingly, everyone will have a second chance then to accept Christ as their personal Savior. So relax, they reason, I can always take care of that later.

But be careful! It’s easy to relax your way right into Hell. Here are three reasons why procrastinating is a bad idea.

#1 You might die before the Rapture
If you convince yourself that you’ll take care of that “born again” thing after the Rapture, you might not make it to the Rapture.

#2 If you do get saved after the Rapture, life will be rough
Many of those who get saved during the Tribulation will be severely persecuted, hunted down, and martyred for their faith. You can read about their sufferings in Revelation, the last book in the Bible.

 #3 Chances are good you will have no interest in getting saved
II Thessalonians 2:8-11 sheds light on what things will be like during the Tribulation, including its key player the Antichrist:

And then shall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
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:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Among other things, this passage tells us that a second chance to get saved will be available only to those who had never heard the gospel before the Rapture. Those who had been exposed to the gospel before the Rapture, but “received not the love of the truth,” won’t have a second chance. Instead, they will deluded and embrace “the lie” of “the wicked one,” likely the Antichrist’s claim to be God (John 5:43).

The lost need to know that they won’t have a second chance to acknowledge their sinful condition and seek forgiveness from God. “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, today is the day of salvation” (II Corinthians 6:2).