Sermon Notes: After the Rapture

Last week we learned how close we are to the start of the Tribulation.

We also saw how the Socialists and the Muslims, especially the Muslims, are coming into more power and how that lines up with the coming Great Tribulation.

The Great Tribulation begins just after the Rapture of the church.

Being a Christian during the Tribulation will cost you your life by beheading because everyone who refuses the mark of the beast will be labeled a terrorist of the world government and be beheaded.

What about people that are left behind that are unsaved?

Reading

2Th 2:1 KJV Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
 2  That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
 3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
 4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
 5  Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
 6  And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.note
 7  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
 8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
 10  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Pray

This can become very confusing if you do not pay very close attention.

So let me begin from where we are right now, today, September 20, 2026

All over the world right now, there are, from a biblical perspective, only 2 kinds of people: saved and unsaved.

Either you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Saviour and King, or you have not.

There is no in between, there is no half way, you are either born again or you are not.

People that are born again are going to heaven.

People that are not born again are going to hell.

Is everyone with me so far?

The people that are born again are going to get into heaven one of two ways, either they will die, which is the most common way to transfer from earth to heaven, or they will be removed without death in an event called the Rapture of the church.

1Th 4:16 KJV For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
 17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
 18  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1Co 15:50 KJV Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
 51  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Like I told you previously, you will get into heaven one of 2 ways: either by death (sleep) or by the Rapture

We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Some people will go to heaven by dying, but not everyone, we shall not all sleep

The Rapture of the church will happen

 52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
 53  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

This describes the event called the Rapture of the church.

You will not find the word Rapture in the Bible, but you will also not find the words Trinity, or toilet, or electricity, or even the word Bible in the Bible.

There are people claiming that the Rapture is a recent invented unbiblical teaching.

And when I hear that, I just ask them to show me the church in Revelation.

It is not there. It is not there because it is gone before the events of Revelation begin.

Now we return to the fact that there are two ways to enter heaven: you die, or you are Raptured.

After the Rapture of the church, the earth has three types of people.

First are the 144,000 Jewish young, men evangelists that will preach the gospel around the world.

Rev 7:2 KJV And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
 3  Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
 4  And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Rev 14:3 KJV And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
 4  These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

These 144,000 are going to be sealed in their forehead with the seal of God after the Rapture of the church.

All the other people left on the earth after the Rapture are not saved.

So first of the three groups on earth after the Rapture are the 144,000.

The two remaining groups of people on the earth after the Rapture of the church are both unsaved.

But there are two kinds of unsaved, un born again people.

The first of these two remaining types of unsaved people are people that have never heard the message of salvation and never had the opportunity to be saved.

They have not rejected salvation because they have never heard the gospel.

When the 144,000 Jewish young men evangelists are preaching the gospel through the world, these are the unsaved people they are looking for.

A very small group of these unsaved people, that have never heard the gospel plan of salvation previously, will hear the message of salvation and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.

100% of these Christians will not accept the mark of the Beast, and they will have their head cut off by the One World Government.

Rev 13:16 KJV And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
 17  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Rev 20:4 KJV And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

The final group of unsaved people on the earth after the Rapture are those people that have heard the gospel message of salvation and did not accept the offer.

They may have rejected the offer of salvation because of embarrassment, they may have delayed their being born again, they may have planned to get saved another time,

But at the time the Rapture of the church happens, they have heard the gospel and still are unsaved for whatever reason.

This last group are addressed in our reading previously.

2Th 2:1 KJV Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
 2  That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
 3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
 4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
 5  Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
 6  And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.note
 7  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
 8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
 10  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

It is at this point God, the Author of all Scripture, reveals something very very important.

2Th 2:10 KJV And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; (that is the unsaved) because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.(These people did not receive salvation that was offered to them)

 11  And for this cause (for this reason,  what reason? Because this group of people heard the gospel but did not accept the offer of salvation) God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: (God is not lying, Satan is the liar, but God actually helps the unsaved people that rejected salvation before the Rapture, to believe the lie of Satan.) WHY?
 12  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

If someone is unsaved before the Rapture of the church, and they heard the gospel,

That means they are unsaved right now, and they have heard how to be saved

but for whatever reason, they decided to not get saved,

and the Rapture happens, and they are left behind,

they will, absolutely, no way out, worship the Beast, the Anti-Christ, the Wicked, the Imam Madhi, the One World ruler, and they will receive the mark of the Beast to show their alliance to the One World government so they can buy and sell, and not get their head cut off.

they all will be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Rev 14:9 KJV And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
 10  The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
 11  And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

So after the soon coming Rapture of the church, there will be 3 groups of people left on the earth.

First is the 144,000 Jewish young men evangelists

Second is the unsaved that have never heard the gospel.

Some of them will hear the gospel and accept the offer of salvation and some will not.

Finally, there will be a group of people, alive today, have heard the gospel, did not accept salvation, the Rapture happens, they are left behind and they WILL BE convinced to believe the lies of Satan, worship the Anti-Christ, receive the mark of the Beast, and be condemned to be tormented forever.

2Pe 3:9 KJV The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Eze 18:20 KJV The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
 21  But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
 22  All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
 23  Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

We are given the command to proclaim the gospel and to correct false doctrine.

We better get busy, because there is not much time left.


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Sermon Notes: Tribulation and Islam

On September 11, 2001 the United States of America suffered a savage attack in New York City, and at the Pentagon, and an attempt that murdered the passengers of United flight 93, all done by a coordinated effort by a small group of Muslims. 

The final count was 2,977 people that died from the attacks. But that does not include the people whose lives were cut short by the diseases from breathing that dust and debris. 

Fast forward to January 1, 2026, 25 years after those horrible attacks, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, an Ethiopian born Muslim Democrat Socialist, walked up to the center of the stage, placed his hand on the Quran, and was sworn in as Mayor of New York City. 

That same Quran teaches Muslims that under certain circumstances, lying may be tolerated, or even required. 

Muslims are taught to follow a larger legal principle in Islam: “necessities permit the prohibited”.

Today, 11 Muslims are mayors of United States cities, and more than 4.4 million Muslims live in America. 

What is happening?

How could we get to this point after the Muslim attacks on 9/11?

Reading 

Rev 20:1 KJV And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

 2  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

 3  And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

 4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Pray

Over the days after 9/11 we watched TV as the various news agencies and commentators analyzed the events.

There were videos of living people jumping out of the tower windows to avoid the fire, only to die when they hit the ground.

I will never forget the sound of those bodies hitting the ground.

We watched the reports about people still being found alive, hoping for just one more.

Families are still grieving the loss of fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, senior citizens and children. 

We wondered how something like that could ever happen, and we vowed it would never happen again. 

We were right, it has not happened again.

We vowed that we would never forget. 

But, although we remembered the events, it was not enough for us to protect this land that we love.

Instead of the Muslims bombing New York City, or planes being crashed into cities, we just handed our property, our money, and our government over to the Muslims, and their helpers, the Socialists. 

Americans, many of them survivors of 9/11, just 24 years later, voted to have a Muslim Mayor rule over them.

Muslims are taking control.

What can we do to stop it?

Actually, there is very little that will be successful against the two-fold attack by the Socialists, or the Muslims.

Islam wants to be known as a religion of peace, but in reality it is a philosophy of war and conquest.

Quran 2:190-191

"Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, but do not transgress. Indeed. Allah does not like transgressors.

"And kill them (the infidels) wherever you overtake them, and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and disobedience is worse than killing."

By the way, you and me are the infidels. Any non-Muslim is an infidel to them.

In August 1996, 30 years ago, that is just 5 years prior to the destruction of 9/11, Osama bin Laden made his Declaration of Jihad on the Americans.

Osama bin Laden is dead, but his declaration is still in force. 

It is called the “Ladenese Epistle,” is still taken as the Muslim's and al Qaeda’s declaration of war on America.

Osama bin Laden said, "to fight in defense of religion and Belief is a collective duty; (that means it is every Muslim's duty) there is no other duty, after Belief [more important] than fighting the enemy (that is you and me) who is corrupting the life and the religion (of Islam). There are no preconditions for this duty, and the enemy should be fought with one's best abilities. 

"Even the people who are not practising Islam are not exempted from the duty of Jihad against the enemy."

By the way, This was said when Zohran Mamdani was 5 years old and living in his homeland, Kampala, Uganda, and beginning his training as a Muslim. 

Mamdani's Father was a Head, University Professor in Ugandan and in South African universities. 

In his 2004 book, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror, written just 3 years after the Muslim suicide bombers attacked America, Mamdani's father writes that suicide bombers should be recognized "as a category of regular soldier" and "understood as a normal feature of modern political violence, rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism".

Zohran Momdani's father is so radical he hid in the background while his son was campaigning so as to not negatively influence the vote.

In 2013, Zohran Momdani's mother, Miranda Nair wrote: "I stand w/ Palestine for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel"

Zohran Momdani is as radical Muslim as you can get. He is like many people in our country today, a triple threat: Muslim, Socialist, and Democrat. 

The problem is that Islam and Muslims are currently at a state of war against America, but America is not at war against Islam or Muslims. 

Far from it, in fact, we are accommodating their war against us.

We are funding their war against us with our tax dollars, and we are electing Muslims into positions of authority in our government. 

Do not get your hopes up that America will ever survive this invasion because, America will never declare war on Islam or on the Muslims. 

The Muslims sleep comfortably at night knowing America has already surrendered in many critical areas.

How many Muslims are Doctors, nurses, and pharmacists in our healthcare systems and pharmaceutical companies, even in your local Walmart pharmacy? I know we have a dedicated Muslim pharmacist at our Festus Walmart. 

How many Muslims are working in our infrastructure of electrical power, public water, law enforcement, public schools, and smaller government councils and boards. 

America has been invaded by a hostile force that considers themselves to be at war with us, and yet our streets are often flooded with Socialist people getting mad, not about the Muslim invasion, but they are chanting slogans about the wrongs of "Islamophobia," and how the Muslims are being oppressed by Americans. 

What is happening?

Will America survive this invasion?

The short answer is, "No!" America, along with the rest of the world, is on a collision course with God's discipline called the Great Tribulation. 

As it appears right now, it is highly likely, if we continue in the direction we are going, the Great Tribulation could begin very soon. 

Let us go back to our opening passage 

Rev 20:1 KJV And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

At this point in time an angel is sent from heaven 

He has two things, the key to the bottomless pit (which is found in the middle of the Earth) and a great chain

 2  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

It only took one angel to arrest Satan.

Remember that when you think Satan is equal to God, or equal to Jesus. 

Jesus sent just one single angel to capture and bind Satan. No fight, no resistance, complete control. 

Satan was bound with the great chain the angel brought from heaven, and then he was cast into the bottomless pit, also known as hell.

Satan was bound there for 1,000 years.

 3  And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

Satan was physically thrown into hell by this one angel from heaven. 

He was then locked in and the gates were sealed. The seal is an official imprint that is only opened by an authorized individual. 

We currently experience Satan's influence in the world today, but in the 1,000 year reign of Jesus Christ on the earth, Satan will have no ability to deceive anyone, anywhere for 1,000 years. 

The 1,000 years Satan is bound is what we call the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ. 

That is when Jesus Christ returns to the earth and stands on the Mount of Olives just outside Jerusalem. 

The Mount of Olives is split by a great earthquake and Jesus then goes into Jerusalem, builds His temple, and rules the world for 1,000 years.

This will happen 7 years after the Rapture of the church, and immediately after the 7 year Great Tribulation when the Earth will be ruled by the Beast, also called the Anti-Christ. 

The Anti-Christ will be a Socialist man, that is a Muslim, that has the blood of both sons of Abraham, Ishmael AND Isaac, in his veins, and he will secretly be a homosexual. 

At the end of the Millennial Reign there will be a short time when Satan is released out of the bottomless pit to return to earth for one last temptation of the people.

During the 1,000 years Jesus is ruling and reigning, and we with Him, there will be no temptations from Satan. 

The only temptations will be the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. But nothing from a Satanic source. 

 4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them:

Who are these on thrones? They are Christians, taken up in the Rapture, that have faithfully and obediently invested their lives in the Kingdom of God.

1. Dan 7:9 KJVLite I beheld till the thrones (of Satan) were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

2. Dan 7:18 KJVLite But the saints of the most High (that's you and me) shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.

Dan 7:21 KJV I beheld, and the same horn (that is the Anti-Christ) made war with the saints, and prevailed against them (that is during the Great Tribulation);

Dan 7:22 KJVLite Until the Ancient of days came (that is when King Jesus returns to earth), and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. (That is the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ on the earth)

4. Dan 7:27 KJVLite And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

7. 1Co 6:2 KJVLite Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

8. 1Co 6:3 KJVLite Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

Now, back to our text:

Rev 20:4 KJV And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Along with us, there is a large group of Christians that received Salvation during the Great Tribulation. These are people that never heard the plan of salvation before the Rapture, they never worshipped the Beast, and never received the mark of the Beast in either their right hand or in their forehead.

In the Great Tribulation the Socialist Muslims will be in control of the whole earth.

Every government of every country will under the control of the Imam Madhi, known in the Bible as the Anti-Christ. 

Immediately after the Rapture of the church, the Anti-Christ will be given control of all governments of every country. 

Every true Christian alive on the earth in the Great Tribulation will be given an offer, accept the mark of the Beast or die.

But here is the part that reveals the presence of the Muslims: they are all beheaded.

The Quran says, "When the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them" (Sura 9:5). 

"When you meet the unbelievers in the battlefield, strike off their heads" (Sura 47:4). 

For the Muslim, the Koran's commands are valid for all time. 

Fifteen hundred years later, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini is able to say, "Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Islam says Kill them (the non-Muslims), put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you!".

Are you ready for the Rapture?

Isn't it time to get ready?

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