A very few people who have upright and firm hearts will overcome all tortures and temptations.

About 2,000 years ago, Jesus broke the authority of death and resurrected. After 40 days, He ascended into heaven before the many disciples who were watching Him. Now, He is at the right hand of God the Father's throne. When human cultivation is over, He will come in the air with so many heavenly host and angels and those who are in the waiting place of Heaven. At this time, those who received Him while living will be caught up to the air. It is the 'Rapture'. This will be followed by the Wedding Banquet in the air for the Lord our bridegroom together with the believers for 7 years. On the other hand, unprecedented tragedy will be unfolded on this earth. After the Rapture, the world will fall into chaos. There will also be World War III. During the 7-year tribulation, earth will turn into ruins and most of the world's population will die. The environment will be destroyed. All nature will be polluted, and it will be difficult to get air to breath and water to drink. Due to lack of goods, prices will skyrocket and it will be difficult to get basic necessities. Also, there will be continuous conflicts among the nations during these 7 years. It's the same among different areas and individuals. This nerve-breaking situation will continue as if they have a time-bomb within the earth. People's minds will become increasingly evil. In this miserable world, people will live in fear of death and nervousness. They will find it painful to live. Also, during the 7-years, there will be great persecutions against those who believe in the Lord. There will be many people who will remain on earth after the Rapture and among them will be those who at one time attended church. They won't be caught up into the air in the Rapture because they are not really spiritually awake. Also, there will be many people who didn't attend church yet they heard and knew about the 7-year tribulation. When they see the Rapture taking place as recorded in the Bible, they will be so afraid. Only then will they repent that they didn't live by the will of God. They try to find a way to receive salvation. But it is not at all an easy thing to receive salvation in this world that is completely taken over by the enemy devil and Satan. The evil spirits have their authority in the air. But when it is about the time for the Lord come in the air, these evil spirits will be driven out to this earth. Then, the power of darkness including these evil spirits will control the minds of people more strongly than before. In particular, they will manipulate the anti-Christ to stand against God. It is their last resort. After the Rapture, the anti-Christ will manage the world chaos with his political, economic, and military power. In that process, they will assert peace and order to make people forget about the Rapture. To do this, the evil forces will persecute those who believe in the Rapture. To stand against this power can end in martyrdom. The power of the anti-Christ will be very determined in their persecution of the believers. For example, they will use the 666, the mark of the beast, to keep the order in the world. Here, the beast refers to computers. The 666 mark is like a bar code that contains personal information. The power of the anti-Christ will make everyone receive this mark on their right hand or the forehead. This equipment is apparently for the protection of life and for convenience in business transactions. But the anti-Christ uses this tool to put the entire human race into one system so he can watch and control every individual. They manage all the data about every single individual through a central computer. At one point, the anti-Christ will make everyone receive this mark. But those who believe in the Lord will resist receiving this mark. To receive this 666 mark is to agree with the ideology of the anti-Christ who denies Jesus Christ. Revelation 14:9-10 says, "Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, [10] he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb." As written, those who receive this mark of the beast will not be saved but fall into Hell. But it is not easy to resist it. By that time, it will be practically impossible to live without receiving this mark. For example, no one can buy or sell without this mark, so they cannot even buy necessities. Because their ID is not verified, they cannot move to other places. Above all, the people of the anti-Christ will find out those who didn't receive it and force them to receive it. At this time, not only their neighbors but also their family members will report these people. They will make fools of those who don't receive the mark. People will even consider them an abomination. Some believers may go underground or go deep into mountains to escape from these people of the anti-Christ. They live together continuing their lives in faith. But even though they are so far away from cities hiding in deep mountains, the people of anti-Christ will find them. With cutting-edge technology equipment, they can find those people even though they are in deep mountains or deep under the ground. Even nowadays, we can easily locate somebody through cell phones or satellite. We even have navigators in the cars so we can easily find the place we want to go. All these forms of equipment that we invent for our convenience will someday be turned into a means to control people. When the anti-Christ finds these people, they will try to persuade them first, but if they don't listen, they will take them to places of torture. They will torture the believers very harshly and miserably in an attempt to make them deny the Lord. If they become martyrs, they can be saved. But these people will not just easily leave the believers to be martyred. They will devise all kinds of evil methods to give them the greatest pain possible within the boundaries of not killing them. Let me briefly explain it to you. Before those people take the believers to torturing places, they will show a video first. It is the video of the previous tortures given to other believers. They can also hear the mourning and sharp screaming of those who are being tortured. After making them watch this video, they will persuade with sweet words, saying, "If you will deny Jesus we will let you live as if you were in the heaven that you are talking about." There will be believers who will be so terrified and deny the Lord. Others will listen to those sweet words and deny the Lord. If they stand firm, the tortures await them. As one goes into the torturing room, he will see a very fearful torturing machine. This machine will automatically torture the believer, receiving the data about that person from the computers. Before the tortures begin, the person lying on the torturing machine can hear from a loud speaker at one corner of the room, urging him to deny the Lord once again. If he still doesn't deny, they will very slowly peel off the skin from the fingers. Some people will immediately submit without resisting so much, denying Jesus. But if they do not deny Him, while the torture is going on, they will continually hear that they will live if they deny Jesus. Other than this kind of torture, they also break all the joints of the body, cut off the fingers and toes or arms and legs, or pour boiling oil on their body. Some believers overcome the tortures, but when they see their elderly parents or little children being tortured before their eyes, they finally submit. They cannot bear with seeing their dear ones screaming and suffering so much. A very few people who have upright and firm hearts will overcome all tortures and temptations. Those who keep their faith by being martyred this way will take places in the ranks of the saved.

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