Frequently this question is heard when discussing the end times. What's the difference? What is the big deal?...What difference will it make when he returns?

    The difference is that in America, and in many countries around the world today, we are so used to living a relatively high-class life style (color TV's, fine cars, electricity, supermarkets, swimming pools, homes and lands, hospitals, medicines, drugs, etc., etc.), that we don't know what it's like to really do without. We run up all kinds of bills, thinking that it won't matter because before the tribulation comes we'll all be out of here. That would be great under the rapture theory. But under the original teachings of Jesus— that we don't leave until the last day, the situation will be drastically different.

    What happens when the Mark comes out? Without it, nobody will be able to pay for any of the things we have become accustomed to. What happens when those in the church family that have been taught the pre-tribulation theory wake up one morning to find out they must take the Mark to survive? Being totally unprepared, will they be able to depend entirely on God for their very sustenance?

    If you're a teacher of the Gospel, be certain that you have included and rightly divided all the scriptures that pertain to these final times. In that light, we include this extremely important scripture...

   Ezekiel 33:6...But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

..Surely I come quickly.