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numerous movies and written about in a flood of books? They will have to abandon their
doctrines. They will also have to acknowledge that it was because their robes were soiled;
it was due to the lack of a wedding garment; it was their unworthiness that precipitated
their calamity and caused them to not be spared from the day of testing.
But what of those who are kept from the day of testing? Are they raptured out of this
world? Are they caught up to heaven? We know they are kept from the day of testing. They
already have garments of white. They have kept Christ’s word. They have persevered. They
need not purchase these garments through The Great Tribulation, for they have already
stood faithful in the midst of the trials and tests that have come their way.
The answer lies in understanding Yahweh’s plans for His Overcomers. It is Yahweh’s
plan to subdue every enemy of Christ in heaven and on earth through a body of Overcomers.
Matthew 22:44
The Lord said to my lord, “sit at my right hand until I put your enemies beneath your
feet.”
Romans 16:20
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.
It was prophesied of Yahshua the Messiah that all enemies would be put under His
feet, but the outworking of this complete victory will be through Yahshua working through
a body of Overcomers who will rule and reign with Him, and who will destroy every enemy
and cast down all things that stand in opposition to Christ. It is not God’s plan to simply
rapture the Overcomers off into heaven. It is His plan to use these Overcomers to complete
the subjection of all enemies under the feet of Christ.
In Revelation we are given a glimpse of a firstfruit company of saints who will be
present during the Tribulation, but they will be untouched by the Tribulation. This firstfruit
company is called the 144,000.
Revelation 7:1-4
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back
the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth or on the sea or