Quotable

What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day. For each of us the time is surely coming when we shall have nothing but God. Health and wealth and friends and hiding places will all be swept away....It would be a tragedy indeed to come to the place where we have no other but God and find that we had not really been trusting God during the days of our earthly sojourn. It would be better to invite God now to remove every false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding places and to bring us out into the open where we can discover for ourselves whether or not we actually trust Him...time is running out on us.

—A. W. Tozer, The Root of the Righteous, pp. 50-51

While it is true, God is more than able to supply our every need in any age...I can also understand how any thoughtful persons, particularly parents, would dread what is to come, if indeed we Christians were required to face Antichrist before we face Jesus. [But] the Holy Spirit promised us...that “Jesus delivers us from the wrath to come” (Rom:5:9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
See All...; 1 Thes:1:10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
See All...; 5:9). The pretrib message is a reassuring message of “comfort”....I see no “comfort” in believing that Jesus is coming—after we have gone through the worst time of suffering the world has ever known...described in awful detail in Rev. 6-19.

—Tim LaHaye, Pre-Trib Perspectives, July 2001