Think about it. Why would a Christian need to suffer to prove their faith when the many scriptures I presented prove Christians enjoy Salvation NOW?
Your theology requires ignoring all these scriptures above.
The reality is that the Church will be gone and along with it some of the perks they enjoyed. People can still be saved by faith during the GT, like you say; but that aint us. They will have to endure MUCH hardship and probably most will be murdered or die prematurely due to starvation or other unsavory conditions.
You just showed that you are aware that during the GT people are saved by their faith enduring the hardships upon them at that time. And YES, there is salvation NOW in having that faith because that is the promise/understanding attached to this faith. This is exactly why understanding and having this faith NOW will be critical to the ones that will willingly refuse the 8th king.
But with your wacky notion that every person having that faith NOW will get raptured up at that start of the 8th king, leaving 100% of people that lack that faith NOW and then somehow from among these same people left here, that didn't make the rapture, they are to be ones that have too instantaneous on day one of 8th king's rule have faith and belief in Jehovah and Jesus and refuse to support/worship him/take the MOTB, is absurd.
You are ignoring the Scriptures and their context. They clearly show that those that already have faith and belief in the promises connected to such faith, these are the ones that undergo such time faithfully enduing knowing that it means everlasting life in God's kingdom after the 8th king rule.
[10 If anyone is meant for captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed with the sword. This is where it calls for endurance and faith on the part of the holy ones.]
[12 Here is where it calls for endurance on the part of the holy ones, those who keep the commandments of God and hold fast to the faith of Jesus.”]
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[31 And arms will stand up, proceeding from him; and they will profane the sanctuary, the fortress, and remove the constant feature.“And they will put in place the disgusting thing that causes desolation.32 “And those who act wickedly against the covenant, he will lead into apostasy by means of smooth words. But the people who know their God will prevail and act effectively.]
Who are the people at that time that know their God that will prevail and act effectively, meaning will not be led into apostasy? Do those people know their God NOW today?
[10 at the time when he comes to be glorified in connection with his holy ones and to be regarded in that day with wonder among all those who exercised faith, because the witness we gave met with faith among you.]
At that time, in that day is referring to the revelation/coming of Jesus from heaven with his angels. Who are his holy ones and those that exercised faith?
[7 But you who suffer tribulation will be given relief along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels]
Who are 'you' and 'us' referring to at that time and what 'tribulation' are they receiving 'relief' from?
Lastly, will the presence/revelation/coming of Jesus and his chosen being gathered to him, will that occur before or after the MOL/apostasy comes? 2 Thessalonians 2:1,3
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For God has not destined us for wrath - 1 Thess. 5: 9
This does not mean that they do not go through the GT. It means the wrath that they will not receive is that of which those get for taking the MOTB.
[9 Another angel, a third, followed them, saying in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the wild beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he will also drink of the wine of the anger of God that is poured out undiluted into the cup of His wrath,]
[12 And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake occurred; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the entire moon became as blood, 13 and the stars of heaven fell to the earth as when a fig tree shaken by a high wind drops its unripe figs. 14 And the heaven departed as a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and every island was removed from its place. 15 Then the kings of the earth, the high officials, the military commanders, the rich, the strong, every slave, and every free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 And they keep saying to the mountains and to the rocks: “Fall over us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”]
[ 7 But you who suffer tribulation will be given relief along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels 8 in a flaming fire, as he brings vengeance on those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. 9 These very ones will undergo the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction from before the Lord and from the glory of his strength,]
