Page 12 - Statement of Beliefs
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IN A PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE
FOR ALL DEEMED BY GOD
TO BE WISE VIRGINS
AT THE COMING OF CHRIST.
ALL FOOLISH VIRGIN BELIEVERS WILL
BE LEFT BEHIND FOR THE TRIBULATION
"THEN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN SHALL BE LIKENED TO
TEN VIRGINS WHO TOOK THEIR LAMPS AND WENT OUT TO
MEET THE BRIDEGROOM. NOW FIVE OF THEM WERE WISE,
AND FIVE WERE FOOLISH. THOSE WHO WERE FOOLISH TOOK
THEIR LAMPS AND TOOK NO OIL WITH THEM, BUT THE WISE
TOOK OIL IN THEIR VESSELS WITH THEIR LAMPS… AND AT
MIDNIGHT A CRY WAS HEARD: 'BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM IS
COMING; GO OUT TO MEET HIM!' THEN ALL THOSE VIRGINS
AROSE AND TRIMMED THEIR LAMPS. AND THE FOOLISH SAID
TO THE WISE, 'GIVE US SOME OF YOUR OIL, FOR OUR LAMPS
ARE GOING OUT.‘… AND WHILE THEY WENT TO BUY,
THE BRIDEGROOM CAME, AND THOSE WHO WERE READY WENT
IN WITH HIM TO THE WEDDING; AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT.
AFTERWARD THE OTHER VIRGINS CAME ALSO, SAYING,
'LORD, LORD, OPEN TO US!' BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID,
'ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, I DO NOT KNOW YOU.‘
"WATCH THEREFORE, FOR YOU KNOW NEITHER THE DAY NOR
THE HOUR IN WHICH THE SON OF MAN IS COMING.”
Matt 25:1-13
“FOR THE TIME HAS COME FOR JUDGMENT TO BEGIN
AT THE HOUSE OF GOD; AND IF IT BEGINS WITH US FIRST,
WHAT WILL BE THE END OF THOSE
WHO DO NOT OBEY THE GOSPEL OF GOD?
NOW IF THE RIGHTEOUS ONE IS SCARCELY SAVED,
WHERE WILL THE UNGODLY AND THE SINNER APPEAR?”
1 Pet. 4:17