The tribulation and rapture are depicted in the story of the fiery furnace in the book of Daniel. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego represent three of the four churches from Revelation. The fourth church of Philadelphia is not represented by these three men, but by Daniel. Daniel was spared the wrath of the king, while his friends were to be burned in the 7 times hotter fiery furnace, which is a model of the great tribulation. Daniel is set aside from this judgment and abides in the king's palace, just as the church, the bride of Christ, is removed from the tribulation and lives with Christ in the place prepared for them in heaven for the duration of the tribulation. The ones who remain through the tribulation are kept safe from harm just as the 3 were thrown into the 7 times hotter fiery furnace but not a hair on their heads was singed.
The tribulation and rapture are depicted in the story of the fiery furnace in the book of Daniel. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego represent three of the four churches from Revelation. The fourth church of Philadelphia is not represented by these three men, but by Daniel. Daniel was spared the wrath of the king, while his friends were to be burned in the 7 times hotter fiery furnace, which is a model of the great tribulation. Daniel is set aside from this judgment and abides in the king's palace, just as the church, the bride of Christ, is removed from the tribulation and lives with Christ in the place prepared for them in heaven for the duration of the tribulation. The ones who remain through the tribulation are kept safe from harm just as the 3 were thrown into the 7 times hotter fiery furnace but not a hair on their heads was singed.
How do we know we are Daniel and not Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego? The guideline we have to know that is this:
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." Luke 21:34-36
The tribulation and rapture are depicted in the story of the fiery furnace in the book of Daniel. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego represent three of the four churches from Revelation. The fourth church of Philadelphia is not represented by these three men, but by Daniel. Daniel was spared the wrath of the king, while his friends were to be burned in the 7 times hotter fiery furnace, which is a model of the great tribulation. Daniel is set aside from this judgment and abides in the king's palace, just as the church, the bride of Christ, is removed from the tribulation and lives with Christ in the place prepared for them in heaven for the duration of the tribulation. The ones who remain through the tribulation are kept safe from harm just as the 3 were thrown into the 7 times hotter fiery furnace but not a hair on their heads was singed.
How do we know we are Daniel and not Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego? The only guideline we have to know that is this:
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." Luke 21:34-36