Answer: The North Korean Church. For them, tribulation is an every day event.

The answer is not: Rapture.

What the Bible calls the great "Tribulation" is indeed a serious time of Trouble. It will come on all men. Christians and Jews will bear the brunt of it, as they did in Nero's Rome, as they did in Hitler's Germany, as they do in Kim Jong-Il's Korea. There is not even a hint Biblically, that they will be caught up and away from trouble. No promise of God covers this except, "My grace is sufficient for you."

After the trouble comes the judgment. Now, when Christ comes, and all agree on this, He comes to judge. Believers will be snatched out of that scenario in the twinkling of an eye. The sanctified bride of Christ will not be left behind for judgment. The tribulation is not the judgment, pure and simple. Many will be judged, for sure, but the judgment is a time of formal and obvious singling out of the wicked for their eternal punishment. The Tribulation is simply a prelude, a last call. Even in the worst of it, Revelation 16, Jesus is still calling people out, to come to Himself.

Through the Great Tribulation, as the bombs fall and the cities burn and the sword decapitates, Christians will be rejoicing as they realize His coming draws near. They will not complain that they were somehow left out of the Marriage Supper, or had been classed in a lower caste than the "true church"! But with the original saints of Acts they will be rejoicing that they could suffer this shame for His Name.

Western saints of God, get ready! Only an unwise servant will say, "It couldn't happen here." If it couldn't happen here, what do December 7 and September 11 mean to you? It can. It did. It will again. Horrible, horrible suffering will weed out the phony baloney believers who came to Christ only to fill their belly or their business, only to feel good while others bore their crosses.