Some cite all sorts of examples in the Bible of God sparing His people hardship, as a precedent for asserting that God therefore has to rapture the Church before The Great Tribulation.
But seeing God has already allowed the Church to endure nearly 2,000 years of horrendous suffering - confiscation of goods, imprisonment, torture, beheadings - I don't see why it would be necessary for God to snatch the Church away from more of the same things in the future, in order just to be loyal to some principle.
What I see God sparing the Church from, is the wrath of God - eternal damnation. Jesus died to save us from that - but He didn't promise we'd be spared from persecution while we wait for His coming.
But seeing God has already allowed the Church to endure nearly 2,000 years of horrendous suffering - confiscation of goods, imprisonment, torture, beheadings - I don't see why it would be necessary for God to snatch the Church away from more of the same things in the future, in order just to be loyal to some principle.
What I see God sparing the Church from, is the wrath of God - eternal damnation. Jesus died to save us from that - but He didn't promise we'd be spared from persecution while we wait for His coming.
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