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the unjust under punish-
ment for the day of judg-
ment,
“and especially those who
walk according to the flesh
in the LUST of uncleanness
and DESPISE authority.
They are presumptuous,
self-willed (daring). They
are NOT afraid to speak
evil of dignitaries (
Margin:
glorious ones, Jude 8, meaning
God’s apostle, Mr. Herbert W.
Armstrong
)”
(II Peter
2:4-10).
Noah and Lot
Spared from Death
The Church of the ever-living
God needs to focus and seri-
ously think about the vitally
important reasons why He
spared the families of Noah
and Lot: They survived due to
their obedience to His laws and
having an ongoing relationship
with Him while seeing all
others flagrantly disobeying
and disrespectfully thumbing
their nose in defiance of their
Creator God and His holy laws!
Is there any question in the
minds of anyone about the
same sinful problems existing
in present day society as they
were in that world? If you think
otherwise then you are blinded
to what is being seen daily via
the News Media!
And like it was then with Noah
and Lot, so it is today: Total
destruction would have already
taken place except for a very
few select people of God who
are living their lives as did
Noah and Lot, as made known
by God’s prophet:
“Unless the LORD of hosts
had left to us
A VERY
SMALL REMNANT
(Matthew 24:22; Romans
11:4-5),
we would have
become like Sodom, we
would have become like
Gomorrah (
completely
destroyed
).
” Isaiah 1:9.
Ten Percent to Survive
in the near Future
Bible prophecies make known
as few as
Ten Percent of
mankind
who are living today
will survive the horrors soon to
be unleashed by Satanic forces
that will lead Israel into the
Great Tribulation—
to be
followed three and one/half
years later—
the feared
Armageddon—a violent
and deadly end for this
age!
The following Scriptures
reveal the virtual decima-
tion to which the nations
of Israel will be reduced
during the Great Tribula-
tion:
Then I said, “LORD, how
long (
blindness to remain on
Israel, Romans 11:7-10
)? And
He answered, “Until the
cities are laid waste and
without inhabitant, the
houses are without a man,
the land is utterly desolate
(
Ezekiel 6:6
). The LORD
has removed men far
away, and the forsaken
places are many in the
midst of the land
(
Leviticus 26:31-39; Deu-
teronomy 28:63-68
).
But yet A TENTH will be in
it (will return after Jesus
Christ returns and liber-
ates them from slavery),
and will return and be
(used by Jesus Christ) for
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