Waking Jonah

Editor’s note: Please see also the two previous Charles Cooper series:

The Great Tribulation: Is Fighting An Option?
The Great Tribulation: Is Fleeing An Option?

In this clip, Charles Cooper concludes the discussion about faith–not fight or flight–being the only option during the Great Persecution of Antichrist.

To study these topics in greater depth, Cooper’s book “Fight, Flight or Faith: How to Survive the Great Tribulation” is an excellent resource.

[Part 4 of a 4-Part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Faith is the Only Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 9/20/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: To endure we must be people of great faith; You’re going to have to trust the sovereign plan of God; What He is allowing to happen is His will, and what He allows to happen to you is His will for your life; How you respond will indicate whether or not you fully appreciate that; Our minds cannot fathom the idea that God could allow us to undergo great persecution; We must endure… faith is the key

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Editor’s note: Please see also the two previous Charles Cooper series:

The Great Tribulation: Is Fighting An Option?
The Great Tribulation: Is Fleeing An Option?

[Part 3 of a 4-Part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Faith is the Only Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 9/20/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: The Great Tribulation will end just as God has decreed–with the glorious manifestation of Jesus Christ to deliver His people and pour out wrath on the wicked; It initiates the Day of the Lord, during which God will accomplish the salvation of Israel; God sovereignly decreed it, He sovereignly executed it, and it will sovereignly end; What is our response to the sovereignty of God?; We will have two responsibilities in connection with this final period: to endure and to have faith

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Editor’s note: Please see also the two previous Charles Cooper series:

The Great Tribulation: Is Fighting An Option?
The Great Tribulation: Is Fleeing An Option?

[Part 2 of a 4-Part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Faith is the Only Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 9/20/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: Regardless of the nature of the final 7-year period, it is God’s sovereign decreed time; He is allowing it to happen and it will ultimately be a fulfillment of His divine will–we are in good hands; If God sovereignly allows it, it is not going to be contrary to His will; Part of the 70th week is God’s permissive will, part of it is His perfect will; The period of time is sovereignly decreed, sovereignly executed, and sovereignly ended

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Editor’s note: Please see also the two previous Charles Cooper series:

The Great Tribulation: Is Fighting An Option?
The Great Tribulation: Is Fleeing An Option?

In this new series, Charles Cooper from the Prewrath Resource Institute emphasizes the need for faith in enduring the persecution of Antichrist during the Great Tribulation.

In the first audio clip, Cooper discusses the sovereignty of God in connection with this period of time…

[Part 1 of a 4-Part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Faith is the Only Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 9/20/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: Cooper’s book “Fight, Flight, or Faith: How to Survive the Great Tribulation“; God has called us to a life of faith; Revelation 13:5-10 – “If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain.“; The strongest statement of the sovereign control of God in connection with this period that occurs in the Revelation; The final week of Daniel is first a sovereignly decreed period

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Editor’s note: Please see the previous Charles Cooper series: The Great Tribulation: Is Fighting An Option?

[Part 6 of a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Flight is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 9/6/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: The only group of people promised a place to hide are those in Judea who “flee to the mountains” (Matthew 24:15-16); God will supernaturally hide those people from Antichrist and his forces; The only time/place you should hide is if you are fleeing with the Jews in Jerusalem to the “mountains/wilderness” south of Israel; (When the Jews came out of Egypt, if you were with them, you got protection); Wherever the Jews go in that day, it will be safe

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Editor’s note: Please see the previous Charles Cooper series: The Great Tribulation: Is Fighting An Option?

[Part 5 of a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Flight is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 9/6/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: Hiding will not be an option because so many people will be looking for you; The right option is an option of faith; You’re going to have to trust and obey; Fighting is not an option, neither is flight–there will be no place to go if your goal is to hide physically; There is a place to go if your goal is to spiritually hide–you have to run to the cross; It will be in plain view for everybody to see, but it will give you safety

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Editor’s note: Please see the previous Charles Cooper series: The Great Tribulation: Is Fighting An Option?

[Part 4 of a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Flight is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 9/6/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: Population of the earth when the end comes–how much higher than 6 billion people will it be?; That many people will make it impossible for you to hide; The level of hatred among family members will make the price of a Christian’s life extremely valuable; You won’t be able to trust anyone… who will you tell about your secret hiding place? Are you sure they will keep your secret?

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[Editor's note: If you haven't listened to the previous series featuring Charles Cooper (The Great Tribulation: Is Fighting An Option?), I highly recommend you check that out before continuing with this series.]

[Part 3 of a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Flight is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 9/6/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: Millions of Christians simply wouldn’t be able to hide for 3 1/2 years–the logistics would make it impossible; New technologies can easily locate and identify people; You’d have to go underground and stay there–how many places are there like that in America?

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[Editor's note: If you haven't listened to the previous series featuring Charles Cooper (The Great Tribulation: Is Fighting An Option?), I highly recommend you check that out before continuing with this series.]

Here is more from Pastor Charles Cooper from the Prewrath Resource Institute on whether or not fleeing will be a possibility during the Great Tribulation…

[Part 2 of a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Flight is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 9/6/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: Chicago evacuation hypothetical–think of the logistics

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[Editor's note: If you have not yet listened to the previous series featuring Charles Cooper (The Great Tribulation: Is Fighting An Option?), I highly recommend you check that out before beginning this new series.]

Regardless of where you stand on the timing of the Rapture, I believe this teaching from Charles Cooper is of utmost importance to the Church today.

For the majority of my life I held to a Pre-Trib Rapture position, but about 9 months ago I began to be challenged on the soundness of the Pre-Trib doctrine. When I started reading the Scriptures with more of a normal, natural, face-value approach I was quite shocked at what I discovered.

One thing I can tell you for certain is that it’s worth your time to look into the Pre-Wrath Rapture perspective. If you aren’t able to dive into a full-blown study of it right away, at least go to the prewrathrapture.com website and subscribe to the email updates. You’ll be sure to get some posts sent your way that will really make you think…

I believe the teaching presented by Mr. Cooper is highly relevant for both current and future generations of believers. Whether you think we will personally face Antichrist or not, the bottom line is that a generation of Christians most certainly will.

Either way, it’s a worthy endeavor to study what the believer’s response to intense persecution should be, both before and during the Great Tribulation. Whether it’s us that goes through it, or some future generation of “tribulation saints”, we need to be speaking and writing about these things so Christians know how to lean upon God, not their own understanding, during the End Times.

This will make more sense as you work through the series, and my hope and prayer is that you’ll stick with it, even if you don’t agree with everything Cooper is saying. This teaching, as with the previous series, is difficult and weighty… but in my own personal experience, blessings abound when you consider what God’s Word has to say about these matters.

[Part 1 of a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Flight is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 9/6/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: A significant number of believers would be unable to hide; The evacuation of a metropolitan area would be next to impossible  

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I know this has been a very sobering teaching series… as you listen to this final audio clip from Charles Cooper, please take the following verses to heart:

“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)

“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)

[Part 6 in a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Fighting is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 8/31/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: The spirit of injustice will be almost unbearable; The level of abuse and persecution will be unparalleled and there will be no remedy; That’s when we have to depend on our God; Some generation of believers will have to face this, and the church is doing absolutely nothing to get people ready–we must be ready; Fighting simply is not an option; We have not been given a spirit of fear; The will of God be done

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[Part 5 in a 6-part series]

The picture should start getting a little more clear…

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Fighting is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 8/31/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: Killing not an option because of who you would have to kill; Mark 13:12-13 – You’d be fighting against your own family; The very person you may have to put the gun to is your own child–that is not what God is calling us to; “And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved” (physically delivered); Endurance is having the spiritual fortitude to not yield to the desire to revert to “eye for eye and tooth for tooth”; God will not set aside His Word during this time–we must have the courage to stand on it; Learn how to walk by faith in the face of great opposition

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[Part 4 in a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Fighting is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 8/31/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: Dying is not the worst thing that can happen to you; We want to fight because we’re Americans, not because we’re Christians; There will come a time when injustice is the order of the day; Paul and other New Testament writers understood that to die for Christ is a privilege; Millions of Christians simply will not be able to fight during this time; There is a better option–we must be people of faith; Death for Christ is an honor, and it always will be; Acts 21:13-14 – Paul understood that dying is not the worst thing that can happen to a believer, being found unfaithful is; Faithfulness at any cost

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More from Pastor Charles Cooper…

[Part 3 in a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Fighting is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 8/31/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: There will be a certain number of people martyred for the cause, and there’s nothing you can do; Fighting not an option because you’d find yourself in opposition to what God is allowing; Revelation 14:12 – You will have to endure, you will have to fight… but your fighting is not to live, but to be faithful; Revelation 20:4 – The consequence for giving witness/testimony to Christ goes up (to capital punishment)

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