Are you willing to momentarily set aside your view of the rapture and try to interpret scripture from a different perspective? Let's imagine you find yourself confused and in awe of an event that has recently occurred. There are reports of millions of people having instantaneously vanished. After considerable thought, you come to realize the truth in what many Christians were saying. They spoke of a time when God would translate to heaven all who acknowledged Jesus as the true Messiah and received him as their Savior. You also remember them speaking of a time of great trial that would befall those who did not understand the gospel of Jesus and also those who just flat-out rejected him. Deeply concerned that what they said just might be true, you decide to search the scriptures for the truth; in doing so, you discover what the future has in store for those who were left behind. "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 21:36).