Promise of Divine Deliverance

⁷⁴ “Hear, my elect,” says the Lord. “Behold, the days of tribulation are at hand, and I will deliver you from them. ⁷⁵ Do not fear or doubt, for God is your guide. ⁷⁶ You who keep my commandments and precepts,” says the Lord God, “do not let your sins pull you down, or your iniquities prevail over you.” ⁷⁷ Woe to those who are choked by their sins and overwhelmed by their iniquities, as a field is choked with underbrush and its path^[a] overwhelmed with thorns, so that no one can pass through! ⁷⁸ It is shut off and given up to be consumed by fire.

²³ and the trumpet shall sound aloud, and when all hear it, they shall suddenly be terrified. ²⁴ At that time friends shall make war on friends like enemies, and the earth and those who inhabit it shall be terrified, and the springs of the fountains shall stand still, so that for three hours they shall not flow.

²⁵ “And it shall be that whoever remains after all that I have foretold to you shall himself be saved and shall see my salvation and the end of my world. ²⁶ And they shall see the men who were taken up, who from their birth have not tasted death; and the heart of the earth’s^[a] inhabitants shall be changed and converted to a different spirit.