Section 6
kinds of disease. This country is very good, but consider how many people are struggling to indulge their lusts. Many are competing with others to have better cars and houses. But as they struggle for enjoyment, they suffer from the anx iety of life. As a result, that day will come upon them as a snare.
PREVAILING TO ESCAPE AND STAND BEFORE THE SON OF MAN
In Luke 21:36 the Lord says, "But be watchful, at every time beseeching, that you may prevail to escape all these things which are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man." To prevail here is to have strength and ability. The strength and ability to escape the great tribula tion come from watchfulness and beseeching.
The word "escape" in 21:36 signifies being taken, raptured, before the great tribulation (Matt. 24:21), which will be a severe trial upon the whole inhabited earth (Rev. 3:10; Luke 17:34-36). To be thus raptured is to be kept "out of the hour of trial which is about to come on the whole inhab ited earth, to try them who dwell on the earth" (Rev. 3:10). Furthermore "all these things" are the things of the great tribulation. To stand before the Son of Man corresponds to the standing of