Briefly,two events are on the horizon: The Rapture and the Great Tribulation...
GLORY (for the Christians) : The Bridegroom is coming for the bride. The good news is that God has a fresh new world prepared for His children, and it will be a world where righteousness dwells. It will be more beautiful than anything we have ever seen. There will be no more sorrow, tears, pain and death. Everything will be indescribably beautiful. If God can make a rose bloom in the midst of decay, just think what He will be able to do without decay!
GREAT TRIBULATION (for the unbelievers) : These are things like wars, famines, and earthquakes. Such things are called the beginning of birth pains. Of course we know that birth pains increase in frequency and intensity as they progress. We see these birth pains proceed to include things like hatred, persecution, and martyrdom. In fact, in (Revelation 6:9) we learn that many Christians (those who reject the mark of the beast) will be martyred. Perhaps it was this fact that made the prophet Daniel sick when he learned of it and the same vision may have made John weep, because he saw believers coming out of the midst of the great tribulation (Revelation 7:14).
Right now (as we speak), Christians are being persecuted and killed for their faith in some parts of the world.
Those who are found in the Book of Life are blessed. The benefits of that book of life is outlined in (Revelation 3:5). Those who are found in there will be dressed in white, clothed in purity and incorruptibility, and will be acknowledged by Jesus Himself before His Father. The alternate scenario, reserved for the unbeliever, is anything but attractive.
God will execute His plans according to His timetable... just as it was in Noah's time -- when the end eventually came, the unbelievers found themselves without grace in a flood of God’s destructive justice.
It is very clear from scripture that God’s wrath is stored up for the last days to be released and poured out on those who refused to acknowledge the only God of the Universe. By their active rebellion, they seal their fate. They make their own choice to turn away from the only source of life, redemption and salvation.
We read about the antichrist and his armies desolating the temple and the holy city Jerusalem for forty two months. The actions of the antichrist upon the earth are absolutely blasphemous and destructive to God’s people, the Holy City, and God’s creation. Antichrist unleashes war, death, famine and pestilence upon God’s people and the rest of the world as well. The kingdom of antichrist consumes the entire world and antichrist demands to be worshipped as God. It truly cannot get any worse than this absolute depravity and evil rebellion. God allows this to continue for forty two months, but at the appointed time, at the consummation of the Seventieth Week of Daniel, God deals once and for all with antichrist and his armies, and the destruction which antichrist has wrought upon the earth and God’s people.
If you are not a Christian today, ask yourself why not? God has prepared the way for you to come to Him. He paid the price!