[Here is the full text of the QUESTION from the reader:]
I have several questions concerning the end times. Once the church is raptured, it is the end of the church age and I believe the end of the age of grace. At this time, the focus of God will revert back to His people and nation, Israel. What happens to Gentiles? Can they be saved, or do they have to become Jewish converts? I know they will be judged on how they treated the Jews during this time. Since the church is complete and gone, what do they do?
I know there will be 144,000 Jewish evangelists who are going to preach the Messiah, but their message can’t be the gospel. So, to what will people get converted? How and whom will they worship?
Here is Arnold’s ANSWER:
While the rapture will end the church age, it will not end the dispensation of grace. The tribulation is still a part of the dispensation of grace. The previous dispensations ended in judgment, and the tribulation is the judgment at the end of the dispensation of grace. We read of many Gentiles becoming believers during the tribulation. Of course, they will not be a part of the body of the Messiah, meaning the church. However, they will be among the sheep Gentiles at the judgment of the Gentiles in the 75-day interval after the tribulation. At this judgment, it will be determined who will or will not enter the Messianic kingdom.
Even after the rapture, the gospel message will remain the same, and people must believe that Yeshua died for their sins, was buried, and rose again. This is the message people must trust for their salvation even after the church has been taken up into heaven (I Cor. 15:1-4). In addition to the gospel, they will also be receiving the “gospel of the kingdom.” This message says that the Messianic kingdom will be set up once Israel becomes a believing nation.
So yes, both Jews and Gentiles will be saved after the rapture, but they will not be part of the church, meaning the body of the Messiah. They will simply be in the category of post-rapture saints.
