Coming up, Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth addresses a debate. Will the church be raptured before the Great Tribulation or not?

I have researched this. I have read probably dozens of commentaries on both sides of this. I have thought long and hard about this, and I'm going to tell you what I believe. Are you ready?

We'll hear Nancy's answer today on the Revive Our Hearts podcast. Our host is Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Heaven

Rules. It's September 26, 2023, and I'm Dana Gresh. Yesterday, we looked at one of the rewards

promised to the first century church.

They were told that their enemies would be subdued and that some would be converted.

Today, we'll explore more promises to this church and to us.

As Nancy continues in this series, encouragement to persevere.

Most of you know the name Eric Little.

He was the Scottish runner.

He represented Great Britain in the 1924 Olympics in Paris.

And the movie has made the story famous, though I learned in looking this up that there's

some details in the movie that aren't quite accurate, but it's a great story nonetheless.

When Eric learned that the qualifying heats for his best event, the 100 meters race,

were to be held on a Sunday, he withdrew from the race and ran instead in the 400 meters race,

one that he had not trained as long for.

And as he went to the starting blocks, an American trainer slipped a

piece of paper in his hand that had on a quotation from 1 Samuel chapter 2. It had this phrase,

Those who honor me, I will honor. Eric Little ran with that piece of paper in his hand, and as you know, not only won the race,

but broke the existing world record.

Eric had honored the Lord, and God honored him, gave him the strength to run a race that he

had been expected to lose. Well, as we turn back to the

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