You have already made this clear, that you claim this to be so. And you have said we need to go by what the Bible says.
Correct , The Word of Jesus gives us the commands that He wants his followers to do- but first address matters such as common sense /age of accountability/ juvenile v adult responsibilities , God does not hold young children accountable that have not lived long enough to understand , nor does our judicial system that originated from the Holy Scriptures , people who have lived long enough to learn and understand are indeed held accountable - thus the reason for the age of accountability , thus the reason the judicial system says 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' as they tired of people committing crimes and they say they did not know it was illegal
Jesus gave us a list of things all through the bible through His teachings as well as other scriptures that lay the teachings and foundation as to how His
followers are expected to live and love and obey - Do unto others as you would have them do unto you - Jesus speaks in many ways about what a good Shepard is and what a good father is ,His people shall know His voice if they are willing to know Him in a personal way
While you focus on the OT - you ignore what Jesus taught - The very same Jesus that died for your sins so you can spend eternity with Him , His teachings you ignore so you can focus on how God did things BEFORE Jesus
Paid the penalty for you
In Gods word just as in our world today considers anyone that causes people to suffer -must suffer for causing that suffering , Jesus set the example of how we are expected to live , love , obey and follow
Our society stems from those teachings of the bible - some known as the Golden Rule - We know that God cannot lie and cannot do evil so then we know that He will never cause us to behave in a evil way - Freewill is given and it comes with responsibility, just as people have freewill to drink alcohol and freedom to drive a car - if they drive a car while drunk they have a responsibility to not violate the law and when they do they pay the penalty
People are given freewill - freedom to choose to live according to what Jesus taught and freedom to ignore it and live in whatever manner they choose.
There is a responsibility that goes with that freedom and God will not force anyone to follow Him , but if they choose not to do so there is a penalty they will have to pay for rejecting Jesus as King of Kings and Lord of Lord and HIS word has told us exactly what that penalty will be if they choose to reject Jesus - so they have no excuse when it is time for them to be judged
Jesus is no hypocrite - he does not ask us to live by His rules then turn those rules against those he says he loves - which is what it would be if he caused those he says he loves to go through the worst event in the history of the earth -
People have freewill and with that comes responsibility , Jesus plainly says that people that have obeyed Him and kept His Word - Kept their patience in Him and trusted in Him through the course of their lives after accepting Him as Lord of their lives ,
He will keep us out of that time designated for those who did not trust in Him , did not accept Him as Lord
Even so, when God pleases, He puts us in safer situations, like how you say He did with Noah.
God has not given us any command to build an ark for safety that we may all be able to sail away from the horrendous things to come
There is no indication of any kind of any of instruction of any of Gods people to build anything to protect us from what is to come - simple reason for that - we don't need to build anything for we will not be here to endure it.
Jesus said to go into all the world and preach the gospel and when this has been done -then the end of the age will come - No mention of any further instruction on what to do to protect ourselves , no mention that Jesus in spirit walk with us through any fire that may happen everywhere on the planet and the same time -
No instructions of any kind , not even a hint at it , because Jesus has already told us that he will keep us from it , if he meant to say through that is what he would have said , but he did not say that
All scripture that will be written has been written - there will not be any more written , so we follow what Jesus taught that He is the Good Father that will keep us from that hour of testing because if we follow what he taught in how to live and trust in Him we have already passed the test of putting Jesus first in our lives , and not follow after false gods
people that chase after false gods , whatever that may be will go through that testing , which is why He sends that man of sin /man of lawlessness to convince those people who reject Jesus as messiah to believe a lie that the man of lawlessness is the messiah , very simple Jesus gives people what they want , they reject Him so he sends a man they will accept - but he causes them to believe a lie , part of Gods plan on how he deals with those who refuse to repent of their wicked ways
You are welcome to give scriptures.
I do not assume how many real Christians will be on this earth . . . at that time. Jesus says that "few" find the way > Matthew 7:14. So, I do not assume that people I don't even know personally are or are not Christians.
When I have time I can provide scripture
You can simply research the stats to see that there are 2 billion at least people today that have professed they have accepted Jesus as Lord of their lives , that gives a factual basis of approximately now many people have accepted Jesus , and if we are protected through the GT that number indicates how many people will need a place to live , food , electricity, jobs
clothing , all the things people take for granted today-
Facts of how will you survive living in a time where a man of lawlessness/beast demands everyone worship him as God or you will be killed , demands that you must accept the mark that you must worship him before you can but food or anything else ,
and if you accept it because you or your babies are starving you give up any chance of spending eternity with Jesus - a great tribulation that can cause people who have accepted Jesus as Lord , accepting the mark just to get food for their children resulting in those people accepting the mark to spend eternity in the lake of fire because they chose to feed their children and had to accept the mark to do it
Our good Father would never put that type of choice on someone who HE loves as it goes against all That Jesus taught
But we do have in Revelation chapter seven that "great multitude which no one could number", and the elder says they "come out of the great tribulation". You can come out, by dying during the tribulation. You can come out at the end of it. If no one is able to number these, then they could be in the billions.
And scripture is clear how God is able to take care of all these people.
And I can personally see how it could work practically.
For one example > if those locusts are stinging and tormenting evil people so the wicked are running scared, God can have them dropping their food and running, and we can eat the food without having to pay for it.
What scripture do you have that addresses taking care of the people in the GT, ,well at least you have an imagination, but what you are not recognizing is how it really plays out , consider those locusts are evil wicked creatures that do not know who is a child of God and who is not anymore than a rabid dog does , and they do not care , there is no scripture that says they only attack the wicked and not Gods people - the Great testing is on the inhabitants of earth , if you are here you are an inhabitant of earth - there is only 144000 people that get a special seal that protects them , to try to say that it means all Christians is simply false - if it was to mean that , it would say that and no specific number of people would be mentioned .
If you are in an area that has vicious dogs and they attack it will not stop to think to attack the wicked person and not bother the Christian as it does not know or care , if you are present you will be attacked just as quickly as the wicked person and you will not have the pleasure to pick up the food that is dropped as you will be running for your life
