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Can people repent and be saved after the rapture? Yes. Millions will repent and come to Christ for salvation during the tribulation that follows the rapture of the church. We know this because John, who was given a vision of that time, saw millions of people dressed in dazzling white robes standing before the throne of God. There were so many of them that no man could count them. An “elder” in heaven asked John who these people were. John did not know, but he knew that the questioner knew. The conversation went like this, according to John, who recorded it in Revelation 7:14, “And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said unto me, These are they which came out of the great tribulation: and they have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” So, it is evident that people can repent and be saved after the rapture takes place. However, the question becomes a little more problematic when we ask whether those in this present era, the Church Age, who have heard the gospel, understood that Jesus is the only way to salvation, but rejected God’s gift of grace for redemption, will be given another chance during the Tribulation. God Himself will send those people who have hardened their hearts and rejected His Son “strong error.” Scripture says, “And for this reason God will send them strong error, that they should believe the lie, that they all might be condemned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thessalonians 2:11,12). Many have assumed that the previous verse means that people who had a chance to be saved before the Rapture but rejected Christ will have no hope of salvation after the Rapture. But 2 Thessalonians 2 does not actually say that this will be the case. This Scripture indicates that all who reject God’s call to salvation and choose to remain in their sin will be handed over to Satan and his trouble-man, the Antichrist. They will fall for his lies and be damned forever. They will be damned beyond redemption when they receive the mark of the Antichrist. (See Revelation chapter 13.) The lies of the Antichrist will be powerful and seductive, just as Lucifer’s lies were nearly irresistible to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. A person’s chances of coming to faith in Jesus Christ for salvation will be greatly hindered during the Great Tribulation. Today is the day of salvation!