IF YOU ARE IN THE TRIBULATION YOU MUST BELIEVE IN JESUS NO MATTER WHAT
ONLY JESUS CAN SAVE YOU
An evil time will soon come upon the earth.
THIS EVIL TIME IS COMING VERY VERY SOON. IT WILL HAPPEN BECAUSE GOD'S WORD, THAT THIS WILL HAPPEN, HAS GONE FORTH IN PROPHECY AND HIS WORD WILL NOT RETURN TO HIM UNTIL IT HAS FULFILLED ITS PROPHECY.
This evil time will only come ONCE.
Such an evil time has NEVER been before and such an evil will NEVER happen again. YES THESE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS LISTEN IF YOU HAVE EARS TO HEAR
THE WARNING OF JESUS
Matthew 24:21-22 “For then there will be a GREAT TRIBULATION, such as HAS NOT OCCURRED since the beginning of the world until now, NOR EVER WILL. Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.”
This will be the DARKEST time the world will experience!
NEVER BEFORE has the world experienced such a DARK period of time.
NEVER AGAIN will the earth experience such a DARK period of time.
There have been many dark times in the history of the world when tens of thousands and even many millions were killed in parts of the world while in other parts life just went on. There have been times when pestilences and diseases have taken the lives of millions around the world. Earthquakes, floods, tidal waves, storms, famines, murders and other crimes have played havoc in this world. Billions of lives have been lost in the history of this world. But a DARK EVIL time IS COMING and that time IS VERY VERY NEAR.
You only have to listen or read the news or look around in this world. This world is evil to the core and yet it will become much much much more evil VERY SOON
WHY WILL THIS EVIL TIME COME?
We will stop here just for a moment to explain WHY this evil time will come.
Although this world is getting more evil as the days go by, most of this evil is still restrained up to a point. The RESTRAINER is the HOLY SPIRIT Who indwells the BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS while they are still on the earth. That doesn’t mean that ALL born again believers are doing their job as they should. It all depends how well they YIELD to the HOLY SPIRIT and the WORD OF GOD to allow the HOLY SPIRIT to do His work of restraining evil, including the MAN OF LAWLESSNESS who is awaiting his turn to appear on the world scene as the FALSE MESSIAH or ANTICHRIST (which means “in place of Christ”).
2 Thessalonians 2:6-8 “And you know WHAT restrains him (the Man of Lawlessness) now, so that in his time he will be revealed. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only HE WHO now restrains will do so until HE is taken out of the way.Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;”
We believe the Restrainer is the Holy Spirit at work through His indwelling of the Church.
The word WHAT above is in the neuter gender (RESTRAINING POWER) while the the words HE WHO and HE are in masculine gender (the HOLY SPIRIT).
When the RAPTURE takes place and the CHURCH is removed the HOLY SPIRIT is no longer performing His RESTRAINING POWER as He did during His indwelling of the Church on the earth.
Soon the IMMINENT RAPTURE will take place and the bodies of all BORN AGAIN believers who have died in Jesus from the beginning of the Church Age at Pentecost, will be raised and are united with their spirits and souls that Jesus will bring with Him when He comes in the air and all the BORN AGAIN believers who are alive at the moment of the IMMINENT RAPTURE, will be transformed (changed) from a mortal body to an immortal body and are caught up in the air to be with the Lord. The CHURCH, the BODY OF CHRIST will be complete and Jesus will take us home to the Father’s House in heaven.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST. Then WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN will be CAUGHT UP together with them in the clouds to MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR, and so we shall always be with the Lord.”
John 14:2-3 “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and RECEIVE YOU TO MYSELF, that where I am, there you may be also.“
That is when THE RESTRAINER (THE HOLY SPIRIT) is taken out of the way, because the HOLY SPIRIT indwells the BORN AGAIN believers. He will be taken out of the way of “RESTRAINING” through the RAPTURE of the CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, but He will remain on earth to do His work in the Tribulation period, but more about that on another page.
This EVIL TIME will come because the RESTRAINER is removed and God will use this seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD to bring about several parts of His perfect PLAN OF THE AGES.
One more reason we believe that it is the HOLY SPIRIT Who is the RESTRAINER is that even the most powerful angel, the archangel Michael would not pronounce a railing judgement against Satan when he was disputing for the body of Moses.
Jude 1:9 But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did NOT DARE pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
Only God the Holy Spirit has the power to restrain Satan.
We will discuss them more at different stages and pages on this website.
Here is a short list.
After the Rapture:
1 The Revived Roman Empire will start raising its head will be divided in ten economic blocks (ten kingdoms of the ten horns) with ten kings (also symbolised by the ten horns and ten toes) that NEVER had a kingdom before (so they must be new kings [leaders]).
2 and out of which arise the little horn alias the Man of Lawlessness (later becoming the Antichrist when possessed by Satan),
Daniel 7:8 “While I was contemplating the horns, behold, ANOTHER HORN, A LITTLE ONE, came up among them,……” This will be the Man of Lawlessness who later, just after the middle of the seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD when he breaks his seven year treaty, becomes the Antichrist after Satan has entered him.
3 The ten kings (see point 1) will give their power and authority to the Man of Lawlessness.
Revelation 17:12-13 “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour. These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.”
4 The Man of Lawlessness (the little horn) (Daniel 7:8 “While I was contemplating the horns, behold, ANOTHER HORN, A LITTLE ONE, came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before it; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth uttering great boasts.”) will destroy three of these ten kings (3 of the 10 horn). Many scholars place this destruction of the three kings at the beginning of the seven year Treaty, but we believe this is WRONG. God’s Word tells us so.
Revelation 17:16 “And the TEN HORNS which you saw, AND THE BEAST, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.” Here we see the destruction of the False World Church that arises after the RAPTURE which will happen when the Man of Lawlessness is possessed by Satan and breaks the Treaty and sits in the Temple as God. You see, the ten kings are STILL in tact at the middle of the TRIBULATION period.
5 This Man of Lawlessness will make a treaty’ with many for seven years (the TRIBULATION PERIOD) during which the Jews are allowed the rebuild the third Temple. You can read more about this third Temple on their site. third temple.org which shows that they have everything ready to build the Temple as well as starting the sacrifices again.When the Man of Lawlessness (the little horn) is possessed by Satan he will break the seven year treaty and with the help of the ten kings, destroys all religion on earth. Only the worship of the Antichrist (the Man of Lawlessness possessed by Satan) will be allowed which in reality will be the worship of Satan who possesses him and that is what Satan has always wanted. The persecution of Jews (Jewish Believing Remnant) and Christians will begin for real. The Remnant of Israel will be supernaturally protected by God in the wilderness.
Revelation 12:6 “Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
Many of the Tribulation Christians will be martyred. They will be resurrected at the end of the seven year Tribulation period and reign with Jesus Christ in His Millennium Kingdom.
Revelation 20:4 “Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
1 Thessalonians 2:7-12 “For the MYSTERY OF LAWLESSNESS is already at work; only HE WHO NOW RESTRAINS will do so UNTIL HE IS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY. Then that LAWLESS ONE will be REVEALED whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; that is, the one whose coming is IN ACCORD with the ACTIVITY OF SATAN, with all power and signs and false wonders, and with all the DECEPTION OF WICKEDNESS for those who PERISH, because they DID NOT receive the LOVE OF THE TRUTH so as to be saved. For THIS REASON God will send upon them a DELUDING INFLUENCE so that they will BELIEVE what is FALSE, in order that they all may be JUDGED who DID NOT believe THE TRUTH, but took pleasure in WICKEDNESS.”
After the RAPTURE the earth will be populated by UNBELIEVERS, although a large number of them will believe the 144,000 Jewish witnesses and the two witnesses outside Jerusalem, that God will have preaching the Gospel during the first three and a half years of the Tribulation period. There will also be a REMNANT of Jews who will be saved during the Tribulation period. However, a large majority of them will remain UNBELIEVERS, because they will LOVE evil and will NOT receive the LOVE of the TRUTH. They will come under a deluding influence sent upon them by God so that they will believe what is FALSE, they will believe that evil is good and good is evil. They will follow the Man of Lawlessness thinking he is the Saviour of the world and they will worship Satan because he gives his power and authority to the Man of Lawlessness.
The majority of the UNBELIEVERS will FOLLOW and WORSHIP Satan and the coming Man of Lawlessness because Satan has blinded their eyes.
Revelation 13:3-4 “…………….And the whole earth was amazed and FOLLOWED AFTER THE BEAST; they WORSHIPED THE DRAGON because he gave his authority to the beast; and they WORSHIPED THE BEAST, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?”
They do NOT belief the TRUTH of the Gospel of Jesus Christ Who IS the TRUTH. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the TRUTH, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
They love the DARKNESS because they are children of the darkness and are blinded by Satan so they can NOT spiritually understand the LIGHT. They need spiritual illumination from the Holy Spirit, which they will get once the become BORN AGAIN.
1 Corinthians 2:14 “But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he CANNOT understand them, because they are SPIRITUALLY APPRAISED.”
John 1:4-5 “In Him was life, and the life was the LIGHT of men. The LIGHT shines in the DARKNESS, and the DARKNESS did NOT comprehend it.”
This is not like shining the light of a torch into a dark room and it remains dark. No, it means the Light (the Word of God, Jesus) shines into the spiritual dark hearts of men and because of their inherited sinful nature their connection with God has been switched off and they can not comprehend the Light, the Word of God. Once they are BORN AGAIN and have been enlighted by the Holy Spirit, the switch is turned back on again and they can understand the Word of God.
Psalm 119:105 “Your WORD is a LAMP to my feet And a LIGHT to my path.”
God’s WORD, will enlighten you on your Christian path and will give you great discernment and wisdom.
Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.”
If you do what the verses on the signs above and below say AMAZING BLESSINGS will follow you.
Remember Job 28:28 “And to man He said “And to man He said, ‘Behold, THE FEAR OF THE LORD, that is wisdom; And TO DEPART FROM EVIL is understanding”.
2 Thessalonians 10-12 “and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did NOT receive the love of the TRUTH so as to be saved. For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is FALSE, in order that they all may be judged who did NOT believe the TRUTH, but took pleasure in WICKEDNESS.”
Other reasons why this evil time will come are to TEST those that are on the earth during that time AND to pour out His WRATH on the many who will harden their hearts and die in their unbelief only to find them selves in Hades (hell) awaiting the Great White Throne Judgement after which they will be thrown in to the Lake of Fire, the final hell.
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THREE REASONS FOR THE TRIBULATION
There are three reasons for the Tribulation Period. The first and main reason for the Tribulation is to refine the Jewish people and to bring them to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, Whom they crucified, believing that Jesus is the TRUE MESSIAH. They will be REFINED as going through a furnace to get rid of all impurities.
It is NOT a PUNISHMENT but a REFINING, DISCIPLINE and removal of their blindness, bringing them to repentance and strengthening their faith.
God NEVER gave up on the Jews but has temporarily set them aside until He has called out His Church and starts dealing with them again the moment the Man of Lawlessness will make a seven year peace treaty with many, including Israel. He delayed His WRATH till just after the middle of the Tribulation period when the GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD will begin, also known as JACOB’S TROUBLE, and the persecution of the Jews will intensify. God however will by His Grace and protection keep His Remnant of Jews that will repent and believe in Jesus as their Messiah safe.
Listen to Isaiah 48:9-11 “For the sake of My name I delay My wrath,
And for My praise I restrain it for you, Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
In order not to cut you off. For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act;
For how can My name be profaned?
And My glory I will not give to another.”
God does all things for His glory and He will NOT give His glory to anyone else.
The second reason is for God to judge and pour out His wrath on an unrepenting and unbelieving world.
The third reason takes in most other reasons and is found in Daniel 9:24 “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.” Most of the words in blue will be fulfilled in the Tribulation period and the Millennium.
This will all be completed at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ when He comes as KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS AND THE WORD OF GOD. His Second Coming and destruction of the Antichrist and his armies together with the False Prophet will also bring about the END OF THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES when Jerusalem will once again and forever come under the government and rule of Israel.
This THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES is mentioned in Luke 21:24 “and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES ARE FULFILLED. You can read more about the TIMES OF THE GENTILES on our Topic page “Times of the Gentiles”.
After the TRIBULATION there will come a 1000 year perfect rule under Jesus Christ Who will rule with a rod of iron during the MILLENNIUM. More about the MILLENNIUM on our Topic page “MILLENNIUM”.
The REMNANT of BELIEVING Jews who’s blindness will be removed and who will belief and trust in Jesus as their MESSIAH will come through the Tribulation shining as gold and together with the BELIEVING GENTILES who are alive when Jesus returns to the earth, enter the MILLENNIUM KINGDOM of Jesus Christ in their mortal sinful bodies and REPOPULATE the earth during the MILLENNIUM. The children born of them will have mortal sinful bodies inherited from Adam. They will have to put their trust in and belief in Jesus Christ as their Saviour.
To summarise, here are those who occupy the millennial kingdom at the start:
1. The righteous of the Old Testament up to the beginning of the Church Age at Pentecost, who will be resurrected at the end of the Tribulation period and enter in to the Millennium in their RESURRECTED BODIES and with King David on the throne.
2. The Tribulation believers who died during the Tribulation period either from war/famine/disease or martyrdom and who will also be resurrected at the end of the Tribulation period and enter the kingdom in their RESURRECTED BODIES.
3. The believing Gentiles in EARTHLY BODIES, who have been separated as sheep at the Judgement of the Sheep and the Goats and who will repopulate the earth again and whose children will be born with a sinful nature of Adam and will need the Saving Grace of trusting in Jesus.
4. The remnant of redeemed Israel in EARTHLY BODIES, who will repopulate the earth again and whose children will be born with a sinful nature of Adam and will need the Saving Grace of trusting in Jesus. They will establish and govern Israel in its full glory, under the rule of Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and with resurrected David on the throne.
5. The Raptured and resurrected Church Age Saints who will, in their ETERNAL GLORIFIED BODIES, reign with Jesus Christ over Israel and the nations on the earth from the New Jerusalem which will hoover above the earth.
As Satan will be bound for the 1000 years of the Millennium and Jesus Christ will rule with a rod of iron, many who still don’t want to believe, even under such a perfect rule of Jesus Christ, will keep their unbelief quiet in their hearts and at the end of the Millennium Satan is let loose again, stirring up these unbelievers into the final rebellion, and gather to attack Jerusalem. However fire will come down from heaven and devour them. Satan will be thrown into the Lake of Fire which was prepared for him and his fallen angels, which we can glean from the judgement of the sheep and the goats at the end of the Tribulation period, in Matthew 25:41 “Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been PREPARED for the DEVIL and his ANGELS”
Revelation 12:6 “Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she *had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS”. (That is the last three and a half years of the Tribulation period when the Man of Lawlessness is possessed by Satan who tries to go after the Remnant of the Jews who believe in Jesus as their MESSIAH but when he can not touch them because God is keeping them safe in the wilderness, he will go after the gentiles that have put their faith in Jesus and many of them will be martyred.
Revelation 20:4 “Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had NOT worshiped the beast or his image, and had NOT received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.”
During the Millennium the believers of group 3 and 4 above in their redeemed earthly bodies will live up to a thousand years and they will repopulate the earth with an innumerable number, as the sand of the seashore and their children, as stated before, will have to trust in Jesus as their Saviour and Lord as believers in past ages had to do. However, again an innumerable number will chose NOT to put their faith in Jesus and if they don’t die during the Millennium they will be part of the final rebellion when Satan, at the end of the Millennium will be released from the bottomless pit and leads all unbelievers in a final rebellion against God and they will all finish up in the Lake of Fire.
Revelation20:7-10 “When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison, and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore. And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”
WHEN WILL THIS EVIL TIME COME?
The second picture below depicts three situations. At the left we can see the world as it is now, a mixture of BELIEVERS (both Jews and Gentiles) and UNBELIEVERS (both Jews and Gentiles). it is the CHURCH AGE, which started at Pentecost and will finish when the RAPTURE takes place, which can happen ANY MOMENT, it is IMMINENT.
The picture in the middle depicts the event of the BLESSED HOPE, the RAPTURE, taking place, when the mortal bodies of the CHURCH SAINTS who have died since Pentecost until the moment when the RAPTURE takes place, will be raised in immortal bodies from the graves (whether the grave, the sea, the earthquakes or fire) and be re-united with their spirits and souls that accompany Jesus when He leaves heaven and comes in the air. At the same moment we, the BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS who are still alive when the RAPTURE takes place, are changed from mortal bodies to immortal bodies and are caught up in the air to meet Jesus and the COMPLETE CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, is taken back to heaven by the Lord and so we shall ALWAYS be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST. Then WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN will be caught up together with them in the clouds to MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR, and so we shall ALWAYS BE WITH THE LORD.
Now remember, the CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE BRIDE will be caught up to heaven, and there are only UNBELIEVING Jews and UNBELIEVING Gentiles (non Jews) left on the earth.
The world will grow more evil very quickly because the THE CHURCH, which was the SALT holding back the rot of evil (the RESTRAINING WORK of the HOLY SPIRIT), is taken out of the way and evil has free reign to spread rapidly. This will produce the PERFECT MORAL DELUDED CONDITION in the world so that they will RECEIVE the MAN OF LAWLESSNESS, who comes in his OWN NAME, as their Saviour.
John 5:43 “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if ANOTHER COMES in his OWN NAME, you WILL RECEIVE him.”
Matthew 5:13 “You are THE SALT of the earth;……..”
Jesus is the LIGHT.
John 1:4 “In Him was life, and the life was the LIGHT of men.
The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit make Their abode in every BORN AGAIN believer of the CHURCH and it depends on how believers live their lives how much of God’s LIGHT they REFLECT into the SPIRITUAL DARKNESS unbelievers live in.
After the RAPTURE the SALT and the REFLECTORS of the LIGHT (the Church) are gone and EVIL will spread rapidly around the unbelieving world, which will then be ripe to RECEIVE the MAN OF LAWLESSNESS.
However, God will never leave the world without a witness. There will be witnesses during the Tribulation period and a large number of people will, because of the witnesses’ testimonies, turn to God and accept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. They will become the TRIBULATION SAINTS.
See out Topic Pages “Saints – different groups of Saints” and “Tribulation Witnesses”.
THIS EVIL TIME WILL COME IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD
PEOPLE ON THE EARTH DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD
Looking at the last picture above it depicts a world of UNBELIEVERS who are left behind at the RAPTURE. It is a world ruled by EVIL.
This evil time will take place during the seven year Tribulation period.
Let us quickly summarise what people will be on the earth during the seven year Tribulation period.
- The TWO WITNESSES OF GOD in Revelation 1:1-12, who will be standing just outside the gates of Jerusalem during the first three and a half years of the Tribulation period and are killed just after the midway of the Tribulation period when the possessed Antichrist will have them killed, only to be raised up by God and caught up into heaven.
- The144,000 JEWISH WITNESSES of Revelation 7:4-8 who will be preaching the Gospel and many will turn to the Lord.
- The JEWISH REMNANT, who are the Jewish people that also will belief the Gospel preached by the 144,000 Jewish witnesses and see the Man of Lawlessness for who he really is. God will keep them supernaturally safe during the last three and a half years of the Tribulation period when the Man of Lawlessness is possessed by the beast coming out of the Abyss and starts a massive persecution, first of the Jews and then when he realises that God is keeping the remnant safe, he will also go after the believers in Jesus.
- The Sheep – BELIEVING GENTILES. They are the many Gentiles (non Jewish people) from the nations around the world who were left behind at the RAPTURE and who through the witnessing of the first two groups above and after receiving FAITH from the Holy Spirit, have believed and trusted in Jesus Christ as the true Saviour. Many of these will die during the Tribulation either from war, pestilence famine or as martyrs because of their faith in Jesus. A large number of them will be alive at the end of the Tribulation after the battle of Armageddon when the Antichrist and the False prophet are thrown into the Lake of Fire and all these believing survivors stand (as the Sheep) at the Judgement of the Sheep and the Goats judged by Jesus Christ.
- Read more about this Judgement of the Sheep and the Goats on our Topics Page “Judgements”.
- The Goats – UNBELIEVING GENTILES. They are the many Gentiles (non Jewish people) from the nations around the world who were left behind at the RAPTURE and who will continue their denial of Jesus as the Messiah and who follow/worship the Man of Lawlessness and Satan. Many of these will die during the Tribulation either from war, pestilence famine, wild beast or at the hands of the Antichrist and his cohorts. A large number of them will be alive at the end of the Tribulation after the battle of Armageddon when the Antichrist and the False prophet are thrown into the Lake of Fire and all these believing survivors stand (as the Goats) at the Judgement of the Sheep and the Goats judged by Jesus Christ. Read more about this Judgement of the Sheep and the Goats on our Topics Page “Judgements”.
- The Antichrist and the False Prophet of Revelation 19:20
PEOPLE ON THE EARTH DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD
THE DARKEST TIME WILL BE JACOB'S TROUBLE
YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE TRIBULATION
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD?
We will now take a look at SOME of the things that will happen during the Tribulation period.We won’t mention everything as we would have to write a whole book, but we will point out a good number of them and where possible, link them to a Topic Page if we have one for that particular subject. These things which we will point out here are not necessarily in the right order of when they will take place. They are just to point out to the readers the horrible things that will come to the earth to test, refine, judge and punish with God’s wrath various people that will dwell on the earth during these seven year of Tribulation.
REMEMBER that we will ALWAYS point the readers, who don’t know Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, to the ONLY WAY to escape this horrible time and that ONLY WAY is JESUS.
John 14:6 “Jesus *said to him, “I AM THE WAY, and the truth, and the life; NO ONE comes to the Father BUT THROUGH ME“.
Matthew 7:13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for THE GATE is wide and THE WAY is broad that leads to DESTRUCTION, and there are MANY who ENTER through it.”
Matthew 7:14 “For THE GATE is SMALL and THE WAY is NARROW that leads to LIFE, and there are FEW who FIND it.”
We believe that a large multitude of unbelievers will convert and accept Jesus as their Saviour in the FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS of the seven year Tribulation period. A good number of these TRIBULATION SAINTS will die during the FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS of the seven year Tribulation period, but the majority of these TRIBULATION SAINTS will die in the SECOND THREE AND A HALF YEARS of the TRIBULATION period, also called the GREAT TRIBULATION and JACOB’S TROUBLE.
Matthew 24:21 ““For then there will be A GREAT TRIBULATION, such as has NOT occurred since the beginning of the world until now, NOR ever will.”
Jeremiah 30:7 “Alas! For that day is great,
So that none is like it;
And it is the time of JACOB’S TROUBLE,
But he shall be saved out of it.
Revelation 7:9-10 “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.””
Revelation 7:14 “I said to him, “My lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
Revelation 20:4 “Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.”
After the middle of the seven year Tribulation period, when the Man of Lawlessness is possessed by Satan and becomes the Antichrist, NO MORE PEOPLE will repent nor believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 9:20-21 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, DID NOT REPENT of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; and they DID NOT REPENT of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts.”
Revelation 16:11 “and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they DID NOT REPENT of their deeds.”
Revelation 16:21 “And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, came down from heaven upon men; AND MEN BLASPHEMED GOD because of the plague of the hail, because its plague was extremely severe.”
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD
1. People will be evil and violent.
Here is how Paul warns what people will be like int the last days of the Church age, before the RAPTURE happens. They will be worse during the Tribulation period.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.”
2. Law and order will disintegrate because the Christian Policemen are Raptured.
3. There will be massive CHAOS after the RAPTURE.
Just before the Tribulation period starts as ALL BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS (who form the Church, the Bride of Christ, the Body of Christ,) have been RAPTURED (caught up) into the air by Jesus Christ and taken to Heaven. But this will be quickly explained away with a possible story that aliens have taken the “trouble making Christians” to another planet to be re-educated into New World Order thinking.
THE RIDER ON THE WHITE HORSE
4. A last gentile world government will emerge and conquer the world. A revived Roman Empire mixed with previous world governments. The rider on the white horse.
Revelation 6:2 “I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.”
Note! – THIS REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE WILL NOT COME ON THE SCENE UNTIL AFTER THE RAPTURE HAS TAKEN PLACE. Although we can see the preparations being completed right before our eyes.
This revived Roman Empire will appear as a world divided into 10 economic blocks (10 kingdoms) led by 10 kings that NEVER had a kingdom and out of this government will appear a little horn ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT led by the Man of Lawlessness. It will become the world’s most evil dictatorship under the power of Satan.
On the map below you can see the map the Illuminati has drawn up to divide the world into ten economic blocks. This map comes from about 1960-1970. They will have a leader in each block. Are these the ten horns on the seventh beast identifying ten kingdoms with ten kings of Revelation 17:1213?
Revelation 17:12-13 “The TEN HORNS which you saw are TEN KINGS who have NOT YET received a KINGDOM, but they receive AUTHORITY AS KINGS with the beast for one hour. These have ONE PURPOSE, and THEY GIVE THEIR POWER AND AUTHORITY TO THE BEAST.”
Please notice of GREENLAND and MEXICO are part of the no 1 kingdom, NAFTA, North American Free Trade Association.
5. The unbelieving world will worship this dictator and Satan.
Revelation 13:4 “they worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?”
Revelation 13:8 “All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written FROM THE FOUNDATION of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain.” Those who’s names were written in the book of Life of the Lamb are the Tribulation Saints. Please note the words “FROM THE FOUNDATION“.
The CHURCH SAINTS were chosen BEFORE THE FOUNDATION.
Ephesians 1:4 “just as He chose us in Him BEFORE THE FOUNDATION of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.”
THE RIDER ON THE RED HORSE
6. War will take away the false peace and a large multitude of people will be killed. The rider on the red horse.
Revelation 6:4 “And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to TAKE PEACE FROM THE EARTH, and that men would SLAY ONE ANOTHER; and a GREAT SWORD was given to him.”
Although the Man of Lawlessness who will lead the world into a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT of ten economic states, which are the ten kingdoms with ten kings that never had a kingdom before (TEN HORNS ARE TEN KINGDOMS ARE ALSO TEN KINGS) and makes a seven year TREATY with many, including Israel. He will not be able to keep this peace for long as the rider on the second horse of Revelation 6 release war on the earth which will kill many.
THE RIDER ON THE BLACK HORSE
7. A great famine will occur during the Tribulation and many will die from hunger. The rider on the black horse.
Revelation 6:6 ““A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius:…”
A denarius in those days was worth about a day’s wages. So a loaf of bread will cost you about a day’s wages. Again many will die because of this famine. The world’s economy will collapse because of all the plagues that will torment the earth, causing industries including agriculture to fail which in turn will will cause a world wide famine.
THE RIDER ON THE ASHEN HORSE
8. There will be ultra violence, diseases, pestilence and wild beast that will kill a quarter of the people on the earth. The rider on the ashen horse.
Revelation 6:8 “I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over A FOURTH OF THE EARTH, to kill with SWORD and with FAMINE and with PESTILENCE and by the WILD BEASTS of the earth.
The wars, disasters and plagues will cause widespread famine and diseases, while the wild animals will have their food supply wiped out and will start attacking people, who are to weak to defend themselves. You only have to watch the “ALONE” series to see how hunger can quickly affect a person.
9. Many people that will turn to the Lord Jesus will be martyred during the Tribulation period.
Revelation 6:9 “When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who HAD BEEN SLAIN because of the word of God, and because of the TESTIMONY WHICH THEY HAD MAINTAINED.
These are the martyrs that died in the first three and a half years of the seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD. They are told to wait until their fellow servants and their brethren (Jewish remnant?) who are destined to be killed, are also killed.
Revelation 6:11 “And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they SHOULD REST for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who WERE TO BE KILLED even as they had been, would be completed also.”
Another group of martyrs,, who come out of the last three and a half years of the seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD, are seen in Revelation 20:4 “Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.”
10. There will be very strong EARTHQUAKES during the seven year TRIBULATION period.
Revelation 6:12 “I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a GREAT EARTHQUAKE; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;”
Revelation 8:5 “Then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an EARTHQUAKE.”
Revelation 11:13 “And in that hour there was a GREAT EARTHQUAKE, and a tenth of the city fell; seven thousand people were killed in the EARTHQUAKE, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.”
Revelation 11:19 “And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an EARTHQUAKE and a great hailstorm.”
Revelation 16:18-19 “And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a GREAT EARTHQUAKE, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, SO GREAT AN EARTHQUAKE was it, and so mighty. he great city was split into three parts, and THE CITIES OF THE NATIONS FELL Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.”
This last EARTHQUAKE will be so strong that THE CITIES OF THE NATIONS FELL To us this means that all evil will be removed. All things will be rebuild under the new rule of the IRON ROD of Jesus and Israel.
11. At the end of the seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD the islands will disappear and the mountains will not be found, thus meaning that the bottoms of the sea will come up and the mountains came down making the earth pretty flat (but still round).
With this in mind you can see how many people will be living on the earth at the end of the MILLENNIUM REIGN of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Revelation 16:20 “And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.”
12. Huge, one hundred pounds hail stones will fall down on the blaspheming unbelievers. Many of them will die of this hailstorm.
Revelation 16:21 “And huge hailstones, about one ONE HUNDRED POUNDS EACH, came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague was.
Aurora, Nebraska June 22nd 1003
An 47.6 cm circumference hailstone was recorded on June 22nd, 2003, on a severe thunderstorm that hit Aurora, Nebraska, United States. The hailstone was 17.8 cm in diameter, but no weight was officially recorded as it partially broke off as it hit the roof of a house. Notably, the hail that hit Hamilton County (including Aurora) produced impact pits up to 36 cm across the ground.
The heaviest hailstone ever recorded.
Gopalganj district, Bangladesh – April 14th, 1986
The heaviest hailstone authenticated by official authorities fell during a severe hailstorm in the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh on April 14th, 1986. It weighed in at (1.0 kg).
The intense hailstorm killed 92 people.
Many people that these one hundred pounds can’t happen. They forget or don’t understand that God willed it and spoke through His Word (Jesus Christ) and the H0ly Spirit actioned it when He created the Universe. He spoke and it was there. Do you think a little one hundred pounds hailstone would be impossible for Him? Psalm 53:1 “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”.
Psalm 33:6 By the WORD of the LORD the heavens were made, And by the BREATH OF HIS MOUTH all their host.”
Psalm 33:9 For He SPOKE (through His WORD), and it was done; He COMMANDED (through His WORD), and it stood fast.
I have BAD news for them and GOOD news for them.
The BAD news is that if they DON’T REPENT of their sins and BELIEVE in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour they will end up in the LAKE OF FIRE for eternity.
The GOOD news is that if they DO REPENT and BELIEVE in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour they will end up in HEAVEN for eternity.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS
OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD - NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR HIM
13. People who will take the MARK OF THE BEAST after the middle of the SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD will have a loathsome and malignant sore break out on their body.
Revelation 16:2 “So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and it became a LOATHSOME AND MALIGNANT SORE on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.”
14. An angel will pour something in the sea and the water will turn into blood and all living thing in the sea will die. That will cause a massive food shortage and a horrible smell on the earth.
Revelation 16:3 “The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea died.”
Shortly after death, blood may appear pinkish-red due to oxygenation. However, as oxygen levels decline, the color darkens. This discoloration is called livor mortis.
15. Then another angel will pour the contents of his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water and they will also turn into blood.
Revelation 16:4 “Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.”
There will be a very big shortage of drinking water and many will die from thirst.
16. The next angel will out his bowl on the sun and the heat of the sun will be extra hot and will burn many people on the earth.
Revelation 16:8 “The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.”
The bush fires that are ravaging the earth at present will be nothing compared what it will be like when the heat of the sun is turned up. Yet men will blaspheme God and will NOT REPENT of their sins. Can you imagine that. After all that is happening on the earth they till hate God and love evil. They will NOT REPENT. They can NOT blame God for their misery. They can still repent and belief in Jesus but THEY DECIDE NOT to do so and continue in their sins.
Revelation 16:9 “Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they BLASPHEMED the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they DID NOT REPENT so as to give Him glory.”
17. When the fifth angel pours out his bowl the kingdom of the ANTICHRIST will be DARKENED.
Revelation 16:10-11 “Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became DARKENED; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain, and they BLASPHEMED the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they DID NOT REPENT OF THEIR DEEDS“
If you remember the darkness that came over Egypt during one of the plagues Moses sent onto them. It was so thick darkness it could be felt.
Exodus 10:21 “Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be DARKNESS over the land of Egypt, even a DARKNESS which MAY BE FELT.” Yet they still BLASPHEME God and do NOT REPENT.
18. After the Man of Lawlessness is revealed and signs a treaty with many for seven years (the TRIBULATION PERIOD), including Israel, he will be seen by many Jews as the Messiah of Israel and allows them to build the THIRD TEMPLE.
That this is true is confirmed by Revelation 11:1-2 “Then there was given me a measuring rod like a staff; and someone said, “Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it. Leave out the court which is OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they will tread under foot the holy city for forty-two months.”
The nation of Israel has everything ready to build the THIRD TEMPLE and start all SACRIFICES again as done in the previous Temples. You can view this on their website thirdtemple.org (click on the link). However could it be the start of the ONE WORLD RELIGION that will emerge when the true Church, the BRIDE OF CHRIST is RAPTURED?
Read this snippet from their website: Section C: Finding a place of prayer to the one G-d that will be open to all nations in Jerusalem instantly erases the invention of religions. Why divide those who believe in One G-d? Religions constitute the most severe disaster known to man.
The Third Temple will concentrate the prayers of all people at one location.
The concept of a synagogue, mosque or church is obsolete. It does not matter whether one prays sitting, standing or kneeling position. Everyone must be free to pray to G-d where they want in any language they want and in any position that suits them.”
In the middle of the seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD, when the Man of Lawlessness is possessed by Satan and becomes the ANTICHRIST, he will takes his seat in the Temple.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 “Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the MAN OF LAWLESSNESS is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that HE TAKES HIS SEAT IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, displaying himself AS BEING GOD.
LEFT BEHIND? - DON'T TAKE THE MARK
19. After the Man of Lawlessness is possessed by Satan he becomes the ANTICHRIST and after he has taken his seat in the Temple of God, the FALSE PROPHET orders the people to make an image of the beast. The Scriptures are not clear on what this image portrays, the revived ROMAN EMPIRE, the leader of the revived ROMAN EMPIRE alias the ANTICHRIST or SATAN.
Revelation 13:16-17 “And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on (in) their right hand or on (in) their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.”
Every one on earth is ordered to receive this mark and without it you can’t do anything. Also the ones that refuse to take the mark, the TRIBULATION BELIEVERS, will be persecuted and killed by beheading.
Revelation 20:4 “Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been BEHEADED because of their TESTIMONY OF JESUS and because of the WORD OF GOD, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.”
IF YOU ARE LEFT BEHIND AT THE RAPTURE……DON’T EVER TAKE THIS MARK. Believe in Jesus and BE PREPARED TO DIE for Him.
It is better to die in Jesus and go to HEAVEN than to die in your sins and go to the LAKE OF FIRE.
20. Despite the CHURCH being RAPTURED before the seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD starts, there will be a great REVIVAL through the witness of the 144,000 Jewish missionaries, the two witnesses outside Jerusalem, the angel flying above and the Bibles that were left behind.
Revelation 7:9-10 “After these things I looked, and behold, a GREAT MULTITUDE which NO ONE COULD COUNT, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
Revelation 7:14 “I said to him, “My lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the GREAT TRIBULATION, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
Now many translations place the definite article “the” before “great tribulation” making it to be read as “the great tribulation” which are the last three and a half years of the seven year tribulation period (Daniel’s Week).
The King James Version omits the definite article “the” and makes it read as “great tribulation”. This makes it to be understood that this great tribulation means a time of severe suffering and not necessarily a specific period like “the great tribulation” which is the last three and a half year period of the seven year tribulation period.
21. The false world religion dominated by the Babylonian religions, will be destroyed by the Antichrist and the ten kings (leaders) of the ten economic blocks (kingdoms) that the world was divided in just after the RAPTURE. This will happen just after the middle of the seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD, when the Man of Lawlessness breaks the seven year treaty and is possessed by Satan. He wants all religion destroyed and takes his seat in the temple and sets himself up as God.
Revelation 17:16 “And the TEN HORNS which you saw, and the BEAST, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.”
The harlot here is the ONE WORLD RELIGION, (ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT, ONE WORLD ECONOMY AND ONE WORLD RELIGION). This is exactly what Satan was trying to establish through Nimrod at the Tower of Babel. They wanted to make a name for themselves, live in one area which went against God’s command to go and multiply on the earth.
Genesis 8:15-17 “Then God spoke to Noah, saying, “GO OUT OF THE ARK, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and MULTIPLY ON THE EARTH”.
Nimrod did not allow any religion but the one he and his mother/wife (he married his mother Semiramis) created. There is where the great Apostasy started. He was trying hard, through utter tyranny, to turn the people away from the FEAR OF THE LORD.
Nimrod was the first king of the first world government after the flood and he usurping the place of God and making himself out as being a god, which his mother/wife Semiramis carried on. He and his people were trying to make a name for themselves apart from God. Nimrod also created the first monetary economic system of currency. So there you have it, the FIRST WORLD GOVERNMENT, the first WORLD RELIGION, the first WORLD ECONOMIC SYSTEM.
Genesis 11:4 They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
However God said (you can the TRINITY at work here. See the word US in blue.
Genesis 11:5-9 “The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. The LORD said, “Behold, they are ONE PEOPLE, and they all have the SAME LANGUAGE. And this is what they began to do, and now NOTHING which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. Come, let US go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there THE LORD SCATTERED THEM ABROAD OVER THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH“
Pieter Bruegel the Elder in his painting , The Tower of Babel, 1563 below, cleverly shows the effects the confusion of the languages had on the building of the tower. Thing started to break down and at the end they gave up and were dispersed by God over all the earth.
Below the picture of the Tower of Babel by Peter Bruegel the Elder yo see another photo of Bruegel’s painting AND a photo of the EU Parliament building ins Strasbourg France.
22. The prayers of the Saints (Tribulation Saints) martyred in the first half of the seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD will be answered in a mighty way by God.
Many people who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ as their Saviour will be MARTYRED for their faith and they appear under the altar that is before the throne of God. Their prayers to God for Him to avenge their blood will be added to the golden censer which is in the hands of an angel at the altar and much incense is added to the prayers of the saints in the golden censer, and the smoke of the incense will rise to God.
Revelation 6:9-11 “When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained; and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also.”
Revelation 8:3 “Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.”
Revelation 8:4 “And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.”
The angel then fills the censer with fire and throws it to the earth with result being a massive thunder storm with lots of lightning and an EARTHQUAKE.
Revelation 8:5 “Then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it to the earth; and there followed PEALS OF THUNDER and sounds and FLASHES OF LIGHTNING and an EARTHQUAKE.”
Rest assured, this thunderstorm will more severe then there has ever been.
23. In the beginning of the seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD God will set apart 144,000 Jewish man to witness the Gospel during the first three and a half years of the seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD and through their witness a large innumerable multitude of people will be saved in these first three and a half year.
Revelation 7:4 “And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand SEALED from every tribe of the sons of Israel:”
That these are Jews is seen in the above verse. They will have a special seal of God in their foreheads which will protect them from God’s judgments and from the wrath of the Antichrist.
They will bring about a great revival in the forst three and a half years of the seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD.
Revelation 7:9 “After these things I looked, and behold, a GREAT MULTITUDE which NO ONE COULD COUNT, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;”
The 144,000 witnesses are so successful because nobody can harm them as they are under special protection from God.
Revelation 7:2-3 “And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the bond-servants of our God on their foreheads.”
Revelation 14:1 “Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND, having His name and the name of His Father WRITTEN ON THEIR FOREHEADS.”
24. We now take a look at the judgements of the SEVEN TRUMPETS of Revelation 8:2 “And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.” The FIRST TRUMPET brings about catastrophic environmental judgements from God. Hail and fire mixed with blood will be thrown to the earth and will cause ONE THIRD of the earth to be burned up, all the trees to be burned up and all the grass to be burned up.
Can you see what is happening here? The wild fires of today are nothing compared what will happen after the FIRST TRUMPET of judgement has sounded. All the trees will be gone and that means there won’t be any firewood during the winter. Industries that depend on timber will fail. With all the grass burned up the cattle, if they survived, won’t have much to eat and will die, depleting the food supplies for men.
Think of all the people that will die or have to be evacuated. This won’t be just a couple of countries but mot likely at least two continents.
25. The SECOND TRUMPET sounds and judgement is and another disaster is decreed by God.
This will not only be a very scary judgement but also another environmental disaster. A great mountain burning with fire will be thrown into the sea causing the a third of the sea to turn into blood, a third of the sea life dies and a third of the ships are destroyed. The Scriptures are not clear what exactly that mountain is, but we think it will most likely be a volcanic eruption and the sea might be the Mediterranean Sea?
Just speculating here as the Scriptures are not clear on what or where this is. The main point us, God’s judgement on the unbelievers will again be severe.
26. The THIRD TRUMPET sounds and aA great star will fall from heaven (most likely the solar system) and as it falls on a third of the rives and the springs of waters it will make the waters bitter like wormwood. Many men will die after drinking the water.
Revelation 8:10-11 “The third angel sounded, and a GREAT STAR fell from HEAVEN, burning like a TORCH, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters. The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters BECAME WORMWOOD, and many men DIED from the waters, because they were made bitter.”
The Scriptures are not specific on what exactly this star will be. An asteroid??
27. When the fourth trumpets sounds there appears an amazing display of God’s power in our solar system and universe with a third of the sun, a third of the moon and a third of the stars will be struck and are darkened. This will result that a third of the day will be darkened. Don’t get excited about daylight saving as that will NOT save you.
Revelation 8:12 “The fourth angel sounded, and a THIRD of the sun and a THIRD of the moon and a THIRD of the stars were struck, so that a THIRD of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a THIRD of it, and the night in the same way.
Before the last three trumpets will sound an eagle appears flying midheaven saying with a loud voice WOE WOE WOE, emphasising the seriousness of the last three trumpets.
Revelation 8:13 “Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in midheaven, saying with a loud voice, “WOE, WOE, WOE to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!”
28. When the fifth trumpet blast is heard John sees a STAR which had fallen from heaven. This star represents most likely a fallen angel given a certain job to do. Somebody gives him the key of the bottomless pit (abyss) with which he opens the bottomless pit and black smoke arises from the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace. That smoke darkens the sun and the air, so again the earth is blanketed with darkness. Now the terrible WOE is poured out onto the earth. Out of the smoke there appear locusts that can sting like scorpions. You can read the descriptions of the locust in the verses below. They are nit allowed to hurt the grass, any green thing nor trees, but only the men who so NOT have the SEAL OF GOD on their FOREHEADS. These locusts are not permitted to kill anyone, but only to torment these men are nit sealed in their foreheads with God’s seal. The pain of their stings are so painful that them that have been stung by the locusts seek death but will not find it nor will suicide work.
Revelation 9:3-12 “Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man. And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them. The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle. They have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months. They have as king over them, the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek he has the name Apollyon. The FIRST WOE is past; behold, TWO WOES are still coming after these things.”
29. Before the second WOE is announced the sixth trumpet blast is heard. A voice comes forth from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God and instructs the angel who has the sixth trumpet to release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates. Now here we see AGAIN the perfect timing of our God. The Scriptures tell us that these four angels were bound at the river Euphrates and prepared to be released for the exact HOUR and DAY and MONTH and YEAR, so they would executed God’s instructions and that is, to kill one third of MANKIND.
Revelation 9:13-16 “Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they would kill a third of mankind. The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them.”
These four bound angels are fallen angels because they are bound. Righteous angels are never bound. We must stress that God does NOT empower these fallen angels to do their evil deeds, but PERMITS them to what they want to do, but in God’s perfect TIME. Good examples of God PERMITTING Satan and his fallen angels to do destructive deeds are written in the book of Job.
Job 1:12 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power, only do not put forth your hand ON HIM.” So Satan departed from the presence of the LORD.
Here God permits Satan to destroy all Job had, including his children. However, Satan is not allowed to TOUCH Job.
Job 2:8 So the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your power, only SPARE HIS LIFE.”
Here God permits Satan to attack Job’s body, but he is not allowed to KILL HIM, but to SPARE HIS LIFE.
The same is with these four bound fallen angels, who are prepared for the exact HOUR, DAY, MONTH and YEAR, God’s PERFECT TIME.
The release of these four angels allows them to unleash a large demonic force of 200 million demonic creatures that will arise out of the Abyss and who will go around the world killing ONE THIRD of mankind.
This army of demons is not to be confused with the king from the east as written in Revelation 16:12 when the sixth angel pours out the sixth bowl of wrath.
You can read the description John gives us of this demonic army in Revelation 9:17-19.
Although the 144,000 witnesses and the two witnesses outside Jerusalem can not be harmed by this demonic army. They can kill people who have believed during the Tribulation (the Tribulation Saints) hence you read of a large multitude in Revelation 7:9 “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;” and Revelation 7:14 “I said to him, “My lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
The one third of mankind will be killed by the plagues of the fire, smoke and brimstone. As John does not go into details about what these “soldiers” are, don’t let your imagination go wild. Just accept that they will face a horrible time and death. Those that have believed the message of the 144,000 witnesses and the two witnesses outside Jerusalem and persevere unto death will be part of that great multitude of Revelation 7:9.
These are demonic creatures under the control of Satan but PERMITTED by God to ONLY kill ONE THIRD OF MANKIND. Their number is 2oo,ooo,ooo. No more, no less. It is NOT a number made up by John, but a number HEARD by John.
We believe that these plagues are part of God’s wrath being poured out AFTER the middle of the Seven Year TRIBULATION PERIOD when the Man of Lawlessness is possessed by the beast from the Abyss ( Satan himself) and as the Antichrist breaks the Seven Year Treaty. Why?
Because of Revelation 9:20-21 “The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, DID NOT REPENT of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; and they DID NOT REPENT of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts.”
In the first THREE AND A HALF years many WILL REPENT after hearing the EVERLASTING GOSPEL being preached by the 144,000 witnesses, the two witnesses outside Jerusalem and the angel flying above and trust in Jesus as their Saviour, being the TRIBULATION SAINTS you read about in Revelation 7:9 and Revelation 7:14.
When you carefully read the Scriptures of Revelation you will see that when the WRATH of God is being poured out on this evil world NO ONE WILL REPENT. It is as simple and sad as that. This will happen when Satan enters the Man of Lawlessness who then becomes the ANTICHRIST.
30. Before the second woe is announced another event is described by John. Another STRONG angel comes down from heaven with a little book (much smaller than the book in the picture below) in his hand. Although the description of this strong angel has made some believe that this is Jesus, but this is wrong. We will explain this below the picture.
There are several reasons why we don’t believe that this strong angel is Jesus Himself.
Jesus is never referred to as an angel. He is NOT and angel but the Word, God the Son.
Before His Incarnation the Word appeared as the “ANGEL OF THE LORD” because He had not yet incarnated the body that was prepared for Him to become the SON OF MAN and the PERFECT LAMB OF GOD to die for our sins and have victory over sin.
This is NOT the first strong angel to appear in Revelation.
Revelation 5:2 “And I saw a STRONG ANGEL proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals?”
Revelation 18:1 “After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having GREAT AUTHORITY, and the earth was ILLUMINED with his GLORY.”
Lastly, the angel swears on/by Jesus the Creator. Revelation 10:5-6 “Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, WHO CREATED HEAVEN AND THE THINGS IN IT, AND THE EARTH AND THE THINGS IN IT, AND THE SEA AND THE THINGS IN IT, that there will be delay no longer,”.
The angel lifted his right hand to haven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever and Who created everything. That Person is Jesus Christ, the Word, God the Son.
Jesus will not leave heaven until He comes with His Bride at the Second Coming to destroy the world armies at Armageddon and throw the False Prophet and Antichrist into the Lake of Fire alive.
Now that is sorted! The angel is an angel as the Word says.
Now we take a look at the little book. Some think it is the same as the scroll of Revelation 5:1. We don’t think it is because the scroll has been opened and the content made known.
The little booklet in the hand of the strong angel is open but the content has not and is not revealed to John. A voice from heaven tells him to take the booklet from the hand of the strong angel and to eat it, being sweet in the mouth but bitter to the stomach. Why?
Remember this is all happening during the second woe which is all around the middle of the seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD.
Let us go back to Daniel 12:1 “Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. AND THERE WILL BE A TIME OF DISTRESS SUCH AS NEVER OCCURRED SINCE SINCE THERE WAS A NATION UNTIL THAT TIME; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued.”
Now let us compare this with the warning of Jesus in Matthew 24:21 “For then THERE WILL BE A GREAT TRIBULATION, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.”
Both verses tell us about A GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD which will start just after the middle of the seven year TRIBULATION PERIOD when the Man of Lawlessness is possessed by Satan and breaks the treaty he made with many and stops the Daily Sacrifice in the Temple.
Daniel is told he is not to know the contents of the vision and to seal up the book which has the words of the vision. Daniel 12:4 ““But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until END OF TIME; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase.”
Now we believe that the strong angel has this book of Daniel 12 in his hand but which is now open.
We also strongly believe we are living in the end times and what John received from the book he was told to eat, he has written in the next chapters of the book of Revelation in obedience to what he is told in Revelation 10:11 And they *said to me, “You must prophesy again concerning many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”
Of the seven peals of thunder of Revelation 10:3 which words John was about to write down, we don’t know what these words are, because God’s voice from heaven told him not so write them down but to seal them. We could speculate on what the peals said, but that would go against God’s will, so we leave it there.
The peals of thunder most likely are the voice of God. We read in Revelation 4:5 “Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and PEALS OF THUNDER. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;
31. Once the Man of Lawlessness has signed a treaty with many for SEVEN YEARS (the TRIBULATION PERIOD) it won’t take long for the third Temple to be build. Here we like to dwell for a while on two very important people who appear in the streets of Jerusalem (probably just outside the third temple) and who will prophesy God’s message for three and a half years.
Our summary of these rwo witnesses is as follows:
a. As they are prophets they will be clothed in sackcloth and prophesy for three and a half years.
Revelation 11:3 “And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, CLOTHED IN SACKCLOTH.”
b. They are described as the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
Revelation 11:4 These are the TWO OLIVE TREES and the TWO LAMPSTANDS that stand before the Lord of the earth.
Our interpretation of this verse is that the two lampstands are the two witnesses and the two olive trees are the power of God that keeps the lamps burning enabling the two witnesses to prophecy boldly.
c. Nobody is allowed to harm them and if they do try to harm them fire will FLOW out of their mouth and devours whomever is trying to harm the two witnesses.
Revelation 11:5 “And if anyone wants to harm them, FIRE FLOWS out of their mouth and DEVOURS their enemies; so if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way.”
The translation here is flows but we think a more appropriate word is proceeds from like in the New King James Translation.
d. They can also stop it from raining, turn water into blood and strike the earth with every plague and as often as they want to.
Revelation 11:6 “These have the power to shut up the sky, so THAT RAIN WILL NOT FALL during the days of their prophesying; and they have power over the waters to TURN THEM INTO BLOOD, and to strike the earth with EVERY PLAGUE, AS OFTEN as they desire.”
e. When their three and a half years of prophecysing have ended Satan will make war with them and overcome them and kill them Their bodies will lie in the street of Jerusalem for three and a half days and the people will not allow for their bodies to be buried. Their bodies in the street will be shown all over the world on tv and cell phones we suppose and they rejoice over their dead bodies and send each other presents to celebrate the death of he two tormentors. Revelation 11:8-10
f. Then after the three and a half days the breath of life from God comes into them and they will stand on their feet causing great fear to all who can see it happening. Then they will hear a voice from heaven calling our COME UP HERE and they will go up to heaven in the cloud while they are all watching. Revelation 11:11-12
g. Within the hour of them ascending into heaven a great earthquake hits Jerusalem and a TENTH of the city falls killing 7000 people while the rest in Jerusalem are terrified and give glory to the God of heaven.
Revelation 11:13 And in that hour there was a GREAT EARTHQUAKE, and a TENTH OF THE CITY fell; SEVEN THOUSAND PEOPLE were KILLED in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
This is the city of JERUSALEM and the people who are giving glory to the God of heaven are Jews in Jerusalem.
They will be facing a horrific onslaught from Satan through the ANTICHRIST and his armies. although it is now that God will protect a REMNANT OF JEWS in a special place, which many scholars thing it may be the ancient city of PETRA, a city built in the rocks with a very narrow entrance.
The SECOND WOE has passed and the THIRD WOE will come quickly.
32. Revelation 11:15-17 Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.” And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, “We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign.”
FOR YOU HAVE TAKEN YOUR GREAT POWER
FOR YOU HAVE BEGUN TO REIGN
Let us quickly look again at who the twenty four elders are on the thrones around God’s throne.
In Romans 1:16 Paul writes, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek (Gentile or Non-Jewish)”
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” All must come to Jesus in faith for salvation, and all are equally accepted by Him when they do.
The moment a person believes in Jesus Christ as his/her Lord and Saviour, repents of his/her sins, asks for forgiveness that person becomes a BORN AGAIN BELIEVER, sealed by the HOLY SPIRIT into the BODY OF JESUS, THE CHURCH, THE BRIDE OF CHRIST and living stones in the NEW JERUSALEM.
While we await the BLESSED HOPE, the RAPTURE of the Church, God the Father is calling out ALL those He has chosen in Jesus BEFORE the foundation of the world and whom He has given to His Son as His Bride. Ephesians 1:4
Revelation 5:9 And they *sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with YOUR BLOOD men from EVERY TRIBE and TONGUE and PEOPLE and NATION.
We believe that the TWENTY FOUR ELDERS seated on THRONES around the THRONE of God, represent the complete RAPTURED CHURCH. There is no mention of any other Saints on thrones in heaven.
There is also no mention of any other Saints in heaven receiving golden crowns (stephanos). The TWENTY FOUR ELDERS receive their CROWNS (Stephanos) at the JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST where the CHURCH (the BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS) is rewarded for her service during her Christian life here on earth during the Church Age, from Pentecost to the Rapture of the Church and received their GOLDEN CROWNS, THE BRIDE OF CHRIST has made herself ready dressed in WHITE GARMENTS, the NEW JERSUSALEM made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
Please NOTE: This is AFTER the RAPTURE – the CHURCH is complete, the BRIDE OF CHRIST is complete, the BODY OF CHRIST is complete and the NEW JERUSALEM is complete as they are ALL one and the same. NONE will be ADDED to the number and NONE will be TAKEN AWAY from the number.
When John is CAUGHT UP in Revelation 4:1-2 and saw the Throne in heaven and ONE sitting on it he also saw twenty-four thrones set up around the Throne of the ONE. The twenty-four elders that sit on the thrones represent the COMPLETE RAPTURED CHURCH.
Revelation 1:19 “Therefore write the THINGS WHICH YOU HAVE SEEN, and the THINGS WHICH ARE, and the THINGS WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE AFTER THESE THINGS.
Things which you have seen is the vision of the GLORIFIED JESUS CHRIST.
Things which are is the “Church Age” from PENTECOST to the RAPTURE.
Things which will take after these things are the prophetic visions of the TRIBULATION PERIOD and the end times.
Revelation 4:1 AFTER THESE THINGS I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place AFTER THESE THINGS.”
When John is caught up into heaven he is there “AFTER THESE THINGS” of the Church Age and sees the RAPTURED CHURCH represented by the twenty-four elders on the twenty-four thrones. Most scholars see them as the twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, thus representing the “COMPLETE” CALLED OUT Church of Jesus Christ consisting of Jews and Gentiles.
They have golden crowns (STEPHANOS) on ther head which are the rewards given to them at the Judgement Seat of Jesus Christ, where the motives for their works were tested by fire. This is not a Judgement for salvation as they are eternally secure in their faith in Jesus Christ and can NOT lose their eternal security.
When the living creatures give glory and honour and thanks to Him Who sits on the Throne, the twenty-four elders fall down before Him Who sits on the Throne, worship Him and cast their CROWNS at His feet saying “WORTHY ARE YOU, our Lord and our God, to receive GLORY and HONOUR and POWER“.
They KNOW that they gained the golden crowns because it was Jesus working in them that enabled them to their works with the RIGHT MOTIVES and NOT because of THEIR efforts.
Without going too deep into this.
Although we, as Christians, learn how to do AND do kind works with the right motives, it is because Jesus is working in us through the works of the Holy Spirit, which is His Spirit, shaping us into perfect living stones of the New Jerusalem which He is now preparing for us.
We could not do these kind works without the help from Jesus through the Holy Spirit. Remember Galatians 5:22 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,”.
Colossians 1:29 For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His POWER, which mightily WORKS within me.
Ephesians 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the POWER that WORKS within us,
That is why the twenty-four elders cast their golden crowns at the feet of the One Who sits on the Throne, because He alone is WORTHY to receive ALL GLORY and ALL HONOUR and ALL POWER.
That is why we must ALWAYS acknowledge the Lord in all our ways (actions, words or thoughts) and must ALWAYS give Him ALL THE GLORY.
Yes, we do receive the golden crowns because our motives for doing the works were good, however, it is only because God’s work in us that enabled us to have the correct motives. That’s why we, the RAPTURED Church, represented by the twenty-four elders fall down before His Throne and cast our golden crowns at His feet and telling Him that ONLY He is worthy to receive ALL GLORY, ALL HONOUR, ALL POWER.
THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO HEAVEN
YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE
33. We will now take a look at Revelation 12 where we have different scenes of history. The main characters are the Woman (Israel), the Red Dragon (Satan), the Male Child (Jesus) and the Angel (Michael).
The WOMAN Israel.
Revelation 12:1-2 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; and she was with child; and she *cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.
The woman here represents the nation of Israel and NOT Mary. Although Mary is pregnant with Jesus, it is the nation of Israel that is seen here and Mary is fully represented in this view.
The SUN, MOON and TWELVE STARS stem from a dream Joseph had.
Genesis 37: 9 Now he had still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, “Lo, I have had still another dream; and behold, the SUN and the MOON and ELEVEN STARS were bowing down to me.”
Although in Genesis there are ELEVEN STARS mentioned and this is because Joseph of course is the TWELFTH STAR and the father, mother and twelve brothers are represented in Genesis as the nation Israel. Verse 2 tells us that the woman was with child and ready to give birth depicts of course Mary pregnant with Jesus and about to give birth.
The RED DRAGON Satan.
Revelation 12:3-4 Then another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great RED DRAGON having SEVEN HEADS and TEN HORNS, and on his HEADS were SEVEN DIADEMS. And his tail *swept away a THIRD of the STARS OF HEAVEN and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the WOMAN who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he MIGHT DEVOUR her child.
Let us briefly take a look at this red dragon with seven heads (each with a crown) and ten horns (these then horns will be on the seventh head).
The red dragon here represents Satan controlling the nations of the world especially during the TIMES OF THE GENTILES.
He has of course been around since before the beginning of time, which began at the creation of the universe. As we can read in Job 38:4-7 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding, Who set its measurements? Since you know.
Or who stretched the line on it? “On what were its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone, When the MORNING STARS sang together
And all the SONS OF GOD shouted for joy?”
Here you can read that the angels (sons of God) existed before the universe was created as they sang for joy when God started to create the universe.
The chart below explains the TIMES OF THE GENTILES
Remember the TEN HORNS are TEN KINGS who have NOT YET received their kingdoms but they will receive authority AS KINGS WITH the “beast which is to come” and will be the SEVENTH HEAD, namely the REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE, which will appear openly, AFTER the RAPTURE, as a World Government which is divided in TEN economic blocks and which is currently progressing quite openly. Revelation 17:10
Now concentrate on the Roman Empire on the chart above and you will get a better picture of what is happening in the world today. The Roman Empire “THAT IS” the Roman Empire in John’s time. Some years later, after the 9 AD defeat in Teutoburg Forest by the Germanic tribes and the sack of Rome in 410 AD, the Western Roman Empire was rapidly declining and defeated in 476 AD when Odoacer disposed the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustuslus. This is were the Roman Empire which “IS NOT” appears as if it had a deadly wound. However it was only wounded and quietly operated under the Roman religion. It is now emerging as the Roman Empire that “IS TO COME” which is the SEVENTH HEAD with TEN HORNS, which WE BELIEVE will be openly declared straight after the RAPTURE has taken place.
See the map produced in the 1970’s depicting the world divided in the economic blocks. Please notice the fact that Greenland and Mexico are depicted as part of NAFTA (block 1 North American Free Trade Association) and how the dictators in the North Africa countries were removed one by one to form the block 7 (in purple) with the last one removed was Assad of Syria. Will the Iranian government be next??
Out of this revived Roman Empire (the Seventh Head) will come the LITTLE HORN who himself will also be the eighth and who will be the MAN OF LAWLESSNESS who will sign the Seven Year Treaty with many and who will in the middle of the Seven Year Treaty break the Treaty, and will become possessed by Satan and becomes the ANTICHRIST taking his seat in the Temple and setting himself up as God.
Revelation 17:11 “The beast which was and is not, is himself also AN EIGHTH and is one OF THE SEVEN, and he goes to destruction.”
Many commentators write that the Man of Lawlessness will uproot three of the kingdoms the moment he makes the Seven Year Treaty with many, but that is INCORRECT.
As the Harlot will be destroyed by the TEN KINGS and the BEAST at the middle of the Seven Year Treaty all the ten kingdoms have to be still there. Revelation 17:16 “And the TEN HORNS which you saw, and the BEAST, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.”
The revived Roman Empire will appear as a world government that has been divided into ten economic blocks. When this will happen is not stated, but what we know is that the world (the political-economic world – religious world) as we know it will be changed overnight. It is what the elite call the big SHIFT. However, be clear about it that this WON’T happen until AFTER the RAPTURE.
Looking what is rapidly taking place in this turmoiled world you can be SURE that this can happen ANY MOMENT hence our website is called IMMINENT RAPTURE.
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Hebrews 3:7-8 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS”
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Now after the harlot (representing the evil Babylon system of religion, economy and government) has been destroyed by the Antichrist and the armies of the ten kings who have given all their authority (government) and power (armies) to the Antichrist, it is THEN that the Antichrist will declare himself as God and the False Prophet tells the people of the world to make an image of the Beast. (nobody knows what this image will represent, the Antichrist or Satan, the Bible doesn’t explain this). All religion will be abolished and only the worship of the beast and his image will be allowed to be worshiped. All government will come under the control of Antichrist and Satan. All finance will be scrapped and one can only buy or sell if you received the MARK OF THE BEAST in your right hand or in your forehead. To get this mark you will have to bow down to the image and worship it. If you refuse to take the mark of the beast you will be killed, most likely by beheading.
Revelation 13:16-17 “And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, TO BE GIVEN A MARK ON THEIR RIGHT HAND OR ON THEIR FOREHEAD, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.”
Revelation 20:4 “Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been BEHEADEDd because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who HAD NOT WORSHIPED THE BEAST OR HIS IMAGE, and had NOT RECEIVED THE MARK ON THEIR FOREHEAD AND ON THEIR HAND ; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.”
Three of the ten kings most likely won’t like to give their authority, government and economic control to the Antichrist and thus the Antichrist will uproot three of them.
Daniel 7:8 “While I was contemplating the horns, behold, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and THREE OF THE FIRST HORNS WERE PULLED OUT BY THE ROOTS BEFORE IT; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth uttering great boasts.”
Don’t even try to speculate on which of the ten horns these three will be as the Scriptures don’t tell us. After massive persecution of Jews and Christians the armies of the world will gather in the valley of Megiddo which will be the scene of he battle of ARMAGEDDON.
Revelation 16:13-16 “And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs; or they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for THE WAR OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD, THE ALMIGHTY. (“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.”) And they gathered them together to the place which in Hebrew is called HAR-MAGEDON.” (Armageddon)
Revelation 19:19 “And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and THEIR ARMIES assembled to MAKE WAR against HIM WHO SAT ON THE HORSE AND HIS ARMY.”
Their armies (in red) are the armies of the Antichrist and the seven kings wanting to fight against Jesus and His army.
Him Who sat on the horse and His army (in blue) is the Lord Jesus Christ with His Church.
Revelation 19:11-14 “And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a WHITE HORSE, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called THE WORD OF GOD. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in FINE LINEN, WHITE and CLEAN, were following Him on WHITE HORSES.”
Satan, the Antichrist and their armies will be defeated and destroyed by the WORD OF GOD that come out of the mouth of Jesus as a sharp two-edged sword. Satan gets bound for a thousand years and the Antichrist and the False Prophet are thrown, alive, into the LAKE OF FIRE. The rest of the nations who have survived the Great Tribulation Period will be gathered together in the Valley of Jehosaphat where Jesus sets up His throne to execute the Judgement of the Sheep and the Goats.
Revelation 20:1-2 “Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;”
Revelation 19:20-21 “And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone. And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.”
The events that will follow in the Millennium Kingdom of Jesus Christ will be discussed on their own pages.
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