6 The Great Tribulation

3 ½ years done, 3 ½ more to go…. The Anti-Christ goes after the Jew to eradicate all of them from Earth.
Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Daniel 7:25 The work of Anti-Christ (Satan)
Daniel 12 gives an overview of this period, which he “understood not”.
Revelation 12:6-17 The Anti-Christ (now indwelt by Satan) goes after God’s people, the Jew to eradicate all of them from Earth. The Jew is forced to run for their lives:
(The woman is Israel; the Child is Christ.
Time, Times and half a Time=3 ½ years)

Matthew 10:17 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Revelation 12:9 … cast out into the earth …
Joel gives some details of this period.
Joel 2:1-10 (Peter warns Israel Acts 2:17-21)

This all leads to a Hugh Battle for control of the Earth …

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7 The War

Revelation 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue … ARMAGEDDON …..


Joel 3:2-15 reasons for and details of the Battle.
Zechariah 14:1-2 (the horrors of the war) Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Amos 9:8-10 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
Note: As you read this, remember: Jacob is the natural Jew (unbeliever), Israel is the Spiritual Jew (Believer).

Revelation 19:17-19 (more details) And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God. That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

And just when it looks like the Anti-Christ will emerge the victor.

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8 The Return

Psalm 2 sets the stage.
1-3 All on earth are against the Lord.
4-5 The Lord knows the outcome.
6-12 The Lord’s plan begins.

The Lord Jesus gave details of His return Matthew 24:36-44
2nd coming of Christ to Earth

And John saw this while he was in Heaven Revelation 19:11-16

Christ returns just as He left Acts 1:9-12 in a body, to the mount called Olivet.

Zechariah 14:3-15
Olivet will split and a river (vs 8) is formed.
Obadiah 1:15-21

Then reigns the KING of KINGS, the LORD of LORDS takes charge.

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10 The Reign

A 1000 years of peace
Isaiah 2:2-4 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
This is also promised in Micah 4:1-8, Zechariah 14:16-21, Amos 9:11-15
Another reference is Psalm 110 concerning end times
The Lord Jesus will fulfill ALL of the Promises made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: the Jewish Nation.

When the 1000 years are finished Satan released

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11 The Release

The bottomless pit is mentioned in Revelation 9:1-2,11, 11:7, 17:8
It appears to be a vile, horrible place.


After 1000 years of peace… Satan is released from the bottomless pit.

Revelation 20:7 Satan loosed and given power to test, tempt mankind. (Compare JOB 1:6-12)

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12 The Final Battle

Revelation
20:8-9 Final War (bigger than Armageddon)
More on final battle Described in Ezekiel 38-39
20:10 End of the Devil
20:11 2nd Resurrection and Final Judgement – Heaven and Earth destroyed
20:17 The Books (Psalm 149) The judgement (Psalm 110)

3:5        Book of Life          
20:12   Book of Works  
21:27    Lamb’s Book      
20:14   Death and Hell cast into the Lake of Fire    
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13 The Great White Throne


The final Judgement of SIN (rebellion against God). It comes at the end of the 1000-year reign of Christ Jesus on earth. Read Revelation 20-21.

Old testament Saints (Those who believed in God by Faith) will not be there as they went to heaven with Christ at his resurrection (Ephesians 4:8-10).

Believers who have died since the resurrection are also in Heaven,
2 Corinthians 5:8 and won’t be there. And we who are alive when the rapture occurs, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 also won’t be Judged at the Great White Throne.

Then who will be judged at the Great White Thone?
According to Revelation 20, all the unbelievers, unsaved, all those who have rebelled since Satan fell from heaven, Isaiah 14:12-15.

The Devil (having been freed from the bottomless pit, Revelation 20:3,7 will be cast alive into the LAKE OF FIRE where the beast and false prophet are. Revelation 20:10

All unbelievers (alive and those in Hell (who will be brought up)
Revelation 20:12-13 will be brought before the Great White Throne and Judged – GUILTY. They along with DEATH and HELL will be cast into the LAKE OF FIRE. Revelation 20:14-15

Again, NO BELIEVER (those who expressed faith in God through Christ Jesus) will not be Judged at the Great White Throne. Believers judgment was at the Judgement (Bema) seat of Christ:
2 Corinthians 5:10, Romans 14:11-12, 1 Corinthians 3:11-15
Believers never need fear the Great White Throne Judgement.
Believers are at the Great White Throne it will be “To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;”. Read Psalm 149

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14 The New Future

On into Eternity …. What will it be like?? How glorious will it be?? What will the believer be doing??


A NEW Heaven and Earth Revelation 21:1
A NEW Jerusalem Revelation 21:2-27
These appear to be for God’s people, the Jew.
But what about the Believers?
The ones who have trusted the Lord Jesus as their Savior, the Church, during the age of Grace?

As the Scripture says …
Isaiah 64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

The Apostle Paul also reminds the believer …
1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

No One can even imagine; it’s more than our minds can conceive. BUT it will be beyond GLORIOUS!
Remember, there’s a whole universe out there!!!

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Eternal, Everlasting Part 2

Angels are Everlasting  Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Colossians 1:16  For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Satan (Lucifer-Devil) is Everlasting  Ezekiel 28:13-15 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Isaiah 14:12-15 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Man is Everlasting    Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Believers are Everlasting  Ephesians 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 4:24  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
John 3:15,16,18,38 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: …36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: …
Unbelievers are Everlasting John 3:18,38   …: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 36 …: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Revelation 20:11-15  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

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