Tribulation

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THE TRIBULATION

PRESENTED BY

JOY JOSEPH MUNDUKOTTACKAL

KONKANI CHRISTIAN (BRETHREN)

ASSEMBLY


THE TRIBULATION

THE BRIEF STUDY COVERS

• What the tribulation is ?

• For whom it is determined ?

• Why the tribulation period is set ?

• How long will be the tribulation period ?

• Will the Church pass thru tribulation ?

• Arguments in favour and against.

• How it will affect the world ?

• Events during the tribulation period.

• What are the signs of the tribulation ?

• How will be the end of tribulation ?

• What after the tribulation ?


TRIBULATION(WHAT THE TRIBULATION IS ?)

WHAT EXACTLY THE TRIBULATION IS ?

• It is a time of troubles revealed

• It is the time that follows the rapture

• It is the time between rapture and revelation

• It is the day of the Lord

• It is the day of the wrath of God

• It is the day of the vengeances of the Lord

• It is the 70th week determined

• It is the days of Jacob’s troubles

• It is the refining period of Israel


TRIBULATION

• IT IS THE TIME OF TROUBLES REVEALED Mat 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.

• IT IS TIME THAT FOLLOWS THE RAPTURE 2 Thes 2: 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not

come, except there come a *falling away (RAPTURE) first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

• TIME BETWEEN RAPTURE AND REVELATION Matthew 24: 29- 30 *Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall

the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. (* Read Rev.6: 12-17)

(*“Falling away” does not mean “Apostasy” in original text)


TRIBULATION

• IT IS THE DAY OF THE LORD 2 The. 2: 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled,

neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

• IT IS THE DAY OF WRATH Luke 21: 23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them

that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

• IT IS THE DAY OF VENGEANCE OF THE LORD Luke 21: 22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things

which are written may be fulfilled.

Isaiah 26: 21 behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:


TRIBULATION

• IT IS THE 70TH WEEK REVEALED

• Daniel 9: 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

• Daniel 9: 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.


TRIBULATION

• IT IS THE REFINING PERIOD OF ISRAEL

Zechariah 13: 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

• IT IS THE DAYS OF JACOB’S TROUBLE

Jeremiah 30: 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

Daniel 12: 1 and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time:


TRIBULATION(FOR WHOM IT IS DETERMINED ?)

THE 70TH WEEK

• Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people (Daniel’s) and upon thy (Jerusalem) holy city,

to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, (Is.4: 4; 43:25)

and to make reconciliation for iniquity, (Is.40: 2; 59: 20-21) and to bring in everlasting righteousness, (Is.10:21-22; Is.45: 25) and to seal up the vision and prophecy, (Is.2: 3; Is.43:10) and to anoint the most Holy. (Is.56:7; 60: 14)

• Daniel 10:14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.


TRIBULATION(WHY THE TRIBULATION IS SET ?)

THE LORD WILL REFINE HIS PEOPLE

• Ezekiel 20: 32-33 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

As I live, saith the Lord GOD,

surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:

• Ezekiel 20: 37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:


TRIBULATION(WHY THE TRIBULATION PERIOD SET ?)

ONE WEEK REMAINS NOW

• Daniel 9: 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, (Jews & Jerusalem)

• to finish the transgression,• and to make an end of sins, • and to make reconciliation for iniquity,• and to bring in everlasting righteousness,• and to seal up the vision and prophecy,• and to anoint the most Holy.

Jeremiah 32: 31 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; (Reason why to the city of Jerusalem)


TRIBULATION(HOW LONG THE PERIOD OF TRIBULATION ?)

HE WILL CONFIRM THE COVENANT

• Daniel 9: 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.

• CALCULATION OF SEVENTY WEEKS.

• Daniel 9: 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city.

• Daniel 9: 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks,

• and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.(7+ 62= 69)


TRIBULATION(HOW LONG WILL BE THE TRIBULATION ?)

• THE FINAL ONE WEEK

• Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself:

• Daniel 9:27 And he (beast) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

(Between the 69th and 70th week, came in the church period; so one week remains to be fulfilled in relation to Jews)

Church was a mystery (Rom.16:14-15) till Lord revealed (Mat.16:18)


TRIBULATION

• Weeks are not weeks of seven days.

The original word is “SHABUA” or “HEPTADS”

SHABUA means only SEVENS (doesn’t carry connotation of days, week, or years)

• It is seven years of 360 days each (learn below)

Daniel 9: 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.

Revelation 12: 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. (Ref: Petra of Arabia)

(Number of days, or months said in reference to “midst of the week” helps us to learn “Shabua” or “sevens” as 7 years of 360 days each)


TRIBULATION(Events during middle of tribulation)

• TWO WITNESS’S MINISTRY (Rev.11: 3-13)

Time of their ministry

• Revelation 11: 3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. (former part of 70th week)

(May be Enoch and Elijah- Reason- 1.Cor.15: 50)

(1260 DAYS = 42 Months= 3 ½ years)

• Revelation 11: 7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.


TRIBULATION(Events during the middle of tribulation)

• SATAN CAST DOWN TO THE EARTH Revelation 12: 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old

serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

• DRAGON (Satan) GIVES POWER TO BEAST Revelation 13: 4-5 And they worshipped the dragon which gave

power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. (3 ½ years) (latter part of 70th week)

(Latter part will be days of the cruel rule of Anti-Christ)


TRIBULATION

NUMBER OF DAYS DECIDED

• Daniel 12: 6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?

• Daniel 12: 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half (3 ½ YEARS)

• Revelation 11: 2 and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. (3 ½ yrs)

(End of the times of Gentiles which begun in BC.606- Lk.21: 24)


TRIBULATION

CALCULATING THE 70 WEEKS

• 42 Months + 42 Months= 84 = 7 years = 1 Week• (7 x 7 ) + (62 x 7) = 49+ 434= 483 Years• 7 Weeks+ 62 Weeks= 69+ 1 week= 70 Weeks• 70 weeks (Shabua) are of 7 years= 490 years

• Decree to restore and rebuild

1. By Cyrus –539 BC – (Ezra 6: 3; Is.44: 28) To rebuild temple

2. By Darius- 519 BC –(Ezra 6: 12) About temple 3. By Artaxerxes- 457 BC- (Ezra 7: 13-26) Of return with Ezra 4. By Artaxerxes (again)– 445 BC- (Neh.2: 1; 7) Restore walls..

(From 445 BC, 483 years reaches AD.27; the year of the beginning of Lord’s public ministry- Dan. 9: 25 – Prince – Lk.4: 18)


TRIBULATION

WILL CHURCH PASS THRU TRIBULATION ?

• THEORIES ON RAPTURE

1. Pre-tribulation rapture

2. Mid-tribulation rapture 3. Post-tribulation rapture

CHURCH WILL NOT PASS THROUGH TRIBULATION

(I BELIEVE IN THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE)

• 1 Cor.15: 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (Rapture is imminent)


TRIBULATION(WHY THE CHURCH WILL NOT PASS THRU TRIBULATION)

AS BRIDE OF CHRIST

• Church is the bride of Christ (Rev.22: 17)• Church is espoused to Christ (2.Cor.12: 2)• Church is waiting for Him (1.The.1: 10)• Will not deliver his turtle dove (Ps. 79: 19)

Church is not the object of His wrath

• 1 The.5: 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

• 1 The.1: 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.


TRIBULATION(Why church will not pass thru it?)

RAPTURE BEFORE THE TRIBULATION BIGINS• Rev. 1: 1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him,

to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

• • Rev. 1:19 Write the things which thou hast seen, (Christ the glorified-Rev.Ch.1)

• and the things which are, (Mystery of the seven churches- present period (Ch.2-3)

• and the things which shall be hereafter;

(After rapture- Rev. 4: 1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: I heard which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

(From Ch.4: 1 – Ch.18: 14; Church is not seen)


TRIBULATION(ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR AND ANSWER)

• JEWS HAD TROUBLES IN THE PAST?

(But this is un-precedent –Mat.24: 21; Jer.30:7)

• The Church had suffered in the past?

Had not allowed to suffer at times and places?

Why not then allow the last part to pass thru? (But tribulation is the wrath; He will not- 1.The.5: 9)

• “He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved”? (Matt.24: 13)

It is about the tribulation saints

(We are saved by Grace alone- Ep.2: 8)


TRIBULATION(ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR AND AGAINST)

• Resurrection at the last trumpet? Will not then church pass thru other six?

Seven trumpets are of judgment; so different from the other (Learn the different use of trumpets in Num. 10: 1-10; Here it is v.9)

(Resurrection was not; but translation of saints a mystery; Apostle Paul revealed- trumpet of 1.Thes.4: 16, 1.Cor.15: 52)

• Why the need of two phases for His coming?

Rapture and Revelation are revealed in the Scriptures.

• Why not allow together with Jews the tribulation?

Church (we) will be caught up before tribulation (1.Cor.15: 52)


TRIBULATION

WILL IT AFFECT THE WHOLE WORLD ?

• Dan 12: 1 And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

• Mat. 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.

• Luke 21: 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

(If you are not in the rapture, you will be left behind to pass thru the tribulation)


TRIBULATION

• HOW THE DAYS OF TRIBULAION ?

• Zep.1: 14-15 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation.

• Amos 5: 18-19 the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

• Revelation 9: 6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

• Mat 24: 22 Except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.


TRIBULATION(EVENTS DURING THE TRIBULATION)

• Rev.1: 1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass;

• and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John

• Rev.1: 19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

(Events what we read of happening from Ch. 6 till the end of Ch. 18 are the events during the tribulation; but the church is not seen there)


TRIBULATION(When anti-christ be revealed)

• 2 Thes.2: 7-8 He who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed.

• He (Holy Spirit) is not letting (is resisting now)

• In Rapture Holy Spirit will take the church.

• Then the way is for the wicked to be revealed

• The wicked world will be ready to accept the “ the Man of Sin”, or “the Son of perdition”, “The prince to come”, “the beast”

(World when “light” removed, in spiritual darkness will accept the man of wickedness)


TRIBULATION(THE RISE OF ANTI-CHRIST)

THE RISE OF ANTI-CHRIST

• Soon after rapture Anti-Christ revealed (2. The.2: 3)• Beginning he appear as a man of peace (Rev.6: 2)• He will confirm the covenant for a week (Dan.9:27)• Apostate Jews will enter covenant (Is.28: 15)• Temple will be allowed to build (Dan.9: 27)• He will stop oblation and sacrifice a the middle of the week (Dan.9:

27)

• Isaiah 28: 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

(Till the middle of the week it may be peaceful, after the peace treaty – From the end of (first) war - Ez. 38)


TRIBULATION(Seven seals)

THE LAMB OPEN THE SEALS (1- 7 seals)

• The rise of Anti-christ (“Man of sin” or “Beast”)

• Rev. 6: 2 When he opened the first seal, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

(This man is not Christ, but the Anti-Christ- he appear as the man of peace in the beginning)

• Rev.6: 4 When he opened the second seal, And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.


TRIBULATION(SEVEN SEALS)

• Rev.6: 5 -6 And when he had opened the third seal,

And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

• Rev.6: 7-8 And when he had opened the forth seal,

and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

(Same person but appears differently-Lev.26:22-26; Ez.14: 21)


TRIBULATION(SEVEN SEALS)

• Rev. 6: 9 And when he had opened the fifth seal,

I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

• Rev.6: 12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal,

Lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

• Rev.8: 1-2 And when he had opened the seventh seal,

There was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were

given seven trumpets.

(FOLLOWED BY 7 TRUMPETS- Num.10: 9)


TRIBULATION(What seven seals means?)

• Rev. 5: 1 I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

• Rev.5: 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou (the lamb) art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

• Shadow in the Bible of the scroll (Jer.32: 6-16) Ps.24: 1; Col.1: 16; 1.Jn.5:19 (Picture of the Lamb redeeming it

from usurper the Satan)

(To Daniel revealed -Dan.12:4= but not the contents; For us revealed thru Jesus Christ our Lord. Rev.1: 1; 10: 6)


TRIBULATION(JUDGMENT AS TRUMPETS- Joel 2: 14; Is.30: 31)

(Similar judgments we see in Egypt as shadow)

• Rev.8: 7 The first angel sounded, There followed hail and fire mingled with blood,

(Hail- Ex.9: 19)

• Rev. 8: 8 The second angel sounded, As it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea:

and the third part of the sea became blood; (Blood -Ex. 7: 17)

• Rev.8: 10-11 The third angel sounded, There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and

it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.


TRIBULATION(Judgment as trumpets- Joel 2: 14)

• Rev.8: 12 And the forth angel sounded, The third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the

moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened

(Darkness-Ex.10:21)

• Rev.9: 1 And the fifth angel sounded, I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given

the key of the bottomless pit. Revelation 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power

(Locust Ex.10:13)

(Rev. 9: 12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.)


TRIBULATION(JUDGMENT AS TRUMPETS- Joel 2: 14)

• Rev. 9: 13 And the sixth angel sounded, I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is

before God, Rev.9: 19 (Locusts) For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. (Joel 3: 4)

(Five months to hurt man but not the vegetation)

(Men shall seek death; but shall not find death -Rev.9: 6)

Rev.11: 14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

• Rev.11: 15 And the seventh angel sounded; There were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this

world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ • Rev.11: 19 and there were lightning, and voices, and thundering,

and an earthquake, and great hail. (Is. 30: 30)


TRIBULATION(Why the judgment ?)

• Ex. 12: 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night,

and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. (Redemption of the children of Israel)

• Numbers 33: 4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: Upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments. (Judgment to Pharaoh and his men)

(Each plagues were judgment to their gods)

(The Lamb will redeem the earth; also He will judge Satan and all who followed him)


TRIBULATION(JUDGMENT AS VIALS- Rev.11:18)

THE VIALS- THE WRATH OF GOD- Rev.Ch.16)

• Rev.15: 1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues;

for in them is filled up the wrath of God.

• Rev.16: 1 I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of

the wrath of God upon the earth.

• Rev.16: 2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore

upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. (Sore –Ex.9:10)


TRIBULATION(JUDGMENT AS VIALS)

• Rev.16: 3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man:

and every living soul died in the sea.

• Rev.16: 4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became

blood.

• Rev.16: 8 And the forth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch

men with fire.

• Rev.16: 10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of

darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,


TRIBULATION(JUDGMENT AS VIALS)

• Rev.16: 12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was

dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

(For battle of Armageddon)

• Rev.16: 17-18 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the

temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

Rev.16: 21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven,

every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because

of the plague of the hail; (Job.38: 22-23) (Hail -Ex.9: 18)


TRIBULATION(Battle of Armageddon-Rev.16: 12-16)

Its end is with a flood (War) Dan.9: 26

• Is. 28:18 And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place. (Read comparing with v.14-15)

• Re 17:14 these with the Lamb shall make war, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because Lord of lords he is, and King of kings,

• Re 19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, having been gathered together to make war with him who

is sitting upon the horse, and with his army; (Ze.14:2; Joel3: 2*?)

• The end of Anti-christ and his followers (Rev.19: 20-21)– Beast and the false prophet cast alive in to the lake of fire – The rest were killed with the sword of him who is sitting on horse


TRIBULATION(Battle of Armageddon-Rev.16: 12-16)

• This will be “war to end of all wars” (Dan.9: 26)

Armageddon means “the hill of slaughter” (Rev.16: 16)

• Two or more wars are to be fought in Megiddo in future

1. At the beginning of the week (Ez.38) 2. At the end of the week (Ez.39; Rev.16: 16) (careful study reveals as two different battles)

3. At the end of millennium (Rev.20: 7-9) (fire from God out of the heaven will devour them)

• Past history of Megiddo

Sisera was killed in the battle by Barak (Jud.5: 19) King Ahab was killed in battle by Syrian army (1.Ki.22)

King Josiah was killed by Pharaoh Necho (2.King 23: 29)


TRIBULATION(Battle of Armageddon)

• Geographical features of Megiddo

From Haifa on the north to the south 20 miles and 14 miles wide

(Plains of Megiddo)

• Napolean stood on the hill of Megiddo said;

“All the armies of the world could maneuver for battle here”

• General Allenby defeated Turks here in 1918 and earned the title “The Earl of Megiddo”

• It is the prophesied “valley of the final battle” (Ez.Ch. 38; 39; Rev. 16: 16; Rev.20: 9)


TRIBULATION(SIGNS)

• Matt.24: 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall

• the sun be darkened, • and the moon shall not give her light, • and the stars shall fall from heaven, • and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

• Matthew 24: 30 Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. (Revelation)

(No above signs for Rapture – Matt.24:3-12; Lk.21:8-12)

(Cataclysmic tribulation begins after the middle –Dan.9:27)


TRIBULATION

• HOW WILL BE THE END OF TRIBULATION• Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ (Revelation) (At Revelation all will see him- Rev. 1: 7; Is.52: 8)

JEWS AS A NATION WILL LOOK UNTO HIM

• Zec.12: 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

(The plagues, the famine, the war, and the cruel rule of Anti-christ will make them to turn to God. God will send them upon “spirit of grace and supplication” Then the Lord will come down, and they will look un to him “the one they pierced” They will mourn like the ..)

“Mourning of Hadad –rimmon” (2.King.23:29;2.Chr.35:24-25)


TRIBULATION(HOW THE END OF TRIBULATION ?)

• ANTI-CHRIST AND FALSE PROPHET CAST TO THE LAKE OF FIRE

• 2 The.2: 8 The Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall *destroy with the brightness of his coming: (*Brightness of coming may inactive him- Read Rev.19:20)

• Revelation 19: 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that

had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.

These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.


TRIBULATION(END OF TRIBULATION)

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SATAN BOUND FOR 1000 YEARS

Rev. 20: 2-3 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast

him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

REGATHERING OF ISRAELMatt 24: 31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect

from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Ezekiel 39: 28-29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity

among the heathen: but I have gathered …for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

(Re-gathering: Is.27:13; Is.49:22; Ez.20:34; Ez.36:24; Zec.8:7; Zec.10,10)


TRIBULATION(THE END OF TRIBULATION)

• THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS

• Matthew 25: 32-34 Before him shall be gathered all nations:

and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye

blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation

of the world:

• 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:


TRIBULATION(What follows the tribulation ?)

• GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGES PROPHESIED

• Zec.14: 4 And his feet shall stand in that day

Upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove to-ward the north, and half of it toward the south.

• Zechariah 14: 8 And it shall be in that day,

That living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

(It is read, Israel have a plan to bring the water of Mediterranean sea to

the dead sea; but due to the earth quake or changes water will began to flow to the dead sea and then it will be with fishes)


TRIBULATION

• USHERING TO THE MILLENIAL KINGDOM

(THE THOUSAND YEAR RULE ON EARTH)

Isaiah 11: 6-10 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,

The leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters

cover the sea. And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

(CHANGE HAPPENS WITH NATURE)


TRIBULATION(USHERING TO THE MILLENIUM)

• THE LORD WILL RULE OVER THE EARTH

Zec.13: 8-9 And it shall come to pass, That in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be

cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say,

It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

THE UNIVERSAL PEACE WILL BE ESTABLISHED

Isaiah 35: 1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad

for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.


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