Tribulation on our timeline began in 2007 and runs to 2017. Within this timeframe is 2 from Daniel (2009, 2010).
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The Tribulation lasts seven years and is
undoubtedly the worst bombbardment of tragedy the earth will ever experience.
God has a three-fold purpose for this period:
1. To save and allow many Jews who will
enter the Millennium to experience the fulfillment of the kingdom promises to
Israel made by God in the covenants.
2. To save a multitude of Gentiles who
will then populate the millennial kingdom.
3. To pour out judgment on unbelieving
mankind and nations. The final 42 months or three-and one-half year period is so terrifying that it is called the
Great Tribulation (Rev 7:14).
There is a reason the first half is more
peaceful. Because Jesus, the Prince of Peace, is soon to return, Satan, the
great counterfeiter and super deceiver called Antichrist will present himself
as the Messiah and be accepted! Satan will enter the body of a man and proclaim
himself as God (2 Thess 2:4). this Antichrist will come into prominence and
power by presenting a "peace program" to the nations. The contracts
are signed and confirmed (Dan 9:27). However, in the middle of the seven-year
period, the Antichrist dishonors his treaties and makes the last 42 months the
bloodiest in world history. The Great tribulation is a time of incomparable
judgment from God (Dan 12:1; Joel 2:2; Matt 24:21). A total of 21 judgments
fall upon the earth. They constitute three series of seven each and are
described as the seal, trumpet, and vial (bowl) judgments. This is the Time of
Jacob's Trouble (Rev 6, 8, 9, 15, 16).
Revelation 8:7 and 9:18 clearly reveal a
judgment of fire during the Tribulation. This coincides with Ps 97:3; Isa
66:15; Ezek 20:47; Zeph 1:18; Malac 4:1 and numerous other passages of
Scripture. Both Old and New Testaments are in agreement concerning what seems
to be a fiery, nuclear holocaust (Zech 14:12; Rev 8:7; 9:18).
1. Rise of Antichrist
as leader of a confederacy of ten Western nations (Rev 13:1).
2. Antichrist signs a
seven-year peace contract with Israel (Daniel 9:27). The third temple is built
during this period in Jerusalem.
3. After 42 months,
Antichrist breaks the contract (Daniel 9:27). Satan desolates the Temple with
his abomolation.
4. Russia invades
Israel from the north (Ezek 38:15,16) at a time when Israel is at rest or peace
(Ezek 38:11). (So this will not happen before the peace contract is in effect.)
5. Antichrist attempts
to destroy God's people, the Jews (Rev 12)
6. Antichrist destroys
the world church (the Apostate Church which has now been developed, 2012) that
helped bring him to power (Rev 17:16, 17)
7. Antichrist proclaims
himself as God (2 Thess 2:41).
8. Antichrist himself
is defeated at Armageddon (Revelation 19) and cast into the Lake of Fire (Rev
20).
The tribulation period will end with the
Battle of Armageddon and the return of the Lord Jesus Chrst to earth (Rev
19:11-16).
Jacob is Israel (Jer 30:7; Rom 11:26).
This period of time is also called "Daniel's Seventienth Week"
(Daniel 9). In history, the first 69 weeks involve Israel (9:24) and it follows
that the seveienth or final week must also involve Israe, Chapters 30 and 31 of
Jeremiah summarize Israel's endurance in the hour of Tribulation. All OT
prophets affirm this truth. In ezek 38, 39, seventeen different passages mark
Israel as the victim of Gog and Magog's deadliest war.
Jacob's trouble is so named because of
Jeremiah's prophecy: Alas! for that day is great so that none is like it; it is
even the time of Jacob's trouble (Jer 30:7). He was speaking of the seven-year
period known as the Tribulation.
Daniel's Vision of
seventy Weeks
Skeptics dislike the Prophet Daniel. His
outline of the future is too accurate. By interpreting King Nebuchadnezzar's
dream as a young man, he gave us what has come to be known as the "ABC's
pf Prophecy".
Near the end of his life, Daniel was
visited by the angel GAbriel and he was given a timetable of coming events that
would especially affect Israel. This is known as the Vision of Seventy Weeks.
It may well be that this vision is the backbone of prophecy. In this vision
Daniel saw the major world empires represented by four beasts. (Daniel 7).
The first beast was like a lion, and it
had eagle's wongs (7:4).
The second beast was like a bear that
raised itself on one side having three ribs in its mouth (7:5).
The third was like a leopard, having four
wings and four heads (7:6).
The fourth was described as dreadful and
terrible, and strong exceedingly. It had ten horns and after a time another
little horn grew and plucked up three of the other horns by the roots. The
little horn had eyes like a man and a mouth speaking great things (7:7,8).
What do these four beasts signify?
Historically, students of Bible prophecy have seen the vision as a further
development of the preview given in Nebuchadnezzar's dream ... the context
demands it.
The lion represents Nebuchadnezzar's
Babylonian Empire.
The bear is the Medo-Persian Empire that
followed. It was raised on one side because the Persians were stronger than the
Medes. The three ribs indicate their conquests.
The leopard, with four wings and four
heads, was a picture of the Grecian Empire. Alexander the Great died and his
empire was divided between his four generals.
The fourth beast, described as dreadful
and terrible, and strong exceedingly represents the Roman Empire.
The prophet is fascinated by the ten
horns, which correspond to the ten toes on the image and especially by the
little horn that rises later, portraying a powerful leader in the endtime (Dan
7:24,25).
This mathematical revelation gave the Jews
the exact time to expect the coming of their Messiah. It also prophesied His
death and foretod the coming destruction of Jerusalem following His
crucifixion, as well as the rise of the Antichrist and the establishment of
Christ's coming kingdom on earth (Dan 9:24-27).
The seventy weeks are weeks of years
(70x7=490). This period of time is divided into three sections. The first
division comprised seven weeks or a period of 49 years and had to do with the
rebuilding of Jerusalem (Dan 9:25). The second division of 62 weeks, or 434
years, signaled the time of Christ's death after the rebuilding of Jerusalem.
Christ came on schedule and was rejected (cutoff, vs 26) resulting in the
Crucifixion. Now Israel must pay the price for rejecting her King. So a final
week is coming when the Antichrist will confirm his peace covenant for one
week, or seven years (vs. 27). This harmonizes withe the calculations of the
second half of the Tribulation Hour described as a period of "forty-two
months" (Rev 11:2) or 1,260 days (Rev 11:3), when the Antichrist breaks
all of his pledges to Israel and an era of unthinkable persecution breaks out
for the Jews especially. Between the weeks 69 and 70 is a parenthesis, unseen
in the OT prophecy, which applies to the present age.
Isa 2:17-21; 6:11-13;
10:20-23; 17:12-14; 18:1-7; 24:19-22; 26:20-21; 27:1-11; 28:15, 18; 34:1-15;
35:4; 61:2; 63:1-6
Jer 4:9-13, 23-29;
23:20; 30:1-24; 46:27-28; 51:33; Ezek 14:21-23;
38:1-39:29Dan 7:23-25; 8:9-14, 22-25; 9:2121-25, 26c-27; 11:36-45; 12:1, 7
Joel 1:15; 2:1-11, 20, 28-32; 3:1-2, 9-16; Amos 5:16-20; 8:9-10; 9:1, 8-10; Obad 12-16; Habak 3:16
Zeph 1:7, 14-18; 3:8; Haggai 2:20-23; Zech 4:1-14; 12:1-9; 13:8-9 14:1-3, 12-15; Mal 4:1
Matt 10:15-23; 24:21, 29; Mark 13:5-30; Luke 17:22-37; Eph 6:13; I Thess 1:10; 5: 1-6, 9
II Thess 2:1-12; Jam 5:1-9; Rev 2:22; 3:10; 6:1-18:24
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