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The Tribulation
Question: What does the word tribulation mean ?
Answer:
Tribulation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Tribulation (or "Great Tribulation") is an event referred to in the New Testament of the Bible at Matthew 24:21 ("For then shall be great tribulation..." - King James Version) and other passages , the Tribulation is a relatively short period of time where people who follow God will experience worldwide persecution and be purified and strengthened by it.
The Tribulation is also a time when every human on earth { those left after the Rapture} are forced to make a decision between good and evil.
Between Jesus Christ and antichrist, Between GOD and satan.
Question: Why are we forced to make this decision, I thought we all had the choice of freewill on this matter.
Answer: GOD is allowing this for the benefit of those who will accept him.
What are you talking about ? ….you say.
Consider this, man has reached a point where he has now acquired the means to destroy himself, and with the traits of people in these last days evil has become a way of life. { GOD will not permit evil to triumph and endure forever}.
GOD could easily just wipe it all out, just as he did in the days of Noah.
But he wants people to understand the truth.
Man can not rule himself.
If you think about it every system that we have ever come up with to govern ourselves has failed .
They have all failed either by political corruption, personal greed, or a selfish need for power .
In the last century we have seen the great increase of knowledge that Daniel was talking about.
Ask any parent or a school teacher if there is a difference between when a child learns knowledge and the WISDOM to actually understand it.
There is no doubt that man’s knowledge is exploding, on every level.
But we have proven time and again that we do not have the wisdom to properly use that knowledge. Only GOD through his son Christ Jesus can rule man and end all of the suffering,
It is a lesson that the world is going to learn the hard way.
Revelation 1:3 {NIV}
. 3Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.
OK lets review quickly a couple of things before we get started.
The Rapture has occurred and GODS trials of the Tribulation are about to begin.
Revelation 5:1-3 {NIV}
51Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. 2And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?" 3But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. 4I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside.
I have heard to understand this scroll you can think of it as the GODS title deed of the earth.
Revelation 5:6-7 {NIV}
6Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 7He came and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne
Only Jesus can open the scroll, In Simple words he has paid in full for the deed of this world.
1st Seal
Revelation 6:1-2 {NIV}
1I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come!" 2I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
This is the rise of the antichrist, what I notice here is that GODS deed allows this, which means :
That all of the power he ever acquires through satan is only because the true owner of the world, Jesus who is the Christ from the father GOD,
Allows this to fulfill his need to bring as many people to him that would accept him.
2nd Seal
Revelation 6:3-4 {NIV}
3When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" 4Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.
WAR those nations who do not just hand their power to him will be taken by force.
On a side note many other wars in the BIBLE mention specific lands in which they occur but
This one states Earth and a large sword of war, this one could be another world war.
3rd Seal
Revelation 6:5-6 {NIV}
5When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!"
Great famine and great inflation of prices.
I saw a Preacher on T.V. once and he pointed out the last few words ,do not damage the oil and wine. He said oil and wine have always been considered symbolic of wealth.
Meaning if you have money and power and follow the antichrist you are fine at this time.
Remember the antichrist will cause deceit to prosper, war unquestionably will be a big factor in the famine, but I would not be surprised to see greedy individuals making themselves rich off of a lack of food.
4th Seal
Revelation 6:7-8 {NIV}
7When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" 8I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
By wars end 1/4th of the worlds population will be dead.
Pretty plain to understand, war, famine ,and the disease that follows these things.
The wild beast one causes me pause, is it because peoples homes are destroyed and they are forced into harms way where the animals live ? or does it mean that the animals on Earth are ordered to turn on man ? Someone smarter than me will have to answer that one for you.
On that note, If ANYONE other than Jesus Christ ever claims to have all of the answers get away from them as fast as you can.
5th Seal
Revelation 6 9-11 {NIV}
9When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. 10They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" 11Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.
The persecution of Christians because they are the only people on Earth who refuse his mark.
They will refuse a false one world religion that will come in the end days,
And they will refuse to worship the antichrist or his power satan.
What is important not to miss is that if you are alive at this time and are killed because you refuse the mark and are saved through Jesus Christ you will be one of the souls in heaven !!!
Again lets talk about your choice.
You can live on almost hell on Earth by taking the mark and be DOOMED FOREVER.
OR you can ACCEPT Jesus Christ and be REDEEMED to GOD and at the second of your execution your soul will ascend to heaven.
Do not take my word on it, go back to the previous verse and reread the 5th seal Revelation 6:9-11
6th Seal
Revelation 6:12-17 {NIV}
12I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
15Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?"
Notice it says the sun will be darkened and every mountain and island on Earth are displaced.
Truly an unexpected and unexplainable showing of the power of GOD.
I can not even begin to imagine the total devastation .
The greatest earthquake that the world has ever seen.
I personally think that this is no coincidence that it comes right after the persecution of the saints, { Christian believers} they are in great fear of Jesus Christ , and are afraid of his return because of the deeds they have done.
Imagine that : they fear and acknowledge CHRIST’S authority, but will not accept him.
7th Seal
Revelation 8:1-2{NIV}
81When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
2And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.
The seven trumpets given to the angles are the next round of trials to be used on the Earth.
I once heard the silence explained this way.
Several places in the BIBLE when a description of heaven is offered we are told of constant joy and worship, singing, and praising of GOD.
Heaven is a happy place.
When the people in heaven see what GODS seven trumpets will bring to the inhabitants of the Earth, they are moved to silence.
Just as we are at a funeral home or a hospital.
Revelation 7:1-4 {NIV}
71After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. 2Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: 3"Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God." 4Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
Did you know that in the early 1920’s scientists confirmed that there are in fact 4 jet streams. { when that verse was wrote No-One but the creator GOD knew that }
So you can see four angels placed at the corners of the Earth to carry out his trumpet trails.
But first he has them hold, because this is after the Rapture and the believers in Christ are removed. Jesus needs servants to save those who will accept him.
He calls on his own Jewish people to be his light bearers to the lost.
After rejecting him for 20 century’s many Jews finally accept ,and 144 thousand are called to lead the world to Jesus Christ.
Also notice the work of Jesus separating the “wheat from the chaff “ by also marking on the foreheads all who accept him.
This is a visible sign for all believers so they know whether or not that the person they are talking to is ,or is not saved. We will also see later during the 5th trumpet trail that the locusts who appear to torture man are instructed not to harm those sealed by GOD on their foreheads.
Notice by GOD…… not any mark made by man or machine.
I believe that if you become saved during the tribulation GOD will place his mark upon you.
Think about that : In a world in which you most likely will be killed for accepting Christ, GOD gives you a supernatural mark that confirms I AM SAVED !!!
What kind of effect do the 144 thousand have on the world ?
Revelation 7:9-13-14 {NIV}
9After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
13Then one of the elders asked me, "These in white robes--who are they, and where did they come from?"
14I answered, "Sir, you know."
And he said, "These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
After the Rapture, The miracle saving of Israel, The Seal trials, and the rise of evil, plus the calling by the 144 thousand a countless multitude from around the globe will be come Saved through Jesus.
I would not be surprised with today’s population, that more people could be saved during the Tribulation than the number of Christians taken at the Rapture.
Question : Did you notice that even during the great Tribulation with the forces of evil controlling the Earth, Jesus Christ’s main concern is still and always will be to save one person at a time.
2ndPeter 3:9 {NIV}
9The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
Revelation 8:6 {NIV}
6Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
1st Trumpet
Revelation 8:7 {NIV}
7The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
It is no wonder that there was silence in heaven for a short time.
There can be no explanation other than an act of GOD. Hail, fire and blood.
Just as he did in Egypt many years ago to Pharaoh, except this is on a GLOBAL scale.
Do not forget the damage this does to a world already ravaged by famine.
The extreme loss of crops and livestock.
2nd Trumpet
Revelation 8:8-9 {NIV}
8The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
The first trumpet was an attack on the land, the second is an attack on the oceans, by what appears to be known to us in the modern world as a giant meteor.
3rd Trumpet
Revelation 8:10-11 {NIV}
10The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- 11the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
Another great object is tossed down to the Earth, this one poison’s much of the worlds water supply.
4th Trumpet
Revelation 8:12 {NIV}
12The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.
I have seen people talk about this one on Christian websites, here are a few examples :
One person thought that the light in total would be reduced by a third do to all of the smoke and debris in the atmosphere from the three meteor attacks on the Earth.
I have also heard do to Jesus’ saying that the end days will be shortened or all would perish, that this is a description of the day going from 24 to 16 hours. { 1/3rd less}.
I guess we will all find out in what I believe is not a to distant future.
Matthew 24:22 {NIV}
22If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
Some feel that it means what it says, 1/3rd struck, notice it says a third of the day without light, not dim but without, again just as done to Egypt.
Revelation 8:13 {NIV}
13As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!"
The remaining three trumpets are known as the three woes.
The difference with these three are that the first four trumpets were primarily aimed at the Earth. The next three are aimed directly at the people who accept the mark of the beast and worship him
5th Trumpet
Revelation 9:1-11 {NIV}
91The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. 9They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.
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Most of us have seen the cicadas that emerge every seventeen years.
They get everywhere, you can hear them in the trees, I have friends who are fishermen and they hate this time because the fish gorge on them.
We have all no doubt wondered just how anything can crawl into the ground and appear to be dead just to re-emerge, in 17 years. Did you know that each insect will only live a day or two?
There must be millions of those little buggers.
The locust GOD releases at this time will be far more than a nuisance.
They have a sting like a scorpion, that will cause agony to those who do not have the seal of GOD on their foreheads. It appears that the sting itself will last for 5 months unlike a bee sting that is sore for a couple of days. Notice that the sting will be so bad that men will wish to DIE
Revelation 9:12 {NIV}
12The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
6th Trumpet
Revelation 9:13-21 {NIV}
13The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." 15And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.
17The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. 18A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. 19The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
20The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood--idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
This is another great direct attack on the followers of the antichrist, the difference this time is that the results are fatal. Not just suffering as with the locusts of the 5th trumpet.
7th Trumpet
Revelation 10:1-11 {NIV}
1Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars. 2He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, 3and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke. 4And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down." 5Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. 6And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, "There will be no more delay! 7But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets."
8Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more: "Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."
9So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, "Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey." 10I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. 11Then I was told, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings."
This is the only trial or judgment in the entire book of Revelation that is sealed or not fully revealed to us.
I have Christian friends who believe that this is when the Rapture will occur.
It goes like this:
Paul talks about the mystery we Christians refer to as the Rapture taking place at the last Trumpet.
1st Corinthians 15:51-52 [NIV}
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-- 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
The 7th trumpet is the last of the trumpet judgments.
Notice that in the above, Revelation 10 verses 6 & 7 talk about no more delay and the mystery being fulfilled.
This is what is known as a mid tribulation Rapture.
Christians who believe in the mid tribulation Rapture also point out the significance of the little scroll.
They claim that the little scroll is a small prophecy, such as
1st Corinthians 15:51-52 , and that it tastes as sweet as honey to the believer. { the Rapture}
But it sours in the stomach of the church.
This is easy to understand, the many denominations of the church disagree on the timing and on the event of the Rapture itself.
Revelation 11: 1-2 {NIV}
I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, "Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the worshipers there. 2But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months.
We get a brief description of the yet to be built 3rd temple in Jerusalem.
If this temple were to be built today the outer court area contains the Islamic rock of the dome.
So it is possible this refers to some future compromise with the dome and Temple.
I got the following article from a Jews for Christ website.
NEW JEWISH TEMPLE
SUMMARY OF EVENTS JULY, 2008
An integral part of the Jewish Religion is a Temple for the Atonement of Sin. Since Israel became a Jewish Nation again in 1948, no new temple has been built over the original site.
Will a new Jewish Temple be built? The Bible tells us yes. A new Jewish Temple (Third Jewish Temple) must be rebuilt on the original temple site for the Jewish people to accept it as legitimate. The last time there was a Jewish Temple, it was destroyed by the Romans in 70AD.
The Anti-Christ, the next world leader, will facilitate the rebuilding of the Third Jewish Temple in Jerusalem at the beginning of the Tribulation and will go into this rebuilt Jewish Temple 3 1/2 years into the Tribulation and claim that he is the Savior of the Jewish people.
Sixty percent of all instruments needed for temple worship, according to Old Testament regulations, are completed. And two yeshivas, or schools, are training young men with the last name of Cohen—Cohen meaning “priest”—to sacrifice animals in the temple tradition.
The Two Witnesses
Revelation 11:3-14 {NIV}
3And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth." 4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. 6These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.
7Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. 8Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 9For three and a half days men from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. 10The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
11But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. 12Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.
13At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.
As I said at the end of the 6th trumpet I believe just about all have made their choice, and I feel that GOD is sending his two super witnesses in a last ditch effort to save those who still can be saved.
They will have true Old Testament Biblical power, some even believe that in the description of their abilities that the witnesses will be Moses and Elijah.
When Jesus was transfigured in front of three disciples, the two men that he talked to concerning his work were Moses and Elijah.
It really does not matter who they are,Just the work they do.
With today’s satellite T.V. it will be easy for the world to see these events unfold.
We again see that the evil world will reject them and rejoice over their death.
Only after their resurrection and accession into heaven, and the earthquake that follows ,will men
Give glory and to GOD.
Revelation 11:15 {NIV}
15The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:
"The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever."
Revelation 11:18 {NIV}
18The nations were angry;
and your wrath has come.
The time has come for judging the dead,
and for rewarding your servants the prophets
and your saints and those who reverence your name,
both small and great--
and for destroying those who destroy the earth
Again Mid Tribulation Rapture believers also point to the rewards judgment after the seventh trumpet. They also point out that the seals and first six trumpets spare the believers.
Revelation 11:19 {NIV}
19Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.
Notice that GODS temple in heaven is opened to the believers after the reward judgment in heaven.
Also look at the effects on the Earth just by opening the door of the temple.
Revelation 12:1-6 {NIV}
1A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. 4His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. 5She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. 6The woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
There is a lot of symbolic language in these verses but the really are not to difficult to understand if you break them down one at a time:
1. Israel blessed by GOD , it also refers to the 12 tribes and 12 apostles.
2. The Birth of Jesus Christ.
3. satan and the kingdoms of the Earth that have given their power to him.
4.The angels who fell for following satan and his attempt to destroy Jesus at birth.
5.Jesus’s birth and Fulfillment as savior, and ascension to GOD.
6.The remnant of Israel protected by GOD after satan sets himself out to destroy them.
Question: Why would GOD continue to protect Israel when many have rejected GOD and Christ?
{ in the last Gaza War spring 2009 many IDF forces had worship services for 4new age spiritual guides}
Answer: Because many still do and will return to GOD by building a new temple and during the tribulation 144 thousand Jewish pastors for Christ will emerge as well as many Jews being saved at that time.
But the real reason is not that by their own works they deserve it, It is a promise from GOD to always save them, and GOD always keeps his promises.
Deuteronomy 7:6-9 {NIV}
. 6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
7The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. 8But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands
Revelation 12:7-9 {NIV}
7And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9The great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
For over thousands of years the devil has been tempting man, and trying to assume power over what is GODS.
Think about this for a moment, when I was a child in Sunday school I heard the story of Adam and Eve ,and the serpent {satan} who caused their fall.
I guess I always presumed that satan had already left heaven, but we learn in Revelation that satan has been before GOD and any angels that will listen to him for 6000 years bragging about his work and slandering and destroying the people of the Earth.
Question :Why would GOD continue to allow this you ask ?
Answer :
Because his authority has been called into question by satan and his followers and if GOD just wiped them out, some would question if the accusations were true.
So GOD and in his wisdom to use a human phrase, is giving the rebel’s enough rope to hang themselves.
And the Rapture of the church and seeing the human believers in heaven sends satan into a rage.
He openly cross’s the line and begins war in heaven……..DUMB MOVE.
We as humans recognize runaway EGO when we see it., Even in fallen angles.
Again in human words, I would say that the noose is now on the neck.
Revelation 12:10-12 {NIV}
10Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
"Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Christ.
For the accuser of our brothers,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.
11They overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
12Therefore rejoice, you heavens
and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea,
because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short."
10.Victory !! { and yes he has been bumping his gums for 6 millennia }
11.Notice this the Angels who cast satan out were prepared to die if necessary I believe satan and his followers were not. After all the suffering he has caused he is a COWARD.
12.Happines in heaven no more hearing his nonsense. WOE to the Earth.
Revelation 12:13-17 {NIV}
13When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 14The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the desert, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach. 15Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. 16But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 17Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring--those who obey God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus.
13.satan peruses Israel
14.Israel escapes, I have a life long friend and we have talked endlessly about bible prophecy
And many times we’ll say, what about this or that, and I remember once one of us come up with this. Verse two could be referring to an airlift by the U.S. air force. Wings of a great eagle.
And America is one of the very few allies that Israel has. Just a thought.
15. I do not know if it means water literally or army’s of men.
16.whatever satan sends GOD destroys
17.He can not get to the remnant of Israel , so he turns his rage on Christians.
Revelation 14: 12-13 {NIV}
12This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus.
13Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on."
"Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them."
Again the Rapture has already happened and GOD promises to remember those who refuse the beast and his mark and are put to death for their service to Jesus Christ.
Revelation 14:6-7 {NIV}
6Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth--to every nation, tribe, language and people. 7He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water."
I do not believe that this is a reference to Satellite communication.
I think this is GODS warning that satan has fallen to the Earth and the end is near.
The fall of the false one world religion:
Revelation 14:8 {NIV}
8A second angel followed and said, "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries."
Revelation 17:1-2 {NIV}
1One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. 2With her the kings of the earth committed adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries."
Revelation 17:4-6 {NIV}
4The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5This title was written on her forehead:
MYSTERY
BABYLON THE GREAT
THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.
The end times false religion will be very rich, I have read that the first organized false religion
Came in the days of Daniel in Babylon.{ remember your Sunday school stories of the lions den and the furnace.}
This false religion is guilty of the deaths of many Christians.
Revelation 18:4-5 {NIV}
4Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
"Come out of her, my people,
so that you will not share in her sins,
so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
5for her sins are piled up to heaven,
and God has remembered her crimes.
Is this a warning to leave this false religion ? Or a similar warning for believers to come out of the home city itself just as Lot was warned about Sodom ? Or both ?
Revelation 18:7 {NIV}
7Give her as much torture and grief
as the glory and luxury she gave herself.
In her heart she boasts,
`I sit as queen; I am not a widow,
and I will never mourn.'
Notice she does not consider herself a widow.
We all know that a widow is a woman who has lost her husband.
Jesus calls the church his bride, so it stands to reason that at least part of this false system was once linked to Christianity.
Revelation 18:16-20 {NIV}
16and cry out:
" `Woe! Woe, O great city,
dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet,
and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls!
17In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!'
"Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand far off. 18When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, `Was there ever a city like this great city?' 19They will throw dust on their heads, and with weeping and mourning cry out:
" `Woe! Woe, O great city,
where all who had ships on the sea
became rich through her wealth!
In one hour she has been brought to ruin!
20Rejoice over her, O heaven!
Rejoice, saints and apostles and prophets!
God has judged her for the way she treated you.' "
There is one city on Earth that is supplied in this manner.
It is Rome, supplied up the Tiber river from the Tyrrhenian Sea {Ocean}
Now hold on ……I am not saying anything bad about Catholic’s.
In fact I have several friends that I have worked with who are Catholic.
As I said earlier in the section on the one world false Religion near the time of the Rapture people who set up this system, will use what is available to them.
If the Rapture has occurred the true believers of Christ will be gone ,and anyone left in a leadership role of ANY denomination will not have been a SAVED Christian.
Can they still be saved ? I believe so just look at Saul/Paul.
But many in the position of power, will chose to organize the false one world faith for them to control, and it only makes sense that they will use the structures and power of things left behind.
Revelation 17:9 {NIV}
9"This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits.
The Roman Catholic Church which has its headquarters (the Vatican) situated on seven hills. As the Catholic Encyclopedia states, It is within the city of Rome, called the city of seven hills, that the entire area of Vatican State proper is now confined.
Revelation 18:21-24 {NIV}
21Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said:
"With such violence
the great city of Babylon will be thrown down,
never to be found again.
22The music of harpists and musicians, flute players and trumpeters,
will never be heard in you again.
No workman of any trade
will ever be found in you again.
The sound of a millstone
will never be heard in you again.
23The light of a lamp
will never shine in you again.
The voice of bridegroom and bride
will never be heard in you again.
Your merchants were the world's great men.
By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.
24In her was found the blood of prophets and of the saints,
and of all who have been killed on the earth."
The last 7 trials of the Earth known as bowls are about to begin.
Revelation 15:1 {NIV}
1I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues--last, because with them God's wrath is completed.
But first a promise kept:
Revelation 15:2{NIV}
. 2And I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and over the number of his name. They held harps given them by God
These are the believers killed for Christ by believing and not accepting the mark of the beast.
After their death they are in heaven awaiting the end of the great tribulation, which upon it’s conclusion their bodies will also be risen in perfect state, just like the Rapture.
1st Bowl
Revelation 16:1-2 {NIV}
1Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Go, pour out the seven bowls of God's wrath on the earth."
2The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly and painful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped his image.
Pretty easy to understand, painful punishment for people who take the mark and worship the beast.
2nd Bowl
Revelation 16:3 {NIV}
3The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.
Can you imagine the devastation to the worlds fishing and shipping industries.
In Simple words they will no longer exist.
Think about the stench that will cover the whole Earth, oceans of dead mans blood and millions of dead sea creatures.
3rd Bowl
Revelation 16:4-7 {NIV}
4The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. 5Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say:
"You are just in these judgments,
you who are and who were, the Holy One,
because you have so judged;
6for they have shed the blood of your saints and prophets,
and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve."
7And I heard the altar respond:
"Yes, Lord God Almighty,
true and just are your judgments."
Now all of the drinkable fresh water on Earth is turned to blood.
Notice GOD says to the evil world that you have shed the blood of my believers so blood you will DRINK.
4th Bowl
Revelation 16:8-9 {NIV}
8The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire. 9They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.
In a world with only blood to drink, intense unbearable heat.
Notice that they curse GOD , they know the beast that they worship is POWERLESS to GOD.
5th Bowl
Revelation 16:10-11 {NIV}
10The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. Men gnawed their tongues in agony 11and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.
Notice as men curse GOD and realize that the antichrist has no power to stop these events
God causes darkness over the kingdom of the beast., As further proof of him as false.
Just as GOD and Jesus consider Jerusalem to be their capitol, satan has always considered ancient Babylon to be his. { remember Daniel and the remnant of Israel captive in Babylon}
I know what you are thinking, that Babylon does not exist today.
Here are a few news articles concerning the ancient city which might surprise you.
Babylon Damage Investigation Ordered
Associated Press
June 12, 2004
Saddam Hussein also put his mark on Babylon, stamping his own name into the bricks used in the 1980s reconstruction of Nebuchadnezzar's palace walls, the seat of the king's ancient empire.
Some of the mud bricks in the original wall carried the seal of Nebuchadnezzar. The bricks used in the Saddam reconstruction read:
"The City of Babylon was reconstructed during the era of the victorious Saddam Hussein, President of the Republic, protector of the great Iraq, the modernizer of its renaissance and builder of its civilization."
Did you get that ? The palace walls have been reconstructed.
The city, born on the banks of the Euphrates River 5,000 years ago and full of priceless archaeological treasures, was transformed into a U.S. military camp after the 2003 invasion with a heliport built among the ruins.
This is a picture of US Marines looking at the restored walls of the palace in 2003.
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Monday, January 05, 2009 | FoxNews.com After much delay the United States opened its new $700 million embassy in Iraq on Monday, inaugurating the largest — and most expensive — embassy ever built.
The 104-acre compound, bigger than the Vatican and about the size of 80 football fields, boasts 21 buildings, a commissary, cinema, retail and shopping areas, restaurants, schools, a fire station, power and water treatment plants, as well as telecommunications and wastewater treatment facilities.
The compound is six times larger than the United Nations compound in New York, and two-thirds the size of the National Mall in Washington.
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$5.6m set aside to rehabilitate Babylon
10-23-07The General Director of the Babylon Municipality Department announced that roughly $5.6 million has been specified by the Ministry of General Works to rehabilitate Hilla, Mosayab and al-Qasim districts in Babylon, Iraq Directory reported.
He further pointed out that an approximate $4.1 million has been specified to renovate the northern area of Babylon including the complementary budget for the current year.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- "Peace for all believers," the congregation at the Sacred Heart church in Eastern Baghdad sings, as the Patriarch, Emmanuel III Delly, holds a heavy cross in his hands, his eyes closed.
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Cardinal Emmanuel III says he is confident Christianity in Iraq will flourish again.
He seems focused on the hard work that lies ahead.
Pope Benedict XVI recently appointed the Patriarch of the Chaldean Church for Babylon, an ancient denomination with roots in the age of Jesus Christ, a cardinal.
Emmanuel III is the first Iraqi to be elevated to that status and will receive his ordination on November 24 in Rome.
That means somewhere down the line, Emmanuel III could become Pope.
Delly wrote his PhD thesis on the relationship between Catholicism and Islam, discussing, "the existence of God according to Abu Nasr Al-Farabi," a Muslim philosopher.
In summary of these news headlines that are only a small example of the news available of Babylon’s rebirth is this:
A palace being rebuilt inside a modern military base where the antichrist himself would rule and live.
The structure to run the world with the mark of the beast by the false profit is now only roughly 55 miles away in the form of the 104 acre embassy.
Sounds like a plan to me.
6th Bowl
Revelation 16:12 {NIV}
12The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.
We all know that this leads to the battle of Armageddon and the destruction of the antichrist and those who follow him.
Did you notice that he is concerned about the kings of the east.
When we die as Christians we are buried facing east so upon resurrection on the day of the Lord
We will be facing him.
I just think it is ironic that the devil and his forces are facing East just before Christ’s return.
With the 6TH bowl I found another prophecy fulfilled:
Isaiah 11:15-16 {NIV}
15The LORD will dry up
the gulf of the Egyptian sea;
with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand
over the Euphrates River.
He will break it up into seven streams
so that men can cross over in sandals.
16There will be a highway for the remnant of his people
that is left from Assyria,
as there was for Israel
when they came up from Egypt.
This is the way home for the remnant of Israel after Jesus destroys her enemy’s
we talked about this remnant being saved earlier.
Romans 9:27 {NIV}
27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
"Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.
7th Bowl
16Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
17The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, "It is done!" 18Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. 19The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. 20Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. 21From the sky huge hailstones of about a hundred pounds each fell upon men. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.
The final bowl shows all of man together to make war, of course we know that the antichrist has used this in order to oppose the return of Jesus Christ which he knows is coming.
The Earth gets hit with so much here it is easy to miss some of it, let’s review.
1. Lightning and thunder never before seen world wide .
2.The greatest earthquake ever seen, the city of Babylon split into 3 parts, It also says that every city on earth will collapse and every Island and mountain will not be found.
Not moved like the 6th seal but not found, everything on the Earth shaken to dust.
3 .Anything struck by a 100 lb hailstone will be killed or destroyed.
It seems that this 7th bowl judgment is removing just about anything that man has ever made.
Preparing the way for the Messiah Jesus Christ to return to a world that he will shape as he wills.
Revelation 22:20-21 {NIV}
20He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon."
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
21The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen
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