⁹Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

There are & will be many more deceivers but there is one primary deceiver portrayed on the white horse … revealed in the Wrath section on Babylon Destroyed.

There are exponentially more wars & regional conflicts going on in this generation than ever in history.

The last few decades has seen a hundredfold increase in environmental calamities …the economy is a house of cards … providing food is getting & will get magnanimously more difficult for the lower classes but the delicacies of the rich shall be preserved.

Persecution of God’s people & others, even genocide, is on the rise globally & will enormously increase, though kept obscure by the media & downplayed politically.   

¹⁰And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. ¹¹And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. ¹²And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

¹³But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations (Technology is greatly hastening this.); and then shall the end come. Next … 

< 3) The BEAST … FALSE PROPHET & MARK of the BEAST:

        Antichrist                                                             666

Prophesied in Daniel chapter 7 …

¹In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. … ³And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. … 7After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. …

²³Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. ²⁴And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another (king) shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. ²⁵And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time (3 ½ yrs). ²⁶But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. … ¹¹ … I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. [3]

Confirmed in Revelation chapters 13 & 17 …

Chapter 13 …

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.  ²And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. ⁵And 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 yrs).   ⁶And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. ⁷And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. ⁸And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.[4] 

Chapter 17 …

¹²And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. ¹³These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

¹⁴These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.[5]

Rev. 13 … ¹¹And I beheld another beast (The False Prophet ) coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. ¹²And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. ¹³And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, ¹⁴And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.[6]

¹⁵And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that

as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.  ¹⁶And he causeth all, both small and great,  rich and poor,  free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:  ¹⁷And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. ¹⁸Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six (666). [7]

Rev. 14 … ⁹And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, ¹⁰The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: ¹¹And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. ¹²Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

¹³And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.[8]

¹⁵When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation (the Beast, called Antichrist & ultimately his image), spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) ¹⁶Then let them (God’s people) which be in Judaea (& everywhere) flee into the mountains (take refuge as God’s Spirit will reveal): ¹⁷Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: ¹⁸ Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. ¹⁹And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! ²⁰But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

Daniel 9 …  ²⁴Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city (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 (until Christ’s eternal kingdom)… ²⁷And he (Antichrist) shall confirm the covenant with man 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 (annihilation [9]) (… by Jesus at Armageddon), and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate … Daniel 12 … ¹¹And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the  abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days (3 ½ yrs). [10]

Daniel 11 … ³²And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he (Antichrist) corrupt by flatteries: but

the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.  ³³And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days … ³⁶And

the king (Antichrist) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation (of Christ upon Antichrist at Armageddon) be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. [11]

In the 1^st half of the 70^th & last prophetic week (considered likely to be 3 ½ of 7 yrs), the Antichrist (son of perdition) will be accepted by the Jews as their Messiah & "stand in the holy place" (the temple), while Christian rejection of him & his mark shall lead to their persecution.

In the middle of the prophetic week the Christians are raptured, the temple daily sacrifice is taken away, the abomination that maketh desolate set up (likely the beast’s image) & there is a falling out between the Antichrist & the Jews resulting in the 2^nd half of the prophetic week the Antichrist turning on the Jews, till Armageddon. From the time Christ is seen rapturing the Christians, onward, many Jews realize Jesus Christ is Messiah & 144,000 become His representatives. 

< 4) The GREAT TRIBULATION: 

²¹For then (subsequent to the above) shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

²²And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. 

Rev. 6 … ⁹And 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: ¹⁰And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? ¹¹And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled

(in the Great Tribulation).[12] 

Refusing the Mark incurs the 'worst' persecution - tribulation  of God’s people that has ever been or ever shall be… often confused with the Wrath of God … the plagues of the trumpets & vials in Revelation called the Wrath of the Lamb-(Jesus) in Revelation chapter 6 verses 16 & 17.).

The word tribulation(s) 21 of 22 times in the New Testament refers to persecution / troubles / afflictions (trials) of Christians. Christians are not appointed to (God’s) ‘wrath’ but are appointed to ‘tribulation’ of & from the world.

The Great Tribulation of Christians & others is the consequential wrath of the world for obeying God by opposing the Antichrist & his mark … resulting in the Wrath of God that will tribulate the world for what they did to His people.

Strong’s Concordance Greek Lexicon definition of 'tribulation' …

2347 thlipsis { thlip’-sis}

AV - tribulation 21, affliction 17, trouble 3, anguish 1, persecution 1, burdened 1, to be afflicted + 1519 1; 45

1) a pressing, pressing together, pressure

2) metaph. oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits[13]

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Many will take the Mark under duress thinking God will excuse them if they are wrong because they permitted themselves to be persuaded that they would not endure this test because Jesus would take them away in the rapture during  their time of  relative comfort before the Antichrist & his Mark,  as a reward for  their perpetual compromises of his word … that they will be excused for not searching his word because there will be no time when they had had plenty of time … "I do not have to understand the book of Revelation written for my generation, I just have to be a good compromising, pew sitting, tithe giving,  pseudo-Christian with lots of knowledge mixed with good intentions, some good works, a measure of self-indulgent faith & acceptance of my church, pastor & piers". 

"Lord, I only took the Mark because I did not think it was the Mark because my church believed, I was taught, I read … the Mark was after the rapture …isn’t the Mark just another sin … don’t we go to heaven no matter what after we believe in Jesus & say the sinners’ prayer & experience that moment of bliss?... I did not know salvation was free but the walk was to cost me everything … I should have considered more comprehensively that I was bought with a price & that my life was no longer mine to  live my own way even though I called myself a Christian ... your servant." 

Many of the wolves, many in sheep’s clothing will have done their jobs well & many shall finally be exposed …after the damage is done … some may even remorse … even repent in consuming grief … but prevention of this new magnanimous global deception & holocaust will be too late. Many Christian shepherds & hirelings with misguided good intentions shall weep bitterly at the desecration of their flocks & the realization that they unwittingly helped the wolves … as they recall the times God’s Spirit tried to get their attention or sent them unassuming messengers who also could not get through their prejudices, busyness, self-importance & peer pressure cognoscence …who may still be saved, “yet so as by fire,” 1 Corinthians 3:15.     

Each dispensation since creation has ended with such immense worldly evil, producing with Satan’s help, global atrocities of which God (if He exists) gets blamed for what these active & passive rebels themselves invoked, culminating in a persecution – tribulation of God’s people as his 'supposed' representatives, who are inevitably not entirely innocent because of self-fulfilling conflicting priorities with God’s agenda to prevent things from getting out of control in the 1^st place, if they would whole heartily obey His instructions given at the beginning of & throughout each dispensation.  

We are near the end of this dispensation …should anything be different. However, as in times past, God will provide for many who know how to listen to & obey His Spirit, an earthly way of escape to refuge or supernatural protection …leaving exposed to persecution – tribulation … a few willing martyrs & many 'dull of hearing'  self-willed, self-interested, slothful, disobedient & pseudo Christians who will say, "why God?" … as they are provided one final opportunity to stand up for the ways of God, as they should have done previously,  endeavoring to prevent the conflict they now find themselves in.  

<4-1   * God Will Provide Refuge in the Wilderness: 

Revelation 12 … ¹And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:  ²And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. ³And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.  ⁴And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.  

⁵And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. ⁶And 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  (3 ½ yrs). 

⁷And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, ⁸And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. ⁹And 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. ¹⁰And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. ¹¹And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

¹²Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

¹³And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

¹⁴And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time (3 ½ yrs), from the face of the serpent. ¹⁵And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. ¹⁶And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. ¹⁷And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. [14] Unfortunately, many will not heed God’s promptings nor listen to His messengers because of previous false prophesies … Satan is planning ahead too. God will provide refuge in the wilderness for obedient Christians the 1^st half & obedient Jews the 2^nd half of the 70^th prophetic week, mentioned previously in Daniel 9:24. 

Now let us ask God to help us finally read this next passage in the simplicity of the Gospel it was originally written & intended … if there is a comprehensive clash with what event verse 1 describes, just ask a number of avid Bible reading babes in Christ, who have not been exposed to ‘any’ End Times teachings, including this one … 

2 Thessalonians 2 … ¹Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (in the clouds), and by our gathering together unto him (in the sky), ( this is THE RAPTURE, detailed in Math. 24:30; Rev. 1: 7, 6:12-17; 1 Thess. 4; 15-17; 1Cor. 15: 51-52 printed in the next section) ²That 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.

³Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first ( from true Godliness: It’s a happening, NOW !!! ), and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition(Antichrist, SOON!);⁴Who pposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. ⁵Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? ⁶And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.  ⁷For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth (Middle English for Greek …"withholds or obstructs")

will let ("withholds or obstructs"), until he be taken out of the way. ⁸And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: ⁹Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, ¹⁰And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: ¹²That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

¹³But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: [15]

< 5) The "FIRST RESURRECTION" known as The "RAPTURE" …

                                                                                        Jesus comes in the Clouds for His people: 

²³Then (in the last days; the time approximating & during the above TRIBULATION) if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. ²⁴For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. ²⁵Behold, I have told you before. ²⁶Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. 

 ²⁷For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be (in the clouds).

²⁸For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together (as assuredly you see the eagles where the carcass of their prey is; so certainly shall you see these signs and their events). Thus …  

 ²⁹Immediately '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: ³⁰And 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 (Jesus) coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. ³¹And 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. … Parallel passages … 

Revelation 1 … ⁷Behold, he (Jesus) cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him (not a secret Rapture as many assume), and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. ⁸I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. [16]

Revelation 6 … ¹²And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; ¹³And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.  ¹⁴And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. ¹⁵And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; ¹⁶And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: ¹⁷For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? [17]  

The Wrath of the Lamb of God begins in the next & final 7^th Seal … so, the Tribulation, then the Rapture, then the Wrath.

1 Thessalonians 4 … ¹³But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. ¹⁴For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. ¹⁵For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.  ¹⁶For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump (military oration as loud as a trumpet) of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: ¹⁷Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. ¹⁸Wherefore comfort one another with these words. [18]      

Acts 1: 1 … of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, ²Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: ³To whom also he shewed himself ‘alive’ after his passion (after his death & resurrection) by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: ⁴And, being assembled together with them, commanded them … ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.  ⁹And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. ¹⁰And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up,  behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; ¹¹Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. [19]

1 Corinthians 15 … ¹Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; ²By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.   ³For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; ⁴And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: ⁵And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: ⁶After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. ⁷After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. ⁸And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.  ⁹For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. ¹¹Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

¹²Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: ¹⁴And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. ¹⁵Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. ¹⁶For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: ¹⁷And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. ¹⁸Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. ¹⁹If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

²⁰But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. ²¹For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. ²²For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. ²³But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. … ⁵¹Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, ⁵²In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump(military oration as loud as a trumpet): for the trumpet shall sound (with the oration), and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. ⁵⁵O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?  ⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. ⁵⁷But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵⁸Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. [20]

Revelation 7 … (still the 6 ^th Seal) ⁹After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne(no longer under the alter as in the 5^th Seal, Revelation 6: 9), and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; ¹⁰And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. ¹¹And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, ¹²Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.

¹³And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? ¹⁴And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they (of all generations) which came out of great tribulation (including the greatest tribulation), and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. ¹⁶They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. ¹⁷For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. [21]   (All true & faithful Christians of all nations, dead & alive, are raptured 'after' the Great Tribulation-Persecution, perfected & receive  'glorified bodies,' together, including the souls under the alter … & enter the Thrown Room of God with thanksgiving, praise & honor.

The Time of the Gentile representation of God has concluded.) 

Hebrews 11 … ³⁵Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: ³⁶And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: ³⁷They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; ³⁸(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. ³⁹And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: ⁴⁰God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect (until the Rapture, receiving their glorified bodies with us).  [22]

<5-1   * The Marriage Feast of The Lamb: 

Revelation 19 … ⁵And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. ⁶And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. ⁷Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. ⁸And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.  ⁹And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. ¹⁰And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. [23]

³²Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: ³³So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.  ³⁴Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. ³⁵Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. ³⁶But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. ³⁷But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ³⁸For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, ³⁹And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ⁴⁰Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. ⁴¹Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.  

1 Thessalonians 5 … ¹But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. ²For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. ³For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. ⁴But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. ⁵Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

⁶Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. ⁷For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. ⁸But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. ⁹For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation (& tribulation-persecution) by our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. …

¹⁶Rejoice evermore. ¹⁷Pray without ceasing. ¹⁸In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. ¹⁹Quench not the Spirit. ²⁰Despise not prophesyings. ²¹Prove all things;  hold fast that which is good. ²²Abstain from all appearance of evil. …

²⁷I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.  ²⁸The grace of our Lord  Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. [24]

⁴²Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. ⁴³But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. ⁴⁴Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. ⁴⁵Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? ⁴⁶Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. ⁴⁷Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. ⁴⁸But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; ⁴⁹And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; ⁵⁰The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, ⁵¹And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites (unbelievers, Luke 12:46): there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  [25]

This is the end of Mathew chapter 24 ...

THE RAPTURE (1st Resurrection) HAS OCCURRED.

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The Israelites (Jews) realize Jesus was & is their Messiah

&

Are going to be God's Witnesses again ...

<5-2   * The Sealing of 144,000 Jews to be God’s Servants 'after' the Rapture:  

Revelation 7 … ¹And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. ²And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, ³Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. ⁴And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand (144,000) of all the tribes of the children of Israel. (12,000 of each of 12 tribes) [26]   

Revelation 9 … ⁴And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. ⁵And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. ⁶And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.[27]

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Jesus Did Not Specifically Describe The Wrath of God,

That Christians Are Not Subject To.

Revelation Does ...

< 6) The WRATH of GOD … the Plagues of the 7 Trumpets & 7 Vials in Revelation: 

Recall, at the end of chapter 6, during the Rapture, in the sixth seal, … hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: ¹⁷For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand. 

Now … Revelation 8 … ¹And when he had opened the ( final) seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. ²And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. ³And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.  ⁴And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand. ⁵And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.  ⁶And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. ⁷ The first angel sounded … [28]

Chapter 15 … ¹And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. ²And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. ³And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.  ⁴Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.

⁵And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened: ⁶And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles. ⁷And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever. ⁸And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

Chapter 16 … ¹And 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. ²And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth … [29]

<6-1   * The 2 Witnesses Prophesy: 

¹And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

 ²But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and

the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months (3 ½ yrs). 

³And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days (3 ½ yrs), clothed in sackcloth.  ⁴These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. ⁵And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. ⁶These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. ⁷And 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. ⁸And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. ⁹And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. ¹⁰And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. ¹¹And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. ¹²And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. ¹³And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. 

<6-2   * Babylon Destroyed: 

Revelation 16 … ^{19 …} and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the  fierceness of his wrath. [30] 

Revelation 17 …¹And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: ²With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. ³So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:  ⁵And upon her forehead was a name written,

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.  ⁶And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

⁷And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. ⁸The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. ⁹And here is the mind which hath wisdom.

The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. ¹⁰And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. ¹¹And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. ¹²And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. ¹³These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

¹⁴These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. ¹⁵And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. ¹⁶And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. ¹⁷For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. ¹⁸And

the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. [31] 

Verse 9 + verse 18 = Rome with its Vatican City sits on 7 hills, each hill having its own name … known as the city of 7 hills.

The Greek word 'mountain' in verse 9 is synonymous with ‘hill’.  

Rome reigned with its military when the Apostle John was told this in the 90’s AD & still reigns, incognito from the spiritual-political nation, the Vatican (it is not part of Italy) by its Black Pope via the Jesuits through a number of rich families, secret societies, governmental & corporate infiltrators & the Ecumenical movement. The White Pope (called Holly Father, the name of God … that’s blasphemy) is a figurehead … the public ambassador presenting the desired image. Many priests, nuns & monks are misguided well intentioned pawns used to manipulate the masses.

Many Catholics are true Christians, unaware of the real Vatican agenda but most are unsaved ritualists, following tradition.  

Ironically, Satan through the Vatican by twisting God’s own Word is manipulating the peoples of the nations & will eventually achieve his ultimate desire of ruling the world … for a brief time … before his demise. 

It is difficult to explain to people who get emotional about things, that if they are honest, they don’t know much about … just because, "You can’t be right … you’re just another wacky conspiracy theorist … of course, with no contrary evidence themselves … because it can’t be!" … BUT IT IS !!!                              

The secrecy of the internal Vatican operations is in itself a clear sign … John 18 … ²⁰Jesus answered … in secret have I said nothing.[32]

* answer to Preterism

Revelation 18 … ¹And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. ²And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. ³For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.  ⁴And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people (true Christians in the Roman Catholic Church), that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. ⁵For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. ⁶Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. ⁷How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. ⁸Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

⁹And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her … ¹¹And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: ¹²The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,  ¹³And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.  ¹⁴And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all While the USA appears the most powerful nation on earth, being $ trillions in debt …the Vatican being worth $ trillions (beyond calculation) is actually the wealthiest most powerful nation on the planet, controlling the good & evil economies & takes more than she gives from the poor & wealthy alike …

 ²⁰Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her (the Roman Empire killed Jesus, the Apostles Paul & Peter & countless Christians under the old military order …). ²¹And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. ²²And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; ²³And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. ²⁴And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth [… the Roman Empire killed millions more scripture believing & reading Christians as witches & heretics under the Roman Catholic Church order during the Dark Ages & Protestant Reformation (not a revival but a reforming). The Jesuits have killed many more by inciting wars & national internal & external conflicts … not to mention the occasional espionage]. [33]

Revelation 19 … ¹And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: ²For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. ³And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. ⁴And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia. [34]

< 7) ARMAGEDDON … Jesus comes with His army to destroy the armies gathered to conquer Israel … the Antichrist and False Prophet are cast into the lake of fire … Satan is bound for 1,000 years:  

Revelation 9 … ¹³And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, ¹⁴Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. ¹⁵And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.  ¹⁶And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand (200,000,000 … China now has that capability): and I heard the number of them. ¹⁷And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. ¹⁸By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. ¹⁹For 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. ²⁰And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: ²¹Neither repented they of their murders, nor of        their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. [35]

Revelation 16 … ¹²And 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. ¹³And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. ¹⁴For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. ¹⁵Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. ¹⁶And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. [36]

Revelation 11 … ¹⁵And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying,         

The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. ¹⁶And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, ¹⁷Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. ¹⁸And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.  ¹⁹And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were        lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail. [37]

Revelation 16 … ¹⁷And 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. ¹⁸And 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. ¹⁹And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: [and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath (just prior to Armageddon, covered at the end of the last section, 'The Wrath of God')]. ²⁰And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. ²¹And 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; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. [38]

Revelation 19 … ¹¹And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he (Jesus) that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. ¹² His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. ¹³And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. ¹⁴And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean (those that were raptured). ¹⁵And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. ¹⁶And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. ¹⁷And 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; ¹⁸That 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.

¹⁹And 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 (Armageddon).

²⁰And 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.

²¹And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. [39]

Revelation 20 … ¹And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. ²And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, ³And 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. [40]

< 8) The MILLENNIAL REIGN of CHRIST … on earth with those

                                                              Jesus 'RAPTURED' ... as His kings and priests:

Daniel 2 … ³⁴Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands (Jesus), which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.  ³⁵Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth …  

⁴⁴And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.   ⁴⁵Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. [41] 

Revelation 20 … ⁴And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.  

^{5 …} This is the first resurrection (those Raptured). ⁶Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

⁵But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished ...

⁷And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, ⁸And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together   to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. ⁹And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

¹⁰And 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 (devoid of God’s presence … perpetual self-torment,  2 Thess. 1: 9). [42]

< 9) The WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT of GOD: 

Revelation 20 … ¹¹And 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 (The earth has finally been destroyed … recreated in Revelation 21: 1).

¹²And 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. ¹³And 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.  ¹⁴And death and hell (the grave) were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

¹⁵And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. [43]

< 10) A NEW HEAVEN & A NEW EARTH: 

Revelation 21 … ¹And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. ²And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. ³And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

⁴And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. ⁵And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. ⁶And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. ⁷He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 

⁸But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. [44]

*** A FINAL THOUGHT *** 

2 Peter 3 … ¹This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: ²That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:  

³Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, ⁴And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. ⁵For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:  ⁶Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: ⁷But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.  

⁸But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day (from Creation to the New Earth is as 1 week with the Lord).

⁹The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward (permitting time), not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.  

¹⁰But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

¹¹Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, ¹²Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?   

¹³Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. ¹⁴Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. ¹⁵And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; ¹⁶As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest (twist), as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

¹⁷Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. ¹⁸But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. [45] 

Numerous Christian leaders & sheep will 'wake up' to the realization that they helped promote the 'wolves agendas' by unwittingly succumbing to the unassuming persuasion of 'Ecumenical ideologies' even if they resisted ecumenism. "Unity without compromise," sounds good but it is only a deceptive spiritual political slogan to an 'underlying driving force' of today’s ecumenical movement that has an ulterior motive that will not become clear to most until the tribulation-persecution proximity … when the damage will be imminent !!!   

Final Note: 

revealed the foundation of the above. I was not the 1^st or last to be shown the chronology but I am 'not aware' of anyone being shown before 1948 when Israel was reinstated … starting the clock of the FINAL GENERATION of the LAST DAYS, of this dispensation. I was not inspired to put this into print until a dream 4/14/5, after 19 yrs & 1 month of further insights & refining. God’s hand has been powerfully in this article.  

 Most who understand bible prophesy know that God often uses symbols & parables because prophesies frequently have 1 primary fulfillment, with multiple secondary fulfillments, thereby speaI became paraplegic 6/28/85 …born again 10/8/85 … 3/86, God lead me into a fast & king to all people in every generation individually & collectively … providing much insight to many who seek Him in diverse circumstances … but with Satan’s help a 'stumbling stone' to many, for potentially multiple spiritually flawed reasons.  

It could be that Chronologies presented before 1948, even though well intended, were flawed because perhaps it was not God’s time … perhaps it was yet not the season … previous generations needed it not, though curious.    But it is needed … NOW !!!

Mathew 24: 15, 21, 29-31, & parallel passages are 3 pivotal similes critical to comprehending

END TIMES chronology … being dually fulfilled in 'similar' events in the 70 ^th prophetic week … 

1.   Verse 15:

     … Antichrist stands in the temple early in the week.                                                  

     … his image is set up in the temple in the middle of the week.

2.  Verse 21:

    … Antichrist persecutes Christians & others resisting him & his mark the 1^st ½ of the week.                                                                                                                            

      … Antichrist persecutes Jews the 2nd ½ of the week. 

3.  Verses 29-31:

     … Jesus comes from heaven with angels in the clouds to rapture Christians in the mid week.                                                                                                                         

     … Jesus comes from heaven with the previously raptured Christians as His armies to save Israel at the end of the week.

*** Hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries & millenniums presented, are interchangeably determined & revealed through revelation & circumstances by God to those who seek Him on His terms & to others He chooses by His eternal wisdom. The primary focus of this article is on chronology (sequential order of events), not the duration or exact times or dates of events. God will reveal seasons; general times & durations of events more clearly & instruct what to do as these immanent events draw even closer … but be careful of promotions of exact dates of Latter Days events!  

To those truly walking with God in His Prophetic Spirit He will reveal how & when to respond to these very near events … many will miss prophetic directives because of neglecting this spiritual priority at the expense of other spiritual priorities … 'failing' to achieve God’s Spiritual Balance. And of course, many will be duped of the Devil into being skeptical because of previous false prophesies construed by him. 

In 1918, after World War 1, God had Britain open up Palestine for the Jews to return to as He declared He would 2500 yrs before by His prophets …Jeremiah, Ezekiel & Daniel. If they would have obeyed there would have been no Holocaust …instead of why God?

I pray to the Lord Jesus for all to have ears to hear & eyes to see !!!

* Here is a YouTube video on the topic of ...

                         Post-Tribulation Pre-Wrath Rapture ...

                                                                                    titled, "After the Tribulation"

Here is the mind which hath wisdom ... 5 events in Revelation in reverse chronology … 

1)     Armageddon …

2)     proceeded by the 7^th Seal commencing the 7 trumpets & 7 vials … the Wrath.

3)     proceeded by the 6^th Seal … the Rapture, sealing of the 144,000 & the raptured saints before the throne (not under the alter) worshipping God.

4)     proceeded by the 5^th Seal …the saints under the alter before the rapture & the declaration of  persecution (tribulation) before the Rapture & God’s wrath.

5)     proceeded by the 1^st 4 Seals … 4 Horses … Beginning of Sorrows (Birth Pangs).  

Related articles:

                Genesis to Revelation

                10 Final Events, by Jesus, Paul & John (~30-100 AD)

                by Daniel (~550 BC)

                by John (~95 AD?)

2/19/14