Part V ~ Lesson 3 of 6 – The Timeline of the End

The Sequence of Endtime Events

Equipping God's Saints (Followers of Christ) through the prophecies of the End Times …

We are now going to look at the first timeline of the Wrath of God. To do that, we will review Revelation 16. We have a chronological sequence of events for the timeline of the Vials. The Vials occur when the 7^th Trumpet sounds ~ after the Great Tribulation ~ after the Two Witnesses are killed:

End of Tribula-tion	1st Vial	2nd Vial	3rd Vial	4th Vial	5th Vial	6th Vial	Rev. 16:15	Rev. 16:16	7th Vial
Two Witnes-ses killed	Sores	Seas to blood	Rivers to blood	Sun scorch men	Dark-ness	Euph-rates dries up	Last minute warn-ing	Gather-ed to Arma-geddon	Voice, thunders, lightnings, earthquake, Babylon, islands, mtns, hail

All this happens very rapidly. We are only talking a few days. This is the Day of the Lord. The Day of His Wrath has come.

The Wrath of God is explained in different parts of the Bible, in different ways. Now we are going to look at a condensed timeline of this timeline. We are going to look at fewer events because we are going to compare this timeline of the Wrath of God with another timeline of the Wrath of God.

We are now going to look at a different version of the 7 Vials because we are going to compare it to Matthew 24.

				7th Vial <<<<Armageddon >>>>
End of Tribula-tion	Vials 1-4 Sores, bloods sun scorches	5nd Vial Darkness	6rd Vial Euphrates warning, gathered	Voices, thunders, lightnings	Great Earthquake
					Babylon judged, islands, mtns, great hail

Earlier, we read Jesus's teachings of the prophecies in Matthew 24:21, 29-31. It starts out by saying, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the following things happen ...” It went on to refer to the Sun being darkened, Moon shall not give her light, Stars will fall from heaven … This is giving us a timeline of the Wrath of God.

End of Tribulation

Sun darkened, moon not give light, stars fall

Powers of heaven shaken

Rapture

Matthew 24:21, 29-31

• Immediately after Great Tribulation
• Sun, moon dark, stars fall
• Heavens shake, great trumpet
• Rapture

Son of man coming

Coming in the clouds

Angels do the gathering

Putting what we have learned from the Scriptures of Matthew 24:21, 29-31 and combining it with the 7 Vials, our timeline looks like this:

				7th Vial <<<<<< Armageddon >>>>>>
End of Tribulation	Vials 1-4 Sores, bloods sun scorches	5nd Vial Darkness	6rd Vial Euphrates warning, gathered	Voices, thunders, lightnings		Great Earthquake
						Babylon judged, islands, mtns, great hail
End of Tribulation		Sun darkened, moon not give light, stars fall		Powers of heaven shaken	Rapture

At the Battle of Armageddon, the Voices, thunders and lightnings correlates directly to Jesus's description of powers of heaven shaken. Then Jesus tells us that the Rapture happens.

Now the question arises, “Why do we know the Rapture occurs before the Great earthquake; before Babylon is judged; before islands and mountains are moved out of their places; before the great hail?” We know this because at the Battle of Armageddon, the Saints (that's us who follow Christ) will be with Jesus.

The Bible says that we will come with Him to the Mount of Olives. There are several passages we will look at that show us we will come with Jesus to the Battle of Armageddon. We will know that the Rapture takes place between the Voices, thunders and lightnings and the rest of the events of the Battle of Armageddon.

What we will do now is take a look at a timeline that combines the timelines of Revelation 16 and Matthew 24, compressing them together so we can progress to our next level:

End of Tribula-tion

5nd Vial Darkness

Powers of heaven shake

Rapture

Marriage Supper

Second Coming

Israel repents, saved

Armageddon

Everyone is very interested in exactly where the Rapture happens. How can the Rapture happen at the time of Armageddon and us still get back to the Battle of Armageddon and be with Jesus at that time? The Bible tells us we will meet the Lord in the air. We will go with him and we will have the Marriage Supper in the sky. Then, as 1 Thessalonians 4 teaches us, we will go with him to the Battle of Armageddon.

When we are caught up to meet the Lord in the air, we are changed to immortality and time is not a factor. Our bodies will be like Jesus's body was when He rose from the dead. We are no longer constrained with the physical constraints that we live in right now.

The first scripture we want to look at that verifies how we are going to go with Jesus to fight the Battle of Armageddon is Zechariah 14:4-5, which says:

“And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, …

... and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.”

This passage is telling of Jesus returning ~ the Second Coming of the Lord. And He comes with His saints.

The next scripture we want to look at is Jude 14-15:

“... Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

To execute judgment upon all ...”

Jesus will be coming to judge the great whore; the blood that the people on earth inflicted upon His saints. This is the Day of the Lord. The Bible says when the nations of the earth close in on Jerusalem, that God's fury is going to come up in His face because God chose Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is a point of great controversy right now. Everybody is arguing over whether the Palestinians get Jerusalem or whether Israel gets Jerusalem. Should the UN just take it for herself and put the world headquarters there? That controversy is going to continue to rage until it's going to throw us right into the Battle of Armageddon. The negotiations in the Middle East right now are in progress trying to solve the Jerusalem problem. They are not going to successfully solve it. They may put a bandaid on it for a while, but they aren't going to solve it.

All these things are leading straight toward the time when the world is going to move in on Jerusalem and try to take it from Israel. That is when God is going to get angry and the Bible says when the nations come against Jerusalem, God's fury is going to come up in His face and He's going to come down to execute judgment.

So we are on a really important time right now. Has the world been dealing with the Jerusalem problem for the last 2,000 years? Almost not. But when Israel captured it in 1967, the pressure's been building. It will continue to build until it blows up in the Battle of Armageddon.

What a day to live in!

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, of whom I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.