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Sunday, October 27, 2013

Part V ~ Lesson 2 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 …

Let's look at the timeline we established for Daniel's 70^th Week:

1,260 Days / 3 ½ years

C of C A of D Trib. End

In Daniel's 70^th Week, we know we have the Final 7 Years. It starts with the Confirmation of the Covenant (the signing of the Peace Treaty between Israel and Palestine). We then have a 3 ½ year period of time of relative peace on earth when the Antichrist is ascending and gaining his power. The Aboination of Desolation happens at the exact mid-point, which launches the Great Tribulation that lasts for 3 ½ years.

Most students of prophecy are more familiar with Daniel's 70^th Week. Now we want to show how Daniel's 70^th Week and the Seals / Trumpets / Vials correlate together. Let's look at the timeline that brings these both together.

*First 3 ½ Years*		*Last 3 ½ Years*		*Culmination of Battle of Armageddon*
*6^th Trump World War III*		*5^th Seal Souls under altar*	*Great Tribulation*	*6^th Seal 7^th Trump All Vials*
*Confirmation of the Covenant*	*“Peace”*	*Abomination of Desolation*	*Wrath of Satan*	*Wrath of God*

To quickly redefine terms:

Confirmation of the Covenant,

the Bible says, is when the Antichrist will confirm the covenant with many for a 7 year period. When this event happens, we know we have triggered the Final 7 Years to the Battle of Armageddon.

The Abomination of Desolation happens half-way through this 7 year period and is when the Antichrist will sit in the Temple of God and claim to be Messiah; claim to be God. Even during this time, during this first 3 ½ years, if a Temple is not built before the Confirmation of the Covenant, a Temple will have to be built in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount during this time.

Right now we are right in front of the Confirmation of the Covenant and very close to the time of the war that will kill 1/3 part of man. Right now we are on the brink of Daniel's 70^th Week.

The first 3 ½ years of Daniel's 70^th Week leading up to the Abomination of Desolation is a time of relative peace. As we move over on the timeline to the second half, we see that the 5^th Seal is the souls under the altar crying out “Lord, when will You avenge our blood?”

We know this happened at the Abomination of Desolation because the 3^rd Vial makes a reference to that. We talked about this Vial at length in an earlier lesson where we discussed we have the angel on the waters that is complimenting God for having judged righteously, and we have the souls under the altar who are complimenting God for having judged righteously. We know that when the angel on the waters does it, it was the launching of the 3 ½ years because it was a time, times, and a half a time.

The Abomination of Desolation begins the Great Tribulation which we indicate here on this chart as the Wrath of Satan. During this 3 ½ year period of time saints are killed. It is launched by a war in heaven involving Michael, the Archangel, having a war against the devil and his angels. Satan is cast out, possesses the Antichrist, who then commits the Abomination of Desolation.

3 ½ years later, the Great Tribulation ends. That ends the Wrath of Satan and we then enter into the period known as the Wrath of God. The Wrath of Satan is the Great Tribulation.

As the Bible puts it, immediately after the tribulation of those days, shall we see the 6^th Seal / 7^th Trumpet / All Vials. This is the Wrath of God. Take note as we look at this timeline, we have the Wrath of Satan followed by the Wrath of God.

We know that the Wrath of Satan, the Great Tribulation, is 3 ½ years long. The Wrath of God is not 3 ½ years long, but is a very short segment of time that occurs just after the Great Tribulation.

Another big misconception is that many people think the Wrath of Satan is the first 3 ½ years of Daniel's 70^th Week and that the Wrath of God is the second 3 ½ years. That cannot be true because Jesus said in Matthew 24:

“When you see the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel, the prophet, then shall be great tribulation such as never has been before, nor ever again shall be.”

It is critical to understand that the Great Tribulation begins at the Abomination of Desolation and it occupies the last 3 ½ years of Daniel's 70^th Week. Then at the end of the tribulation, immediately, we go into a very short segment of time called the Wrath of God. All of this culminates at the Battle of Armageddon.

This is a culmination of cataclysmic, apocalyptic events that all are poured out. It actually appears that God uses the Vials against the invading armies of the world government forces led by Russia. These forces are coming down against the city of Jerusalem and the Bible says in Ezekiel 38, “I will plead against Gog with blood, with pestilence, with fire, with hailstones."

This brings up another point. The Vials are localized events, not worldwide events. We are told in Ezekiel 38 that the great hail falls upon the invading armies of Armageddon.

It is easy to understand this because the plagues of Egypt were localized. When God delivered the children from Egypt, he used the plagues against Egypt. The whole world didn't experience frogs in their sinks, flies, all of these plagues that are described in the Old Testament. The plagues were only against the Egyptians. They were not against the Israelites. The Israelites were protected from this wrath of God.

Keeping this in mind, know that Wrath of Satan will be against the Saints of God and Saints will be killed. But immediately following the Great Tribulation, the Saints of God will not be subject to the Wrath of God.

Coming up we will look at the timelines (plural) of the Wrath of God. We will see that during this very short period of time we are going to see lots and lots of events.

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.

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Part V ~ Lesson 1 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 …

This is our final segment of lessons. In this segment we will pull it all together. We will look at the overview timeline of endtime events. We are going to review as logically and carefully as we can all we have learned so that we can get it permanently in our minds exactly how all these things fit together.

First we will review the critical point of how we can understand the chronology of the Book of Revelation. There are two keys to it.

Key #1: Revelation 1:19 says to write the things thou has seen, the things which are, and the things which are hereafter. These are the 3 categories to the Book of Revelation.

Key #2: Understand that the Book of Revelation is NOT written in chronological order from front to back. It is in an order, but NOT in chronological order from Chapter 1 through Chapter 22. We find the key in the fact that the 6^th and 7^th Seal, the 7^th Trumpet and the 7^th Vial are all the exact same event. This then helps us to know that the Trumpets are the Long Story, the Seals are the Shorter Story, and the Vials are the Very Short Story.

By now, we all know the Vials happen after the end of the Great Tribulation. It's the Vials that contain the Wrath of God.

We've seen this overview and have compared the 6^th and 7^th Seal, the 7^th Trumpet and the 7^th Vial to Matthew 24 and Ezekiel 38.

Matthew 24 is the famous prophecy chapter spoken by Jesus Christ, Himself, called the Olivet Discourse.

Ezekiel 38 is the prophecy about the Battle of Armageddon in all of it's detail. It tells who will be there. Russia will be the dominate force.

All of these things converge together and we can see that we are talking about the same events. This opens the door to a whole new understanding of the Book of Revelation.

Remember ~ the Book of Revelation is NOT written in chronological order. It begins with the time of John, who wrote it. Then the portion from Revelation 4:1, on are things which will be in the future from John's perspective.

The First thing that actually happens in that future perspective is the opening and unleashing of the Seals, which is recorded in Revelation 6.

Another critical point that really contributes to our understanding is that once we realize that all these events are not contained in the 7 year period, when you understand the identity of the White Horse, the Red Horse, the Black Horse and the Pale Horse (the Four Men of the Apocalypse) you really get the view of that this thing started maybe 200 or 300 years after the vision was given and then began to play out. There are some things that have already happened, and there are some things that are yet to happen. From our vantage point, it's not all history, but part of it is history. Part of it is yet future. So we live in a very interesting time. The longer we live, the more will be history and the less will be future because we are actually living in the Book of Revelation right now.

Let's quickly review the 7 Seals, 7 Trumpets and 7 Vials so we can reafirm our timelines, understand what we know and we can progress from this point.

7 Seals

Catholicism
Communism
Capitalism
Islam
Souls under altar: “Avenge!”
Wrath of God
Silence in heaven ½ hour

7 Trumpets

World War I (?)
World War II
Chernobyl
Shortening of Days
Gulf War: Saddam Hussein
War that kills “third part of men”
Wrath of God

7 Vials

Sores on those who take Mark
Sea becomes blood
Rivers, fountains become blood
Men scorched by sun
Darkness fills Satan's kingdom
Euphrates River dries up
Armageddon

Now let's put all 21 elements out here and see how it all meshes together:

		*<<<4^th Seal = Islam <<<<<<<>>>>>> 4^th Seal = Islam>>>*
*1^st Seal*	*2^nd Seal*	*3^rd Seal*	*1^st Trump*	*2^nd Trump*	*3^rd Trump*	*4^th Trump*	*5^th Trump*	*6^th Trump*	*5^th Seal*	*6^th Seal 7^th Trump All Vials*	*7^th Seal*
*Cath*	*Comm*	*Cap*	*WW I (?)*	*WW II*	*Cher-nobyl*	*Days Short-ened*	*Gulf War*	*WW III*	*Souls under altar*	*Wrath of God*	*Silence in heaven*

It's very important for you to realize how these are running concurrently together. You have the Seals opening, but you also have the Trumpets sounding under the era of the 4^th Seal. So we can see that these overlap. They are each taking their own pace, but they are all going to end up at the same point.

We are certain that the 6^th Trumpet will sound before the 5^th Seal is opened. We determined that by analyzing Revelation 8, which shows the sequence of the Trumpets and how they are actually spelled out. We know that the Abomination of Desolation, which launches the Great Tribulation, happens in Revelation 10:5. The 6^th Trumpet happens in Revelation 9 and occurs before the 5^th Seal. This is a very critical point, because what we are trying to do is to show exactly how this all fits together.

Next, we will look at the next timeline we considered ~ Daniel's 70^th Week.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Part IV ~ Lesson 4 of 4 – Wrath of God

The Sequence of Endtime Events

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

One more element of the Wrath of God is the judgement of the great whore. You can study it in detail in my posting titled, “Coming One-World Religion”. It is very important that we recognize who the Mother of harlots is, who her daughters are, and that you not be a part of her system. It is a tremendous deception.

We are now going to show where the great whore is judged. All this is so critical because this deals with religion. When we deal with religion, we deal with a most sensitive subject and can upset somebody.

There are 2 Chapters in the Bible that talk about the false religions of the endtime. Chapter 17 and Chapter 18. We know there is going to be a great religious leader in the endtime called the False Prophet. He is going to influence the whole religious world of which all of us are a part. He is going to influence the religious world to follow the Antichrist. Many people who call themselves Christians are going to follow the Antichrist and they are not going to believe they are following the Antichrist. Jesus warned that many will come in His name and deceive many.

The passage begins in Revelation 17:1 when it talks about the judgment of a woman whose name is Mystery Babylon. Revelation 17:1 says, “... Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore ...”

Then comes the question, “When will the great whore be judged?” The answer is found under the 7^th Vial.

In the 6^th Vial, you will remember the River Euphrates was dried up to make way for the kings of the earth to come down against Israel at Armageddon. God then issues His final warning that He comes as a thief. We are now on the very edge, right after the great earthquake, Revelation 16:19 says:

“And 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.”

This is the judgment of Babylon. Many people have speculated that New York City, or America could be Babylon. None of that is true. My posting titled, “One-World Religion” teaches you that it is not just “Babylon”, but it is “Mystery Babylon”. The name of this woman is “Mystery Babylon”. There is not going to be a city on this earth named “Babylon”. There is going to be a city under another name. It is easily identifiable in Revelation 17 and 18.

The critical point is When does this happen? It happens at the time of the 7^th Vial and we know that all 7 Vials make up the Wrath of God. We know the events that dovetail into the endtime are:

6^th Seal, 7^th Trumpet, All Vials
Immediately after Wrath of Satan
Wrath of God
Day of the Lord
Coming of the Lord
He comes as a thief
The gathering

This is the Grand Finale of this era of human government. This is the grand finalization of Satan's attempt on earth. It is at this point that Satan goes into the bottomless pit for 1,000 years. This is the point that Jesus Christ comes and the kingdoms of this world become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ and He reigns for ever and ever.

As we pull all this together, the picture becomes clearer. We are moving toward it and all the details are falling into place. The reason why we are being able to understand all this is because we are the people of the endtime. The Bible says these things will be sealed up until the time of the end and at that time it will be opened. We are living in a very exciting time right now.

Coming up, we are now going to deal with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and how it is going to happen. We are going to see that He comes in the clouds and that the angels are going to do the gathering.

Dear Ones, if you become a millionaire, if you become the CEO of your company, no matter what you achieve in your life, if you are not prepared and you miss the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, your life has been an abject failure. However, if you are poor, you never have much, you end up dying in debt, and yet you are ready for the Second Coming, then your life has been an incredible success. Either way and everything in between, you need to be ready for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Part IV ~ Lesson 3 of 4 – Wrath of God

The Sequence of Endtime Events

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

Continuing with our comparison of our 9 scriptures, we see that 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2 also uses these terms interchangeably. This is one of the great passages for people who are wanting to understand endtime events, in particular, the events surrounding the coming of the Lord.

There was a real controversy in the Thessolonican Church at that time. The Apostle Paul wrote to them because some of them were debating about when the coming of the Lord would happen. He actually wrote this to straighten out a controversy that had infilltrated the church. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2 says:

“Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.”

Let's break this passage down a little. In this passage, we see:

Coming of our Lord
Gathering together unto Him
Day of Christ

You will notice that these two verses are one full sentence and one thought. He is equating all three terms. We see here that the Coming of our Lord and the Gathering together unto Him is the same event.

Understand, there were people at that time that were teaching that the Coming of the Lord was at hand, that it was imminant. The Apostle Paul knew this was not true, so he was backing them down. He's saying don't be troubled, don't be shaken in mind because there are some things that will happen before the Coming of the Lord happens. The Coming of our Lord is coming, yes, but it's not at hand, yet.

The last passage we are going to discuss begins with Matthew 24:21, which identifies the Great Tribulation. Then we will jump to Matthew 24:29-31.

Matthew 24:21 says:

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.”

Continuing at Matthew 24:29-31, we read:

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

Matthew 24 is the very best, that I know of, line by line expression of the sequence of endtime events. Jesus is giving us a chronological account of events. First this will happen, then that will happen, then this will happen, etc.

Verse 15 says that when you see the Abomination of Desolation then let those in Judea flee for... (Verse 21) there will be great tribulation as never has been before... (Verse 29) immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, the moon shall not give her light. (We have already shown this is what happens under the Wrath of God.)

This passage of Matthew 24:21, 29-31 shows us the sequence of endtime events:

Immediately after Great Tribulation
Sun, moon dark, stars fall
Heavens shake, great trumpet
Son of man coming
Coming in the clouds
Angels do the gathering

This passage deals with elements of the Wrath of God, however, for the understanding of our terms and 9 passages, we will only show the two terms that relate to our chart.

As we apply these 9 passages with the 4 terms on a chart, you will see total consistency. All of these terms are interchangeable. This makes it obvious that all of these terms are the same.

	*God's Wrath*	*Day of Lord*	*Coming as a thief*	*Coming of Lord*
*Rev 11:15-19*	X
*Zeph 1:14-16*	X	X
*Joel 2:10-11, 31*	X	X
*2 Pet 3:10*	X	X	X
*1 Thes 5:2*		X	X
*Matt 24:42-43*			X	X
*1 Cor 1:6-8*		X		X
*2 Thes 2:1-2*		X		X
*Matt 24:29-31*	X			X

To put this all into perspective, let's go back and see what we have learned so far.

First, we have established that the 6^th Seal, 7^th Trumpet and 7^th Vial are all one in the same. We also add Matthew 24:29 and Ezekiel 38:18-22 to show this is all the same event.

Next, we created charts that show what happens during the time of the 6^th Seal, 7^th Trumpet and 7^th Vial:

Earthquake; Sun black; Moon blood; Stars fall; Mountains & islands moved; God's Wrath; Great voices; Great hail; Lightnings, voices, thunderings. We focused on the fact that all of these events make up the Wrath of God.

We also established that not only the 7^th Vial is the Wrath of God, but that all the Vials are contained in the 7^th Trumpet, so all the Vials are the Wrath of God.

This brings us to today's lesson where we established the terms God's Wrath; Day of the Lord; Coming of the Lord; Coming as a thief; is one in the same event.

You need to understand that the Book of Revelation is not in chronological order from front to back because there are many false teachings out there to confuse you. People take the Book of Revelation and teach it in chronological order from front to back. Because the Rapture is mentioned several times, there is a teaching called 7 Subsequent Raptures where they teach there are 7 Raptures. If you believe it is in chronological order, you will wind up with a Rapture in Chapter 6, Chapter 8, Chapter 11, Chapter 14, Chapter 16, etc. You have to come up with a doctrine to fit the theory.

The problem is that it's not the Bible that is confused, it's we who are sometimes confused.

Jesus told us in John 5:39:

“Searh the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”

Our comparison of scriptures and our charts help us to nail things down. We are proving scriptures with scriptures.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Part IV ~ Lesson 2 of 4 – Wrath of God

The Sequence of Endtime Events

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

Let's start with the 7^th Trumpet. We have already dealt with this Trumpet. Let's review the highlights.

The 7^th Trumpet is the last trumpet to sound. In Revelation 11:15-19 we see there are:

Great voices in heaven
Thy wrath is come
Lightnings, voices, thunderings
Earthquakes
Great hail

This passage is very clear and direct that the time of Thy Wrath is come.

Next is Zephaniah 1:14-16, which says:

“The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.”

We are seeing the great day of the Lord. This term is so important. This is the Lord's day. During the trial in Pilate's judgement hall, Jesus told him, “This is your hour and the hour of the power of darkness, but hereafter, my day is coming.”

In this passage, we are there now. Jesus said, “I am going to come. And when I come, the tribes of this earth are going to mourn because right now Satan is the god of this age. He's the god of this world. But the day of the Lord is coming when everybody else moves over and it's My turn, now. I am going to straighten things out after all of this chaos; after all of this war; all of this sin; all of these problems.” When the day of the Lord comes, it's the day when we all transition from the kingdom of Satan to the Kingdom of God.

In this passage of Zephaniah 1:14-16 we are seeing some terms that we are familiar with at this point:

Great day of the LORD
Day of wrath
Day of darkness
During God's Wrath, we know that the Sun will be darkened, the Moon will not give her light, and the Stars shall fall from heaven
Day of the trumpet
It's the day of the 7^th Trumpet

Our next scripture is Joel 2:10-11, 31

“The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for his is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

…..

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.”

In this passage of Joel 2:10-11, 31 we see:

Earth quake, heavens tremble
Sun and moon shall be dark
Stars withdraw shining
LORD utters His voice
Day of the LORD
Moon into blood

This is all consistant with the other scriptures.

Our next scripture is 2 Peter 3:10, which says:

“But 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.”

This is a new element, here, and you need to focus on this. Here it says the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. Many people really get confused on this point because they try talking about the coming of Jesus as a thief ~ as a time seperate and apart from the day of the Lord. It's obvious from this scripture that it is one in the same thing.

In this passage of 2 Peter 3:10 we see:

Day of the Lord
Thief in the night
Heavens pass away with noise

Our next scripture is 1 Thessalonians 5:2 which says:

“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night”

As we read these scriptures, we may wonder how, if the day of the Lord is at the Battle of Armageddon, we are going to see these things coming. How could it be as a thief in the night?

1 Thessalonians 5 really clears that up because the Apostle Paul says, “You know, brethren, the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night, however, you are not children of the night that that day should overtake you unawares. You are children of the day.”

We learn from this that the day of the Lord only comes as a thief to those who live in darkness. Those of us who are watching and understand the scriptures will be prepared and will see.

Our next scripture is Matthew 24:42-43. This is just after Jesus's explanation of the day of wrath and continues on to say:

“Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

But 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.”

The goodman in this passage was in darkness. But it is given for us to know. We have been given the prophecies of the Bible. This scripture either applies to us … or not ... depending on whether we are watching … or not.

We are now seeing a coalition between the Coming as a thief and the Coming of the Lord. There is so much confusion between these two terms and by cross referencing them here, we are able to establish that we are talking about one in the same event.

Our next scripture is 1 Corinthians 1:6-8 which says:

“Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

In this passage of 1 Corinthians 1:6-8, Paul uses the terms interchangeably:

Coming of our Lord
Day of our Lord

Coming up, we will look at 2 more passages. We will then establish a chart that will solidify all 9 scriptures. We are going to find out that it is all very consistant ~ that the terms are interchangeable and that they are used the same way in all these scriptures ~ Old Testament and New Testament. We will then be able to understand what the Lord intended us to understand when He used these terms.