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== [[Rapture of the saints]] ==

== '''All saints,''' not just the [[Church]] ==

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will be caught up to heaven
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and then '''[[tribulation]]''' for seven years on the earth.


The first three and a half years will be tribulation

the last will be [[great tribulation]]

It is completely erroneous to say

that the first three and half years of the [[Tribulation]]

are not part of the wrath of God.



:and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

2020

:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.


There will be a [[worldwide economic collapse]]



:13 But 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.

:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,

:even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

:15 For 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.

:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,

:with the voice of the archangel,

:and with the trump of God:

:and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

:17 Then 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.

:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 






:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:

:only '''he who now letteth will let,'''

'''he''' is the Holy Spirit

:'''until he be taken out of the way.'''

:8 And '''then shall [[that Wicked]] be revealed,'''

The antichrist

The man of sin


:whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,

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:and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

[[2 Thessalonians 2]]:7

The Holy Spirit is a person that will be taken out of the way

at the rapture.

The [[Church]] and '''all of the saints''' will be taken up,

then the '''antichrist will be revealed.'''





:Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins,

:and that ye receive not of her plagues.

[[Revelation 18]].4






:10 And then shall many be offended,

:and shall betray one another,

:and shall hate one another.

:11 And many false prophets shall rise,

:and shall deceive many.

:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.



:9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn,

:which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.




[[Daniel 12]]

:1 ...shall Michael stand up,

:the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:

:and there shall be a time of trouble,



:4 ... many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.










revealed.


[[Daniel 9]].27


He will make a [[Covenant with many]] - Israel
*a promise of protection

He will help them rebuild the Temple <ref>


[[Mark of the beast]]

Everyone must take his mark

or they can not buy or sell 

and he will kill them.

If one takes the mark

he can not be saved.

:If any man worship the beast and his image,

:and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

:10 The 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:

:11 And 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.




Crafts will prosper 

[[Daniel 8]]

:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; 

Business will go on with those with the mark





Some think the Old Testament saints

have already been taken up.

When Jesus rose from the dead

graves were opened <ref>

and the went into the city,

but they probably died again.

Did Lazarus die again?



[[Revelation 7]] 144 K sealed


[[Revelation 14]].1 Lamb stood on the mount Sion,

and with him an hundred forty and four thousand,




[[Revelation 14]].6 angel ...everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,



[[Revelation 14]].8 ... another angel, saying,

Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city,


[[Revelation 14]].9 .... third angel ... If any man ... receive his mark ...

10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,






[[Revelation 11]]

== Two witnesses ==

and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, 





At the mid-point (3.5 years) will start the Great Tribulation



After 3.5 years he will break the covenant <ref>
(enters Temple)
  

[[Daniel 8]]

[[Daniel 8.11]] ... and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away,




The prophet Daniel predicts an atrocity in the temple in the end times 

[[Daniel 9]]:27; 

[[Daniel 11]]:31; 

[[Daniel 12]]:11 

Daniel’s prophecy concerns a coming ruler 

who will cause the offerings to cease in the temple 

and set up “an abomination that causes desolation.” 

While what [[Antiochus Epiphanes]] did certainly qualifies as an abomination, 

Jesus speaks of Daniel’s prophecy as having a still-future fulfillment 

[[Matthew 24]]:15–16; 

[[Mark 13]]:14; 

[[Luke 21]]:20–21 

The Antichrist will model [[Antiochus Epiphanes]] in his great pride, 

blasphemous actions, and hatred of the Jews.















Devil makes war [[Revelation 12]]

:7 And there was war in heaven:


is thrown out of heaven with no place for him 

:8 And prevailed not;

:neither was their place found any more in heaven.





:14 And 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,

:from the face of the serpent.


:6 And 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.




Jews recognize Christ

:17 And 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.'''



Great Tribulation




Jesus return in glory

every eye shall see him <ref>

Jerusalem is over run <when> <ref>[[Zechariah 14]]

not completely <ref>

:. . . all nations against Jerusalem to battle;

:and the city shall be taken, 

and the houses rifled, 

and the women ravished;

:and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, 

:and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.




When His feet touch the 

== Mount of Olives splits in half == 

[[Zechariah 14]]:4


:3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

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

:and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west,

:and there shall be a very great valley;

:and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.


== The people can escape ==

:5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains;

:for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal:

:yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah:


== LORD and all the saints ==

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






== Battle of Armageddon ==
 <ref>
[[Revelation 16]]













after a period of seven years of tribulation on earth, 

Christ will return to the earth with His saints who were raptured 

[[Matthew 24]]:30, 

[[2 Thessalonians 1]]:7, 

[[1 Peter 1]]:13, 

[[Revelation 1]]:7. 


Armageddon

[[Revelation 16]]



He will be victorious over His enemies 

and will reign on the earth for 1,000 years.


The [[Church]] is the wife of Christ

Jews will be a nation




No rain on nations that do not come up the the feast of ?? <ref>
 
rule with rod of iron <ref>

lion lay down with lamb


Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,


will rebel

thrown into lake of fire

Great White Throne Judgment

dead judged, into hell

New Heaven, New Earth

Forever with the Lord







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