Tribulation

The seven year Tribulation

is the period when God completes His plan for Isarel

and He tests, purges and purifies them,

returns at His second coming

and establishes their promised kingdom.

The Bride of Christ is not a part of this period

when God purges Isarel and the Gentile nations.

The first three and a half years will be tribulation

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

Matthew 24

the "beginning of sorrows," Matthew 24.8,

the Great Tribulation of Matthew 24.21

The devastating events of Revelation 6.16-17 and Revelation 7.14

occur before the middle of the Tribulation.

The Tribulation Daniel's Seventh Week

begins with the outpouring of the Seal judgments,

followed by the Trumpets

and ending with the Bowl or Vial judgments.

There is no break in the progressive judgments

only a worsening of the wrath of God as they are cast upon the earth.

The events of Revelation 6

Revelation 7

Revelation 8

Revelation 9

Revelation 10

reveal a very terrible time for the Earth.

Note the terrible events of the seven seal judgments

and the six trumpet judgments:

First seal White horse

introduces the Antichrist Revelation 6.1–2)

The rider goes forth conquering and to conquer.

It is probably the Antichrist who appears to be white

in that he offers peace to the world.

He deceives the nations

and all the while he is talking peace he is conquering the nations of earth

and setting up himself as the world dictator.

Without question Revelation 6.1

is telling us that the Seal Judgments

are the beginning of God's pouring His wrath on the earth.

They are initiated by the Jesus Christ

and under His direction and control and part of His plan.

Revelation 6.5-6

Second seal Red horse

rider with a large sword

great warfare breaks out on the earth Revelation 6.3–4

Third seal Black horse

holding a pair of scales in his hand

famine

Fourth seal Pale horse

rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him” Revelation 6.7–8

one fourth of the earth’s population are killed “by sword, famine and plague,

and by the wild beasts of the earth.

One fourth of the earth is killed

with the sword, hunger, and beasts of earth.

Lord Jesus is opening the seals

and the riders are going forth in power

to perform the Lord's plan.

Fifth seal

those saints martyred during the tribulation Revelation 6.9–11

dwelling under the altar in heaven

The saints cry out to God,

"How long before you judge the earth and avenge our blood.

These are said to be saints slain for the Word of God

because they would not recant their testimony of salvation in Jesus Christ.

Revelation 6.11 further identifies them

with their "brethren" still on the earth

and states those too would be killed.

Clearly these are people

who are saved during the first half of the Tribulation

and there is nothing to identify them as believers of the Church Age.

They are crying out to God to avenge their deaths

plainly recognizing that the Lord is in control

and He is bringing about these devastating events.

Revelation 6.12

Sixth seal

a devastating earthquake occurs, sun turns black, moon turns blood,

heavens receded like a scroll

Everyone on earth flees to caves and rocks in mountains,

begging them to fall on them

and hide them from the face of Christ and His wrath.

These terrible catastrophes in nature are being brought about by God,

Revelation 6.17 "For the great day of his wrath is come;

and who shall be able to stand?"

This statement contextually comes after these cataclysmic events

and is intended to sum up what has been revealed.

The next statement is Revelation 7.1 and begins with the statement

"And after these things I saw four angels."

Grammatically, the thought is changed and a new event is to be revealed.

This restricts the statement of Revelation 6.17

to referring to the five seals that have been just described.

There can be no question that the Lord

is saying the seal judgments are part of God's wrath

and this negates the Pre-wrath view as being accurate.

Seventh seal

there was silence in heaven for about half an hour Revelation 8.1

First Angel

It rains hail, fire mingled with blood

and a third part of the tree and grass is burned up.

Revelation 8.7

Second Angel

A great mountain burning with fire cast into the sea

and third part of the waters turned to blood.Revelation 8.8-9

Third Angel

Third of creature in the sea killed and third of all ships.

Great Star from heaven falls

and third part of all fresh water is made bitter. Revelation 8.10-11

Fourth Angel

Third of the sun, moon and stars smitten.

Third part of the day is darkened. Revelation 8.12

The angel flying through heaven

saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe.

Clearly all that is happening is a continuation of the Seal Judgments

and is part of God's wrath.

Fifth Angel

First Woe Bottomless pit opened

and scorpions that have power to kill men

by tormenting them five months till they die.

Sixth Angel

Four deamons loosed from Euphrates river.

They kill a third part of all men on earth.

Revelation 9.20

20 And 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:

21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,

nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Revelation 6-10 reveals these terrible events

are a part of the wrath of God poured down on the earth.

The time of God's wrath begins with the first Seal

and continues through the sixth Trumpet judgments.

It is completely erroneous to say

that the first three and half years of the Tribulation

are not part of the wrath of God.

1 Thessalonians 5.9

1 Corinthians 15.51-52

Colossians 3.4

1 Thessalonians 1.10

1 Timothy 6.14

James 5.8

1 Thessalonians 5.8-9

Philippians 4.5

2 Peter 3.10,17

1 Thessalonians 5.6

Titus 2.13

Revelation 3.3

Philippians 3.20-21

2 Thessalonians 2.2

Clearly the Lord is telling us

to be expecting the Rapture at any moment

According to Daniel

the first three and a half years begin

with the signing of the of the covenant

between Israel and the Gentile Antichrist. <ref>

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