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We have spoke about the beging of the birth pains and we have looked at the rapture of the church.
Now lets go back to the Olivet Discourse and see whart erlse Jesus has to say:
The Middle of the Tribulation.
The midpoint of the Tribulation period is most important, for at that time an event will take place that was prophesied centuries ago by Daniel.
Please notice that this prophecy concerns only the Jews and the city of Jerusalem (“thy people and … thy holy city,” Dan.
9:24).
To apply it to the church or to any other people or place is to misinterpret God’s Word.
Weeks?
The prophecy involves seventy weeks, and the Hebrew word “week” means “a week of years,” or seven years.
Seventy sevens would equal 490 years.
But this period of 490 years is broken up into three parts:
(1) During seven weeks (49 years) the city of Jerusalem would be rebuilt and the worship reestablished.
(2) After 63 weeks (434 years) Messiah would come to Jerusalem and die for the sins of the world.
(3) The prince will make an agreement with the Jews for one week (seven years) to protect them from their enemies.
The decree to rebuild Jerusalem was given in 445 b.c. by Cyrus.
Exacally 434 years later Jesus was Crucified.
So lets do the math:
490 - 49 = 441
441 - 434 = 7
This “left over” 7 years is the Tribulation.
For at some future date, the prince that shall come (Antichrist) will make a covenant with the Jews for seven years.
This is where the missing “week” fits in.
This is what will happen after the Rapture of the Church.
Post Rapture Events:
As soon as the church is raptured the Anti-Christ will be revealed:
He will agree to protect them from their enemies and permit them to rebuild their temple.
talks about a restoration of the sacrifices, and this would demand a temple.
But as we have seen, as of now there is no temple in Jerusalem.
This is why the 5 red hefners in the news comes in.
The bible says that a red hefner is an ordinance of the temple sacrifice.
So the Temple will have to be built a 3rd time and that is what is currently happening.
When will all this actually take place?
The logical place for this seven-year period is after the Rapture of the church.
“The time of Jacob’s trouble,” the Tribulation period, will be seven years long.
Second Thessalonians 2:1–12 indicates that the Antichrist cannot be revealed until the restrainer is taken out of the midst.
That restrainer is the Holy Spirit in the church.
Once the church is out of the world, then Satan can produce his masterpiece, the Antichrist.
The Anti-Christ
Let us take a moment here to look closer at the antichrist.
The Antichrist is a person who is against Christ.
The prefix anti can also mean “instead of,” and both meanings will apply to this coming world leader.
He will overtly oppose Christ and at the same time pass himself off as Christ.
The Antichrist will be the most powerful dictator the world has ever seen.
The Antichrist will aggressively live up to his terrible name.
He will persecute, torture, and kill the people of God as he leads the armies of the world into the Battle of Armageddon.
He will be the most powerful dictator the world has ever seen, making Caesar, Hitler, Mao, and Saddam seem tame by comparison.
Even though the Antichrist is identified by that name only four times in the Bible, he appears many more times under various aliases.
He is also called:
“the promise that shall come”—Daniel 9:26 NKJV
“a fierce king”—Daniel 8:23 NLT
“a master of intrigue”—Daniel 8:23 NIV
“a despicable man”—Daniel 11:21 NLT
“a worthless shepherd”—Zechariah 11:16-17 NLT
“the one who brings destruction”—2 Thessalonians 2:3 NLT
“the lawless one”—2 Thessalonians 2:8 NKJV
“the evil man”—2 Thessalonians 2:9 NLT
“the Beast”—Revelation 13:1 NKJV
When he comes on the scene, people will flock to him, and they will do anything he asks.
How will he unite the nations?
The prophet Daniel describes the Antichrist in these terms:
The coming world leader will be renowned for his eloquence, which will capture the attention and administration of the world.
As Daniel says, the coming world leader will be renowned for this kind of eloquence, which will capture the attention and administration of the world.
Daniel continues his description of the Antichrist by telling us he is a man
The combination of his magnetic personality, speaking ability, and extreme good looks will make him virtually irresistible to the masses.
Finally, Revelation 13:1-8 describes the Antichrist as a Beast—an appropriate title for him.
During the last 3½ years of the Tribulation, the Antichrist will personify Satan himself.
Why the sudden change?
We are not sure, one possibility is an assignation attempt:
This fatal wound is miraculously healed!
Which is what the bible tells us:
Step by step, the Antichrist will promote himself from a European leader, to a world leader, to a tyrannical global dictator, and finally to a god.
He will make the agreement for seven years, but after three-and-one-half years (“in the midst of the week”) he will break that agreement.
He will then move into the Jewish temple himself and proclaim that he is God.
The Antichrist will cause a living statue of himself to be put into the temple, and his associate (the false prophet, Rev. 20:10) will cause the whole earth to worship it.
Satan has always wanted the world’s worship, and in the middle of the Tribulation he will begin to receive it (Matt.
4:8–11).
Jesus called this statue “the abomination of desolation”.
NOTE:
An interesting parenthesis occurs at the end of Matthew 24:15—“whoso readeth, let him understand.”
This statement indicates that what Jesus was teaching would have greater significance for people reading Matthew’s Gospel in the latter days.
Prophetic scholars have speculated as to why the Antichrist would break his covenant with the Jews after three-and-one-half years.
Certainly Israel will be at ease and dwelling in safety at that time, for she will be protected by the Antichrist.
At that time, the Anti-Christ will be the ruler of a ten-nation alliance.
The readers of this prophecy in the latter days will know what to do: Get out of Judea!
How do we know that this passage refers to Israel only and not the church?
Because of Jesus warning:
This entire paragraph relates only to Jews, for no Christian believer would worry about breaking a Sabbath law.
The Second Half:
This event ushers in “the Great Tribulation,” the last half of Daniel’s seventieth week, when the judgments of God will be hurled on the earth.
During the first three-and-one-half years of the Tribulation, the judgments were natural: wars, famines, earthquakes, etc.
But during the last half, the judgments will be supernatural and devastating.
Conclusion:
Prophey is not given to amuse but to amaze.
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