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Last week in our look at The End we went as far as the middle of The Tribulation.
We saw the anti-Christ break his covenant with Israel.
Today we pick up right where we left off.
World conditions will be so terrible that men will wonder if any relief will come, and this will give false christs opportunities to deceive many.
Satan is capable of performing “lying wonders”.
The fact that a religious leader performs miracles is no assurance that he has come from God.
Many Jews will be deceived, for “the Jews require a sign”.
Jesus performed true signs in His Father’s name, and the nation rejected Him.
Satan’s miracles they will accept.
It is also during this time that the Antichrist will introduce his mark known as the Tahe Mark of the Beast.
The Events:
The event that precedes His return is the gathering of the Gentile nations at Armageddon.
The eagles flying around the carcass picture the awful carnage that will result from this great battle.
When Jesus comes for the church, He will come in the air and His people will be caught up to meet Him in the air.
But our Lord’s second coming at the end of the Tribulation will be a great public event, with every eye seeing Him.
This event will have special meaning for Israel.
Jesus will return at that hour when Israel is about to be defeated by the Gentile armies.
He will rescue His people, and they will see Him and recognize that He is their Messiah.
There will be a national repentance, national cleansing, and national restoration under the gracious leadership of their Messiah.
This is a summery of the events in a beautiful 7, the number of completion, series:
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The Rapture of the church (1 Cor.
15:51–58; 1 Thes.
4:13–18).
This can occur at any time.
2. The leader of the ten European nations makes a seven-year agreement with Israel (Dan.
9:26–27).
3.
After three-and-one-half years, he breaks the agreement (Dan.
9:27).
4.
He moves to Jerusalem and sets up his image in the temple (2 Thes.
2:3–4; Rev. 13).
5.
The Antichrist begins to control the world and forces all people to worship and obey him.
At this time God sends great tribulation upon the earth (Matt.
24:21).
6.
The nations gather at Armageddon to fight the Antichrist and Israel, but see the sign of Christ’s coming and unite to fight Him (Zech.
12; Rev. 13:13–14; 19:11ff).
7. Jesus returns to the earth, defeats His enemies, is received by the Jews, and establishes His kingdom on earth (Rev.
19:11ff; Zech.
12:7–13:1).
He will reign on earth for 1,000 years (Rev.
20:1–5).
The purpose of prophecy is not to entertain the curious, but to encourage the consecrated.
When?????
Jesus closed this section of His discourse with three practical admonitions, built around three illustrations: a fig tree, Noah, and a thief in the night.
Matthew 24:36 makes it clear that no one will know the day or the hour of the Lord’s coming.
But they can be aware of the movements of events and not be caught by surprise.
The fig tree (vv.
32–35).
The fig tree in the Bible is often a picture of Israel.
The budding of the trees indicates that summer is near.
The beginning of these signs indicates that the Lord’s coming is near.
The generation alive on earth at that time will see these events take place.
Our generation sees a foreshadowing of these signs.
We do not look for signs as such; we look for the Saviour (Phil.
3:20).
Jesus can come for His church at any time.
The days of Noah (vv.
36–42).
Here the emphasis is on the fact that the people did not know the day when judgment would strike.
What kept the people from listening to Noah’s message and obeying?
The common interests of life—eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage.
They lost the best by living for the good.
It is a dangerous thing to get so absorbed in the pursuits of life that we forget Jesus is coming.
The thief in the night (vv.
42–44).
Jesus used Noah to warn that men will not know the day, and He used the picture of the burglar to warn that they will not know the hour.
After the Rapture of the church, there will be a time of peace and safety on earth.
Then suddenly God’s judgments will fall.
When we combine the exhortations found in these three pictures, we end up with:
“Know that He is near!
Watch therefore!
Be ye also ready!”
Believers alive during that period of history will certainly find great comfort in the promises of the Word of God.
Conclusion:
While the interpretation of this section relates to Israel during the Tribulation, we may apply the Word to our own hearts.
We do not know when our Lord will return for His church.
Therefore, we must be alert, watchful, and faithful.
Jesus dealt with this in detail in the next section of the Olivet Discourse.
How grateful we ought to be that God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation when Jesus Christ appears.
He has saved us from the wrath to come.
As the people of God, we will certainly go through tribulation, but not the Tribulation.
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