Featured What the Great Tribulation of the Second Coming Will Be Like

I find his study to contain both truth and error.
To get into specifics would take pages, but simply reading the Bible over and over should clear things up, at least eventually.
That has been my experience.

Overall, he presents quite a bit of Scripture, which is good.
He's setting dates in other articles, which is bad.


I also think that anyone who uses, without specific permission, screen shots of video games to portray the end of the world, should probably get permission before using them.
He has a picture that I believe came from the game, "Crysis 3" in there toward the end...

Don't ask how I know, I just do.


I wasn't always an obedient child.

 

None that I can think of that would make any difference, it seems.

Go right ahead and believe everything he writes.
But I wouldn't.

 

If one could find 1000 books describing the Great Tribulation of the Second Coming one would find 1000 different descriptions.

 

It was 'great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world nor ever shall be'.

21 for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished. Mt 24

 

28 so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation. Heb 9
37 For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry. Heb 10

Does "a very little while and shall not tarry" mean thousands of years and still waiting? Or does it actually mean "a very little while and shall not tarry"?

Ever hear of hyperbole?

FYI, if the sun were to literally stop shining and the stars were to literally fall to the earth all life would all be instantaneously snuffed out, i.e., no survivors.

I like Mauro on this. Drawn from 'The Seventy Weeks and the Great Tribulation' by Phillip Mauro:

“SELF-INFLICTED SUFFERINGS

In the light, therefore, of this comparison of scripture with scripture, we think it plain that the "great tribulation" of Matthew 24:14 was that unparalleled calamity, with its unspeakable sufferings, which befell the city and people in A.D. 70.

In the history of "The Wars of the Jews" by Josephus we have a detailed account, written by an eye witness, of the almost unbelievable sufferings of the Jews during the siege of Jerusalem. To this account we will refer later on; but we wish to state at this point that the distresses of those who were hemmed in by the sudden appearance of the Roman armies were peculiar in this respect, namely, that what they endured was mainly self-inflicted. That is to say, they suffered far more from cruelties and tortures inflicted upon one another, than from the common enemy outside the walls. In this strange feature of the case it was surely "a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation, even to that same time" (Da 12:1).

What went on within the distressed city calls to mind the words of Isaiah:

"Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel (the food) of the fire. No man shall spare his brother. And he shall snatch on the right hand and shall be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand and not be satisfied; they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm. Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His wrath is poured out still" (Isa 9:19-21).” Mauro, Chap 13, 70 Wks.

 

Yes. A close study of Scripture reveals that the ACTUAL sequence of events will be:

1.) The coming to power of the beast/antichrist & his empire.

2.) Either the rapture or the Jews' building a new temple in Jerusalem will come next.

3.) the beast will commit the "abomination of desolation" in the new temple & the marka the beast will be issued.

4.) God will send strone delusion upon all who take the marka the beast so they won't believe in Jesus & thus be condemned. However, there'll be some saints, including the 144K Israelis mentioned in the Revelation.

5.) The great trib will begin. I believe God's physical agent to cause it will be the approach of another planet to earth, whose gravity could cause all its plagues, either directly or indirectly. remember, Jesus also said in Luke 21 that the seas will roar with perplexity, meaning that the tides will be disrupted, & men will faint from fear of what they see coming upon the earth, as they'll believe earth's gonna collide with the approaching other planet. In that same chapter of Luke, Jesus also said the powers of the heavens will be shaken. "Powers of the heavens" is an old term for the apparent motions of the celestial bodies as seen from earth.

6.) Jesus will return, stopping the trib, casting the beast & his false prophet alive, directly into the lake of fire, without passing "Go" or collecting $200. Jesus will then begin His millenial rule.

 

It's VERY OBVIOUS Jesus has NOT yet returned! What the Scripture is indicating is that He won't be too long in coming once the trib starts.

 

If you are a CHRISTIAN Jew then feel free to share your opinions , I do disagree with much of what you have said though . If you are simply Jewish based on lineage and practice what you call Judaism, why would any Christian take anything you say as fact at all? It is only through the light of the New Covenant that one can understand the Word of God.

 

There are many perspectives on this, some correct and incorrect. No doubt keeping all of which Christ says concerning keeping vigil:
Matthew 24:44
For this reason, you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him.

Live for Christ today and every day. Practice the faith in good times and in bad. Do not be deceived He already came. If you believe in a pre-trib rapture (snatching up) and you find you are still here anyway, then you got it wrong if mid-trib and you her still going through the tribulation you too got it wrong. If end trib and you are taken , you got it right. Makes no difference to what is expected of us - FOLLOW CHRIST no matter what, and know , no one else is HIM. He came once to take away sins and the second time the whole world will see come again with all His angels upon the clouds , with power and majesty.

Times and dates are nonsense , and do not matter when you live in present obedience always. Personally I believe in the end trib snatching up.

 

The greatest proof that Jesus has not yet returned...

Sin and death still abounds.

1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

 

Oh please pipe down. My point- you are not going to teach a Christian anything if in fact you have NOT received Yeshua Ha Mashiach. I use both books. The New Covenant however, is the means by which to see clearly the teachings and mysteries of the Torah. No one was rejecting the Torah I am only rejecting any so called non believing Jew's interpretation of anything the ONE TRUE Messiah teaches and reveals. The only ones who will be getting any "aeonial fire" are satan and all devils and anyone teaching false doctrine. The smoke of ones burning can not go up forever if there is an end to the burning "aeonial fire" is a Greek translation for age long burning. Many false teachers misinterpret this to mean there is an end. That is not true. The age long burning last as long as the age of the eternal existence of the new heaven and the new earth. Meaning their burning ( satan and all who follow him) is a burning through the age of our (the chosen's) existence. Since we are part of the ETERNAL AGE the age of their burning will be as long as our age. An age in which in this case is ETERNITY and does not end.

Age also means a point , or coming into age point in history or rather THE ETERNAL POINT of His Story.
Hebrews 6:5
5 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,

We who are chosen taste the powers of the age to come. St. Paul is speaking of the heavenly kingdom and the eternal age.