THE TRIBULATION TIME

REV. 1:1-3, 19

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIBULATION

 

1. The Rise of the Saints [Rev. 4:1, 6:15-17, 1 Th. 4:13-18, 5:9]

-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. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 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. 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: 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. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

-God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

2. The Rise of the Two Witnesses [Rev. 11:1-6] 

Elijah? Moses? Enoch? John the Baptist?

3. The Rise of the Beast, the Antichrist [Rev. 13]

 

II. THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIBULATION

 

1. The Tragedy in the Streets [Rev. 11:7-13]

2. The Tragedy in the Temple [Dan. 12:11, Matthew 24:15-22]

- And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

- When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened

3. The Tragedy in the Hearts [Rev. 13:17-18, 14:9-11]

 

III. THE END OF THE TRIBULATION

 

1. The Battle of Armageddon Planned [Rev. 16:12, 17:8-17, Zech. 12:1-3]

The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

2. The Battle of Armageddon Fought [Rev. 19:11-19, Zech. 12:4-6]

In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God. In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

3. The Battle of Armageddon Won [Rev. 19:20-20:3, Zech. 12:7-9]

The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.