This is something that God has laid on my heart quite a few years back. He wants His people to know that we are all living in the time right before Jesus returns. So, God put a burden on my heart to start a prophecy page... “The Second Coming of Christ Jesus and The Rapture.” This is not a salvational issue, but it is a preparation issue. But if you’re not saved, I guess it is a salvational issue... time is quickly running out!
Nowhere in the bible does it teach about a “seven year tribulation period!” God says that we will have tribulation in this world… Deuteronomy 4:30 says,
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things come upon thee, even in the latter days…
Deuteronomy 4:30
Latter days is referring to the time right before Jesus comes back. The “last days” started when Jesus came to the earth. Hebrews 1:1-2 says,
God who at various and in diverse manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these ‘last days’ spoken unto us by His Son…
Hebrews 1:1-2
Also, in Acts 2:16-17,
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; and it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh…
Acts 2:16-17
This prophecy spoken of by the prophet Joel started around 2000 years ago, at Pentecost. Which is two days according to 2 Peter 3:8,
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:8
There are more Christians going through tribulation today, than any other time in the past. God’s people have gone through persecution since the beginning 6000 years ago, and especially since Jesus’ time. We will continue to live in tribulation until we are raptured out of here at the “last trump”.
Jesus Himself tells us of a Great Tribulation which will come upon the world (that we won’t have to go through), that is a three and a half year period, after the 7th trumpet has sounded. It will be Satan’s wrath! Revelation 12:12 says,
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.
Revelation 12:12
It is at that time that Satan takes over the Antichrist’s body, which is in the middle of the seven year covenant signed with Israel, and this is when The Great Tribulation starts. Jesus has told us exactly when this will happen!
People are confused and deceived because they have heard their whole lives that there will be a “seven year tribulation”. Although, the bible does not say this. So where does this seven year tribulation teaching come from? Jesus Himself tells us in Matthew 24:21,
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Matthew 24:21
What is the “for then” referring to? In Matthew 24:15 Jesus says,
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).
Matthew 24:15
Let’s see what Jesus is referring to by going to Daniel 9:27,
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation (offering) to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate…
Daniel 9:27
What?! Who is the “he”? What is the “covenant”? What is the “midst of the week”? What “sacrifices”? Let’s find the answers.
If you notice, “he” shall sign a covenant with many for one week. The “he” is the Antichrist, not Satan. Remember, that the Antichrist, the False Prophet, and Satan are all separate entities. Confirmation of a covenant does not make him the Antichrist, he will already have been that. Satan is already working in the man’s life along with countless other people, to set up a One World Government that Satan will take over. After the 7th trumpet has sounded, Satan enters into the body of the Antichrist and takes over midway through the seven year covenant signed with Israel. This is what’s going to happen according to God’s Word.
During this seven year covenant signed with Israel and Muslim nations, the Jews will be allowed to rebuild the Third Temple in Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount, and once again begin the animal sacrifices (because they don’t believe that Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice). In the middle of the seven years, this world leader (Antichrist) will stand in the Jewish rebuilt third temple. Plans for this “Third Temple” are already in the works. It is at that time that Satan enters into his body and brings great wrath to the people. This is The Great Tribulation.
Those who put their trust in Christ will not have to go through this period, but as long as we are on this earth we will have tribulation or persecution. The bible is clear about that. We will not have to go through Satan’s persecution, which starts in the middle of that seven year covenant signed with Israel at the last trump, and continues until God’s wrath is poured out in Revelation 16. At the seventh trumpet of Revelation, the Bride of Christ is raptured out of here!
No man knows the exact day or hour that this man (Antichrist) will stand in the Jewish Rebuilt Temple as Satan takes over his body and claims to be God, but we are commanded to know the generation.
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Matthew 24:32-34
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 says,
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him (referring to the Rapture). That you not soon be shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter from us, as that the Day of Christ is at hand.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3
Paul had just told them that the Day of Christ was not imminent and they did not miss the resurrection. Going on, he says in 2 Thessalonians,
Let NO MAN deceive you by any means; for that day (rapture) SHALL NOT come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son (Satan) of perdition (destruction); Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God…
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
We will not be raptured up in Revelation 4, where the angel is clearly talking to John, not the church. It has been commonly taught that the church is not mentioned after Revelation 3. Let’s see what Jesus has to say about it in Revelation 22:17,
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify to you these things in the churches…
Revelation 22:17
Jesus wrote the whole bible, including the whole book of Revelation (not just the first part of Revelation to the churches). There is no seven year Tribulation, but there has been 6000 yrs of tribulation for God’s people starting with Abel, Adam and Eve’s son.
We will be raptured up at the same time Satan is revealed before the Great Tribulation, which is a three and a half year period. Satan will be revealed when he is standing in the Jewish rebuilt Third Temple. And yes, it will be in the midst of a seven year covenant signed with Israel (the bible does not speak of a seven year tribulation). We have been taught that there is a seven year tribulation period, and in the middle starts the Great Tribulation. This is not a correct teaching. There is no such thing as a mid-tribulation rapture. There is a pre-tribulation rapture which occurs when Satan is revealed standing in the Jewish Rebuilt Temple, claiming to be God.
There are still prophecies that have to be fulfilled before the Rapture and The Second Coming. I know that this is a hard teaching, but look at all the evidence for yourself. It is all in God’s Holy Word. Remember, Satan is the master of deception. We are the last generation according to The Word of God. God help us with our unbelief.