If it is true, that we are at the doorstep to the times of Jacob's trouble, that the Great Tribulation will soon be upon us, then we must sound the alarm to the others to get ready...because the enemy is at the gate, and the trumpet is about to sound!
The book of Revelation does not give us what day to day life will be like for the Christian during the time known as the Great Tribulation, only that is will be a slaughter of humanity.
I have written the following events as a possible scenario of what I believe will shortly come to pass. I also believe it will be far, far worse then what I have written down; there will be supernatural judgments of God occurring during this time as well.
My intention in writing this, is not to add to the Book of Revelation, but only to present a possible scenario of what life may look like for Christians on the ground, who will have to endure it, ...and to cause as many as who will receive it, to be sober-minded and to take their Christian walks seriously. I believe the time is short.
I feel the Lord gathering up His elect in this hour, as a Shepherd divides the sheep from the goats. The day of His coming is fast approaching, and I believe that I have been given understanding into events that are to shortly come to pass.
One may ask, what is our calling as Christians and how do we refer to ourselves?
…with deepest humility and contriteness of spirit, I want to say how grateful we are that the Lord has saved us and redeemed us from the world; He has taken away our sins and washed them so they are remembered no more. Our names are written down in heaven...our light is seen in the world like a city on a hill that cannot be hid. Lord Jesus, help us…help me that I will stand out in the crowd as one of yours. Take the world out of me, and let be holy as you are holy. Amen
The Great Tribulation
I believe the Great Tribulation will soon be upon us, and that the times before us are going to progressively get worse and worse.
This is why we should be ready: Revelation 3:10 says: Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
Unfortunately, most Christians will not be ready - according to the Revelation 7:9-15, most Christians are not going to survive the time known as the Great Tribulation. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%207:9-15;&version=50;
The following is only a possible scenario of what may come.
2009 – 2012 may bring many changes. Sometime during this time frame the covenant with many as spoken about in the book of Daniel may come to pass. Perhaps it will only be a short time now, since Americans had elected a new President, that the agenda of the New World Order begins to take shape globally.
A possible scenario...
Concerning the present landscape in the Middle East and in looking forward into the future, the current conflict between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza may spread: This war may spread beyond Gaza's borders into Syria (in which Damascus would surely fall), Lebanon and even possibly Iran. Consider that the world is presently in an Economic Meltdown, a Great Depression not seen since time began. Now throw on top of this a World Wide oil shortage of unprecedented proportions on top of it...and well...
....if this happens, this conflict could go global into a full blown World War (WW3)...especially if the U.S. gets hit with another terrorist attack like a nuclear weapon.
How the conflict in the Middle East may end: ...Peace talks with Israel, Hamas and Israel's neighbors reach a détente, and peace accord will be signed in Jerusalem, dividing the land of Israel between the Jews and Palestinians.
A certain man, possibly of Middle Eastern descent, rises as peacemaker and mediator between Jew and Muslim who Jews and Muslims will listen to. Israel gains control of the Temple mount in a peace for land deal that allows the establishment of the State of Palestine...and reconstruction of the Temple begins. (A covenant with many is established) Israel has peace for 3-1/2 years while the rest of the world remains in total chaos.
Bill H. R. 645 is passed unanimously, and becomes law, which directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations…commonly known as FEMA camps.
The global economy had finally and totally collapsed, and with it the entire world is plunged into a darkness deeper than night, and into the steely grips of a great depression not seen since the beginning of time.
With a world wide shortage of crude oil, there is little to no fuel for trucks, cars, jets, ocean liners, or any kind of transport...which means not much food delivered for grocery stores or any other goods and services for that matter.
Civil disorder, rioting, violence, looting, hoarding and panic erupts in every city, leading to the declaration of martial law in many countries. Militaries are called in to quell civil unrest, and riot police in full battle gear engage civilians in every city to disperse the hungry, homeless and rioting masses.
In America, the President goes on primetime television to address the nation. With both hands raised in the air, he urges calm in the midst of chaos. With a stern face, he urges submission to the authorities and compliance to the “Declaration of Martial Law”...saying: “do not leave your homes”, and “do not to give into our common enemies” and, that “this crisis will soon pass”, and promising food and humanitarian aid, little or none arrives. As time passes, more civilian-police clashes occur, and even more are detained.
It gets worse…
Civil disorder, hoarding, rioting, violence and looting begins in earnest, in every city…as people are hungry and suffering. Many have lost their homes and possessions due to the mortgage/credit crisis. Massive hyperinflation kicks in, and Congress calls an emergency session to deal with and to mitigate the fallout of a terrible and great depression. Congress bans hoarding under threat of prosecution; anyone caught would be immediately incarcerated and sent to a FEMA detention center where they will be processed and possibly detained.
Gangs of Civil rioters roam the streets, looting businesses, and looting peoples homes for food. These continue to break out all over…as gangs of rioters’ loot, rape, murder and pillage.
The riots get severe and violent. Police and military forces use tear-gas, rubber bullets and concussion grenades to disperse the angry crowds. The military brings in microwave crowd dispersion units, tanks and armored personnel carriers, and begin to patrol city streets to enforce the Declaration of Martial Law.
More protests erupt against the police and the military because of the brutality in which they enforce Martial Law. This leads to limited armed combat between armed civilians and the military. Police immediately arrest all the dissenters, who are then taken away to unknown locations. High schools and civic centers are flooded with the dead and wounded.
Many people are caught out on the streets after curfew, and are forced into FEMA concentration camps, as the military takes over complete control of all civil authority, with the full authorization of congress and of the President.
People at home are ordered to stay inside for an indefinite periods of time during armed conflicts, many of them missing loved ones, who may have been detained on the streets while looking for food, or taken into camps to some discreet unknown location.
Strict curfews are put into affect, as streets quickly turn into ghost towns. The reality of another American civil war has now been realized. America is at War, not with another nation, but with its own people…especially against those who oppose the President and his policies.
Some Christian groups consolidate, who become very vocal, and form a third national party to oppose the President, and offer an alternative to the Republicans and Democrats. This movement begins to take root nationally, but is soon defeated by the powers that be. This movement will be viewed/branded as civil insurrection in ALL mass media…because of all the chaos that will exist at the time.
Blame and persecution begins against Christians. Media presents the Christian groups as the ones who put GW Bush into power, who will be blamed for leaving current administration with all the mess to clean up. Christians will soon be blamed for the Global Economic Crisis. Christians were deliberately set up…in order to remove them as any future political threat to the globalists, and their New World Order agenda. Laws will be passed in order to ensure Christian groups will no longer be able to influence any politics or election. Persecution begins in earnest.
It gets worse…
Dissent grows and opposition to the President is voiced, but especially among Christians who oppose the Presidents anti-Christian policies and the New World Order that he and other World Leaders represents.
…But it is not the Christians who are violent, who riot and loot and commit heinous crimes. Nevertheless, Christians will be blamed for everything that has gone wrong in the world, for all the civil unrest, and for all the economic chaos, and for all the woes that have come on the world.
It will become a very difficult and hard time for a Christian during this time…brother shall betray brother; children shall betray their parents, and the love of many will grow cold.
Christians are now called the dissenters, and persecution begins against them in earnest in every city. Christian churches are burned, and Christians will be killed. Christians are forced to leave the cities, or go underground and meet in secret places. FEMA pastors tell Christians to go to the FEMA camps for their own protection...the ultimate betrayal for which they will surely give an account. These are but just the beginning of sorrows that are to come...
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A nuclear terrorist strike hits from out of nowhere, leaving hundreds of thousands dead or dying in the streets. Retaliation begins in earnest against those believed to be the perpetrators.
In no time at all, battles are being fought over the skies of America. The sky rains down missiles, bombs, and unknown weapons of mass destruction. More land is destroyed, and even more people die. Yet the end is not yet…nuclear war has begun, and several American cities are struck with nuclear terror.
Cities are destroyed as are rural lands, and radiation clouds fill the skies. The air becomes poisonous to breathe and the water too toxic to drink. America finally collapses and merges with Canada and Mexico in a common union… World War III ends quickly, but billions the world over have perished in the blink of an eye
…yet the end is not yet.
From the ashes of WW3, arises a new world political and economic order; the purpose of the World War was only to consolidate power globally, in the hands of a very select few, into a one world economic global totalitarian system; all compliments of the global elite.
They, the international bankers and intellectual elite of the world, want to consolidate their assets under one roof so to speak. They will give their power to one man, who will lead the world, and they give all of their resources to him…the same one who made "the covenant with many" in Israel. He is the Antichrist.
They begin their reign of terror by getting rid of the dissenters first…the Christians. This ruler will cause all people to receive a mark on their right hand or forehead, and those who will not receive the mark, will be summarily put to death. This is how he finds the Christians, he uses the bible against them, because he knows they will never take the mark...he is evil incarnate.
Those Christians that have survived the nuclear war, who have seen rivers of blood, who have endured incessant pain and terror, are now faced with state sponsored persecution, roundups, and the death camps.
Police vans drive through streets, and police speak though loud speakers, ordering people out of their homes" THIS IS THE POLICE, YOU MUST VACATE YOUR PREMISIS, THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY, YOU MUST COMPLY, DISOBEDIANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED" They begin marking the population with the mark of the beast, Just like marking cattle for ownership.
Mass house raids are made into people’s homes; kicking doors down, grabbing hold of the Christian dissenters…they check each house one by one in every city to check who has, and who does not have the mark. - Christian men, women and children are hurried out of their homes, regardless of their condition. Entire families are rounded up, and told that they are to be re-housed in temporary cities...FEMA camps.
In hundreds, perhaps thousands of concentration camps all over America and the world, countless millions of Christians sit in crowded, cold places, shaken with terror, cold, hungry, thirsty, stripped of their freedom and dignity…but the Lord is with them in their hour of trial, and the strength of the Holy Spirit sustains them and fills them with a supernatural calm and comfort, and with the comfort of the love of God.
These saints overcome the Antichrist by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they love not their lives unto death. The Nazi holocausts return globally, as Christians are summarily put to their deaths, just as the Jews were during WWII.
During the time of unprecedented persecution and murder of Christians, and in the midst of all the global chaos, there will be a an unprecedented revival and a move of the Spirit of God, ...such as has not been seen to this day...So powerful will be this move of God - for God shall pour out of His Holy Spirit to strengthen and purify the Bride of the Lamb, that she may be holy and pure - without spot or blemish, her gown will be white....many will turn to the Lord during this time in this global revival.
The Prophet Daniel said...but such as do wickedly against the covenant shall the Antichrist pervert by flatteries; but the people that know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. And they that are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, many days.
Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves unto them with flatteries. And some of them that are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
And the king [Antichrist] shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods; and he shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself above all. ...And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High.
Small groups of Christians survive the holocaust against them and still roam around the streets; some have even fled into the wilderness into encampments and help each other. Helicopter raids are made to locate these free Christians, in order to route them out and to exterminate them. Police search every household over again, and again, until they have routed out all the dissenters (Christians).
Any form of money, gold, or silver will all be worthless and useless to the Christian, because you cannot buy or sell anything unless you have the mark of the beast. And those who have the mark of the beast will turn the Christians dissenters in to the authorities when they try to buy or sell.
Many Christians still in their homes, hiding in their basements or hidden under floorboards, are rounded up with violence. They are treated inhumanly, teased, taunted and humiliated. Some are even executed on the spot right in the streets in broad daylight before all.
it gets worse still...
Many homeless Christians roam around in the wilderness, with nothing on them, no food and no water to drink; they have nowhere to go. They are starved, thirsty and cold, and many just cannot cope anymore with the trauma, and just give themselves up. The weather does not help their condition either; the winters gets colder and colder as time progresses.
Strange weather phenomenon begins to show up, and the weather continues to deteriorate globally - rains fall flooding the lands, then heavy snows fall, blizzards pound, the earth quakes and volcanoes erupt. So terrible will be the Tribulation against the Saints, but the Lord Jesus stands by them, as they make ready and wash their garments in the blood of the lamb, and are made as white as snow...for the Bride makes herself ready.
And because of Starvation, dehydration, no shelter, climatic changes, earthquakes, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, extreme cold, extreme heat, separation anxiety (loved ones missing), demoralization, nuclear war and persecution, the morale of the Christian survivors falls even lower and lower; more give themselves up...and those who receive not the mark of the beast are summarily put to death. Some Christians die in the painful colds of the death camps awaiting their execution, either from starvation or exposure to the elements.
Blessed and holy are those who have the victory over the beast, over his image, and over his mark and over the number of his name. Blessed and holy are those who overcome him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, who love not their lives unto death.
Those Christians that survive and remain to the end, until the Lord comes, have learned to work together, to love each other, to help each other in time of need, and have learned to trust in God who preserves them, and keeps them from the hour of trial…these are full of faith, good works and full the joy and comfort of the Holy Spirit.
And then …as fast as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even unto the west, the Lord Jesus Himself descends from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
During the time, when the wrath of God is being poured out on those who received the mark of the beast, comes the vengeance of God...because these are who murdered His saints, and who brought destruction to the Earth.
God gives power to His two witnesses who will be clothed in sackcloth. These two prophets curse the Earth with all manner of plagues, these have power to shut heaven so that it rains not during their testimony, and they have power to turn water into blood, and to smite the Earth with all manner of plagues as often as they wish. Then comes the bowls of the wrath of God on the world. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth at this time.
Not all people during the Great Tribulation took the mark of the beast. By the grace of God, a remnant of man remains on earth to the end when the Lord sets up His Millennial Kingdom.
The time known as the Great Tribulation is close at hand, it is even at the gate...
This time is coming into focus now: World economies are beginning to collapse; there has been strange weather phenomenon showing up globally; massive record breaking hurricanes; there has been a substantial and devastating increase in earthquakes around the world; Tsunamis killing hundreds of thousands, wars and rumors of wars, nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom...the beginning of the fall of MBG(Mystery Babylon the Great.)
MBG is not a city...
I do not consider the "physical cities" like NY or London as being MBG...no more then I would consider a Church building as being the elect Lady. Physical cities of brick and mortar will fall, which is not MBG. Mystery Babylon the Great the mother of harlots is people.
There are two women (two bodies), one is the Lamb's Bride, and the other is the Harlot.
One is the body of elect body of believers, the other is the body of lost humanity. One is by faith, the other is of unbelief.
Sarah and Hagar are types of Bride and Harlot - one was of faith and belief, the other was of doubt and unbelief. From one would come our Lord and savior Jesus the Messiah, from the other would come the son of perdition, who exalts himself above God - the Antichrist. The Harlot shall not prevail over the Bride.
Rev 17:18 says -
And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.
Rev 16:19 says - Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.
Mystert Babylon the Great is divided into 3 parts that God will destroy - "to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath."
1. Material Wealth - destroyed by economic collapse, famine and destruction of all infrastructure.
2. People - Destruction of the bodies and souls of men (Wars and Calamities)
3. Rule and Dominion - satan takes over of dominion of the Earth from MBG, just before the Lord returns to take it from him - click here to see: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2018:2;&version=50;
All of Revelation 18, describes Revelation 16:19 in detail.
What is coming the destruction of Mystery Babylon the Great, which is the rule and dominion of man on Earth, and will never rise again. God will take back the dominion He gave man, and The Lord Jesus will come and set up His millennial kingdom in Israel. Therefore, God Himself will take up dominion on Earth, and rule with a rod of iron from Jerusalem in a restored Israel. Man will never again self rule, or have dominion on earth again forever and ever.
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The time is short now, and the day is far spent, for the great and terrible day of the Lord does come...the day in which He shall judge the nations in righteousness. The day in which the sinner and the ungodly are to be removed forever.
And he shall sit on the throne of his glory, and He judge the nations in righteousness; for the sum of all judgment is given to that Son of Man.
And He shall cause the sinners to be removed and to be destroyed from off the face of the earth. With an adamantine chain of God's fixed decree shall they be bound, and in their assemblage-place of destruction shall they be imprisoned, and all their works shall vanish from the face of the earth, for in righteousness does He judge and make war. And from henceforth there shall be nothing corruptible; for that Son of Man has appeared in power and great glory, and has seated himself on the throne of his eternal glory. And He reigns forever, and His kingdom is forever and ever. Amen
And He shall take to Him His great power, and the heavens and the earth shall be shaken, and He shall rule the nations with a rod of iron. All evil shall pass away from before his face, for who shall abide the great and terrible day of the Lord? And the word of that Son of Man shall go forth, and be strong before the Father of Spirits, and the sum of all judgment is given to that Son of Man. Blessed and holy are those whose sins are forgiven, who have washed their clothes in the blood of the Lamb; blessed and holy are those whose names have been written down in heaven; for when He shall appear, they likewise, shall appear with Him in honor and in great glory.
