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On the evening of May 3, 1999, a tornado in southwest Oklahoma metastasized into a monster cyclone and thundered northeast, effortlessly flattening a sixty-mile swath through town after town, neighborhood after neighborhood.
When the steamroller finally ran out of energy, it had totally destroyed 1,500 homes, damaged 8,093 homes, and killed 44 people.
Ninety-five percent of Mulhall, Oklahoma, was destroyed.
After the storm, meteorologists determined that the wind speed generated by the tornado peaked at 318 mph, the highest winds ever recorded on planet earth.
The storm may have even created a new tornado rating of F6.
The day after the tornado the local news stations ran nonstop footage of the damaged areas.
The scene was heartbreaking and indescribable.
A few days later I had the opportunity to view some of the damaged area in person.
I was stunned.
It looked like a scene out of some post-Apocalypse movie.
Twisted, scarred trees with all the bark stripped off littered the landscape, and all the grass was sucked out of the ground, leaving acres of exposed earth in its wake.
As overwhelming as this F6 tornado was, the Bible says that someday God is going to unleash His own tornado of judgment on this earth— an F6 tornado of God’s devastating judgment— a time the Bible calls “the Tribulation.”
Hitchcock, Mark.
The End: A Complete Overview of Bible Prophecy and the End of Days (p.
232).
Tyndale House Publishers.
Kindle Edition.
I. What marks the beginning of the Tribulation?
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A. Many believe it begins with the Rapture of the Church
1.
This concludes the Church-Age
2. Spares the Church from the horrors of the Tribulation
B. It really begins with the signing of a peace treaty between the Anti-Christ and Israel.
1.
What we Don't know for certain about the Treaty
a.
The Bible does not indicate how much time will pass between the Rapture and the signing of the peace treaty.
b.
Could be days, months, or even years.
c.
The Purpose of the Rapture suggests it should occur shortly after the Rapture, since if too much time passes, the Rapture would not have been necessary to occur so early.
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The Rapture will likely be one of the mitigating events that will thrust the Anti-Christ into the major international political position necessary to accomplish his agenda.
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Another key aspect will be the escalation of war in the Middle East making the offer of a peaceful settling of the conflict admirable to both sides of the conflict.
2. What we Do know of the Treaty according to the Bible
a.
It will be between Israel and the Antichrist but will almost certainly involve others.
Since the Antichrist will rise from a reunited Roman Empire centered in Europe, Europe in its final form will likely be the key player.
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It will begin the final seven-year period of the Tribulation.
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It will be a “firm” covenant; this firmness may indicate that it will initially be forced or compelled.
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It may be a “take it or leave it” deal for Israel and its neighbors.
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It is also possible that this means the Antichrist will enforce or make strong a covenant that already exists.
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It will eventually give Jews the right to offer sacrifices in a rebuilt Temple.
This fact assumes a Jewish Temple must be rebuilt.
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It will be broken by the Antichrist himself at the midpoint of the treaty.
3. Charles Dyer on the Treaty:
What is this “covenant” that the Antichrist will make with Israel?
Daniel does not specify its content, but he does indicate that it will extend for seven years.
During the first half of this time Israel feels at peace and secure, so the covenant must provide some guarantee for Israel’s national security.
Very likely the covenant will allow Israel to be at peace with her Arab neighbors.
One result of the covenant is that Israel will be allowed to rebuild her temple in Jerusalem.
This world ruler will succeed where Kissinger, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and other world leaders have failed.
He will be known as the man of peace!
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Terms Attributed to the Tribulation
(How Significant is the Tribulation in the Biblical account?)
A. OT Terms Birth
Pangs: ; ; ; ;
Day of the Lord: ; ; , , ; ; , ; ; , ; , ; ; ;
Great and Terrible Day of the Lord:
Day of Wrath:
Day of Distress:
Day of the Lord's Wrath:
Day of Desolation:
Day of Vengeance: ; ; ;
Day of Jacob's Trouble:
Day of Darkness and Gloom: ; , ;
Day of the Trumpet:
Day of Alarm:
Day of the Lord's Anger:
Day of the Destruction, Ruin from the Almighty:
Day of Calamity: ;
Trouble/Tribulation: ;
One Week= (Daniel's) 70th Week:
The Lord's Strange Work: , ,
Time of Anguish/Distress: ;
The Indignation/The Lord's Anger: ;
The Time of the End:
The Lord's Jealousy:
B. NT Terms
The Day: Those Days: ; The Day of the Lord: ; ; The Wrath: ; The Wrath to Come: The Great Day of Their Wrath: The Wrath of God , ; , ; The Wrath of the Lamb The Hour of Trial: The Tribulation: (NASB); (NASB) Time of Tribulation: (NASB) The Great Tribulation: (NASB); (NASB); 7:14 (NASB) The Hour of Judgment: Birth Pangs: ;
The Reason for the Tribulation
Many pe0ple struggle with the concept of the Tribulation, because it doesn’t seem to fit with a loving God.
Why would God pour out His wrath and judgment on the world He created?
Why is such a time of unspeakable trouble necessary?
Scripture provides us at least five reasons for the Tribulation.
Each reason relates to a specific group or person: Israel, the Gentiles, God, Satan, and believers.
To Prepare Israel
(A Purpose for Israel)
The Tribulation will bring the Jewish people to their knees in submission to God.
God will use this “time of trouble for my people Israel” to prepare the nation for her Messiah ().
God will put Israel in a vise grip from which there is no earthly hope of deliverance.
God will refine the rebellious nation in the fire of the Tribulation period ().
Pentecost states, “God’s purpose for Israel in the Tribulation is to bring about the conversion of a multitude of Jews, who will enter into the blessings of the kingdom and experience the fulfillment of all Israel’s covenants.”
Many of the Jewish people will cry out to God for salvation from their sins during the Tribulation.
They will implore God to pierce the heavens and come down to save them (, , ).
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