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here are some passages from the bible pertaining to the turmoil in this world as we grow closer to the coming of the anti-christ, as the bible says it.
HOW UNBIELEVERS WILL MOURN AT THEIR PAST AND FUTURE
MATHEW 24
28Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
29"Immediately after the distress of those days
" 'the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'[3]
30"At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. 31And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
^^^^Unbelievers will finally see him right in front of them, about to deal the wrath of his anger. and they will mourn. For they know what is going to happen.
THE BEGINNING
Matthew 24
4Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,[1] ' and will deceive many. 6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains.
^^^^^Take your own conclusions from this passage. Can you hear rumors of war, everyday in the news? How many earthquakes have occured in the past 2 monthes? California, Washington, Iran, ....Would you consider Africa in a famine???
Matthew 24
9"Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. 14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
^^^^^What are many of your attitudes towards people who believe in God?? I saw it in many religious debates here. Many of you hate people who believe in God, or ridicule them, or etc. When this time comes, you will be able to exert your hatred, and frustration. You will be able to execute Christians by will. You will wonder why all these things are happening. How helpless you will feel. You can't "fight" god. BUT, you can fight his people. Which verse "9" states.
Matthew 24
15"So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination(anti-christ) that causes desolation,'[2] spoken of through the prophet Daniel--let the reader understand-- 16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17Let no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of the house. 18Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak. 19How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! 20Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath.
^^^^^^This, my friends, describes, the plight of christians and many jews as they flee from the anti-christs forces. as i said before, the anti-christ will make peace with isreal by treaty, and allow them to rebuild the temple mount of solomon. there they will begin to make sacrifices to the Lord again. some time after that, the anti-christ will break treaty, enter the temple, place himself as God, and put on the in the center, and idol of himself.....This states, that when this occurs, immediatly flee from your home, whereever you are. Just get out. Hide, in the mountains, wherever. You can liken this the Hitler and WWII, how many jews fled, and hid from years in many cases from the nazis. Reading this, you can sense the urgency of these passages, of "dont even go back for your coat, for anything. his forces are already coming for you, so just flee, if you want to stay alive".
Revelation 13:7
He was given power to make war against the saints(christians) and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.<(the entire world)
^^^^^The Anti-christs power
THE SUFFERING
Matthew 24
21For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now--and never to be equaled again. 22If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect(those saved after the rapture) those days will be shortened.
If not for the mercy of Christ, for those saved after the coming of the anti-christ, no one would survive, and its by his "intervention" that these days are numbered.
Isaiah 34
Judgment Against the Nations
1 Come near, you nations, and listen;
pay attention, you peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
the world, and all that comes out of it!
2 The LORD is angry with all nations;
his wrath is upon all their armies.
He will totally destroy [1] them,
he will give them over to slaughter.
3 Their slain will be thrown out,
their dead bodies will send up a stench;
the mountains will be soaked with their blood.
4 All the stars of the heavens will be dissolved
and the sky rolled up like a scroll;
all the starry host will fall
like withered leaves from the vine,
like shriveled figs from the fig tree.
5 My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
see, it descends in judgment on Edom,
the people I have totally destroyed.
Endurance of Christians
Revelation 13:10
If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed[ 13:10 Some manuscripts anyone kills] with the sword, with the sword he will be killed. This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints.
^^^those who become christians after the rapture will endure incrediable difficulties, as the anti-christs tries to destroy them. but He says to be patient, and remain faithfull, for it will end when it will end.
THE DECEPTIONS
MATTHEW
23At that time if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'There he is!' do not believe it. 24For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect--if that were possible. 25See, I have told you ahead of time.
26"So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the desert,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. 27For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
As it says, when Christ finally comes, no one can deny him. EVERYONE will see him, like you see the sun at noon-time, you will see him in the sky.
THE FINAL PLIGHT OF THE BATTLE IN WHICH THE ANTI-CHRIST INITIALLY WINS
The LORD Comes and Reigns
1 A day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided among you.
2 I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.
3 Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle. 4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.
How Jerusalem will be overrun^^^^
Isaiah 11:12
He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.
Last remnants of Israel^
Zechariah 14:2
I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.
Different passage of the ransacking of Jerusalem.
EVENTS PRECEEDING THE ATTACK
REVELATION 16:
17The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, "It is done!" 18Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. 19The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. 20Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. 21From the sky huge hailstones of about a hundred pounds each fell upon men. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.
How man will become so frustrated that he can't fight God, brewing even more hatred against his people, leading into the attack on Jerusalem. Because, since you can't fight God himself, you CAN fight his people, as will happen.
THE ACTUAL RETURN OF JESUS(BEST PART)
Revelation 19
The Rider on the White Horse
11I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. 12His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter."[1] He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
^^^The armies accompanying Christ in heaven will doubtless include both the redeemed who were caught alive, as well as the those who were raised from the grave, at the Rapture. Paul speaks of the Rapture, he promises that all those who are caught up "shall always be with the Lord" (1 Thess. 4:17). Many passages of Scripture promise that when He returns, He will bring us with Him: "When CHrist who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory" (Col. 3:4). "The Lord my God will come, and all the saints with You. (Zech. 14:5). Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints." (Jude 14).
^^And notice that He immediately executes vengence on the Anti-Christ and the evil hordes of the earth. As for the antichrist, the lawless one, "Lord will consume [him] with the breath of His mouth and destroy [him] with the brightness of His coming" (2 Thess. 2:8). The rest of the wicked are destroyed with the sword that preceeds from Christ's mouth (Rev. 19:21), possibly signifying that He judges and slays them merely by speaking the Word of God. Both the Beast and the False Prophet(Other Beast)(compare to Josef Goebbels) are cast alive into the lake of fire. (v.20). the rest of the dead are kept uin the grave throughout the millennial kingdom, then resurrected for judgement and cast into eternal perdition. (20:5, 14-15)
AFTERMATH
Revelation 14
11And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name."
^^^^anyone who bears the mark of 666, and worhships him. NOTE: for ever and ever. think about that. we live some 80 years on aveage. how many 80 years are in eternity. "infinite" there will be no end to the torment.
The Thousand Years
1And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. 2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.
4I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. 6Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
Satan's Doom
7When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth--Gog and Magog--to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
The Dead Are Judged
11Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. 14Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
^^^^what will happen to satan^^^^ and to all who faught against God.
THE SECOND KINGDOM
Revelation 21
The New Jerusalem
1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
5He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."
6He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. 8But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
9One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." 10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. 13There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. 14The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. 16The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia[1] in length, and as wide and high as it is long. 17He measured its wall and it was 144 cubits[2] thick,[3] by man's measurement, which the angel was using. 18The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, 20the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.[4] 21The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass.
22I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.
and thats my research that ive been doing for the past 2 1/2 hours. lastly, this is very interesting passage about a man begging to be given mercy from his torment.
LUKE
The Rich Man and Lazarus
19"There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22"The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23In hell,[3] where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'
25"But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'
27"He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, 28for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'
29"Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.'
30" 'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'
31"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.' "
I should add the good parts of this entire story of revelation, and the End Times, but the subject here is the conflicts going on now, and how they are related to the bible, so if it comes to it, ill add the good parts for what happens to those who remain faithfull, and those taken up during the rapture. i hope this was interesting...
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Last edited by Krypton on Jan-19-2004 at 02:26
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