THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLE PROPHECY
THE COMPLETE TIMELINE OF BIBLE
PROPHECY
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Timeline of Bible Prophecy
| 2. | The Antichrist Covenant week of years: the last 7 years of this age |
| 3. | The Rapture of Church at midweek of the Antichrist Covenant week |
| 4. | The wrath of God begins |
| 5. | The end of the days |
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[The Antichrist Covenant Week of Years] · The Antichrist, also known as the king
of the north and the little horn of Daniel—a Syrian
and initially a man of peace executes a 7-year treaty with Israel in
fulfillment of Daniel 9:27
(see
also
Dan. 8:23-25; Dan.
11:6,
Dan. 11:11-16, Dan.
11:21-24; c/p. 1 Maccabees 1:29). This begins
The Antichrist Covenant week of years. God's prophetic clock is turned on, as it has
been turned off since the day of Pentecost. The last 7 years of the age or
dispensation of grace has begun (Eph. 3:2).
·
Jesus opens the first 5 seals
of Revelation during the first 3 ˝ ·
1.5 billion people die from: war, famine, plagues
and the beasts of the earth [hungry because of the famine (Rev.
6:7-8)]. ·
False Christs
[false Messiahs claiming to be anointed] shall arise. There will be
wars, rumors of wars, nation against nation [ethnic group against ethnic group], kingdom against kingdom,
famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places. Jewish Christians
[especially]
shall be called on the carpet for their faith [because of the now restored Law of Moses in
Israel, which is at peace with the Antichrist], killed, and shall
become the most hated people on the earth for sake of the name of
Jesus. The Jewish Church
[especially]
shall be plagued with offense, betrayal
and hatred; false prophets shall arise and deceive many; sin shall run rampant
and the love of many shall wax cold (Matt.
24:5-12; c/p.
2 Thes.
2:3; 2 Tim. 3:1-5; 1 Tim.
4:1-3; 2 Pet. 3:3-4; 1 John 2:18-22; 4:1-3; Jude 3-4; 11-19) ·
The great apostasy
or falling away in the Church at large prophesied in 2
Thessalonians 2:3 gains momentum, as many Christians become
offended at God when widespread persecution and killing of Christians
increases, and the Church is not Raptured [caught away] before these things begin
[see Two
Prerequisites for the Rapture
from The Thessalonian
Letters In Verse Outline; see also The Offended Prophet from Seven Prophetic Pictures
of the Rapture for an example of what can happen to God's people when
they allow offense to take hold of their life]. ·
Mystery Babylon—the
great
religious harlot of the seventh world kingdom that has or will oppress Israel—secures a lock hold on at least 10 of the governments
of the old Roman Empire
(Rev.
17) [See Rev.
17:9-10, The Book of Revelation In Verse-By-Verse
Outline; see also
· The gospel of the
kingdom [the imminent coming of the King] is preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations,
and then the end comes (Matt.
24:14). [Just as happened in the Book of Acts, it is
persecution of the Church that causes the gospel to be fully
preached in all the world (c/p. Acts 8:1-4)]. · The Church began as
a Jewish church on the day of Pentecost. There will be a latter day
ingathering harvest of Jews back into the
Body of Christ before the return of Jesus (Exo. 23:14-16, Rev. 6:9-11; c/p.
Matt.20:16). ·
The great prostituting
whore city of the revised Roman Empire—Mystery Babylon—is destroyed by the
10-horn confederacy of revised Roman nations (see Rev. 17:16, The Book of Revelation In
Verse-By-Verse Outline). The
10 horn / kings of revised Rome then give their power,
strength and kingdom to the Antichrist. The revived Grecian
Empire is thus formed (see Rev. 17:10-11, The Book of Revelation In
Verse-By-Verse Outline). [See also, The Mystery of
Mystery Babylon Revealed,]
The Rapture of the Church
at Midweek · Between the 5th
and 6th seals of Revelation the Church is raptured;
it is seen for the first
time in heaven in Revelation
7:9, having been "snatched out" of the earth during
the
great tribulation [literally, the tribulation, the great: the first 3 ˝ · Jesus opens the 6th
seal: all creation praises the Lord. The rocks cry out!
(Luke
19:40; Rom. 8:19-21). All men remaining
on the earth know the wrath of God has come—because they can't find
any Christians! [see
Rev. 6:12-17, The Book of Revelation In
Verse-By-Verse Outline · The king of the north
/ the Antichrist—at midweek—breaks his 7-year covenant
with Israel. He enters the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem,
eliminates the daily sacrifice under the restored Law of Moses
[which as a nation Israel returns to a result of its miraculous deliverance in
the war of
Ezekiel 38-39]; and
desecrates the temple by sacrificing a pig on the alter
[Dan.
9:27,
Dan. 8:11-12,
Dan.11:31,
Dan. 11:36; c/p,
1 Maccabees 1:20-24. See
The war of Ezekiel 38-39
is an absolute prophetic necessity. See also
This attack is World War III and not the battle of
Armageddon.] Jerusalem is given to Gentile rule for 42 months
(Rev. 11:1-2,
Luke 21:24). · A remnant of
Jews [largely
women and children (Isa. 3:25-26; 4:1)] flees into the wilderness
for 3 ˝ years [the nations of Edom, Moab, and
Ammon—modern Jordan—escape control of the Antichrist (Dan. 11:41)],
while the Antichrist
reigns (Rev. 12:6,
Rev. 12:14;
Matt. 24:16-20). This is the time of Jacob’s trouble
(Jer. 30:7;
Matt. 24:21). · While crossing the Jordan
river valley in their escape to Jordan, Satan causes a great earthquake and
gale in the Sea of Galilee or the Dead Sea (or both) to cause a great flash
flood like a tidal wave to come down the Jordan River valley in a desperate
attempt to drown the remnant of Israel fleeing into the wilderness. God opens
up the great fault under the Jordan River to swallow up the flood and save the
remnant
of Israel (Rev. 12:15-18; c/p. Num. 16:321). [Satan brought a similar earthquake and gale on
the Sea of Galilee during the ministry of Jesus in an attempt to kill Him and His disciples; see Matt. 8:24, where the Greek word, seismos
(Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (Baker) #4578), is translated tempest
in the King James Bible.] · One hundred forty four
thousand
(144,000)
men of the 12 tribes of Israel
are
sealed in
their foreheads (Rev. 7:1-8; Rev. 9:4;
Rev. 14:3-4).
[Only 12,000
of these are Jews from the tribe of Judah.] Collectively, these are the manchild of Revelation 12:5.
After a ministry as carriers of the gospel of the kingdom (Matt.
24:14) along with God’s two
witnesses (Rev. 11:3), they are raptured
in their natural bodies (c/p.
1
Thes. 4:17) to act as the natural seed to repopulate the nation
Israel in the millennium (Isa.
4:1). They are
seen in heaven with Jesus as the first fruits of the restored
millennial kingdom of Israel (Rev. 14:1-4). · Enoch and Elijah
(Heb. 9:27) return to the earth from
heaven in their natural bodies as the two witnesses.
They begin a 3 ˝ · The false
prophet (Rev. 13:11-14) demands universal worship of the Antichrist.
This false prophet is the backslidden Jewish high priest (c/p. 2 Macc.
4:7-12).
He will also control commerce through a network of linked computers and identification marks implanted in a person's right hand or forehead.
These identification marks are what the Bible describes as the mark
of the beast (Rev. 13:15-18;
Matt. 24:23-24). · The Antichrist shifts his
capital to a rebuilt literal Babylon [somewhere in the
Middle East], which becomes the
political and commercial capital of the world (Rev. 18). He thus becomes the
"resurrected" king of Babylon. · Mystery Babylon relocates to the city of literal
Babylon. [Mystery
Babylon, the great prostituting whore city of the revised
Roman Empire (see
Rev.
17)—the Vatican City of Rome—was destroyed by the
10-horn / kings, who then gave their kingdoms, power and authority to the Antichrist
[see
· The king of Egypt
is assassinated (Dan.
11:25-26); Egypt
is conquered by Syria (Dan.
11:27). · These are the days of
Lot (Luke
17:28) when in spite of the judgments of God:
people eat, drink, buy, sell, plant and build—but don't
marry. [C/p. The days of Noah
(Luke 17:26;
Matt. 24:37)
from The Prophetic
Gospels In Verse Outline.] · The earth is filled with great
riches, great famine, great poverty,
great religion and great sin (Rev
6:5-6; Rev.
17:1-6;
Rev. 18:11-16; Jude
11-19; 2 Tim. 3:1-5; 2 Pet. 3:3). · After 1150 days
(2300 evenings and
mornings)
from
midweek, the Jews supernaturally regain control
of the temple in Jerusalem (see Dan. 8:13-14, The Book of Daniel In
Verse-By-Verse Outline) The wrath of God begins during the last half of Daniel's 70th week
[which is also the last half of The Antichrist Covenant Week · Jesus opens the 7th
seal (Rev.
8:1). The saints in
heaven of all the ages pray for God to judge the earth. The wrath
of God begins with four of seven trumpet judgments (Rev.
8). · The first 4 trumpet
judgments (Rev.
8:7-12): the
earth is hit with plagues [apparently under the power of the two witnesses,
who cause it not to rain during the days of their prophecy (see Rev. 11:3-6,
The
Book of Revelation In Verse-By-Verse Outline); the third part of trees
is burnt up and all green grass is burnt; the third part
of the sea becomes blood, the third part of creatures in the
sea die, and the third part of all ships are destroyed; the
third part of the rivers and fountains of waters become wormwood
and many men die; the third part of the sun, moon and stars
become darkened (Rev.
8). · The
5th
trumpet / 1st woe (Rev. 9:1-12): a merciful Savior gives all people on the earth—except those with the seal of
God in their forehead: the 144,000, the two
witnesses, and the remnant of Israel hidden in the
wilderness—a
5 month taste of the eternal torment of hell: by loosing demonic locusts
from the bottomless pit [the
abyss] into
the earth; men are tormented as the torment of a scorpion; they seek death, but
death flees from them (Rev. 9:1-6). · The
6th
trumpet / 2nd woe (Rev. 9:13-21; Rev.
11:3-4, Rev. 11:7-13;
Rev. 11:14): four angels which have been bound in the River
Euphrates are loosed and prepared for an hour, day, month
and year to slay the third part of all men remaining on the
earth; they command an army of 200 million demonic horsemen; at least one
billion more people die (Rev. 9:13-19). · The two witnesses [Enoch and Elijah] are killed; their
bodies lie unburied in the streets of Jerusalem; after 3 ˝ days they are resurrected
and ascend into heaven while the world watches on television and the
Internet (Rev. 11:3;
Rev. 11:7-12). This event concludes Daniel's
70th week; the judgment is set. [The final 75 days before the second coming of Jesus
to reign over the earth (Dan. 12:11-12)] · The 7th trumpet
/ 3rd woe (Rev. 11:15
through
Rev. 12:12): there is war in the heavenlies
[the earth's atmosphere]; Satan and his
angels are cast into the earth with fierce wrath against the remnant
of Israel hidden in the wilderness, and against Jews born again
under the ministry of the 144,000 evangelists and the two witnesses.
Satan knows he has but a short time to work
his will. He also knows that Jesus will establish His millennial kingdom in
just 75 days (Dan. 12:11-12). This
is the third woe (Rev.
12:12). · Angels
now:
[1] preach the gospel
[2] prophesy the destruction of
Babylon [the great city of Revelation 18], and
[3] warn the remaining inhabitants of the earth to refrain
from taking the mark of the beast (Rev. 14:6-12).
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