·
Total
chaos will rule for a time. (Lk. 21: 25)
·
Governments will get control through sometimes-harsh
methods. (Rev. 17: 12-13)
·
One
world government will come together. (Ps. 2: 1-3)
·
A
one-world church will form. (Rev. Ch. 17)
·
A
world leader from Europe will step to the forefront
and take charge of the peace process. (Dan. 9:
26-27)
·
Israeli government and Israel’s enemies will sign an
agreement of peace that ensures peace and safety.
(Dan. 9: 27; Isa. 28: 18; 1 Thes. 5: 3)
·
Peace
will not last, as a coalition of nations--led by
Russia--will invade the Middle East. (Ezek. 38:
1-12)
·
God,
himself, will destroy all but one-sixth of the
invader forces. (Ezek. 39: 1-5)
·
Much
of the world will be hit by the deadly effects of
the invasion. This will possibly include chemical,
biological and nuclear aftereffects. (Ezek. 39:6-7;
11-16)
·
The
world leader will solidify his power following the
Russian-led coalition’s destruction. (Dan. 8: 23-25;
11: 36-39)
·
Two
Old-Testament-type prophets will come on the world
scene and preach about Christ while condemning the
world’s evil. (Rev. 11: 3-6)
·
Meanwhile, God will put His protection upon 144,000
Jews who have converted to Christianity so that they
can begin to preach God’s saving message to the
people of the Tribulation. (Rev. 7: 3-8)
·
At the
same time, God will allow strong delusion to come
over all who heard the Gospel before the Rapture,
but, fully understanding the offer of salvation,
refused to accept Christ. These will believe
Antichrist’s and Satan’s, lies. (2 Thes. 2: 11-12)
·
Antichrist, after months of trying, will finally
murder the two Old-Testament-type prophets. But they
will come back to life and be taken into Heaven
while the world watches. (Rev. 11: 11-12)
·
Antichrist will receive a supposedly deadly head
wound. (Rev. 13: 3)
·
He
will appear to resurrect from the dead, being then
possessed by Satan. (13: 3-4)
·
Antichrist will stand in the Temple on Mount Moriah
in Jerusalem. He will claim to be God, and demand
worship. (2 Thes. 2: 3-4)
·
The
false prophet will direct all worship to Antichrist,
and will erect an image of him. (Rev. 13:11-17)
·
Antichrist’s regime will institute a computer mark
and numbers system. It will be both to control the
world’s populations, and to cause all to worship
Antichrist, whose number in all of this is 666.
(Rev. 13: 16-18)
·
Those
who refuse to accept Antichrist’s mark will be
murdered. Beheading will apparently be the regime’s
chosen method of offing these "traitors." (Rev. 13:
15; 20: 4)
·
Antichrist will begin a systematic genocide against
the Jewish race that will make Hitler’s Holocaust
look mild by comparison. (Rev. Ch. 12)
·
He and
the false prophet will also have all the new
believers they can find, rounded up, tortured, then
murdered. (Jhn. 16: 2; Rev. 13: 8)
·
While
Antichrist hunts down and murders people by the
millions, God’s judgments will begin to fall
directly on the rebellious people of Planet Earth.
(Rev. 6: 17)
·
Millions upon millions will die while God’s wrath
pours out in a series of three types of judgments,
each consisting of seven specific judgments, for a
total of 21 judgments. (Rev. Chpts 6through 18)
·
When
all is said and done, more than one-half, possibly
as much as two-thirds, of all human life on Earth
will die of the plagues. (Rev. 6: 8; 8: 8; 9: 18)
·
God
will prepare, and the Jewish remnant will flee to, a
hiding place, probably Petra, the ancient city
carved in the rose red-colored rocks of the
Jordanian wilderness. (Rev. 12: 6, 14)
·
Antichrist and his forces, led by Satan, will pursue
the Jewish people and try to murder them, but the
pursuing forces will be swallowed up by the Earth.
(Rev. 12: 15-16)
·
While
the Jewish and many of the Gentile people still
alive remain safely protected, God’s wrath will fall
in greater force. (Rev. 16: 1)
·
The
sun will go partly dark, while at the same time
heating up to seven times hotter than normal. (Rev.
16: 8-11)
·
A
great object will fall into the ocean from space.
Its impact will kill life in the sea, and most
likely will destroy coastal areas with tidal waves.
(Rev. 8: 8-9)
·
Another asteroid or other mass from space will
strike Earth and will poison much of the planet’s
fresh water sources. (Rev. 8: 10-11)
·
Great,
unprecedented earthquakes will happen simultaneously
all over the Earth. (Matt. 24: 7; Rev. 16: 18)
·
People
will be so frightened they will have heart attacks,
just from the things they see are yet to come. (Lk.
21: 26)
·
A
supernatural plague of huge insect-like creatures
will be released from the abyss, and they will sting
all who have the mark of the Beast. Men and women
will try to commit suicide because of their great
pain from the stings and bites of these demonic
creatures. (Rev. 9: 3-6)
·
God
will then move in the minds of all military forces
on Earth to gather in the valley of Jezreel, the
plains of Esdraelon, near the ancient city of
Megiddo. This is Armageddon. (Joel 3: 14; Rev. 16:
16)
·
The
"Kings of the East," a huge army out of the Orient
numbering more than 200 million troops, will invade
to make war with Antichrist’s and the other world’s
forces. (Rev. 9: 15-16; 16: 12)
·
Jesus
said of this time, that if He didn’t come back,
everyone and everything would die because of the
fighting about to take place. (Matt. 24: 22; Mark
13: 20)
·
Jesus
will return with the armies of Heaven. His armies
consist of the mighty angels and Jesus’ Church,
which will have been raptured at least seven years
earlier. (Rev. 19: 11-14)
·
Antichrist’s armies and all others will try to
prevent Christ’s return. (Rev. 19: 19)
·
Jesus
will simply speak, and all armies on Earth will be
rendered helpless, most killed. (19: 15-18)