OVERVIEW
One day God tells me to start studying the end times in the bible. I used to struggle with the end times but Holy Spirit has made it more effortless. So I decided to start with Matthew 24 as an outline. Its Jesus words and seems to be in chronological order and simplified. As soon as I created the timeline (right below this post) something jumped out at me. Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Which immediately made me think of the Elijah to come before Jesus return mentioned in Malachi 4:5-6, 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. So a couple days later I ran across these videos concerning Revelation and as I was listening to video 5 (below) Revelation 9:20-21 jumped out at me, which says, "20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. So a couple days later I ran across these videos concerning Revelation and as I was listening to video 5 (below) Revelation 9:20-21 jumped out at me, which says, "20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
VIDEO REGARDING REVELATIONS 9:13-21
MATTHEW 24 TIMELINE - OLIVET DISCOURSE
1. BIRTH PAINS - VV 1-8 (the frequency of the event contactions begin to increase till Jesus Christs return):
• DECEPTION - "Take heed that no man
decieve you" (v 4)
• HEAR OF WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS
(v 6)
• NATION RISE AGAINST NATION (v 7)
• KINGDOM RISE AGAINST KINGDOM -
intense warfare (v 7)
• FAMINES IN DIVERSE PLACES (v 7)
• PESTILENCES IN DIVERSE PLACES (v 7)
• EARTHQUAKES IN DIVERSE PLACES (v7)
2. THE GREAT FALLING AWAY & CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION INCREASED:
• THEY SHALL DELIVER YOU UP TO BE
AFFLICTED AND KILL YOU; AND YE
SHALL BE HATED OF ALL NATIONS FOR
MY NAMES SAKE (v 9)
• THEN SHALL MANY BE OFFENDED, AND
SHALL BETRAY ONE ANOTHER, AND
HATE ONE ANOTHER9 (v 10)
• MANY FALSE PROPHETS SHALL ARISE
AND DECEIVE MANY (v 11)
• THE LOVE OF MANY SHALL GROW COLD
BECAUSE OF INIQUITY/LAWLESSNESS
(v 12)
• THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM SHALL.
BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD FOR
A WITNESS TO ALL THE NATIONS (v 14)
INSERTING 2 THESSALONIANS 1:1-3
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 (KJV)
2 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
3. THE GREAT TRIBULATION (vv 15-28):
• THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION
SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET DANIEL (DAN
12:11) - FLEE. (vv 15-19)
• THE GREAT TRIBULATIONS EVENTS
WORSE THAN ANYTHING BEFORE IT (v.
21)
• COULD BE SHORTENED. IF NOT, NO
FLESH SAVED (v 22)
• FALSE CHRIST'S AND FALSE PROPHETS
ARISE AND SHALL SHOW GREAT SIGNS
AND WONDERS TO DECEIVE EVEN THE
VERY ELECT ( v 24)
• WARNING - IF THEY SAY CHRIST IS HERE
OR HE'S OVER THERE DO NOT BELIEVE
IT! FOR AS THE LIGHTENING COMES OUT
OF THE EAST UNTO THE WEST, SO
SHALL THE COMING OF THE SON OF
MAN BE (vv 25-27)
4. THE DAY OF THE LORD/THE VENGEANCE OF THE LORD (v 29) - "Immediately after the tribulation of these days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be SHAKEN. "
5. JESUS COMES IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY (v 30)
6. HE SEND HIS ANGELS WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET, AND THEY SHALL GATHER TOGETHER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS FROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTHER (v 31)
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