Will Christians in This Church Age Go Through the Horrific Seven Year Tribulation?
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On Friday night January 17, 2025, we had our first interview with our worldviewtube.com D.C. correspondent on the ground in the nation’s capitol. We also had extensive coverage of President Trump’s inauguration as we broadcast on that day for 12 1/2 hours. We anticipate that soon our D.C. correspondent will have his White House pass and will be reporting from inside the White House Press Room. We have also had numerous reports from our Israeli reporter on the ground in Israel as the very controversial cease-fire “deal" with Hamas played out with the promise of their hostages being released. It is imperative for us to have a reporter in D.C. as well as in Israel if we want to fully understand the times, the ideas, the philosophies and worldviews that are at the foundation of the spiritual battle raging for America and Israel. Your support of the Worldview Foundation is necessary for us to maintain these two reporters at their posts.
I continue to teach through the book of Revelation each Sunday night, 8pm CT at worldviewtube.com. You can also watch the replay on Monday after the Sunday night service. As of this letter, I have taught twenty-eight, one hour lessons, and we are in Revelation chapter 11. Sadly, many professing Christians believe that studying the book of revelation is depressing and scary and so they never read the book, study the book, or listen to someone teach from the book. The reality is, for Christians the book is not depressing or scary but actually provides peace, perception and passion. Peace because we see that the world is not spinning out of control but is in fact setting up Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
The detailed fulfillment of Bible prophecy, as has occurred already in many instances, reveals the not only the supernatural nature of God’s Word but also that God has full authority of what is occurring on earth. While God is not the author of sin, He is even now, using the sinful choices of man to accomplish is ultimate purpose. In addition to peace, we gain a perception or understanding of the stage setting that is only available to those gain such knowledge from the study of Revelation. We also gain a passion for sharing truth of God’s Word and the gospel so that our family and friends might not only avoid the wrath of God during the seven year tribulation but more importantly that they might avoid God’s enteral wrath by passing from judgment into life through the free gift of salvation found in Christ alone.
The book of Revelation is the only book of the Bible that comes with the promise of a special blessing for those that seek to understand the book. As I have studied and taught the book of Revelation, I see clearly how God is allowing the events of the world to unfold that will lead to the fulfillment of His ultimate plan, purpose and victory over Satan, the Antichrist, the false prophet and all those that serve this Satanic trinity. What has become clear to me is that the stage is being set for God to reveal His character and nature to the nation’s of this earth. God will reveal His righteous judgment and wrath during the tribulation period but He will also reveal His Grace and Mercy by revealing His provision of salvation through 144,000 Jewish evangelists that believe in Jesus Christ as Messiah through the preaching of two witness that God will place in Jerusalem for 3 1/2 years. Even now, the rise of antisemitism has reached a level the world has not seen since the 1930s but it is but a harbinger of what the Bible calls the time of Jacob’s trouble. Yet, this time of trouble, know also as the seven year tribulation, will be a time in which God will judge and save both Jew and Gentile. It is during this time that Bible says many will be saved:
Revelation 7:9-11:
After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God.
There will be great evangelists of both Gentiles and Jews during this tribulation period but God will specifically be using 144,000 Jewish witnesses to bring salvation to the Gentiles. One of the main reasons for the tribulation is that it will reveal to countless Jews, to all on earth, that their is none like God or His son Jesus Christ. Think of this my friend; many Gentiles today are saying the most vile, hateful, and antisemitic things on social media and their podcasts. Yet, depending on the time in which we now live, it is very possible that the children, grandchildren or great grandchildren of these antisemites will find salvation in the gospel message of the Jewish evangelists. How ironic.
John F. Walvoord put it perfectly when he wrote:
[quote] The 144,000 on earth are preserved in safety through the tribulation, as a testimony to the power and grace of God, and as a channel through which the gospel could come to the earth. The scene here suggests that their ministry had its fruit among the Gentiles, even as was true in the apostolic age, with the result that great multitudes of the Gentiles were saved. The use of the 144,000 of Israel as a channel of witness to the earth is in keeping with the general purposes of God in relation to the Jewish nation.
Yet, it will take the travails of the tribulation to see these great multitudes saved. The tribulation beings with the the breaking of the first of the seven seals on the scroll handed to the resurrected Lord by God Himself and as recorded by John in Revelation 6:1-17 and Revelation 8:1-5. [end quote]
The First Seal - White Horse: Antichrist and False Peace
The Second Seal - Red Horse: War
The Third Seal - Black Horse: Famine
The Fourth Seal - Pale Horse: Death and Hell with the outbreak of pandemics
The Fifth Seal - The Cries of the Martyred Saints
The Sixth Seal - Global Natural Disasters
The Seventh Seal - Seven Trumpet Judgments and the Seven Bowl Judgments
In our Sunday night study we have just completed the sixth of the seven trumpet judgments found in Revelation 8-11 that unfold as follows:
First Trumpet Judgment - One-third of Trees and Grass Burned
Second Trumpet Judgment - One-third of Sea Becomes Blood, and Sea Creatures Die
Third Trumpet Judgment - One-third of Rivers and Drinking Water Bitter and Poisoned
Fourth Trumpet Judgment - One-third of Sun, Moon and Stars Darkened
Fifth Trumpet Judgment - Demons Released From The Bottomless Pit
Sixth Trumpet Judgment - 200 Million Demon Army Kills One-Third of Humans
The book of Revelation should not frighten Christians personally as I believe the church has been removed from this seven years. For instance Revelation 3:10 the Lord declares to the faithful church of Philadelphia:
Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
The preposition translated “from” is not the Greek word ap, but rather the Greek word ek which means to take “out of.” If John was told to inform the church that the Lord would assist the church through the tribulation, then John would have used the word ap for “through.” However, John was told that the Lord would take the church “out of” the seven year tribulation, and thus John used the word ek for “out of.”
Dr. John Walvoord writes:
[quote] The event in view here that will deliver the true church from the tribulation is the rapture, which must occur prior to the tribulation for this promise to have its full force. What is said emphasizes deliverance from rather than deliverance through.
The Lord, in His letter to the church of Philadelphia, was seeking to encourage them for their faithfulness and to inform them that they would be going through the tribulation would certainly not have served as encouragement to continue in their perseverance of faithfulness. Dr. Robert L. Thomas writes:
This would encourage them in their present suffering to persevere a little longer, whereas the other option of preservation while remaining during the Tribulation would furnish no encouragement at all. The latter would be tantamount to a threat rather than a promise, a threat that for remaining faithful, they would experience worse persecution than they had already. Such is completely inappropriate at this point in the message where a promise to motivate the recipients is required. [end quote]
The Apostle Paul in I Thessalonians 4:13-18 is reassuring the new Christians that their friends and relatives that have died will not miss out on what the Lord has planned for both those who are alive at the time of the rapture and those who have died before the rapture. Paul writes:
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Revelation 4:4 is further proof of the church being removed before the start of the tribulation, which begins with the breaking of the first seal in Revelation 6:1. In Revelation 4:4 we read:
Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads.
Where have we read about white robes, crowns, gold and thrones? Here is the answer:
Letter to Church of Smyrna: Revelation 2:10: Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Letter to Church of Sardis: Revelation 3:5: He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments
Letter to the Church of Philadelphia: Revelation 3:11: Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.
Letter to Church of Laodicea: Revelation 3:18: I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments,
Letter to Church of Laodicea: Revelation 3:21: To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne
In Revelation 2 and 3 we have the Lord promising the church on earth that they shall receive white robes or garments, a crown, a throne and gold. And then in the very next chapter of Revelation 4 we see 24 elders that represent the church in the very throne room of God in heaven and they are sitting on thrones and they have white robes and crowns of gold on their heads.
So while the church on earth does face trials and persecution, we can have the assurance that Christians will not be subjected to the horrors of the tribulation that are described in Matthew 24:21 as something the world has never seen.
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
While Christians do not have to fear the seven year tribulation, this does not mean we don’t have family members or friends that we are concerned about. And yet, some misguided Bible teachers have taught that after the rapture of the church, those that have heard the truth of the gospel and not responded cannot be saved. Such a belief is not confirmed from the Bible and yet such teachers use this passage to try and teach such.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-12:
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The strong delusion being referred to in 2 Thessalonians 2:11 is not referring to people that heard the gospel before the rapture and did not receive it but it is referring to the people who during the tribulation accept the Mark of the Beast.
Revelation 14:9-11:
Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”
George Zeller writes:
[quote] What is "the lie" (verse 11)? This same expression is also used in Romans 1:25 which speaks of the terrible lie of giving worship to a mere creature as if that creature were God. The absolute culmination of "creature worship" will be in the tribulation when men will worship the man of sin as God (and this is mentioned in the very context, 2 Thess. 2:4). These tribulation unbelievers will be supernaturally deluded into believing that this mere man, Satan’s man, is actually God and they will worship him and take his mark. If this is the correct understanding of "the lie," then we are again in a tribulation context and not a pre-rapture context. [end quote]
Revelation is such an important book for so many reasons but one is that is should cause us to be thankful for God’s promise that Christians will not have to go through this horrible 7 year tribulation. This book should also cause us to have a passion for sharing the gospel with all of our family and friends. But if you have family and friends that are not saved, I want you to have peace and to know that the removal of the church before the start of the tribulation does not seal the fate of your family members and friends that have heard the truth of the gospel but have yet to receive Jesus Christ as their perusal Lord and Savior. In fact, one reason why I am teaching through the book of Revelation is because I want these television programs and articles to be easily found on the internet so that during the tribulation many might watch the programs and read the articles and understand what is unfolding and they can be assured of eternal life by trusting in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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