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After the Church is raptured, the Antichrist will make a pact of peace with the Jews. This pact is broken after 3 1/2 years (the middle of the 7 year Tribulation Period). Then begins the Great Tribulation. Read Rev. Chapter 6 through Chapter 19. These are the chapters in Revelation that deal with the Tribulation. The question comes to mind - Will anyone be saved during the Tribulation Period?? Most Theologians hold to the view that anyone who has heard the Gospel during the age of Grace and has rejected Christ's offer of free salvation cannot be saved during the Tribulation Period, using scripture in II Thess. 2:9-12 - "Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but has pleasure in unrighteousness." Others believe that people can be saved if they refuse the mark of the beast and are beheaded for their faith. However, we do know that there will be countless numbers of Jews and Gentiles saved during the last 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation Period. These will be people who have never heard the Gospel, and who have not taken the mark of the beast. During the last 3 1/2 years (The Great Tribulation) there will be 144,000 Jewish men preaching the Everlasting Gospel. Rev. 7:4 - "And I heard the number of them which were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the children of Israel." Read Revelation 14:1-6. How will the tribulation end?? At the end of the 7 year Tribulation Period - Christ with all His Saints, riding on white horses shall descend to earth. (This is the second half of the second coming of Christ.) Rev. 19:11-19 - "And I saw Heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he has a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called, The Word of God. And the armies which were in Heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, and with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried in a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of Heaven, "Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men both free and bond, both small and great. And I saw the beast , and the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army." This is the battle of Armageddon. Christ and his followers make war and have victory over Satan and his followers. Thus ends the conflict of the ages that began in Heaven when Lucifer, the bright and morning star, rebelled against God and became Satan, and continued in the Garden of Eden where the human race fell. This victory ushers in the 1,000 year (millennial) reign of Christ. Christ rules and reigns with his Saints on this earth for 1,000 years. AT LAST HIS KINGDOM IS COME!! Amen and Amen. Creation has been restored completely. There will be no war, famine, pestilence, earthquakes, sickness, etc. (all these things are the results of sin).
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