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From the viewpoint of Biblical prophecy, what will happen next is the future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24, which the Church will have to go through (Revelation 13:7-10, Revelation 14:12-13, Revelation 20:4-6, Matthew 24:9-13), and which will be immediately followed by Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (Matthew 24:29-30) and the Church (of all times') physical resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:22-23), its rapture (gathering together to Jesus) (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8, Matthew 24:31, Mark 13:27), its judgment by Jesus (Psalms 50:4-5; 2 Corinthians 5:10), and its marriage to Jesus (Revelation 19:7 to 20:6).
Jesus Christ and the Church (of all times) will then reign physically on the earth for 1,000 years (Revelation 20:4-6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 2:26-29), a time period commonly called the Millennium. After the Millennium, the Gog/Magog rebellion will occur (Revelation 20:7-10, Ezekiel chapters 38-39). Sometime after that will occur the physical resurrection and judgment of all non-Christians (of all times) at the Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15). Then will occur the time of the literal city of New Jerusalem on a New Earth (Revelation 21:1 to 22:5), as in a new surface for the earth.
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From Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and other Bible passages, we can derive the following summary of the main events of the future Tribulation:
It will begin with a horrible war, which, with its aftermath of famines and epidemics, will end up killing one-fourth of the world (Revelation 6:4-8).
Then a huge volcanic eruption will occur (Revelation 6:12-14).
Then an island volcano will erupt and collapse into the sea (Revelation 8:8-9).
Then a comet will strike the earth in a region containing one-third of the world's fresh surface water (Revelation 8:10-11).
Then a cavern deep underground will open up and strange locust-like beings will swarm up from it and torment mankind with horribly painful stings for five months (Revelation 9:2-11).
Then 200 million strange horse-like beings will come upon the earth and kill one-third of mankind (Revelation 9:16-19).
Sometime before this, a third Jewish temple will have been built in Jerusalem (Revelation 11:1).
Then various things will happen during a literal 3.5-year period:
Jerusalem will be occupied by enemy forces (Revelation 11:2b, Luke 21:24), and the abomination of desolation (possibly a standing, android image of the future Antichrist) will be put in the holy place (the inner sanctum) of the third Jewish temple (Matthew 24:15, Daniel 11:31).
Two Witnesses of God will prophesy in Jerusalem and will bring amazing, miraculous plagues on the world (Revelation 11:3-12).
Satan (the dragon) will give power to an individual man (one aspect of Revelation's "beast"), commonly called the Antichrist, to take hegemony over the whole earth and to be worshipped by it along with Satan, and to kill Biblical Christians (not in hiding) in every nation (Revelation 13:4-10). At least one time the Antichrist will also sit in the third Jewish temple and proclaim himself God (2 Thessalonians 2:4, Daniel 11:36).
The Antichrist will have a False Prophet who will perform amazing miracles by which the people of the world will be deceived into receiving (possibly by scarification) a mark of the Antichrist's name or some representation of the gematrial number of his name (666) on their right hand or forehead, and into worshipping a speaking, and a seemingly living (possibly an android), image of the Antichrist (Revelation 13:11-18, Revelation 19:20).
Right after the literal 3.5-year period:
A horrible sore will spring up on all those people who received the Antichrist's mark and worshipped his image (Revelation 16:2).
Then the sea will become like the blood of a dead man, and every living creature in the sea will die (Revelation 16:3).
Then all natural, surface fresh-water sources will be turned into blood (Revelation 16:4-6).
Then a solar flare will strike the earth (Revelation 16:8).
Then, for a time, there will be no light on the earth (Revelation 16:10).
Then the Euphrates will dry up and the armies of the earth will gather at Armageddon (a place in northern Israel) in an attempt to fight YHWH God (Revelation 16:12-16).
Then the cities of the nations will be destroyed by fire, earthquake and 100-pound hailstones (Revelation 16:18-21, Revelation 17:16).
Then Jesus Christ will return, physically resurrect the Church of all times, rapture (gather together) the Church, judge the Church, and marry the Church in the sky (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8, Matthew 24:29-31, Mark 13:27, Psalms 50:4-5, Revelation 19:7 to 20:6), before He descends and completely defeats the world's armies, gathered by that time at Jerusalem against YHWH God (Revelation 19:11-21, Zechariah 14).
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It is sometimes claimed (by preterism) that Revelation chapters 6 to 22 already happened in the past.
But the truth is that Revelation chapters 6 to 22 are still future to us because they are about "things which must be hereafter" (Revelation 4:1b). And just as Jesus Christ's Second Coming in Revelation 19:7 to 20:3 has never been fulfilled, for nowhere in history books do we find its fulfillment, so the highly-detailed events of the preceding Tribulation in Revelation chapters 6 to 18 have never been fulfilled, for nowhere in history books do we find their fulfillment. Similarly, even this Tribulation as it is described in Matthew 24 cannot have happened yet, because Jesus' Second Coming must occur immediately after this Tribulation (Matthew 24:29-31).
Jesus Christ and the Church (of all times) will then reign physically on the earth for 1,000 years (Revelation 20:4-6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 2:26-29), a time period commonly called the Millennium. After the Millennium, the Gog/Magog rebellion will occur (Revelation 20:7-10, Ezekiel chapters 38-39). Sometime after that will occur the physical resurrection and judgment of all non-Christians (of all times) at the Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15). Then will occur the time of the literal city of New Jerusalem on a New Earth (Revelation 21:1 to 22:5), as in a new surface for the earth.
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From Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and other Bible passages, we can derive the following summary of the main events of the future Tribulation:
It will begin with a horrible war, which, with its aftermath of famines and epidemics, will end up killing one-fourth of the world (Revelation 6:4-8).
Then a huge volcanic eruption will occur (Revelation 6:12-14).
Then an island volcano will erupt and collapse into the sea (Revelation 8:8-9).
Then a comet will strike the earth in a region containing one-third of the world's fresh surface water (Revelation 8:10-11).
Then a cavern deep underground will open up and strange locust-like beings will swarm up from it and torment mankind with horribly painful stings for five months (Revelation 9:2-11).
Then 200 million strange horse-like beings will come upon the earth and kill one-third of mankind (Revelation 9:16-19).
Sometime before this, a third Jewish temple will have been built in Jerusalem (Revelation 11:1).
Then various things will happen during a literal 3.5-year period:
Jerusalem will be occupied by enemy forces (Revelation 11:2b, Luke 21:24), and the abomination of desolation (possibly a standing, android image of the future Antichrist) will be put in the holy place (the inner sanctum) of the third Jewish temple (Matthew 24:15, Daniel 11:31).
Two Witnesses of God will prophesy in Jerusalem and will bring amazing, miraculous plagues on the world (Revelation 11:3-12).
Satan (the dragon) will give power to an individual man (one aspect of Revelation's "beast"), commonly called the Antichrist, to take hegemony over the whole earth and to be worshipped by it along with Satan, and to kill Biblical Christians (not in hiding) in every nation (Revelation 13:4-10). At least one time the Antichrist will also sit in the third Jewish temple and proclaim himself God (2 Thessalonians 2:4, Daniel 11:36).
The Antichrist will have a False Prophet who will perform amazing miracles by which the people of the world will be deceived into receiving (possibly by scarification) a mark of the Antichrist's name or some representation of the gematrial number of his name (666) on their right hand or forehead, and into worshipping a speaking, and a seemingly living (possibly an android), image of the Antichrist (Revelation 13:11-18, Revelation 19:20).
Right after the literal 3.5-year period:
A horrible sore will spring up on all those people who received the Antichrist's mark and worshipped his image (Revelation 16:2).
Then the sea will become like the blood of a dead man, and every living creature in the sea will die (Revelation 16:3).
Then all natural, surface fresh-water sources will be turned into blood (Revelation 16:4-6).
Then a solar flare will strike the earth (Revelation 16:8).
Then, for a time, there will be no light on the earth (Revelation 16:10).
Then the Euphrates will dry up and the armies of the earth will gather at Armageddon (a place in northern Israel) in an attempt to fight YHWH God (Revelation 16:12-16).
Then the cities of the nations will be destroyed by fire, earthquake and 100-pound hailstones (Revelation 16:18-21, Revelation 17:16).
Then Jesus Christ will return, physically resurrect the Church of all times, rapture (gather together) the Church, judge the Church, and marry the Church in the sky (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8, Matthew 24:29-31, Mark 13:27, Psalms 50:4-5, Revelation 19:7 to 20:6), before He descends and completely defeats the world's armies, gathered by that time at Jerusalem against YHWH God (Revelation 19:11-21, Zechariah 14).
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It is sometimes claimed (by preterism) that Revelation chapters 6 to 22 already happened in the past.
But the truth is that Revelation chapters 6 to 22 are still future to us because they are about "things which must be hereafter" (Revelation 4:1b). And just as Jesus Christ's Second Coming in Revelation 19:7 to 20:3 has never been fulfilled, for nowhere in history books do we find its fulfillment, so the highly-detailed events of the preceding Tribulation in Revelation chapters 6 to 18 have never been fulfilled, for nowhere in history books do we find their fulfillment. Similarly, even this Tribulation as it is described in Matthew 24 cannot have happened yet, because Jesus' Second Coming must occur immediately after this Tribulation (Matthew 24:29-31).