Endtime Time Line

          I am often asked when future events will happen.  Sometimes this is asked with real interest and sometimes with scoffing.  I have therefore come up with my opinion, based on research, on what the chronology of events will be.  The date of the beginning of these events is known only by the Father: Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the angels have not yet been told, however, they do know what is going to happen.  The following is that chronology:

1. The Rapture – Christ, appears in the clouds, not touching the earth this time, and calls His believers up to meet Him in the clouds.  This is not the second coming because at the second coming Jesus will have touched down on the Mt. of Olives and therefore we would be in the air alone.

This is the first resurrection of the dead in Christ and first judgment; the judgment of the saints.

2. War against Israel; see Psalm 83 – A coalition of nations will wage war against Israel = Edom (Palestinian refugees), Ishmaelites (Saudi Arabia), Moab (central/western Jordan), Hagarenes (Egypt), Gebal (Lebanon), Ammon (Jordan), Amalek (Palestinians), Philistines (people living in the Gaza strip), Inhabitants of Tyre (Hisbola), Assur (Syria and Iraq).  Israel will once again be victorious.

3. Introduction of the Antichrist: who is also referred to as the man of perdition and the beast; also his false prophet will be revealed.  This will also be the culmination of the One World Government and the One World Religion. 

4. Peace treaty, guaranteeing Israel’s safety - This treaty will probably be sponsored by the One World Leader (antichrist) and will remain in effect for three and one half years, until the antichrist does away with it.  This is probably the time when the registration of the world’s people, by the mark of the beast, will be instituted.  Unless you receive the mark you won’t be able to buy or sell.  Apparently no financial transactions will be allowed without the mark.  This will probably be presented as a way to limit crime.  It will eliminate the use of cash.  All financial transactions will be monitored. 

5. The Jewish Temple will be rebuilt, in Jerusalem on the Temple mount, and animal sacrifice reinstituted – this may be the time when the hundred forty four thousand virgin Hebrew men will accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, and be witnesses for Him. 

6. Deception of the death and resurrection of the antichrist - there will be signs and wonders performed that if possible would even fool the elect (real Christians). The two witnesses, probably Elijah and Moses, will irritate the administration to the point when they will be killed.  They will lie in the street for three and a half days before coming back to life and ascending up to Heaven.

7. Battle of the Good angels, led by Michael, against Satan and his angels – Satan and his angels are defeated and cast out of the heavens and on to the earth.

8. Animal sacrifice will be stopped

9. Abomination of desolation - The antichrist will enter the temple and declare himself to be god.

10. Second coming of Jesus – Jesus will ascend from Heaven, in glory, onto the Mount of Olives for the world to see. His saints will come with Him, who were taken up in the rapture, to war against all evil.

11. Armageddon battle, see Ezekiel 38

12. Millennium – Satan and his followers will be bound for a thousand years, while Jesus reigns on earth. 

13. Satan loosed for a season at the end of the millennium – length not known, may be length of one generation.

14. Final judgment – Satan, his followers and those who failed to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior are judged and sent to the Lake of Fire and eternal damnation.

15. New Heaven and New Earth – may be same thing, or combined into one entity. 

          End of the age – could be 2000 years after the crucifixion = 2033, approximately.  The ancient prophesy of Saint Malachy predicted the last popes.  He predicted that this present pope would be the last pope.  Regretfully Pope Francis (a Jesuit) is predicted to be the one who devastates the Catholic Church: probably by either joining with or leading the One World Religion.  As reported in the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/pope-francis-good-atheists_n_3320757.html), Pope Francis Says atheists who do good are redeemed, not just Catholics.  Apparently Pope Francis believes that the Bible is wrong, when it says that acceptance of Jesus as your Lord and Savior is the one and only way to be redeemed. Anyone reading the Bible will realize that salvation is by being “born again” and not by works. 

 

          Further thoughts have led me to the following conclusions:

1. In Revelation 6:2, the White horse may represent the growth of the Church.

2. In Revelation 6:4, the Red horse may represent the wars and rumors of wars, famine, etc... 

3. In Revelation 6:5, the Black horse may represent the failing and destruction of the world’s economies.

4. In Revelation 6:8, the Red horse may refer to the Psalm 83 war.

5. Revelation 6:12-17, could mean the tribulation.

          In Ezekiel 7:9, God announced Himself by a name that was before unknown: Jehovah-Makkel, the God who strikes (smites or disciplines).  This is the God of the “terrible day of the Lord” as described in scripture; when He has finally had enough and brings it all to an end. “Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.”

As with all of my writings, everything must be compared to the Bible, for verification.