I. REVELATION'S PRE-ENDTIME EVENTS

1. Historical role of Mystery, Babylon the Great - Rev.17:1-7,15

a. False alliances. Spiritual fornication - Rev.17:2; Rev.18:3

b. During Roman era, drunk with blood of Martyrs - Rev.17:6

2. Satan's attempt to kill Jesus at His birth - Rev.12:1-5

a. Christ "about to rule all nations with iron rod" - Rev.12:5

b. Anticipates Christ being crowned as King - Rev.11:15-19

3. Seal One - White Horseman - Spread of Democracy - Rev.6:1,2

a. Builds Babylon's Global System of Trade, Commerce - Rev.18

b. Crown: Moderates Mideast Covenant of Peace - Dan.9:27a

4. Babylon's authority of Trade - Rev.17:4,18; Rev.18:3,12-16,23

a. After uniting all religions and rulers - Rev.17:2; Rev.18:3

b. Her detractors hate the "System"- Rev.17:16

5. Third Temple measured for worshipers - Rev.11:1,2

II. FIVE ENDTIME CATALYSTS LAUNCH FINAL 42 Months; 1290 Days.

1. Great Babylon destroyed by Ten Kings - Rev.17:16; Rev.18:1-19

a. Following her "short rule" as 7th King - Rev.17:8,10

b. Beast, 8th King, takes over at Midweek - Rev.13:3; 17:8,11

2. Satan cast from heaven - Rev.12:7-14; Dan.7:25; Dan.12:1,7,11

3. Temple defiled - Dan.12:7,11; Matt.24:15; 2 Thes.2:4; Rev.11:1,2

4. Two Prophets - 1260-day Task - Rev.11:3-11; Zech.4:11-14

5. God's Kingdom Power precedes Christ's return - Rev.12:10

III. ENDTIME EVENTS - Daniel's Final 1290 Days after Babylon Falls.

1. God's Kingdom Power 1260 days - Rev.12:14; Rev.11:3; Dan.7:25

2. Seals 2 to 5 - Famines, Plagues, Martyrs.

a. Seal 2 - Antichrist removes peace - Rev.6:3,4; 13:1-17

b. Seals 3-5 - Six Trumps; Six Plagues - Rev.8:6-9:21; 16:1-16

3. Prophets restore things - Matt.16:28; Matt.17:11; Rev.11:3-11

4. Remnant safe for same period as Two Prophets - Rev.12:6,14

Each category of Seals, Trumpets and Plagues climaxes on the Lastday. With Trump Six and Plague Six, earth's armies are gathered for Armageddon. It is time for God's Wrath. Warnings of wrath begin with Seal Six as Plague Seven remains suspended in mid-air during the Temple Drama ... until God "remembers" Babylon and decrees the Cup of anger and wrath be poured out for the Hour of Testing that envelopes all mankind. Daniel's 1290 days will be "cut short" to 1260 days when the Beast kills the Two Prophets!. 

 

IV. LASTDAY AFTER GREAT TRIBULATION - Mark 13:24

1. Two Prophets rise up in less than three days – Rev.11:7,11

2. Great Holocaust set to continue at Armageddon - Rev.16:14,16

a. Armies killed two billion in a quarter of earth - Rev.9:14-21

b. Trump Six (2nd Woe) has "passed by"- Rev.6:8; Rev.11:14

3. Plague 7 suspends in mid-air - Rev.16:17; prior to Rev.15:1-4

a. Plagues "exhaust God's anger" - Rev.15:1; (Rev.16:1-17)

b. Great, Wonderful Sign; Nations to worship God - Rev.15:1,4

4. Martyrs and 144,000 sing Petitions to God - Rev.14:1-4; 15:1-4

a. No one enters Temple until 7th Plague empties - Rev.15:8

b. Petitions end smoke-filled Temple. Drama ensues - Rev.15:5; Rev.7:9.

c. Petitions rest on Flashback to Last Plagues - Rev.16:1-17

d. God's response. Great quakes - Rev.6:12; 11:13

5. Lastday events launched by the Decree of Rev.16:17 and Seal Six of Rev.6:12-17  

V. LASTDAY - UNIQUE DAY OF THE LORD

1. Unique 12-Hour Day: Light returns at evening - Zech.14:6,7

2. Unique Word ignites "The Sign." Warns of wrath - Rev.16:17; 6:12-17

3. Great quake kills 7000 wicked in tenth of Jerusalem - Rev.11:13

4. Seal Six signs intensify during Temple Drama - Rev.7:9-Rev.8:5; 11:15-19

a. God raises Two Prophets for the Drama - Rev.11:12

b. Great Trib's 1260 days end before they ascend - Rev.11:11-14

c. Firstfruit of Living Harvest already sealed; rescued - Rev. 7:1-8; 14:1-5

5. Events of Three-Act Drama triggered by the Lamb; Son of Man.

a. Lamb rescues 144,000 Harvest Firstfruit - Rev.14:1-5

b. Angels deliver messages of doom in sky - Rev.14:6-11

c. Patience of last Saints to be martyred - Rev.14:12-13

d. Wicked reaped to Winepress of great anger - Rev.14:14-19

e. Martyrs sing "Song of Moses" - Rev.15:3

f. Firstfruit join martyrs with "Song of Lamb" - Rev.14:3,4; 15:3,4  

On earth, warnings of wrath escalate. Seven classes flee from invading armies prior to The Sign. With The Sign, they concede for the only time: "God's Day of wrath and the wrath of the Lamb has come" - Rev.6:15-17.  (Rev.6:15-17 follows Rev.16:15-17).

6. Act One: Temple smoke clears. Drama begins - Rev.15:5,8

a. For all "coming out of Tribulation" - Rev.7:9,14; 14:1-4

b. Saints praise God and the Lamb by name - Rev.7:9-17

c. Testimony of countless Saints after the great tribulation

d. Recipients of reward promised in Rev.3:12; 7:15; 20:4

e. Serve God 1000 years in heaven's Temple! - Rev.20:4,5 (Rev.7:15)

7. Act Two: Seal Seven. Daniel's Court - Dan.7:9-27; Rev.8:1-5

a. Tribunal presents evidence of Six Trumpet Judgments

b. Prayers of all the Saints presented to God to indict wicked

c. Angel of Fire casts fiery altar coals to earth. Court's Verdict

d. Key Phrase: God's anger fills Cup of Wrath - Rev.8:5; 11:19; 16:18

e. Wrath anticipates Hour of Testing - Rev.3:10; Luke 21:25,34-36  

8. Act Three: Trump Seven follows Seal Seven right away

a. God takes power. Christ crowned King of kings - Rev.11:15-17

b. Appointed time for wrath, reign, (resurrection) and rewards - Rev.11:18

c. Appointed time to destroy those destroying the earth - Rev.11:18

d. Ark of Covenant seen in Temple after 2600 years - Rev.11:19

9. Key Phrase, great hail when God's Decree is executed - Rev.11:19; 16:18-21

10. Twenty Reasons show that Trump Seven follows the Last Plague.

"God's wrath has come:" KAIROS-TIME to judge and reward SAINTS  and to destroy the wicked.     Heaven's only proclamation of God's wrath - Rev.11:15-19.

11. GOD'S DECREE executed after Trump Seven: "It is Done" - Rev.16:17

a. Third Key Phrase produces history's greatest quake - Rev.16:18

b. God destroys BABYLON, City and System - Rev.16:19-21

c. Her 2nd fall, after Trump Seven, by history's greatest quake - Rev.16:18,19

d. Cities, mountains, wicked destroyed "Hour of Testing" - Rev.3:10; 16:19,20

12. Heaven, Prophets, Saints Rejoice - Rev.18:20; Rev.19:1-3

a. Rejoicing occurs in Heaven's Final Scene - Rev.19:1-11

b. Lamb's Wedding and Supper anticipated - Rev.19:7-9

c. Immortality, Union and Rewards in glory - Col.3:4; Rev.22:12; Matt.16:27

d. Hour of Testing brings "great hail" - Rev.11:19: Rev.16:21

13. Hour of Glory, Rewards, Testing, Judgment- 2 Thess.1:5-10

a. Firstfruit glorified with Christ before main harvest - Rev.14:4

b. Christ, with all the Saints, destroys wicked - Rev.19:11-18,21

c. Two Beasts cast to Hell. Satan bound, Abyss- Rev.19:19-20:3

d. Flashback to Martyrs and First Resurrection - Rev.20:4-6 

Uniqueness of the Day of the Lord is overwhelming. Some modern scribes seek to insert the great tribulation between Christ's coming "for" and "with" the Saints. He must come "for" the Firstfruit and the bodies of Trib-Martyrs before He comes "with" them. The latter are included in the First Resurrection. They win the right to join Him when He appears. The Firstfruit present the Son of Man to God with the Song of the Lamb. Rev.14:3,4. Rev. 15:3,4. Dan.7:13. Martyrs "sit on thrones" in a flashback to Act One. Rev.7:15-17, Rev.20:4. All who "die in the Lord ... called, ELECT and faithful ... come with Christ." Rev.14:13, Rev.17:14.

14. Events required after Last Plague empties and Seal Six opens

a. Two Prophets ascend prior to Temple Drama - Rev.11:12

b. Winepress of great anger leads to indictment - Rev.14:14-19

c. Reaping required for Seal 7's Trial - (Matt.13:30) - Rev.8:1-5

d. Great, Wonderful Sign climaxes Plagues of anger - Rev.15:1-4

e. Firstfruit and Martyrs sing two songs - Rev.14:3; Rev.15:3

f. Temple Drama. Saints praise God and Lamb - Rev.7:9-17

g. Act Two: Tribunal of Seal Seven - Dan.7:9-27; Rev.8:1-5

h. Act Three: Christ crowned King - Rev.11:15-17

i. Time for Wrath; Rewards announced from heaven - Rev.11:18

j. Rejoicing and Lamb's Wedding announced - Rev.19:1-10

k. Firstfruit (144,000) "follow Lamb where He goes" - Rev.14:4

l. Rest of Harvest reaped as Christ appears - Rev.17:14

m. All the Saints united with Christ - Zech.14:5; I Thess.3:13

n. Instant union of all Saints fulfills prayer for glory - John 17:24

o. Hour of Testing empties Cup of Anger, Wrath - Rev.16:19-21 

VI. REVELATION FOR OVERCOMERS - Rev.12:11; 2:26; 15:2; 20:4.

Overcomers display God's Kingdom Power to the End. Martyrs (souls of) win reward for Overcomers to reign 1000 years as Pillars in Heaven's Temple. Rev.3:12, Rev.7:15, Rev.20:4. They will serve God where "the sun shines not on them." Rev.7:15-17. This reward inspires the "patience of Saints" to overcome until death. Rev.3:10-12! Flashback to "first resurrection and souls beheaded coming to life again" shows they are Revelation's prime subjects. Rev.20:4,5.

VII. ALL BELIEVERS RISE UP ON THE LAST DAY.

Jesus promised four times to raise up "every Believer on the last day." He declared three times over that this is His Father's will. No promise is more explicit. Tares (children of Satan) are collected first. Matt.13:30,39,40, Rev.14:14-19. Then the Two Prophets ascend and the Lamb takes 144,000 blameless Jews to heaven from Mt . Zion.

The "second death has no power over them." The rest of the dead (unbelievers) live not again until the thousand years are finished." John 6:38-40; I Thess.4:14-17, Rev.20:5,6. Trib-Martyred souls in heaven are among those whom "God brings with Jesus" to fulfill His promises. I Thes.4:14; Rev.6:11. Nothing excludes their "fellow-servants and brothers," survivors on earth after the last Martyr, from being "caught up to meet the Lord with them." I Thess.4:17.

“He brings all the SAINTS with Him" to fulfill I Thess.3:13. It would be unjust to come with Pre-Trib Saints and abandon Trib-Saints who survive to the last Hour. The Hour of Wrath applies to the wicked and all who refuse to repent. Saints are "kept from wrath at the Hour for Testing all unbelievers."

God's wrath follows Great Tribulation because the Last Plagues "complete His anger" (exhaust His anger; The New Jerusalem Bible, Rev.15:1). The Cup of anger-filled-wrath pours out after the Last Plague. Rev.14:10; Rev.16:19. It pours out after Martyrs sing their song of Victory and the 144,000 sing their song of the Lamb before God. All the Saints praise God and the Lamb and Christ is crowned. Rev.14:3,4, 15:3,4, Rev.7:9-15, Rev.11:15-17. In Revelation, 100 verses picture events from the Sign of that Day to the Martyrs seen "sitting on thrones."

These Martyrs reign 1000 years in the Temple of heaven since the sun will not shine on them again. Rev.7:15-17. John sees them as "souls who were beheaded" because they will live and begin to reign at the resurrection on the Lastday.  Rev.20:4. He looks back upon the whole panorama. Every one overcoming to the End reigns with Christ. Rev.2:25,26. They must be resurrected, gathered above and glorified in order to "inherit the Kingdom." With the last enemy ... death, destroyed, no Believer is left on earth when Christ appears. All are glorified at once; each group in order ... beginning with the Firstfruit of the Living who are redeemed from earth on the Lastday.  I Cor.15:23,50-52, Rev.14:3,4.

SAINTS meet at the Synagogue in the Sky above. Mark 13:27, Matt.24:31, 2 Thess.2:1. The Lamb's Wedding and His rewards are for all the Saints. Christ "brings His rewards as He comes in glory." Rev.19:7, Matt.16:27, Rev.22:12, 2 Tim.4:1. The Martyrs return to heaven in resurrected bodies to reign 1000 years from its Temple. "Overcomers to the end," even if not martyred, "reign as priests of God and Christ over the nations." Rev.2:25-27, Rev.5:10, Rev.20:4. "The rest of the (unbelieving) dead live not until the 1000 years are finished."

This chapter on the Endtime Order of Events lists the Five CATALYSTS that follow two final Pre-Endtime Events. We outline our concept of the unique order of events to occur on the Day of the Lord. We challenge Church members to Overcome to the End of the Age ... the Lastday ... the Day of the Lord. On that Day He promises to raise up every Believer, the Elect ..."all those given Him by the will of His Father." John 6:38-40,44,54, Mark 13:24,27.

First posted Dec. 30, 1998 to my Web-Site. Revised on Shavuot, May 20,1999.