70 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 2 - Book 6 - Rapture

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 6 RAPTURE: TRIBULATION: SECOND COMING: MILLENNIUM Daniel 9 & Genesis 25-26 The only reason we teach, is to help people understand what this Book really says. Matthew 24:3-5 I'm convinced that Matthew 24 is totally Tribulation ground. Everything was building up for the night the curtain rose. Matthew 24:6,7 Now, if you have a newer translation, I would think someone's Bible uses the word "travail." All these things the opening stages of the Tribulation are simply the beginning of travail.Now, scripturally, the word travail is always associated with child birth. Jesus uses the analogy of the earth being delivered from the curse. Let's go back to Revelation. Now, Revelation Chapter 14. We know as we approach the final days of this seven-year period, the Anti-christ, now ruling from the Temple in Jerusalem, will put out a call to all the nations of the world. Let's pick it up now from Scripture in Revelation 14, and it's the battle of Armageddon. Armageddon simply comes from a village by the name of Megiddo. It's a place where city after city has been destroyed. Because Jerusalem has been destroyed, rebuilt, destroyed and rebuilt. It was just an ideal place to build a city in ancient times - it was a good defensible place. Revelation 14:14-19 "And I looked and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle." Remember we're talking in an analogy here. The people of the Earth that are still remaining (the armies, etc.), are being gathered just like a husbandman would gather his grapes. God is harvesting the men, the people of the World, into His wine vat. Revelation 14:19 "And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God," The wrath of God! We are so programmed, and rightly so, that God is a God of love, mercy, and Grace; and, indeed, He has been. There's coming a day when God is going to say,"Enough!" Revelation 14:20 "And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs." "And the wine press was trodden without the city,..." Now, read Chapter 16:21: "...and there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone, that is every hailstone, the weight of a talent (or if you've got a margin - that's 100 pounds)." Can you imagine hailstones weighing 100 pounds? You've got a veritable river of blood! Let's go to Isaiah Chapter 63. Isaiah 63:1,2 Isaiah 63:3,4 Now, remember he's not talking about the blood of Calvary here. It is not so much in wrath and judgment upon the gathered armies of the Anti-christ. In Revelation Chapter 19, we see Him coming in His glory - His power. I have already pointed out that when the Tribulation begins, Israel will be back under the Law, and God's premise still stands, you cannot mix Law and Grace. And so, in order for God to deal with Israel under the Law, the Church has to get out of the way. Several lessons ago, you remember we used the verse in Romans 11:25, that when the fullness of the Gentiles was brought in, then God turns again to the Nation of Israel. Revelation 19:11a,12 "And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse;..." There was a White Horse back in Chapter 6, but that White Horse was the fake christ, the counterfeit christ, the Anti-christ. The sword is something else in Scripture. Hebrews Chapter 4, verse 12 and most of you know, at least partly, from memory, Verse 12: "For the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword." So what's the sword? His Word! When God spoke the Word and said to leave Ur. And Abraham left, and what did God call that? Faith! Build an ark. Then along came Moses, and God gave to Moses the Law. No, he waited until God said it. As soon as God spoke it, what did He expect man to do? Always remember it's the Word of God that makes things happen. Verse 12 again: Hebrews 4:12 Revelation 19:15 "And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword," At the Word that He speaks, and as he speaks, millions of troops gathered there in the Battle of Armageddon, will be zapped; they'll be all done. It is mainly the time of God dealing with Israel, but the whole planet will come under this. Now, verse 16. Revelations 19:16 "And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." Many people rebel at that. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible