When does the Tribulation start?
After the Mark of the Beast has been introduced and enforced on the world and everyone has had a chance to choose.

What causes the Tribulation?
"And after these things I saw four
angels standing on the four corners of the
earth, holding the four winds of the earth,
that the wind should not blow on the
earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
And I saw another angel ascending
from the east, having the seal of the living
God: and he cried with a loud voice to the
four angels, to whom it was given to hurt
the earth and the sea,
Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the
sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the
servants of our God in their foreheads.
And I heard the number of them which
were sealed: and there were sealed an
hundred and forty and four thousand of
all the tribes of the children of Israel." Revelation 7:1-4.

The Tribulation is caused by angels letting go of the four winds upon the world.

What are the four winds?
"And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come." Jeremiah 49:36
"Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea." Daniel 7:2

The peace, order and system in the world today that allows us to go about our daily lives, we owe to divine benevolence which is restraining the winds of strife, war, conflict et cetera for the sake of Gospel work which must continue to completion. God actively creates each new day that we wake up to by holding back the overwhelming evil only permitting an allocated, carefully measured and bearable amount to bear on us day by day, as explained by Jesus, "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Matthew 6:34.

But fast approaches the Day when the last sermon will be given and the last believer saved and then the angels will be told to let go of the winds. The inevitable hour shall come when a God of love shall finally withdraw His offers of mercy and forgiveness to sinners, when the work of spreading the Gospel shall end and sinners shall be given their heart's desire of a world without God. The peace, safety and order of our everyday life that we take so much for granted but that has been a daily gift from God will at last be taken away and a time of unprecedented chaos, havoc, turmoil, mayhem, anarchy, ruin and catastrophe shall befall the world on a scale unlike anything human beings have ever witnessed in all of history. Angels in Heaven and all the creatures of the universe shall see, like never before, the violence, misery and degradation that must happen when God is rejected.

God's desire is for a world populated with "people in whose heart is my law". Isaiah 51:7. Because then everyone will love God with all their heart, mind and strength; and then they'll love the next person as much as they love themselves - which will make for a peaceful, safe and harmless world.
The safety of all created beings depends on God being their first love, not each other. If Adam loved his God more than he loved his wife, then he would have never let her mislead him to disobedience. He would have never fallen.

But human beings have long regarded the Law of God as a burden, something blocking their freedom. They have looked upon the Ten Commandments as a killjoy, something to be removed if life is to be fully enjoyed. The "Do's and Don'ts" of God's Law have been seen as limiting and suffocating, and people have longed to cast off this moral restraint. Now at the very end, after the angels "have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." Revelation 7:3, God grants them their wish.

He removes the restraints of His law on the human heart. The winds are loosed.

Says the holy prophet, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9.
When God removes His Law from the heart of humans, the conscience turns off. And the heart is given over to its satanic nature - to its malice, bloodthirstiness, lusts, jealousies, envy, anger and every vile emotion Satan can conjure. Now everyone is free to do anything. Anyone can do whatever. Anyone can lie, steal, rape, rob and kill whoever. This is the source of the Tribulation. The removal of God's grace from the world with the resulting frenzy of violence and lawlessness that turns the world into one continuous field of carnage and mayhem: "a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time". Daniel 12:1.

It gets worse...

To add to the already unequaled violence of that time, God, whose mercy has been trifled with, commissions the seven angels to pour the plagues on the world. "And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth." Revelation 16:1.

The sealed saints are safe. But the wicked who have the Mark of the Beast suffer, for the plagues fall "upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image." Revelation 16:2. Terrible is the suffering of sinners at this time because the plagues are the supreme expression of divine wrath upon a world that has defiantly stood united in rebellion against Jehovah and thrown His mercy to His Face, and as such are poured out without leniency and mercy. Said John, "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation". Revelation 14:9,10.

This sealing of faithful believers and the fearful execution of divine vengeance upon those without the Seal was demonstrated in Ezekiel's blood-chilling vision of the men with the killing weapons:

"He cried also in mine ears with a loud
voice, saying, Cause them that have
charge over the city to draw near, even
every man with his destroying weapon in
his hand.
And, behold, six men came from the
way of the higher gate, which lieth toward
the north, and every man a slaughter
weapon in his hand; and one man among
them was clothed with linen, with a
writer's inkhorn by his side: and they
went in, and stood beside the brasen
altar."
"And the LORD said unto him, Go
through the midst of the city, through the
midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon
the foreheads of the men that sigh and
that cry for all the abominations that be
done in the midst thereof.
And to the others he said in mine
hearing, Go ye after him through the city,
and smite: let not your eye spare, neither
have ye pity:
Slay utterly old and young, both maids,
and little children, and women: but come
not near any man upon whom is the
mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then
they began at the ancient men which were
before the house." Ezekiel 9:1-2, 4-6.

There are forces in every city, that stand ready to destroy when the limit of sin is reached. As shown by the procedure of Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction. At the end of time, after the living saints have been sealed, the angels of destruction will get to work in every city, village and camp. But the sealed of God will be safe.

Touche'

Is your pastor familiarizing you with these things?

Happy Sunday.

KissTheTruth:
When does the Tribulation start?
After the Mark of the Beast has been introduced and enforced on the world and everyone has had a chance to choose.

What causes the Tribulation?
"And after these things I saw four
angels standing on the four corners of the
earth, holding the four winds of the earth,
that the wind should not blow on the
earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
And I saw another angel ascending
from the east, having the seal of the living
God: and he cried with a loud voice to the
four angels, to whom it was given to hurt
the earth and the sea,
Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the
sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the
servants of our God in their foreheads.
And I heard the number of them which
were sealed: and there were sealed an
hundred and forty and four thousand of
all the tribes of the children of Israel." Revelation 7:1-4.

The Tribulation is caused by angels letting go of the four winds upon the world.

What are the four winds?
"And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come." Jeremiah 49:36
"Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea." Daniel 7:2

The peace, order and system in the world today that allows us to go about our daily lives, we owe to divine benevolence which is restraining the winds of strife, war, conflict et cetera for the sake of Gospel work which must continue to completion. God actively creates each new day that we wake up to by holding back the overwhelming evil only permitting an allocated, carefully measured and bearable amount to bear on us day by day, as explained by Jesus, "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Matthew 6:34.

But fast approaches the Day when the last sermon will be given and the last believer saved and then the angels will be told to let go of the winds. The inevitable hour shall come when a God of love shall finally withdraw His offers of mercy and forgiveness to sinners, when the work of spreading the Gospel shall end and sinners shall be given their heart's desire of a world without God. The peace, safety and order of our everyday life that we take so much for granted but that has been a daily gift from God will at last be taken away and a time of unprecedented chaos, havoc, turmoil, mayhem, anarchy, ruin and catastrophe shall befall the world on a scale unlike anything human beings have ever witnessed in all of history. Angels in Heaven and all the creatures of the universe shall see, like never before, the violence, misery and degradation that must happen when God is rejected.

God's desire is for a world populated with "people in whose heart is my law". Isaiah 51:7. Because then everyone will love God with all their heart, mind and strength; and then they'll love the next person as much as they love themselves - which will make for a peaceful, safe and harmless world.
The safety of all created beings depends on God being their first love, not each other. If Adam loved his God more than he loved his wife, then he would have never let her mislead him to disobedience. He would have never fallen.

But human beings have long regarded the Law of God as a burden, something blocking their freedom. They have looked upon the Ten Commandments as a killjoy, something to be removed if life is to be fully enjoyed. The "Do's and Don'ts" of God's Law have been seen as limiting and suffocating, and people have longed to cast off this moral restraint. Now at the very end, after the angels "have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." Revelation 7:3, God grants them their wish.

He removes the restraints of His law on the human heart. The winds are loosed.

Says the holy prophet, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9.
When God removes His Law from the heart of humans, the conscience turns off. And the heart is given over to its satanic nature - to its malice, bloodthirstiness, lusts, jealousies, envy, anger and every vile emotion Satan can conjure. Now everyone is free to do anything. Anyone can do whatever. Anyone can lie, steal, rape, rob and kill whoever. This is the source of the Tribulation. The removal of God's grace from the world with the resulting frenzy of violence and lawlessness that turns the world into one continuous field of carnage and mayhem: "a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time". Daniel 12:1.

It gets worse...

To add to the already unequaled violence of that time, God, whose mercy has been trifled with, commissions the seven angels to pour the plagues on the world. "And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth." Revelation 16:1.

The sealed saints are safe. But the wicked who have the Mark of the Beast suffer, for the plagues fall "upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image." Revelation 16:2. Terrible is the suffering of sinners at this time because the plagues are the supreme expression of divine wrath upon a world that has defiantly stood united in rebellion against Jehovah and thrown His mercy to His Face, and as such are poured out without leniency and mercy. Said John, "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation". Revelation 14:9,10.

This sealing of faithful believers and the fearful execution of divine vengeance upon those without the Seal was demonstrated in Ezekiel's blood-chilling vision of the men with the killing weapons:

"He cried also in mine ears with a loud
voice, saying, Cause them that have
charge over the city to draw near, even
every man with his destroying weapon in
his hand.
And, behold, six men came from the
way of the higher gate, which lieth toward
the north, and every man a slaughter
weapon in his hand; and one man among
them was clothed with linen, with a
writer's inkhorn by his side: and they
went in, and stood beside the brasen
altar."
"And the LORD said unto him, Go
through the midst of the city, through the
midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon
the foreheads of the men that sigh and
that cry for all the abominations that be
done in the midst thereof.
And to the others he said in mine
hearing, Go ye after him through the city,
and smite: let not your eye spare, neither
have ye pity:
Slay utterly old and young, both maids,
and little children, and women: but come
not near any man upon whom is the
mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then
they began at the ancient men which were
before the house." Ezekiel 9:1-2, 4-6.

There are forces in every city, that stand ready to destroy when the limit of sin is reached. As shown by the procedure of Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction. At the end of time, after the living saints have been sealed, the angels of destruction will get to work in every city, village and camp. But the sealed of God will be safe.

And may God have mercy on us all

Mrscarter:


And may God have mercy on us all

indeed. We've been born at the most fearful time in history. So much is happening.

Happy Sunday

My brother relax! God doesn't leave us out in the cold on end time things. While we cannot know the exact day and hour, we can know when it is drawing near. I also firmly believe that those who know God through Jesus Christ will be removed from the earth before the "actual" tribulation period begins. I believe the Bible tells this. We will be around to see and experience some "tribulation", but not the actual tribulation. When the christians are removed that will be a sign to many that the tribulation can begin because it's then that the antichrist is revealed. So when this actually happens don't fall for the lie(lies) that will be told of where these people have gone, for they have gone to be with the LORD. People can and will be saved after this too, and the Bible tells us that it will be a number too large to be counted.

Cholls:
My brother relax! God doesn't leave us out in the cold on end time things. While we cannot know the exact day and hour, we can know when it is drawing near. I also firmly believe that those who know God through Jesus Christ will be removed from the earth before the "actual" tribulation period begins. I believe the Bible tells this. We will be around to see and experience some "tribulation", but not the actual tribulation. When the christians are removed that will be a sign to many that the tribulation can begin because it's then that the antichrist is revealed. So when this actually happens don't fall for the lie(lies) that will be told of where these people have gone, for they have gone to be with the LORD. People can and will be saved after this too, and the Bible tells us that it will be a number too large to be counted.

Revelation 7:14
"And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest.
And he said to me, These are they which
came out of great tribulation, and have
washed their robes, and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb."

You can never go wrong sticking with the plain statements of the Bible. Don't complicate what God has not complicated.

KissTheTruth:


Revelation 7:14
"And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest.
And he said to me, These are they which
came out of great tribulation, and have
washed their robes, and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb."

You can never go wrong sticking with the plain statements of the Bible. Don't complicate what God has not complicated.

my brother Sheep, even if you are already in the slaughterhouse, it's never TOO LATE to understand that the TRUTH is NEVER TOO HORRIBLE.

Cholls:
my brother Sheep, even if you are already in the slaughterhouse, it's never TOO LATE to understand that the TRUTH is NEVER TOO HORRIBLE.

I'm a sheep for giving you a verse.