(a very long read, but worth your time)

Here's the sequence of events at the end of the world as shown in the Scriptures.

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https://www.nairaland.com/6743278/rapture-endtime-third-jewish-temple

One day in the near future the world will come together and set up a system that will be considered the best thing ever for the common good of our planet and its people. It will gain universal support with everyone from governments, political parties, civic organizations, non-profits, academic institutions, business groups, labor unions, world religions, as well as Christian churches coming on board. This is a system that will start off benevolent and with good intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

For that system will quickly evolve and become the Mark of the Beast.

The Mark Of The Beast is a system based on an error whose end goals will be contrary to the Law of God. The man that will rise to the top of this system is not a politician or a businessman, but a religious figure. He is called the Man of Sin and the Son of Perdition but more commonly known as the Anti-Christ.

When the Churches unite with the world on this system that, at first glance, looks harmless but is really based on an error and causes the whole world to break God's Law, this will be the "falling away" Paul says will happen just before the Second Coming of Jesus. Says Paul:
"Now we beseech you,
brethren, by the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ, and by our
gathering together unto him.... Let no man deceive you by
any means: for that day shall
not come, except there come
a falling away first, and that
man of sin be revealed, the
son of perdition". 2 Thessalonians 2:1, 3.

The Mark Of The Beast and the Abomination that Causes Desolation are one and the same thing. Says Daniel:
"Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wings of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate". Daniel 9:27 New King James Version. Emphasis supplied.

This verse talks about two different men. And two similar events.

The first part is Christ the Messiah who ends all sacrifices by dying not for Himself but for us as the verse before this one says, "And after threescore and two weeks, shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself". Verse 26. Christ's death ends all sacrifices as He is the true Sacrifice, "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." John 1:29. After His sacrificial death there's no need for sacrifices because "He died to sin once for all" Romans 6:10. Jesus Himself says to God, "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure". Hebrews 10:5,6.

The second part of Daniel 9: 27 (bolded) first describes the desecration of the Jerusalem temple in 70AD by the Romans and secondly describes the desecration of the temple at the end of the world.
Now, since the temple of Jerusalem was destroyed in totality and there's no longer an earthly temple recognized by God today and really no longer a need for one since Christ's death ended all sacrifices; To discover exactly what will be desecrated at the end of the world needs careful study, hence Jesus's cautionary words at bolded below:
"When ye therefore shall see
the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the
prophet, stand in the holy
place, (whoso readeth, let him
understand)
Then let them which be in
Judaea flee into the
mountains:"
Matthew 24:15,16

Now, the Mark Of the Beast will also bring the dreaded union of Church and State.

Church and State must never unite, and no one single religion must control the government because then the government will be used to enforce religion. Something contrary to God's plan. God desires religious liberty - the freedom of worship. All must freely choose who to worship so that on Judgement Day they may be rewarded or punished in accordance with the choices they have freely made. It's called Freewill.

The Mark of the Beast will disregard all this and secular power will be used by churches to enforce religious doctrine.
The fact that secular government will originate this Mark means it will start off as a well-meaning social system that Churches will adopt and promote and eventually take over. Then the government will be used to force all Christians to fall in line. This will be done through the police and the soldiers. Businesses will play their part and withdraw their services from those refusing to conform. As the controversy escalates there'll be a point where lawmakers will create laws that condemn dissenters to death.

Because on paper, the system will look brilliant and reasonable, people in opposition to it will be considered antisocial and seen not only as enemies of the state and of the planet but ultimately as enemies of God Himself.

All this will happen in America because this is the only country powerful enough to impose its will on the world. The only country that can "causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads". Revelation 13:16. The rest of the world will follow America's lead, as they do in all things.

As the Mark of the Beast is enforced, God will also introduce His own Seal. Says John, "And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God" Revelation 7:2.

The Mark Of The Beast is on people's "right hand, or in their foreheads." Revelation 13:16. Where Forehead represents a willing understanding and voluntary acceptance of the Mark, and Right Hand means a forced acceptance where victims yield to the Mark for survival or else they lose their jobs or starve.
In contrast, the faithful will bear the Seal of "our God in their foreheads". Revelation 7:3. Unsurprisingly, God's seal is only in the forehead, because our Maker only accepts willing understanding and voluntary acceptance. He never forces anyone.

When the Mark is decreed the whole world will be called to take a stand, either for the Mark of the Beast or the Seal of the living God.
Now, faithful church members in all church denominations who have diligently studied prophecy will make an important connection, that the Mark of the Beast IS ONE AND THE SAME with the Abomination that causes Desolation spoken of by Daniel and Jesus:
"When ye therefore shall see
the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the
prophet, stand in the holy
place, (whoso readeth, let him
understand)
Then let them which be in
Judaea flee into the
mountains:"
Matthew 24:15,16

And so the moment the Mark is signed into law God's faithful will flee from society, having prayed that their "flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day". Matthew 24:20.
The faithful ones' refusal to accept the Mark and their subsequent flight from society will make them outlaws, banned from buying and selling, arrested and finally purposed to be killed. As in The Purge films, the general population will be at liberty, at some designated time, to find these and kill them as enemies of both God and society: "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." Revelation 13:15

The installation of the Abomination that causes Desolation AKA the Mark of the Beast marks the point when the world exhausts God's patience. Humanity has filled up its measure of guilt and is ripe for destruction: "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time". Daniel 12:1.

When Michael stands up he declares:
"He that is unjust, let him
be unjust still: and he which is
filthy, let him be filthy still:
and he that is righteous, let
him be righteous still: and he
that is holy, let him be holy
still." Revelation 22:11

At that moment everyone's destiny is fixed: for God or for Satan. No more switching. No more accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior. God's people have the Seal of the living God, the wicked have the Mark of the Beast.

Michael is our "great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God" Hebrews 4:14 where He's "A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man." Hebrews 8:1,2.

Jesus the Messiah is our High Priest who has been pleading humanity's case with God in the heavenly temple ever since He returned to Heaven. Now when the world unanimously accepts the Mark of the Beast, when the Abomination that causes Desolation has been put in the holy place, the limit of sin is reached and God finally pours out the seven last plagues:
"And the seven angels came
out of the temple, having the
seven plagues, clothed in pure
and white linen, and having
their breasts girded with
golden girdles.
And one of the four beasts
gave unto the seven angels
seven golden vials full of the
wrath of God, who liveth for
ever and ever.
And the temple was filled
with smoke from the glory of
God, and from his power; and
no man was able to enter into
the temple, till the seven
plagues of the seven angels
were fulfilled."
Revelation 15:6-8.

Michael standing up with the resulting chaos in the world is the same event as the smoke from the glory of God filling the temple where Jesus our High Priest can not now enter and has to cease His priestly work. Jesus exiting the Temple, or Michael standing up, removes humanity's shield.

This plunges the world into a frenzy of chaos as God's restraining power over people's evil nature is removed and Satan gains full control of the human race and the result is "a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time."

And then the seven plagues begin. Revelation 16. And lead straight to Armageddon, the final battle between good and evil. The Sealed of God are safe from these calamities. Not so the rest of the world who have worshipped the Beast, it's on them that the angels "pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth." Revelation 16:1

When the plagues begin, the world will blame the faithful ones who refused the Mark of the Beast as the cause of all suffering. Just as presently with the Coronavirus pandemic those refusing to vaccinate are being blamed for the spread of the disease so the tragedy of the plagues will be blamed on those who refused the Mark. The narrative will be that this small group provoked God who's now punishing the whole world for it and so to appease God and stop the suffering the outlaws have to be hunted down and killed. Said Jesus, "yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service." John 16:2.

And so the faithful ones become wanted fugitives. Their flight when the Abomination of Desolation was installed in the holy place saw them taking refuge in the wilderness, in mountains and caves. Yet others were intercepted and arrested and stay languishing in jail. It's a terrible time. Their suffering is different from the rest of mankind. Says the prophet Jeremiah of that anguished time, "Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it." Jeremiah 30:7

When Jacob tricked his brother Esau out of his first-born blessings by pretending to be him to their poor-sighted father Isaac (Genesis 27), Jacob fled to his uncle Laban to escape Esau's fury. Years later Jacob returned with his wives, children and property to finally meet his estranged brother who, it turns out, was still angry and thirsting for revenge and had amassed a small army to destroy Jacob. Which absolutely terrified Jacob.
After sending everyone ahead he spent the night alone in prayer and a man appeared and wrestled with him till daybreak. (Genesis 32:24-29)
Jacob well understood he was dealing with a celestial being and no ordinary man. And this wrestling was not a mere physical tussle but a mental combat. Jacob was caught between a rock and a hard place. He couldn't return to Laban's home and ahead his brother wanted his head for robbing him of his birthright and blessing. Jacob had nowhere to run. He couldn't just walk away and leave his family to perish by the hand of revengeful Esau. And so he sent everyone ahead, and himself, on that fearful night, turned to God in prayer. He became a prayer warrior. And challenged God Himself. It was in prayer that he wrestled with God. And the whole night he petitioned his Maker and pleaded his case. Jacob had repented of his past sins and changed his life and lived an honorable life before God. And God had shown He had forgiven Jacob by blessing him while with Laban. Now Jacob asked for that same divine favor as he met Esau who was thirsting for revenge. That was what the whole episode was about.

The saints of God, scattered everywhere around the world in mountains, caves, forests and jails go through the same experience.
The world wants them dead and they've no one in the world to save them. Not the police. Not their friends. Not their families. They're unarmed and trusting only in the name of the Lord. They must take hold of God in prayer and plead their cases with Him directly. Having lived a life of repentance they now lay claim of God's promises of deliverance. It's a frightening time. Says Jeremiah about the whole episode:
"For thus saith the LORD; We
have heard a voice of
trembling, of fear, and not of
peace.
Ask ye now, and see
whether a man doth travail
with child? wherefore do I see
every man with his hands on
his loins, as a woman in
travail, and all faces are turned
into paleness?
Alas! for that day is great,
so that none is like it: it is
even the time of Jacob's
trouble, but he shall be saved
out of it."
Jeremiah 30:5-7.

The people of God agonize in prayer, fearing for their life, having been declared enemies of all that is good and of God. In the midst of the plagues, they're hunted to be killed to appease an angry God. They're cut off from society and every means of acquiring food and water but God provides. He feeds them and watches over them.

As the wicked, possessed by Satan and his demons, seek out the faithful in the forests and mountains and caves, invisible guardian angels surround God's people in their hiding places and await God's command to deliver them.

"But he shall be saved out of it".
Finally Satan's followers locate the saints and prepare to do their worst and decimate their quarry. For a moment it looks like God has forsaken His own to fall by the hand of the wicked at the most perilous hour, but at that most desperate moment, the wicked exulting, weapons at the ready, look and see, a small cloud appears in the distance, drawing all attention to itself. It is the sign of the coming of the Son of Man.

"For the Lord himself shall
descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump
of God: and the dead in Christ
shall rise first:
Then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air: and so shall we ever
be with the Lord"
1 Thessalonians 4:16,17

The world can only end in two ways
Humans understand to understand the workings of the universe
Or humans scatter the world

The ending by scattering is near sha
But no Jesus is coming back

Before then let me keep enjoying the world. I have about 30 - 40 more years to go.

Expository.

Nwchkwgz:
The ending by scattering is near sha But no Jesus is coming back

then we'll have to wait and see I guess

KissTheTruth:
then we'll have to wait and see I guess

Okay na

Very apt and scriptural... Not the trash some pretribulation rapture doctrinals gut out here everyday....

Happy Sunday

It is written in Jeremiah 10 the there will be many signs from heaven...we are also told not to be dismayed by this signs..

All we need to do is continue walking in the way of the LORD our GOD

May GOD help us make it in JESUS Name

suffering:
Before then let me keep enjoying the world. I have about 30 - 40 more years to go.

The only thing the devil is interested in is your SOUL... enjoying the world and all other pleasures of the world are just weapons he uses to get your SOUL. You can guard your soul jealously by allowing JESUS take control. Your SOUL is very precious and the devil doesn't deserve it

penplus:


The only thing the devil is interested in is your SOUL... enjoying the world and all other pleasures of the world are just weapons he uses to get your SOUL. You can guard your soul jealously by allowing JESUS take control. Your SOUL is very precious and the devil doesn't deserve it

Una Christianity na only on Sundays. Spirits do not exist. After one dies nothing happens. Where were we before birth? Exactly.

suffering:
Una Christianity na only on Sundays. Spirits do not exist. After one dies nothing happens. Where were we before birth? Exactly.

And where did you get this theory from?...and Christianity is a way of life...it is your everyday living...Church is where we go to get refreshed with the word of GOD... spiritual life is real...the fact that you don't believe it doesn't make it a lie...GOD is a spirit and HIs spirit dwells in us. The devil too is a spirit and his demons uses the body of men they have entered into to carry out evil.

"After one dies"is just the devil's way of keeping you ignorant. Where were we before birth? Remember the world was without form, it was a thick darkness and out of the spoken word of GOD the world was formed, same as man, he created Adam out of dust, dust which came to life by the spoken word of GOD. In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth Genesis 1:2

Happy Sunday