The 7-year Tribulation- A bird’s eye view🦅

In this post, we’ll check out the birds-eye view of the seven-year Tribulation, the final 7 years of mankind’s self-rule on earth before Jesus Christ returns and sets up His Glorious Kingdom.

In the book of Daniel, God intentionally concealed these details from the adversary, who, although possessing access to God’s Word, lacks the insight and wisdom provided by the Holy Spirit. 🕊️

Daniel 12:4: But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase.”

We can compare the seven-year Tribulation to observing a distant mountain range. For centuries and decades leading up to its fulfillment, this mountain range appeared vague and largely indistinct, making it challenging, if not impossible, to discern specific features. In fact, during the writing of the book of Daniel (Old Testament), which addresses end-time events, Daniel was explicitly instructed to SEAL the book until the time of the end. This indicates that the understanding of the end-time events disclosed to Daniel would remain obscured until that designated period.

As we draw nearer to this time period, we are beginning to make out a few details of the mountain range. God is unsealing the book of Daniel and blessing us with the increase in knowledge promised over 2,500 years ago. The Book of Revelation, which was NOT sealed, has enhanced our understanding of Daniel and other prophetic Biblical passages. The book of Revelation was written c95AD by the Apostle John while he was exiled on the Isle of Patmos.

Revelation 22:10:  And he *said to me (John), “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near.

The books of Revelation and Daniel fit together like puzzle pieces, along with other prophetic texts from both Old and New Testaments.

Daniel’s 70-“week” prophecy – Daniel 9

The book of Daniel is attributed to Daniel himself, a Jewish exile who lived during the Babylonian and Persian empires. The book of Daniel is set during the Babylonian exile, c605 BC. At this time, the Jewish Temple (Solomon’s Temple) was not standing. Babylon had burned JERUSALEM and the JEWISH TEMPLE to the ground.

Daniel’s “70-week Prophecy” is one of the most detailed and significant Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament (Tanakh). The prophecy contains a statement concerning God’s six-fold purpose in bringing these events to pass.

• “to finish transgression,”
• “to put an end to sin,”
• “to atone for wickedness,”
• “to bring in everlasting righteousness,”
• “to seal up vision and prophecy,”
• “to anoint the most holy place.”

These results concern the ATONEMENT OF SIN, the total eradication of sin and the establishing of righteousness. This 70-week prophecy summarizes what happens before Jesus Christ sets up His millennial kingdom on earth.

The angel Gabriel said the prophetic clock would start at the time that a decree was issued to rebuild Jerusalem. ⏰

Note: It is commonly understood that a prophetic “week” = seven literal years

After the DECREE was issued to RESTORE AND REBUILD JERUSALEM, 70 “weeks” (seventy periods of 7 years, or 490 years) were determined for “Daniel’s people” (Jewish people), to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple, to anoint Messiah (Jesus Christ), and atone for and eliminate sin from the earth.

Daniel 9:24: “Seventy weeks (tfj: 490 years) have been decreed for your people (tfj: Jewish people) and your holy city (tfj: Jerusalem), to finish the wrongdoing, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Daniel 9:25: So you are to know and understand that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem (tfj: issued in 445BC by king Artaxerxes), until Messiah the Prince, there will be seven weeks (tfj: 49 years) and sixty-two weeks (tfj: 434 years); it will be built again, with streets and moat, even in times of distress.

Exactly on schedule, the Temple and Jerusalem were rebuilt by Ezra/Nehemiah 7 “weeks” (49 years) after king Artaxerxes issued the decree in 445BC.

Daniel 9:26: Then after the sixty-two weeks (tfj: 62 periods of 7 years, or 434 years) the Messiah (tfj: Jesus Christ) will be cut off (tfj: crucified) and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come (tfj: antichrist) will destroy the city (tfj: Jerusalem) and the sanctuary (tfj: City and sanctuary were destroyed by the Romans in 70AD).

Jesus Christ (Messiah) arrived on the scene EXACTLY on schedule 62 “weeks” after the Temple was rebuilt (434 years from the Temple being rebuilt, or 483 years from the initial decree)...

Messiah was “cut off” (crucified) exactly on schedule, leaving the final period of 7 years as a MYSTERY fulfillment.

Because of Messiah’s crucifixion✝️, Daniel’s 70-“week” (490 years) prophecy was not fulfilled. Instead, 62 “weeks” (483 years) were fulfilled in succession…..

but then the clock stopped.⏰

There has been a 2000 year “gap” for God to complete the MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH since the time Jesus was crucified. Once the Church age is COMPLETE AND THE CHURCH IS REMOVED AT THE RAPTURE, God is going to turn HIS FACE BACK to HIS JEWISH PEOPLE.

SEVEN YEARS are MISSING from Daniel’s prophetic clock. When the Covenant from Daniel 9:27 is CONFIRMED, the CLOCK WILL RESTART ⏰taking us to the very end of the age and the establishment of Jesus Christ’s Kingdom on earth.

This “MISSING SEVEN YEARS” is also known as the SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION.

Daniel 9:27: And he (tfj: antichrist) will make a firm covenant (tfj: confirm a covenant) with the many (tfj: international community) for one week (tfj: SEVEN YEARS),…

It appears that the 7-year Tribulation period will be kicked off by three events:

• A Covenant concerning JERUSALEM with the “many” that will be CONFIRMED or MADE FIRM by the antichrist (Daniel 9:27)
• The Last Trump kicking off the transformation/Rapture of the Bride when the Dead in Christ RISE first. (1 Thessalonians 4:16)
• The Opening of the 1st Seal of Revelation. (Revelation 6)

Daniel’s Beast (Kingdom) has ten toes

Daniel not only received the “70-week prophecy” from the Lord giving us amazing details on the TIMING of Messianic and End-time events, but he also received much information on Global superpowers throughout the ages, culminating in the final global superpower known as the “BEAST KINGDOM”. A primary purpose of the global superpower is to OPPRESS GOD’S PEOPLE and stop God’s plan of Redemption/Restoration as seen above in Daniel’s 70-week prophecy.

Daniel 2:40: Then there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters all things, so, like iron that breaks in pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces. ⁴¹ In that you saw the feet and (10) toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have in it the toughness of iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with common clay. 

⁴² As the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle. ⁴⁴ In the days of those kings (Divided Kingdom/New World Order) the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these (man’s) kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. 

Daniel 7:7: After this, I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast (kingdom), dreadful and terrifying and extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts (earthly kingdoms) that were before it, and it had ten horns. 

John’s Beast Kingdom has seven heads and ten horns

The apostle John witnessed the SAME BEAST KINGDOM. Daniel saw that this kingdom had ten toes John saw that this kingdom had seven heads and ten horns. Daniel’s 10 toes = John’s 10 horns. They are witnessing the same thing, but from a different perspective.

Revelation 13: 13 And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore. Then I saw a beast (king/kingdom) coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems (crowns), and on his heads were blasphemous names.

According to the book of Revelation, the beast that comes up out of the sea has SEVEN HEADS, and TEN HORNS. The Kingdom with ten horns is the same beast kingdom that Daniel saw with 10 TOES. Both Old and New Testaments of the Bible TESTIFY to the coming End-Time BEAST (ANTICHRIST) KINGDOM.

A horn in the Bible symbolizes STRENGTH, POWER, AND AUTHORITY.

The seven heads symbolize seven KINGDOMS that have been instrumental in carrying out Satan’s opposition to God’s plan of Redemption.

SEVEN HEADS

1. Egypt: The empire that enslaved the Israelites and opposed God’s will in the Exodus
2. Assyria: The power that conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel and scattered the ten tribes
3. Babylon: The empire that destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and took the Jews into captivity.
4. Medo-Persia: The empire that dominated the Jewish people and issued a decree to have them annihilated.
5. Greece: Persecuted the Jewish people and spread Hellenistic Culture to entice the Jews into sin.
6. Rome: Persecuted the Jewish people, crucified Jesus Christ, and burned down the Jewish Temple.
7. Europe? USA?

Revelation 17 provides additional information regarding these seven kingdoms.

Revelation 17: ⁹ Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains upon which the woman sits, ¹⁰ and they are seven kings; five have fallen (tfj: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece), one is (tfj: Rome was in power when John wrote the Revelation), the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while (tfj: EUROPE/USA?). 

¹¹ The beast (tfj: Antichrist) which was (tfj: Nimrod?), and is not (tfj: on the earth at the time John wrote the Revelation), is himself also an eighth and is one of the seven, and he goes to destruction. 

¹² The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour (tfj: Prophetic “hour”?). ¹³ These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.

The seventh kingdom is relatively short lived compared to the others. The eighth kingdom IS the final antichrist kingdom. The antichrist will be the “king” of the eighth kingdom; however, PRIOR TO THAT, he was part of the SEVENTH, relatively short-lived kingdom. Something to keep in mind, the term “king” and “kingdom” are often used interchangeably in the Bible.

TEN HORNS/TEN TOES

The ten horns are ten kings without a kingdom. These are ten powerbrokers working behind the scenes WITH the beast (antichrist) to tear down the 7th kingdom so they can bring in the 8th kingdom. Wealthy, influential, “kings” without land or “kingdoms”, operating in the shadows – Titans of the Global Economy. When the antichrist rises to power to form the “8th kingdom”, the ten horns will receive authority with the antichrist, and they will back him 100% with all of their wealth and status. Still, according to the book of Daniel, this KINGDOM of TEN TOES will be a DIVIDED KINGDOM, part strong and part weak.

With all of that in mind, isn’t this interesting…. TEN “KINGS” COMING TOGETHER?

Not that they have to stick with these groupings, but we can see that way back in 2009 the United Nations divided the world into 10 regions.

The SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD has begun to cast its shadow on the earth.

For those with “eyes to see”, the enemy has been working OVERTIME to pull together the final kingdom of man, the Global New World Order. This “Kingdom” will be a divided kingdom, partly strong, and partly weak. In both the books of Revelation and Daniel, this Global Kingdom will be a completely different kind of Kingdom than any other previous global superpower. It will crush and devour every other kingdom, creating a New World Order. This Kingdom will be divided into 10 “regions” (toes/horns).

Push towards Global Governance – antichrist kingdom casting its shadow

Like a freight train that started out slowly and has rapidly been gaining steam, in recent years the Globalists have made a dramatic push to unite the world into a Global governance through their primary vehicle of change….”Climate Chaos”. For many decades, the enemy has moved the window of acceptability just enough so that the majority either wouldn’t notice or put up too much of a fuss.

Dark deeds once done in secret just a few decades ago are now practiced openly and are even celebrated by the mouthpiece for the enemy’s kingdom – the entertainment industry, music industry, and the legacy/mainstream media.

When the 8th kingdom rises to power, sovereign Nation-States will not exist as they exist today. Instead, the world will be divided into 10 regions (10 toes/horns). This beast kingdom will be DIFFERENT than all other Kingdoms. Although this Beast Kingdom is not here yet, we can already begin to see its shadow take shape via the values that the globalist elite are pushing. Those who push back against “their values” are ridiculed, demeaned, bullied, harassed, threatened, censured, and even silenced.

Daniel’s Kingdom of “ten toes” (Dan 2), “ten horns” (Dan. 7 and Rev. 13), the New World Order is ALREADY casting its shadow on the earth

Changes that reflect the values of the antichrist kingdom….

DRASTIC increase in homosexuality and transgenderism. The number of people identifying as homosexual or transgender has skyrocketed (probably due to the poisoning of our air, water, and GMO and hormone modified food). Globalists are celebrating the acceptance of what God calls sin, and they are rapidly pushing to “normalize” it. The primary target is the youth. Because young people’s minds are still being shaped, the LGBTQ agenda is making a huge push in the educational and entertainment systems to brainwash young people into unknowingly being advocates for their antichrist agenda. This behavior is being normalized in children’s cartoons, some characters having 2 moms or 2 dads. In California school public systems, a parent is no longer called mom and dad, but are labeled “parent 1 and parent 2”. While the elite push CONFUSION AND CHAOS, we are seeing a huge rise in ADHD, Autism, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, and SUICIDAL IDEATION in the youth.

Abortion is also being pushed as a way to control the population and is also the modern version of child sacrifice to their “god” Moloch (the devil). They stir up weak minded women (woman’s feminist movement – 2 Timothy 3:6) to celebrate and demand abortions under the slogan “my body my choice”. Most of the women celebrating this do not understand that the elite’s agenda is population reduction. The New World Order is not really secretive about its goal to reduce the population. The Georgia Guidestones (the 10 commandments of the New World Order) want to see global population at a perpetual 500 million. We have 7 billion people currently on this planet. They must be expecting some very big changes in the very near future.

By destabilizing governments and creating chaos in places like the Middle East, Africa, and Central/South America they have created a huge wave of “refugees” from these locations. The goal is to move people from these areas into Western Christian nations for the purpose of creating chaos in the West. Nations and people who desire to maintain sovereign borders are labeled as “racist” and condemned by the Globalists. This began in Europe, and there has also been a huge push at the Southern border of the United States, with very large CARAVANS of people driving into the nation. Crime has increased dramatically in these nations, along with the opoid (heroin) crisis in the United States. Out of chaos..comes order, the “New World Order” – the antichrist’s 8th kingdom.

Christianity has been under attack, while Islam is being venerated. Witchcraft and occultism is also being openly promoted. Churches burnt in France, Businesses sued and boycotted in the United States, Churches in the US are being threatened to lose tax exempt status as non-profit if they speak out against the LGBTQ agenda. We are also seeing massive censorship of Conservative Christians on Social media platforms such as Facebook and Youtube.

GROWING ANTISEMITISM: Attacks against Jewish people are rising. Global antisemitism surged 340% in two years, report finds

Lack of a FREE AND FAIR MEDIA: The media that was once trusted is now controlled by these elite kings without kingdoms, and 24/7 they push the global agenda in an effort to brainwash great masses of people. The Mainstream Media is a propaganda machine for the New world order. Their goal is to win the hearts and minds of the people, moving them AWAY from Jesus Christ and TOWARDS the antichrist, who will likely come across (at least initially) as very “loving”, “hip”, modern, and accepting.

There is a huge push to repeal the 2nd amendment in the United States. This is an amendment that allows law abiding American citizens to own firearms. The reason this amendment was initially adopted really has nothing to do with hunting or even personal protection, it was a way to keep a tyrannical government in check. Part and parcel with this push has been the unusual number of mass shootings in gun free zones. These mass shootings are being exploited by the media as a way to convince people that legal gun ownership is dangerous…The media PURPOSELY neglects to report the fact that the vast majority of the guns involved in the mass shootings were either stolen or illegal. Disarming the public was a strategy used against the Jews in WWII, and it is being used again for the New World Order.

Push to legalize drugs such as marijuana. It is easier to deceive and control people who are drugged, particularly with a drug that makes them passive.

Conservative leaders such as Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and Benjamin Netanyahu, who advocate for sovereign borders, have been under severe attack by the media and globalist members of their own governments. Yesterday was a Historic day, as Donald Trump was impeached without a crime by the Socialist Democratic party of the House of Representatives. This was a completely illegal act, as the Democratic party has been looking to remove the President since his inauguration day. At this point, we do not know what will be the outcome of these events. The Trumpet will not be removed until God Almighty allows him to be removed. Adonai (Triune God existing as Father/Son/Holy Spirit) alone is the one who establishes and dethrones “kings”.

Climate Change – This “religion” is being pushed hard by the Globalists in an effort to pull together the entire world and basically erase borders. We call it a religion, because it takes “faith” to believe their faulty scientific claims. Sure, there are severe storms, droughts, fires and floods, that Jesus Himself called “birth pains”. The elite of the world want to use these “storms” to destabilize nations and erase borders. Their claim will be that borders hinder people from migrating to safer areas. At the same time, they want to institute huge tithes (carbon taxes) as a way to redistribute wealth from the wealthiest nations to other nations, and also reorder the entire global economy. This is likely where the mark of the Beast will be instituted. In the antichrist government, a person must have the mark of the beast imprinted on their forehead or right hand in order to conduct commerce (buy or sell).

A huge push to get people to “identify” their DNA through kits such as “23 and me”, Ancestry, etc. Someone seems to be very interested in LOCATING every member of the Lost 10 Tribes of Israel. Psalm 83 makes it clear “They conspire against Your HIDDEN ONES”. God has HIDDEN His people (Lost 10 Tribes of Israel) among the nations, and the enemy won’t be able to find them all. These people may have no idea, themselves, that they are part of this group via their bloodlines. Why does the enemy want to find them? Because Jesus said He won’t return until THEY (Israel) say “Blessed is HE who comes in the Name of the Lord”. Satan believes eliminating ALL of God’s “hidden ones” (Jews and Gentiles, one in Messiah) can STOP the return of Jesus Christ who the enemy KNOWS would NEVER go against HIS OWN WORD. If God went against His own Word, then He wouldn’t be GOD. But not to worry, God has a plan and the enemy’s plans are all laid bare before Almighty Adonai.

We’ll add one more thing here and that is Artificial intelligence and the surveillance State. All the technology that we have grown to “know and love” will one day be used against us. Computers, phones, smart home devices, etc will be used to “spy on individuals. Even as we speak, data is being collected about each person. You can believe that they know WHO is a Christian and WHO is not. They know WHO is a Conservative, nationalist and WHO is not. Satan is trying his hand at “Omniscience”..but he can only achieve a measure of this through technology. The enemy will NEVER be like God, even though that is what he desires.

These are just a few ways in which we see the Global New World Order, the antichrist kingdom, stirring up people, changing the way young people think, and casting its shadow upon the earth.

Identity of the antichrist?

Because we believe we are THIS CLOSE to the start of the final 7-year Tribulation, we also believe that the antichrist is ALIVE on this earth today.

Who is he? We have our ideas, but not necessarily a confirmation from the Lord. His identity will remain HIDDEN until he is REVEALED by the Lord. 😈

It appears in 2 Thessalonians that the antichrist will not be revealed until the restrainer is removed from the earth.

Identity of the restrainer (of evil)?

We believe that the Restrainer of evil in 2nd Thessalonians 2 is the Spirit filled Church. 🕊️

2 Thessalonians 2:7: For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he (Holy Spirit/Church) who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way (Transformation/Rapture).

⁸ Then that lawless one (antichrist) will be revealed 😈whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;

We truly believe that we are very close to the start of the 7-year Tribulation period which also means that we are very close to the TRANSFORMATION and RAPTURE of the Church. Jesus’ Disciples described their own time period as “the last days”, so how much closer are we now, 2000 years later! We are now in the FINAL HOURS of the last days.

If you don’t know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, now would be a good time to receive Him. God’s people are NOT appointed to wrath!

Jesus Christ LOVES you – enough to DIE for you! ✝️

How to be saved – Life in a Dying World

God Bless!

The 7 year Tribulation – Part 2 – Life in a Dying World