Three World Events
Understand! The Tribulation and the Day of the Lord are not synonymous! These are completely separate, different events. The Heavenly Signs come between the Tribulation, which precedes them, and The Day of the Lord, which follows them. (Although only Matthew 24:21, 29and Revelation 7:14 use the term “Great Tribulation,” at least thirty scriptures speak of it.)
The religious leaders of this world are in almost complete ignorance of how these three great earth-shattering events come—in what order they appear. Most believe them to be synonymous. They are not!
| Chapter Outline
of the Book of Revelation | |
| Chapter | Story Flow |
| 1 | Introduction |
| 2-3 | Message to the Seven Church Eras |
| 4-5 | Prelude-Setting |
| 6 | First Six Seals |
| 7 | The Two Companies |
| 8-10 | The Trumpets |
| 11 | The Two Witnesses |
| 12 | The True Church |
| 13 | The Two Beasts |
| 14 | The Three Messages |
| 15-16 | The Seven Last Plagues |
| 17-18 | The Great False Church |
| 19 | The Return of Jesus Christ |
| 20 | The Millennium |
| 21-21 | New Heaven and New Earth |
The Tribulation comes first. “Immediately after the tribulation” (Christ recorded) come the Heavenly Signs. These introduce the Day of the Lord (God’s Wrath), which is a separate period of events. We have seen how Joel, Zephaniah and Matthew have explained what Christ revealed in vision to John in the Revelation. By now, these great events should be clear.
Christ also taught His disciples, “...in vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men...” (Mark 7:7-8). There are many “traditional,” but incorrect, views of prophecy.
More and more people are writing of prophecies they know nothing about. They ignore what God says, in order to promote time-honoured, empty theories—or even newer, more far-fetched ideas. I have just reviewed an article in a national magazine about much of what has been covered so far in this booklet. It demonstrates appalling ignorance of even the most basic facts of scriptures pertaining to end-time prophecies. Yet the article shows that almost three out of five Americans (scores of millions) believe that the mixed-up jumble of ideas it references about Revelation will soon come true, but only in some inexplicable, mysterious way. Millions of other professing Christians, no doubt because they either do not care or are confused, reject anything to do with prophecy! Either way, people remain ignorant.
| Story flow
of the book of Revelation | |||
| THE SEVEN
SEALS |
PROPHETIC
EVENTS | ||
| FIRST | False prophets | ||
| SECOND | War | ||
| THIRD | Famine | ||
| FOURTH | Pestilence | ||
| FIFTH | Tribulation | ||
| SIXTH | Heavenly signs | ||
| SEVENTH | Seven Trumpets | 1st | Trees injured |
| 2nd | Sea injured |