Worldwide warning for Tribulation Period

Tribulation has divided into two part. Each of them are the period of three and half years.

The end of the first part of the tribulation is followed by a brief time of peace and holiness on earth.

For us today, the words of Christ Jesus are a call for us to be ready for the onset of the worst time because Tribulation has already started.

(1) Pride Will Come Before the Fall. This is the reason get victory over Pride.

(2) Make ourselves Pure. God has given us opportunity to make ourselves Pure.

(3) Always Live in the contact with Lord. This is the reason make perfect heavenly environment to live in, to walk in , and to work in.

(4) Keep Faith in Lord : The main reason of tribulations – God will allow a certain amount of trials and tribulations to come our way in this life is for the express purpose of testing our faith levels in Him. This is the reason Keep Faith in Lord.

(5) Hold Fast to the Lord. Stay true, loyal, and faithful to Him for the long run – which will be for all of eternity in the coming New Heaven and New Earth. God has allow a certain amount of trials and tribulations to come our way in this life.

(6) Instantly obey that call and scurry under the protection of her wings.

(7) Lord describes three character to have for those who will come to Him for protection : (1) they hearken to His voice, (2) they humble themselves, and (3) they call upon Him in mighty prayer.

Why I am saying above because Lucifer was the first one to obviously go bad, and he somehow managed to convince one third of the rest of the angelic host to follow his insane plan to try and exalt his own personal throne above the throne of God Almighty Himself.

After the fall of Satan from heaven, God obviously made a decision to create another class of beings – the human race. But instead of giving us the same chance as He gave Satan and one third of the angels to be able to live up in heaven like they were all given, God ends up creating another place for the human race to be born into and that is our earth.

Bible, Luke 21:36 gave instruction to follow – “Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”

The only true source of knowledge about the future is the Bible. There is no other true source. And Daniel is one of the great prophetic books of the Bible. In this book, we learn about the future. God gives us glimpses of future events, future personalities, future judgments, future blessings. And thus, this is a remarkable book. Now why does God tell us about the future? Just to deal with our curiosity? To give us the ability to sort of hedge against what’s coming in a self-serving way? No. I believe basically there are four reasons God tells us about the future and I tried to think this through this week, and I think you’ll agree with me.

First of all, God tells us about the future to authenticate His Word. One of the great authentications of the veracity of the Bible is that it predicts the future. And then when the thing it predicts come to pass, it’s a convincing argument that God wrote it. So in terms of God, Himself, it authenticates His Word.

Secondly, God tells us about the future in order to reveal His sovereignty. He wants us to know that He is charting the course of human history. Thirdly, I believe that God tells us about the future in order to both motivate and comfort His people. When we know the Lord is coming, we get busy living for Him. John says, “He that bath this hope in him, purifies himself.” When we know He’s coming, we are comforted that no matter what happens in the world.

So God tells us the future to authenticate the truth of His Word, to reveal the sovereignty of His person and to comfort and motivate His people. And there’s one other reason. I believe God reveals the future in order to admonish the wicked and sinful, to warn them of coming judgment.

In other words, what it’s saying is they actually were getting the prophecies and then going back and studying the meaning of the very prophecies they were receiving about Christ. Because, verse 12, “Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you.” In other words, just to give you the idea here, the prophets read it but they didn’t fully understand it, they looked into it but it was not clear to them in its totality, it is more clear to us, says Peter, who have seen Christ than it was to them.

And the details yet of His Second Coming, await a full understanding. They had a thirst to know more than they could understand. In Matthew 13: 17, “For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.”

Jesus is saying, many of the prophets and many of the righteous men wanted to see the coming of Messiah. They wanted to see His arrival and to see Him and to hear Him. Matthew 13: 16, “Blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.” They didn’t have that privilege. And so, when they wrote about Christ, they had to search to see what person and what time and what events could bring this to pass. And so, what Peter is saying is that there was a certain amount of mystery even about the first coming of Christ. Ah, how much more mystery even about the Second Coming.

Now, in this final section, the Lord deals with Daniel and also with a couple of angels who express some questions about the details of what is coming to pass. Even after all of the information of the book, there is still much mystery. But all of this revelation has managed to peak their interest and they want more. And so, in the closing section from verse 4 to 13, the Lord clarifies some final features. And even after the clarification, leaves an abundant mystery for the future. Now, let’s see these final words and we’ll take them just as they flow in the text and move right on through.

First of all, the content sealed; secondly, the chronology set; then the confusion stated; the cleansing secured; and the commendation sworn.

First, the content sealed. The content sealed, verse 4. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end.” We can stop there for the moment. Now, the angel says to him the vision that began in chapter 10, or the revelation that began in chapter 10, the revelation of the history of Israel from Daniel’s time to the time of the Antichrist, all of that sweeping revelation is over. I’ve given you the final words of this last revelation. Now roll up the scroll and shut it. That’s all. That’s the end. Seal it until the time of the end.