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E’VE finally reached the end of those 7 abysmal years. We have read about the demise of the economic & religious infrastructures of the world. We have learned of coming ecological disasters, geothermal disruptions, tectonic instability, astronomical anomalies, the ruination of the hydrologic cycle, famines, disease outbreaks, & demonic attacks. By the end of the Tribulation the world will be so battered & torn it will hardly be recognizable as the same planet from which the church was raptured just 7 years earlier. Yet there will still be 2 systems that will have to fall. At the battle of Armageddon Jesus will put down the militaries of the world (as He deposes the antichrist & his international government). This is the 2nd Advent; the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ; the event seen most often & as the most important in all of biblical prophecy.
What does this great Day of the Lord will look like? As the fallen world systems smolder in death, the saints of every era will worship Christ & celebrate His exaltation. At this point, the Judgment Seat of Christ will have ended, & the marriage supper of the Lamb will have been prepared (Ephesians 5:25 & Revelation 19:7-9). Just as Israel was presented in the Old Testament as the wife of Jehovah, in the New Testament the church is portrayed as the wife of Christ.
Regardless, all saints from all of history will join together with Jesus as He splits the eastern sky above Israel & returns (Zechariah 14:4) in the clouds; riding on a white horse (Revelation 19:11); coming to conquer the world (Jude 1:14- 15). Perhaps we should say that this might be called first & last battle of World War III; Armageddon
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