What…Why…When
page l 1 l 2 l 3 l 4 l 5 l 6 l 7 l 8 l 9 l 10 l 11 l
-3-
But wait! There’s
more.
God promised sudden
destruction if Israel violated His
covenant:
Leviticus 26:14
“’But if you will not
listen to me and carry out all these
commands…
Leviticus 26:16
then I will do this to you: I will
bring upon you sudden
terror…”
The point here is that
Paul uses the phrase, “sudden
destruction” in 1 Thessalonians
5:3 to indicate “the wrath of
God.”
Paul predicted a day
would come when the world will cry
out for “peace and safety.”
And while the world is
dong everything possible to restore
peace and safety, sudden destruction
(God’s wrath) will break out.
The Bible says the
appointed time of the end will be a
time of wrath.
Daniel 8:19
“He [the angel] said [to
Daniel]: “I am going to tell you
what will happen later in the time of
wrath, because the vision concerns
the appointed time of the end.”
God’s wrath will
be completed during the seven bowls:
Revelation 15:1
“I saw in heaven another great
and marvelous sign: seven angels with
the seven last plagues—last,
because with them God’s wrath is
completed.”
God’s wrath
begins with the seven trumpets.
God’s wrath is
completed with the seven bowls.
7
7
-
- - - - - Trumpets - - - -
- - Bowls - -
Jesus Christ’s Second Coming
1,265 days
70 days
1,335 days of the Great Tribulation
Begins
Completed
When God’s wrath
begins, there will be a global
upheaval and a staggering amount of
death and destruction.
The whole world will
tremble with fear.
In Numbers 14,
God’s wrath broke out and He
killed 14,700.
In Isaiah 37:36,
God’s wrath broke out and He
killed 185,000 soldiers.
In Genesis 7,
God’s wrath broke out and He
killed 99.9% of the world – all
but Noah and seven other people!
I know it sounds
strange at this point to say that God
is love, but God Is love.
In the next segment I
will show you why God’s love and
His wrath are not in conflict with
each other!
For now, we’re
dealing with the question of
“what is coming.”
In a sentence,
God’s wrath is coming.
How will it happen?
God will arrest the
whole world with a sudden display of
four supernatural signs:
1. Peals
of deafening thunder that have no
known source.
2. Rumblings
[voices will be heard out of the
Earth], again, no known source.
3. Flashes
of lightning [Earth will be engulfed
in a huge electrical storm. The
heavens will be lighted up with
dazzling fire and brilliant glory.]
4. Then, a
global earthquake will rip the whole
world apart.
This earthquake will
destroy key bridges, thousands of
highway overpasses and hydroelectric
dams.
This will pull
electrical grids apart; it will break
up highways, runways and railroad
tracks – all over the world!
This earthquake will
topple skyscrapers and bring the
whole world to a screeching halt.
Infrastructures such
as communication, banking,
manufacturing, shipping and food
supplies will be broken.
I am talking about the
onset of sudden destruction from God
when people are crying out for peace
and safety.
Where you are is where
you will stay.
Travel and
transportation will be severely
limited.
A few days after the
global earthquake, the first trumpet
will sound and a corresponding
judgment will fall.
The first four
trumpets will occur in rapid
succession – over a period of
about 64 days.
Life for everyone on
Earth will dramatically change once
the seven trumpets begin.
Thousands of cities
will be suddenly destroyed.
Twenty-five percent of
the world’s population will die
during the first four trumpets.
page l 1 l 2 l 3 l 4 l 5 l 6 l 7 l 8 l 9 l 10 l 11 l
-3-
