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Introduction to Tribulation

Who is it intended for?

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Why does it exist?

When does it begin?

How long does it last?

Israel

The Old Covenant

At the signing of a covenant to permit the Jewish temple to operate again

One “seven”

Daniel’s View of TribulationDaniel 9

Seventy“Weeks”

orSevens

70 X 7 = 490 years (Dan 9:24)

Decree toRebuild

Jerusalem

=

+Ezra 1:1-4; Dan 9:25

7 X 7 = 49 years (Dan 9:24)

JerusalemWall

FinishedNeh 2:1-5; Dan 9:24

MessiahComes Dan 9:24

+ 62 X 7 = 434 years (Dan 9:25)

69 X 7 = 483 years

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The Things Which "Are" (The Seven Churches)Rev. 2:1-3:22

Church Name Description Church Church Age Commendation Condemnation Exhortation Promise Warning by

Name Meaning of Christ Type (A.D.) by Christ by Christ Christ

Ephesus Desire *From Ch. 1:20 Apostolic 30-100 *2:2-3 & v. 6 *2:4 *2:5 *2:7 *2:52:1-7 *Holds 7 stars ("messengers") *knows your hard *don't love Me *repent and *eat fruit from *Will remove

*Walks among work, patient as you did at return to Tree of Life your lampstand lampstands ("churches") endurance the beginning Me ("church")

*don't toleratefalse teaching*resist separationof priest & laity

Smyrna Myrhh *From Ch. 1:17-18 Roman 100-212 *2:9 *2:10 *2:112:8-11 *First & Last, once dead but Persecution *knows you're enduring *don't fear *will not be

now alive (Eternal One) persecution and NONE and be faithful hurt by the NONE*Have the keys of death & poverty, suffering unto death 2nd deathHades/Hell/Underworld

Pergamum To be *From Ch. 1:16 Age of 313-600 *2:13 *2:14-15 *2:16 *2:17 *2:162:12-17 thoroughly *Has sharp, two-edged sword Constantine *knows your works, *tolerate teachings *Repent *will give hidden *Will fight against

married (State & haven't denied Me of Balaam (corrupt manna, a you with My Church) even in persecution inter-marriage white stone mouth

of Church & State) with new name*separating clergy & laity(Nicolaitans)

Thyatira Continual *From Ch. 1:14-15 Dark Ages 600-1517 *2:19 *2:20-23 *2:24-25 *2:26 & 28 *2:22-232:18-29 sacrifice *Eyes like fire (begins Roman *knows your works, *tolerate Jezebel *true believers *will give *will kill Jezebel's

*Feet like brass/burnished Catholic Church) increasing deeds (worship of Pagan who do not power over followersbronze religion/false teach.) follow false nations and *will cast into

*10 doctrines of teachings are to the Morning great tribulationCatholism hold firm to their Star (Himself) (suffering)*won't repent faith

Sardis Those *From Ch. 1:4, 16, 20 Reformation 1517-1648 *3:4 *3:1 *3:2-3 *3:5-6 *3:33:1-6 Escaping *has the Seven Spirits of God (Martin Luther) *have a few who are *appear alive but are *Wake up, *shall be *will come like

*holds the 7 stars righteous (believers) really dead deeds are in- clothed in white thief in the night(spiritually dead) complete (can't *will not remove

be saved by name from Bookworks); Repent of Life

Philadelphia Brotherly *From Ch. 1:18 Missionary 1700-1900's *3:8 *3:11 *3:9-10, 12-133:7-13 Love *Holy, True, Key of David, Movement *has kept My Word and *Hold fast to *others will know

who opens and closes doors not denied My Name NONE what you have I've loved you NONE*will live with Me*will be keptfrom hour of trial/testing

Laodicea People *From Ch. 1:4,6,7 Apostate 1900s-Pres *3:15 *3:18-20 *3:21-22 *3:193:14-22 Ruling *Faithful, True Witness Proteestantism NONE *are lukewarm, *find salvation *will sit with Me *will reprove &

*the origin of God's creation (Age of Apostacy) materialism, self- in Christ on My throne discipline those deceived; spiritual *repent I lovepoverty and blindness

7 sevens

Dan. 9:25 “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

Dan. 9:26 “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

Dan. 9:27 “And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

62 sevens

WallsFinished

DecreeIssued

MessiahCutoff

1 Seven

CovenantMade

70 Sevens

?

BabylonianCaptivity586 BC

Age of the Gentiles

Fall ofBabylon

& Judah’sReturn536 BC

Earlier Events

• Abrahamic Covenant• Kings established over Israel

(1051 BC)• Kingdom divided

(931 BC)• Northern tribes taken captive

by Assyria & lost

TempleFinished516 BC

HellenizationOf Judah323 BC

RomanRule Begins

63 BC

Herod’sTemple

Destroyed70 AD

Nebuchadnezzar’sRule

605 BC 5-29

70 Years

10 sevens

Making upfor Sabbaths

Lev. 26:43 ‘For the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes.

7 sevens 62 sevens

WallsFinished

DecreeIssued

MessiahCutoff

1 seven

CovenantMade

70 Sevens

?


Age of the Gentiles

Fall ofBabylon


Earlier Events




by Assyria & lost



RomanRule Begins

63 BC

Herod’sTemple

Destroyed70 AD


605 BC

490 Years

Making amends for iniquity

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Leviticus 25

7 year Land SabbathThe land receives a rest every seventh year

50 year JubileeAll Israel are set free and return home after 49 years

Leviticus 26

70-Year Judgment

490-YearJudgment

+

+5-31

1 Seven

CovenantMade

?


Age of the Gentiles

Fall ofBabylon


Earlier Events




by Assyria & lost



RomanRule Begins

63 BC

Herod’sTemple

Destroyed70 AD


605 BC

Warnings? Signs?

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Introduction to Tribulation

Who is it intended for?

Why does it exist?

When does it begin?

How long does it last?

Israel

The Old Covenant

At the covenant of Israel & the prince

One “week”

The Warnings & Signs

1. Events that must precede Tribulation

2. Signs that Tribulation is approaching

3. Signposts within Tribulation itself

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Church ApostasyRev 3, 1Tim 4:1-3; 2Thes 2:3

Regathering IsraelEzekiel 20 & 22

Rapture1Thes 1:10; 1Thes 5:9

Emergence of ten world rulersDaniel 2 & 7

Return of ElijahMalachi 4



2. Signs that Tribulation is approaching

3. Signposts within Tribulation itself

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The Olivet Discourse

Matt 24 Luke 21

1. When will these things take place and what will be the signswhen these things take place? (recorded by Luke only)

2. What are the signs of your coming?

3. What are the signs of the end of the age?

4. What are NOT the signs of the end? (not asked by apostles)

Apostle’sQuestions

Christ’s Olivet Discourse

#4 - Matt 24:4-6 #4 - Luke 21:8-9

#3 - Matt 24:7-8

#1 - Luke 21:12-24

#2 - Luke 21:25-28

#3 - Luke 21:10-11

#2 - Matt 24:9-44

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“...nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom...”

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Food Security & Agriculture

Latest Overview Key Facts More Info News Alerts

Why is there Rampant Famine in the 21st Century?

Eradicating famine is entirely possible if governments mobilise their political will and address the structuralcauses of hunger. Erroneous debts should be cancelled, and food sovereignty and agrarian reform need tobe urgently promoted, argue Éric Toussaint and Damien Millet.

12th May 09 - Éric Toussaint and Damien Millet, CADTM

One person in seven on this planet is permanently hungry. The causes are well known: a profoundinjustice in the distribution of wealth and the monopolizing of land by a small minority of large landowners.

According to the FAO [1], 963 million people were suffering from famine in 2008. Paradoxically, thesepeople mainly live in rural areas. They are generally farmers who do not own land or do not own enough,and are without the means to cultivate it effectively.

What Caused the Food Crisis of 2007-2008?

It is important to emphasize that in 2007-2008, the number of people suffering from hunger increased by140 million. This marked increase is due to the explosion of food prices [2]. In several countries retail foodprices increased by as much as 50%, or even more.

Why such an increase? To answer this question, it is important to understand what has been happeningover the past three years. Only then can alternative, appropriate policies be implemented.

On the one hand, the public authorities in the North increased their aid and subsidies for agro-fuels(mistakenly referred to as bio-fuels, since there is nothing organic about them). All of a sudden, it becameprofitable to replace subsistence crops with oleaginous crops or feed grains, or to divert part of graincultivation (corn, wheat, etc.) towards the production of agro-fuels.

On the other hand, after the real estate bubble burst in the United States, with repercussions throughoutthe rest of the world, the major investors (pension funds, investment banks, hedge funds, etc.) shifted theirfocus and speculated on the futures market where contracts for food prices are negotiated (there are threemain futures exchanges in the United States: Chicago, Kansas City and Minneapolis).

It is therefore urgent for citizens to take action to legally ban speculation on food prices. Despite the factthat speculation reached its peak and declined from the middle of 2008, and that futures prices haveplummeted, retail prices have not followed suit. The vast majority of the world’s population has a very lowincome and is still affected by the dramatic consequences of the increase in food prices of 2007-2008.

The tens of millions of redundancies announced for 2009-2010 around the world will further worsen thesituation. In April 2009, the FAO told the G8 that the number of chronically hungry people was set to riseby 75 million to 100 million this year, bringing the total number to more than 1 billion. In order to counter

this situation, public authorities must keep food prices under control.

The increase in famine throughout the world is not due, at least for the moment, to climate change. But thisfactor will have very negative consequences for the future in terms of production in certain regions of theworld, especially in tropical or subtropical areas. Agricultural production in temperate zones should be lessaffected.

The solution lies in radical action being taken so as to drastically reduce the emission of greenhouse gases(the IPPC [3] recommends an 80% reduction of emissions for the most industrialized countries and 20%for the others).

Is it Possible to Eradicate Famine?

Eradicating famine is entirely possible. The basic solutions needed in order to reach this vital goal lie inpolicies of food sovereignty and agrarian reform. That is to say, feeding populations based on localproduction, whilst limiting imports and exports.

Food sovereignty needs to be the focal point of governments’ political decisions. They need to concentrateon family farms, using techniques designed for the production of organic food. Furthermore, this wouldenable people to have good quality foodstuffs: no GMOs, no pesiticides, no herbicides and no chemicalfertilizers.

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“This marked increase is due to the explosion of food prices. In several countries retail food prices increased by as much as 50%, or even more.”

“...diverting part of grain cultivation (corn, wheat, etc.) towards the production of agro-fuels.”

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November 29, 2011

Global Famine

by Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, May 2, 2008

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Humanity is undergoing in the post-Cold War era an economic and social crisis ofunprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the Worldpopulation. National economies are collapsing, unemployment is rampant. Local level famineshave erupted in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and parts of Latin America. This "globalizationof poverty" --which has largely reversed the achievements of post-war decolonization-- wasinitiated in the Third World coinciding with the debt crisis of the early 1980s and the impositionof the IMF's deadly economic reforms.

The New World Order feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the natural environment.It generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife, undermines the rights ofwomen and often precipitates countries into destructive confrontations between nationalities.Since the 1990s, it has extended its grip to all major regions of the World including NorthAmerica, Western Europe, the countries of the former Soviet block and the "NewlyIndustrialized Countries" (NICs) of South East Asia and the Far East.

This Worldwide crisis is more devastating than the Great Depression of the 1930s. It has far-reaching geo-political implications; economic dislocation has also been accompanied by theoutbreak of regional wars, the fracturing of national societies and in some cases the destructionof entire countries. By far this is the most serious economic crisis in modern history. (MichelChossudovsky, The Globalization of Poverty, First Edition, 1997)

Introduction

Famine is the result of a process of "free market" restructuring of the global economy which has itsroots in the debt crisis of the early 1980s. It is not a recent phenomenon as suggested by severalWestern media reports. The latter narrowly focus on short-term supply and demand for agriculturalstaples, while obfuscating the broader structural causes of global famine.

Poverty and chronic undernourishment is a pre-existing condition. The recent hikes in food priceshave contributed to exacerbating and aggravating the food crisis. The price hikes are hitting animpoverished population, which has barely the means to survive.

Food riots have erupted almost simultaneously in all major regions of the World:

"Food prices in Haiti had risen on average by 40 percent in less than a year, with the costof staples such as rice doubling.... In Bangladesh, [in late April 2008] some 20,000 textileworkers took to the streets to denounce soaring food prices and demand higher wages.The price of rice in the country has doubled over the past year, threatening the workers,who earn a monthly salary of just $25, with hunger. In Egypt, protests by workers over

US-NATO-ISRAEL WAR PLANS TO ATTACK IRAN

“Food riots have erupted almost simultaneously in all major regions of the world...”

“According to the FAO, the price of grain staples has increased by 88% since March 2007. The price of wheat has increased by 181% over a three year period. The price of rice has increased by 50% over the last three months...”

“2.6 billion people around the world live on less than $2 a day and spend 60% to 80% of their incomes on food. Hundreds of millions cannot afford to eat...”

Source: GlobalResearch.ca website

“Global Famine”

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U.S. Earthquakes

Survey: U.S. Geological Survey Website

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Worldwide Earthquakes

7.0+


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166 Earthquakes of 7.0 or higher!


Worldwide Earthquakes

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Worldwide Earthquakes 166!


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Matt 24 Luke 21

1. When will these things take place and what will be the signswhen these things take place? (recorded by Luke only)

2. What are the signs of your coming?

3. What are the signs of the end of the age?

4. What are NOT the signs of the end? (not asked by apostles)

Apostle’sQuestions

Christ’s Olivet Discourse

#4 - Matt 24:4-6 #4 - Luke 21:8-9

#3 - Matt 24:7-8

#1 - Luke 21:12-24

#2 - Luke 21:25-28

#3 - Luke 21:10-11

#2 - Matt 24:9-44

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