Tribulation Of The Last Days!
Written: April, 2010
This is not gloom and doom!
Announcing peace to all persons of goodwill...
(Luke 2:14 of 8-14)

If you perceive our terrible world conditions are worse than anything humankind has ever faced, you are wise. You should also know Jesus promised it's going to get worse... (Mat 24:21-22) Perhaps most importantly, in those same verses, Christ reveals the happy ending...? (Luke 17:26-30; Mat 24:37-39) Just be careful you understand: What we are witnessing God's work. (Acts 17:29-31) You can't stop the tribulation, but the happy part is, Jesus said the righteous can survive it! (1 Pet 3:20 of 15-22; John 11:25-26) The tribulation exists in large part to identify and destroy the wicked... (Mal 3:16-4:3) By your faith in the words of Jesus Christ, or your rejection of him, you first choose [judge] and then display to God what you are in heart! (John 3:18-19 of 16-21)

Please consider then: What was Jesus talking about when he mentioned a coming "Great Tribulation," (Mat 24:21-22) and then tied it to the "last days"? (Mat 24:3; Mat 13:39) We first consider a brief overview of the Bible's reference to tribulation; followed by a more detailed reflection, including scriptures that help us understand "Armageddon." Please appreciate as we begin: Armageddon is actually God's final solution [God's war] to bring the end of the "tribulation," and, Jesus promised Armageddon is a good thing for his followers. (Luke 21:28) Armageddon is not a physical location but a marked and identifiable state of mind in each and every individual (identifiable only by God, of course). The tribulation and resulting Armageddon amounts to the identification and destruction of all those who refuse to publicly welcome Christ as God's appointed King. (Luke 19:27; Psa 2:12 of 10-12; Philip 2:10-11 of 5-11; John 5:21-24 of 19-30; John 3:19 of 16-21) Armageddon is God's war to destroy all the wicked forever. (Rev 16:14-16; Rev 19:11-18; Mal 3:16-4:3)

Overview: The "Great Tribulation" (Mat 24:21-22) is a time of trouble the Bible foretold would come upon mankind during a period it refers to as "the last days." Rather than being a plague brought by God, (James 1:13; Mat 24:22) the troubles of tribulation are brought by mankind's disobedience to God; being, in large measure, a direct result of humankind's abuse of the earth and of their fellowman. (Pro 5:21-23; Pro 19:3) The Bible teaches God has actually been holding back the destruction the Bible identifies as the tribulation; (Revelation 7:1-3) so as to allow as many as possible from among mankind to repent and gain life. As wicked or ignorant individuals and groups continue to rebel against rule of law by asserting good is bad and bad is good, (Isa 5:20-23) and in so doing refuse God's counsel, (Rom 13:1-2) conditions will continue to get worse because of that disobedience. God is the one, you see, teaching us to benefit ourselves. (Isa 48:17) What is God to do, though, with those who refuse to listen... (Mat 17:5 & John 1:12 & 8:26 & 15:15) That justice, for both the righteous and for the wicked, is what is now being revealed by the tribulation and in or by our response to Jesus Christ's words. (Mat 25:31-34; John 3:19 of 16-21; Mal 3:16-4:3)

Humans are not Creators. We can only learn. But... People can only learn what they are exposed to; and, the only good which men are exposed to comes primarily from God's Word the Bible. Individuals can only learn to be upright by being exposed to others who are upright. (Pro 27:17; 1 John 4:19; 1 Cor 15:33 of 1-34) Individuals [and mankind as a whole] can not learn to be loving toward others by being exposed to hatred. (Mat 5:43-48; Rom 12:17-21) Conditions in the earth  are becoming  have become so harsh and violent, because of the lack of integrity and loving-kindness, and the resulting expressions of hate; it will soon reach [or has reached] a point where nothing good can be produced from society; just as it was in Noah's day. (Genesis 6:5) [A black "6 year old" recently took a gun to school and shot his white 24 year old teacher through her outstretched hand and into her chest as she pleaded with him... He clearly wanted to kill her. Did someone put him up to that or is he just wicked? If others took advantage of an ignorant boy, they are likely cowardly liars who hide who they are? It is only God, can't you see, who can sort through the lies so as to kill every single bad person while protecting alive every single righteous one... (2 Kings 2:23-25) And that's what you need to know: Mankind is now witness to God implementing exactly that fix! (Mal 3:16-4:3)] Such worsening world conditions, where the wicked are able to continue to lie and steal and do hurt, and briefly without punishment, (Ecc 8:11) are putting people under so much duress it's hard to even think clearly and make any effort to be righteous. (Ecclesiastes 7:7) Some people seem unable to think past trying to pay back the harm done them. Left unchecked, righteousness would soon be choked out of existence. Thank God, at what the Bible calls the time of the end, (Mat 24:3; Mat 13:39) during this period of the great tribulation brought upon mankind by our own disobedience to God, [and when the earth has once again become filled with violence as in Noah's day, (Gen 6:13; Mat 24:37-39)] God is acting:

The angels who had been holding back [restraining] the destruction [brought by and during the beginning birth pains of the tribulation] are told to let it go. (Rev 7:1~14) Without those angels holding back the winds of destruction, the "tribulation" is escalating rapidly to become the "Great Tribulation" and to run its course. That is likely what we see right now. For those who have developed a real and true faith in the Christ and his teachings, their faith will protect them to survive according to God's purpose. (Heb 10:39; Job 33:18 & 22 & 24-25 & 28-29) Jesus said it was the word he had spoken that would judge us all. (John 15:22; John 12:48) Jesus further said God's Spirit is in the words he spoke. (John 6:63) With Jesus's words in our ears, then, we exercise faith and receive God's life giving Spirit; or, we  fail  refuse to do so. Christ was fond of saying: "Go in peace, your faith has made you well." (Mark 5:34) He would also say, "May it happen to you according to your faith." (Mat 9:29 ; Matthew 8:13) Think seriously about those statements by Jesus. According to the Bible, then, a good conscience based upon faith in Jesus's teachings will allow individuals to have faith acting as a conduit for God's holy spirit. (John 16:23 of 22-28) God's spirit can, in turn, protect and preserve alive those who are faithful. (John 14:13-14 of 10-17) The indiscriminate destruction that is the tribulation will continue to fall randomly on some of those who have not sought protection through faith in Christ Jesus, such faith becoming the mark in their foreheads for preservation. (Eze 9:4 of 4-6) Soon, during this period of tribulation and while God is protecting the righteous, all who remain alive will be those who have faith for protection, along with some who have survived by chance or good fortune, or even by their own wicked hand; but, having survived without faith and therefore without God's protection. Some who have survived may thus be wicked. The wicked will note the life of loving kindness and goodness being enjoyed by those who have faith in Christ. (Eze 38:8-39:10) They will next desire to kill and take from the righteous, just as the wicked have always done. (John 7:19b-24; John 15:20b-21) In those end of days, then, when the wicked reach out for the final time against the righteous; [Maybe like a little boy trained to shoot his first grade teacher...? (2 Kings 2:19-25)] when the wicked reach out against the righteous without realizing those faithful ones are being protected by God, it will bring about the end of the tribulation in what the Bible refers to as Armageddon. (Zechariah 2:7-11) Armageddon, however, will not be indiscriminate. It is God's war in which Christ and the angels (Revelation 19:11-16) specifically target and kill every single person not marked in their forehead for survival. It may have started already! (Mal 3:16-4:3)

Please understand: Survivors are those individuals who have marked themselves in their forehead by resting their hope in Christ through their personal faith in the words they know [have read for themselves] Jesus spoke! (Eze 9:4) Please think and realize... Survivors are those people who truly "believe" Jesus's promises they are being protected. Being repentant, [having the repentant attitude that drives individuals toward faith - the faith which is the mark in their forehead for salvation] does not mean simply having a fear of dying. It means we must be joined with Jesus in recognizing and truly believing all his Father's ways are perfect. (Romans 4:24; John 5:19; John 4:34; John 5:36; Deuteronomy 32:4) It means we must be among those looking intently at the Chief Agent and perfecter of our faith. (Heb 12:1-3) People in Ukraine and Gaza and... don't need yet another Muslim or Jew or Catholic or Baptist or Jehovah's Witness or other Protestant or... telling them to join their church and get saved. Everyone alive needs a real Christian to help them hear this simple truth, and so understand why they must personally get hold of a Bible and turn to their faith in the words of Jesus Christ for help. (Mat 7:15) We must, in that singular way of listening to and learning from Jesus Christ, come to know our Father (Mat 11:27) so as to become determined never to disobey him under any circumstance; just as Christ is determined never to do. (Philip 2:5-11; Matthew 26:39; Hebrews 10:5-7; Mark 10:18; 1 Cor 15:20-28) We must recognize from the evidence presented over 6000 years of Bible recorded history that any disobedience to God is a turning toward badness. We must recognize that any disobedience to God will always harm someone. We must be people who can be trusted never again to cause the same kinds of problems that led us to [and caused] this tribulation. We are likely far into the tribulation today. Those who have faith, then, can  hope in  "look to" and "expect" (Mark 11:24) protection and salvation (Luke 21:28) as  they  we are delivered into paradise. (Mat 25:34 of 31-34; Isaiah 11:3-9; Matthew 24:36-39 ; 1 Peter 3:20)
• Addendum: Written July, 2024
No one is above the danger! Individuals can sometimes be amazing in the good they do, but perhaps even more so, is the ability of humanity to continue in ignorance. Just since this truth reflecting these terrible world conditions was published in 2010, the world has been repeatedly shaken into wakefulness by yet more bad. There was the Covid Pandemic, then again by the ungodly cruel war in Ukraine, destroying people just trying to have a life and stay alive. [Like all the rest of us, right?] Then, too, there is the threat of nuclear war in Taiwan. And now most recently, in the unprovoked godless attack on Israel with the sustained horror in Gaza [again bringing nuclear threat and the horrors caused by Israel's inescapable and undeniable need to completely destroy Hamas]. Russia has shown herself, no longer a real and proud nation, but a nation size gang of worthless pilfering thieves who murder to take what people have. But, maybe not all of them! Ukraine has now invaded Russia, perhaps with a realization the true sons and daughters of Mother Russia have no heart to fight Ukrainians, because Russians realize Ukraine is innocent in the war Putin started. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shown himself to be a brave men, thus humiliating Putin by his very existence. Ukraine has to know, what ever treaty is reached, Putin will not rest until Zelenskyy is dead. Do we now see the true Russian people would just as soon see the Ukrainian Army move forward and kill Putin? Putin can't pull his heartless mongrel mercenaries out of Ukraine to defend himself in Russia, because they will just keep robbing and raping and murdering women and children like Putin encouraged them to do in Ukraine; and in the other countries he has unleashed them on. Even Putin has to know they all of them remember what he did to his long time close friend and mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin; when he first had a disagreement, and then a peace agreement, with Prigozhin. Now, the great nation of China seems to be showing she wants to be just like Russia, in aligning herself with Putin. Or, seeing Putin in decline, is China ready to invade Russia like she is with Taiwan? Sadly, in these end times, much of the world have become eaters of hearts, as they become or join gangs, organized by religion or politics or race or... to steal and take and do harm, legally [only by man's unjust laws (Heb 10:30-31)] or otherwise, rather than working to build up humanity. Take heart, Christ's words [shared in this letter] are awakening everyone alive to both the danger, and, to their own responsibility before God. (John 15:22) The Palestinian citizens in Gaza have become fed up with Hamas, as they have been forced to realize the promises of Hamas to help them were only lies. Hamas's now obvious and only long term goal and plan has been to kill Israeli's, preparing for many decades to willingly sacrifice Gazan women and children as their shields to do so. We note the state of Israel now seems to have had enough... They feel the less than worthless leaders of their enemies, (Deu 13:13 of 13-15. Judges 19:22; Judges 20:12-13) those venomous serpents (Rev 12:7-9) who target and kill their children, should start hiding in rat holes like Saddam Hussein did in his last days. Do not YOU be deceived; Hussein's fate and worse is what God has in store for all the wicked... (Mal 3:16-4:3) The Israelis have decided to root out those demon worshipping murderers from their ivory towers where they have lived in luxury while planing death and destruction for innocent women and children. Those leaders have been protected because they have been able to convince the ignorant minions who have been silly enough to believe in and follow them, that joining their fight is the doing of God's work... Can't you see God's hand in allowing the wicked nations to orchestrate all we now see? (Rev 19:17-19) Please don't misunderstand what we are saying: It's not fleshly state or nation of Israel the wicked have to fear. They should fear יהוה. All these bad actors, meaning everyone except the true followers of Jesus Christ, are now naked and openly exposed for what their terrible nature really is. (Rev 16:15 of 14-16; Rev 3:17-18 of 14-18) Have you been told, and do you understand, what you can do to save YOURSELF alive? In addition to all those problems, we have seen the increase in "natural" disasters as much of our world burns in fires and/or in the heat of drought; or, is blown or washed away in storms. We see the increase in earthquakes and volcanos and sink holes. Then, to top it off, there is what now seems to be the whole world's refusal to comply with the rule of law; bringing about earth wide anarchy as more and more just do things to tear down our society [become terrorists]. (Rom 13:1-4) Those combined disasters have caused an unsustainable flood of refugees relocating; many of them to take what is left from the few who still do have anything. Probably half the world is now in the grip of starvation or malnutrition [slow motion starvation] while a surviving few still struggle to hoard and retain obscene wealth. Even so, most of the world continues asleep in refusing to recognize and turn to our Creator as their only hope. (Luke 21:36 of 29-36; 1 Thes 5:6-11 of 1-11; 1 Cor 15:34) Even in light of so much evidence of the Great Tribulation Jesus promised, (Luke 21:28 of 22-28) most of this world fails to turn to יהוה as the only possible hope and source of help. [יהוה is God's Hebrew Name as given Moses on stone tablets (Exo 31:18) and used over 6000 times in the original Bible text!] The tribulation, then, has become the great equalizer in these last days. Everyone alive is forced to realize no one is safe or above the danger.
• The addendum you are reading was published 3 days before the assassination attempt on Mr. Trump. That event, and the photo of the ear matter and/or vapor trail from the bullet tracking past Trump's head as it destabilized to wobble or tumble and become visible after grazing the ear, seems to have rattled most all politicians awake to the fact no one is above the danger; the danger, that is, from the Great Tribulation destroying our world. I heard many of them, including Trump himself say, we need to turn down the hate speech. Trump even asserted he is alive by the grace of God. [Political strategy or real faith, or maybe just justifiable fear...? If Mr. Trump really believes God spared his life, wouldn't he stop spreading lies? (Titus 1:1-2; John 8:44) If he continues his bad practices, while proclaiming God spared his life, could or would he incur God's wrath?] Give them a few days... Their past history says most will quickly return to sleep and to their old bad behavior. That refusal to learn and be corrected, can't you see, is why all who are wicked require destruction. Their refusal to be corrected is what defines them wicked... (Mark 9:7; John 15:22; John 12:48) •
In our day in time, then, what ever people have looked to in the past to protect them: The nation they live in, their wealth and/or power, their youth and vigor or race, the approval of one of the sects of religious humans; all such things are now revealed to be a protective wall only in their imagination. (Pro 10:10-11) [Living today in the tumbling down walls of Jericho, as it were, leaves us all with the same and only hope: (Josh 2:12-21 & 6:20-25) Our belief in the protective power of having absolute faith in the shed blood of Christ, that hope running through the Bible like a scarlet cord from Genesis to Revelation; that is our only hope.] Even in the midst of this Great Tribulation, most people continue to believe and hope in the world's religious and political sooth sayer's, telling them all is well and not to worry. (1 Thes 5:1-3) We are way past even the slightest hope in any of man's solutions, religious or political, being any real help or hope. You will loose out on the gift of life if you don't realize: This revelation of knowledge contained in the words of Jesus Christ makes every person responsible? (John 15:22; John 12:48 of 42-50; Rom 1:20 of 16-32) Living in the midst of the evidence of this Great Tribulation, then, have you come to understand how you can protect yourself alive? Warning: Knowing or following me [or any other human] "can not" help you... You must express your own personal faith in Jesus Christ; demonstrated by learning and obeying [taking advantage of] what Jesus actually taught. I might help you if "you listen" to my encouragement to "listen to Christ" for yourself... Actually listening to and following the words of Jesus Christ, however, is your only hope. (John 8:31-32; John 17:3; Read: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John over many times.) Having read Christ's words to familiarity, and only then, can you express faith in what you personally know Jesus said is going to happen to you; and in doing so, gain God's spirit to preserve yourself alive! (Mal 3:16-4:3) Let me just say it bluntly: If you are a real friend of Jesus Christ, (John 15:11-17) as at no other time in human history, what you believe is going to happen to you is precisely what is going to happen to you! (Mat 21:21-22; John 11:25-26; Job 33:13-30) But, you must truly believe... You must have such a faith from your own knowledge of "Christ's" words! You must be an active disciple of Jesus Christ...
• You might want to realize and understand the difference Jesus identified between "The Great Tribulation" (Mat 24:21-22; to consider in context Mat 24:8-22) [the same as The "Tribulation of the Last Days"] and the notably different and lesser "Tribulation of 'Those' Days" [also identified as the first pangs of childbirth]. (Mat 24:8 of 7-8; Mat 24:29 of 29-31; Mat 24:6 & 8 of 3-8)
Go to JsutBibleTruth.com -> Select: Christ on White Horse! Scroll down to: 'Christ's return in "Kingdom Power" in 1914' •
• End of Addendum
Please click this link for a more in depth scriptural consideration of the tribulation and the war of Armageddon (Armageddon being "God's war" to bring the end of the tribulation forever)...

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