Planet Earth
|
The Rapture may take place before the seven-year Tribulation Period begins. If so, God will take all of His followers off the planet. He will then begin His judgment of the earth and its inhabitants for their rebellion against Him.
|
European Commission Building in Brussels, Belgium |
The European Union meets primarily in these two complexes. The Antichrist might rise to world prominence through the EU governing body. |
European Parliament Building in Strasbourg, France |
| The Antichrist may sign or endorse a seven-year peace treaty that will pave the way for the rebuilding of the third Jewish Temple |
The Knesset in Jerusalem where Israel's parliament meets
|
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem where the Third Jewish Temple will stand
|
The Jews have almost completed their preparations for the Third Temple. (The Temple Institute) The dilemma lies in the fact that the Muslims currently have their shrine, "The Dome of the Rock", located on the Temple Mount. It could very well be that the Antichrist will solve the problem by appeasing the Muslims in order for the Jews to build their Temple there.
|
The Western Wall in Jerusalem at night. The Temple Mount is just above the wall and the location where the Third Temple will stand. The Two Witnesses may speak against this Temple from this spot in front of the wall |
The Two Witnesses for God will be preaching from Jerusalem for 3 and a half years during the Tribulation Period. The Antichrist will kill them before a world audience but God will resurrect them three days later. |
Definitely not one of the Witnesses (looks notwithstanding). I had the pleasure to go to Israel in 1986.
|
At the mid-point of the seven-year Tribulation Period Satan possesses the Antichrist and will enter the Jewish Temple and declare himself God. At this point the Jews will know they were deceived by a false messiah.
|
The Temple may stand where the Dome of the Rock is currently located.
|
The rock city of Petra located in Jordan
|
Jesus told the Jews that when they see the "abomination of desolation" standing in the Temple they were to flee to the wilderness. Some believe that the rock city of Petra in Jordan will be one of the locations to where the Jews will go. There they will be protected by God until Jesus returns at the end of the Tribulation Period.
|
| A voice from heaven tells the four angels guarding to prepare the Euphrates River for the crossing of it by a 200 million man army. "And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared." (Revelation 16:12) These leaders are at the head of this army headed toward Israel where they will fight at the battle of Armageddon. |
The Euphrates River
|
The valley of Jezreel in north central Israel where Armageddon will be fought
|
The armies of the Antichrist will fight the armies of the "kings of the east" and armies from the south and north in the Valley of Jezreel where Megiddo is located. This is the "battle of that great day of God Almighty" or Armageddon. During this battle Jesus Christ will return to the earth and destroy these armies.
|
| The angels told the disciples that Jesus would return one day to the Mount of Olives. The Lord confirmed this through the prophet Zechariah saying, "For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south." |
The Mount of Olives
|
Galilee in the north of Israel
|
Jesus will replenish the earth and humans will live for a thousand years under His kingdom. He will reign from Jerusalem and the whole world will worship Him. At the end of this Millennium, God will judge the unsaved dead and then create a new heaven and a new earth for eternity.
|
