The Great Tribulation Part:2

We stopped, The Great Tribulation Part1 saying we would identify the beast and the false prophet, so let's do that. Let me say before we get into the lesson, the big picture of this lesson is about the Lord warning his disciples of the danger which would come in the future, and what signs to look for.

Some pastors say the Lord will rapture the church before the tribulation, not true, we have already proved those statements to be lies however, ask your pastors him or her to show you the scripture that specifically say the Lord is coming to rapture the church before the tribulation so your hope is not build on false statements.

We showed you the scripture that specifically said after the tribulation Matt:24, 29-30 let's read it again:  
²⁹ Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. Who are you going to believe the word, or your uninformed pastor.

Some of the signs are; identifying the man of sin the abomination of desolation, when the tribulation will start, how long it will last, the coming of the Lord and the gathering of his elect, the resurrecting of the dead in Christ, taking down the kingdoms of this world and setting up his everlasting kingdom under the whole heaven this is what we will talk about.                                                                                                                                                             
Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon and of the Chaldees had a dream and said unto the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans , I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream,  and they said for the King to show us the dream.

The king promised to kill all of his advisers if they could not revealed to him the dream and it's meaning so they sought Daniel and his fellows because they were counted as men with wisdom and knowledge. Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king to give him time, and he would shew the king the interpretation.
 
¹⁷ Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
¹⁸ That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
¹⁹ Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

v-28 Daniel told the King there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days.
v-31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image represented Babylon and the gentile reign.
v-34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
v-37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
v-38 Thou are this head of gold
v-39 Three other world ruling kingdoms shall rise up after thee.
v-40,43 the fourth kingdom which is the Roman Empire and the ten toes are the nations that will unite and become one with her to fight against the Lord at the end time.
v-44  And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
v-45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

The Most High God reveled through Daniel the Babylonian reign of four world ruling kingdoms run by gentile leadership depicted through this image the king saw in his dream. Beginning with Nebuchadnezzar the first and three others after him until the coming of the Lord spoken of in v-44. In Dan:7 we pick up the four kingdoms as beast. Now let's identify them

Dan:7-1 Daniel had a dream and wrote the sum of the matter.
v-2 he saw the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
v-3 these four were diverse one from another
v-4 the first was like a lion and had eagle wings, which is Babylon
v-5 the second like to a bear; Medes and Persians
v-6 the third like a leopard which had on the back of it four wings: Greeks
v-7  After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. Rome

v-8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. This little horn represent the papacy, a religious government.  Justinian is the fourth horn on the beast, he took out these three tribes. Now we'll have some exerts from history. (Grolier Encyclopedia):

It was the Pope’s that gave the kings their power.  Justinian's aim was the restoration of the earlier Roman Empire by reclaiming areas lost to the Germanic tribes.

With the help of his general Belisarius, he regained North Africa from the Vandals (533-34) and,
after a lengthy war (535-54), Italy from the Ostrogoth's (see Goths) Justinian also acquired south eastern Spain.

Quotes from “The Pictorial History of Italian People” (below) Odoacer governed Italy nominally as representative of the Roman emperor in the East. In reality he acted as an independent ruler, and inefficiently. In 488, the Ostrogoths, authorized since around 450 by the government in Constantinople to settle on the right bank of the middle Danube, were led into Italy by their leader, King Theodoric II. Besieged in Ravenna, Odoacer surrendered and was assassinated in 493. The Herulians were never heard of again.

In 535 the Roman emperor in the East, the able Justinian, bent on reestablishing the unity of the Empire, sent an expeditionary force to Italy. In his eyes, as in the eyes of all native Italians, Italy was still Surprised initially by the attack, the Goths soon rallied behind their leaders. While most Italians looked on, a ferocious war was fought for nearly two decades between the armies of the Gothic kings and those of the legitimate ruler, the emperor. Finally defeated, the Ostrogoths disappeared from the pages of history. 

These exerts from history are in total agreement with the scripture. All three of these Germanic tribes were defeated plucked up by the roots as spoken of in Daniel:7-8, In Funk and Wagnal Ency. Vol. 12, pg 421 in 476 when  Emperor Romulus Augustulus was defeated the deadly wound was inflected, Rev:13-3. At the same time the Roman Empire merged with the papacy the Catholic Church. Because of the merge the church is now called the Holy Roman Empire.

The Holy Roman Empire began the process to revive the western Roman Empire to bring it back to life. It was the Popes that managed to keep Rome alive through religious influences. History showed us how Rome merged with the Catholic Church, now let's look at it in the scriptures. I want you to note that after the merge we see a totally different beast still Rome but now we see a religious government and a secular government described to us in v-11,17 the two horns.

Rev:13,11-12 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.  v-12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

Remember in v-2 of this chapter it was the dragon that gave the beast his power and seat. This tells us the Roman Catholic Church is influenced and empowered by the devil.

This will end the great tribulation part2, we will conclude this lesson with part3

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  



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