Word Title: The time and the seasons of the End of the World according to the scriptures
Prophet Daniel, after completing his detailed testimony of the Antichrist, in the chapter 12 ,said, “At that time.” The word “at that time” means that from then toward the end of the world began.
Prophet Daniel testified that something would happen from the spiritual world in heaven. He prophesied that Michael in heaven would finally stand up. Michael is one of the archangels and the commander of the heavenly army. Also, Michael is the great prince who rules over the people of Israel from heaven.
Prophet Daniel prophesied that a time of trouble would come, starting with the rise of the archangel Michael. This time of trouble is the time of Jacob’s trouble so that the people of Israel, the descendants of Jacob, shall finally be refined and purified so that they can enter the millennial kingdom of Christ. Prophet Jeremiah prophesied how terribly the people of Israel would suffer in this time of Jacob’s trouble:
God had called the descendants of Jacob the chosen people of God out from the land of Canaan to Egypt. He first sent Joseph to Egypt to prepare the way for them. However, after Joseph died, God allowed them to be severely persecuted through Pharaoh for four hundred years, so they were severely trained. God gave the law through Moses, so that they were persecuted by God’s permission by numerous empires, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome, for their sins against the law, so they were refined. Satan, knowing God’s plan to make the Israelites a priestly nation on the earth, has made endless attempts to wipe the Israelites out of the earth. During World War II, the Nazis attempted to wipe out the Jews from the earth, and even now, Muslim countries such as Syria and Iran are planning a conspiracy to wipe out the nation of Israel from the earth.
prophet Daniel foretold that the time of Jacob’s troubles to come such as never since would never have been since there was a nation. This time of Jacob’s trouble refers to the great tribulation that will be carried out by the antichrist forces that will appear after the rapture of the Church of God in the future. Everything that will happen at that time is foretold in detail in Revelation 6-19.
Until now, the people of Israel have been tried in the midst of extreme hardship in human history, but after refining them so far, they have been saved them from their suffering through repentance. Prophet Daniel prophesied that God would deliver them even in the midst of the great tribulation.
God has opened the door of salvation in each age through the past 6,000 years of human history. In the last two thousand years, in the Age of Grace, God has saved those who believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ and gave him eternal life to make them His children. Before the great tribulation to discipline the people of Israel to save the remnant of the Jews, God will first move the Church of God, the child of God and the bride of Christ, to heaven in the day of Christ.
Then, God will refine and purify the remnant of Israel so that they may enter the kingdom of Christ with the Gentiles who are being saved during the great tribulation to make his will be done on earth.
The end of the world, the times and the seasons when the present sinful world shall be ended shall be done when the Lord Jesus Christ return, and cast the Antichrist and the False profit into the lake of fire, and arrest the devil called the old serpent, Satan and red dragon to put him into the bottomless pit to establish his Millennium Kingdom.
Therefore, if the Jews and the Gentiles living in this world do not repent their sins of not believing in the Lord Jesus Christ and receive Him with all their heart, they shall enter the great tribulation, the time of Jacob’s trouble, and face with unimaginable judgment.
Jesus told his disciples about the Great Tribulation and the end of the world:
Apostle John witnessed and testified that during the great tribulation prophesied by the prophet Daniel, in heaven, Michael fight against the dragon, the devil and overcome him, and expell the devil from heaven to the earth:
Apostle John had seen the scene where God’s will is done in heaven. Also, at the end of the great tribulation, when the Lord Jesus Christ appears to accomplish his will on his earth and establishes his kingdom, God’s will be done on earth as well.
The apostle John at this time heard a voice from heaven:
The devil, cast out to the earth, will persecute God’s people severely. But God will feed the saved remnant of Israel with the wings of eagles for the next three and a half years, 1260 days:
The prophecies sealed to Daniel were opened to Apostle John in the book of Revelation. In the prophecy given through Daniel, we need to realize what to do before the rapture and the great tribulation:
The saints waiting for the rapture have to live pure life in order to become pure bride on the day of Christ (1 John 3:1-3), and to preach the gospel in season and out of season, winning souls to be wise (Proverbs 11:30), and to work hard for the Lord Jesus to be rewarded as the ruler over ten cities and five cities when the Lord Jesus returns as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. (Luke 19:11-19).