The Day of the Lord
Starting with the Great Tribulation—2½ years of Satan’s wrath—the world will suffer for 3½ years. Here’s how the Great Tribulation begins: “For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs” (Habakkuk 1:6).The Holy Roman Empire has caused so much damage and killed so many people in its past six resurrections. The seventh and final resurrection is almost here! Led by a great false church, Germany and a united 10-nation Europe, it will vie for world domination one last time!
“That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung” (Zephaniah 1:15-17).
The Day of the Lord and the Great Tribulation are a time of judgment, distress, alarm and rivers of bloodshed! You can find terrifying prophecies about this in both the Old and New Testaments.
Here is what I wrote in the Habakkuk booklet: “Weapons of mass destruction are proliferating rapidly; terrorist groups are arming for religious war; the nations of Israel are collapsing morally, and will soon collapse economically, politically and militarily. Meanwhile, Europe is quickly moving toward a full-scale resurrection of its imperial past. The Middle East is ready to explode and drag the whole world into the deadly morass. And God asks, ‘[W]hy will ye die, O house of Israel?’ (Ezekiel 33:11). Nations are going to die if we don’t wake up and heed God’s warning!”
Look around. Russia is conquering parts of other nations. China is unexpectedly allying itself with Russia and displaying similar aggression in the South China Sea and other areas of Asia. Germany is being flooded with Syrian refugees and dealing with a financial crisis on the Continent. Iran is racing toward the nuclear bomb. The Gentile powers are asserting themselves now much more than in 1995 when I wrote about this!
Man’s governments today think they are better off without God. They go their own way, which leads them to the brink of nuclear annihilation! (Matthew 24:21-22). The Day of the Lord is all about Jesus Christ supernaturally intervening in this end time. He will plague the nations, pass judgments for their sins, and crush them forever!
The Good News
We must look beyond these earthshaking events to the wonderful vision encompassing it all. We need this vision to be able to see past the terrible plagues that are about to come upon this Earth. Unless men do some repenting, they’re going to have to experience that.The book of Revelation and many other prophecies describe the Day of the Lord in detail. It is coming. But the good news is this: Once Christ topples the governments of man, He will return and set up His own Kingdom on this Earth, which will bring joy and happiness forever and ever. That’s the inspiring conclusion to this dreadful day of God’s wrath.
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