The Church Age began on the Day of Pentecost, fifty days after the Passover when Jesus died and rose again. One day the Church Age will come to an end. There will be a day when all believers in Christ are called up to be with Him in the clouds.
1 Corinthians 15:52 (ES) "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed."
1 Thessalonians 4:17 (ESV) "Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord."
Mankind does not know the day or the hour, but we will know the signs of the last generation.
Matthew 24:34 (ESV) "Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place." See my post:
Signs of the Last Generation
So what then? All believers, all true believers in Christ are gone, what then?
Think on it. If the believer is:
- driving a bus - it will crash
- flying an airplane - more than like it will crash
- a surgeon performing surgery - a patient could die on the table
- is a patient on the table - some medical staff are going to be confused
It is assumed that most children up to an age of accountability will be taken at the point of "rapture" even those in the womb. Pregnant women - if not believers, will unexpectedly, in the twinkling of an eye will no longer be pregnant.
People will be missing from every region on earth, every back ground, some countries more so more than others. The abrupt departure will result in chaos and mass confusion.
Leading up to this event the earth and all creation will be in the throes of labor:
- unprecedented hurricanes in strength, size, wind damage, financial impact
- mass flooding across the earth - some in areas that are normally in a drought state
- tornadoes will become larger and stronger
- earthquakes growing stronger, causing more damage, happening more and more often
- tensions between nations - wars, and rumors of wars
- an increase in anti-Semitism
- moral depravity at levels not seen before
- shows approved for children that wouldn't have been approved for creation a generation ago
- teen magazines promoting how to throw a party for your friend after her aborition
- college campus's becoming a breeding ground of unrest and anti-God
All this, then in a second a mass amount of humanity will disappear. A world in chaos will be hit even harder. Hell on earth will have a new meaning. Within weeks, maybe months, a leader of peace will arise. And he will manage to create a peace treaty that will grant Israel what they have wanted for so long. To have their temple and to make sacrifices there. This man will be the White Horse of the 1st seal.
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Revelation 6 (ESV)
SEAL 1
1 Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!” 2 And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.
A man of peace will arise, a man with a bow but no arrow - he has a commanding presence but doesn't have to resort to force. He will be given a crown - given power, given authority - and will rule. He will bring about "peace" for Israel.
SEAL 2
3 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
The "peace" after the chaos will not last long. The world will go to war. People will kill each other.
SEAL 3
5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”
After the war there will be famine and inflation. Food will scare, people will starve globally. Oil and wine will not be touched.
SEAL 4
7 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.
Pestilence, plague, and wild beast will be given the authority to kill 1/4 of the earth.
SEAL 5
9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. 10 They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” 11 Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
This seal happens only in Heaven - no event on earth. Those under the altar will killed for their testimony and faith in the Word of God.
SEAL 6
12 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, 13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. 14 The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. 15 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
EARTHQUAKE #1
The cosmos will be disturbed, the sun blackened (eclipse), moon to blood, stars will fall, earth will be disrupted.
Revelation 8(ESV)
SEAL 7
1 When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. 2 Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. 3 And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, 4 and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. 5 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
EARTHQUAKE #2
Out of the 7th Seal comes the 7 Trumpets. There will be silence in HEAVEN 30 minutes. An angel will take a censer of prayers of saints threw it to the earth.
TRUMPET 1
7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
TRUMPET 2
8 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. 9 A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
TRUMPET 3
10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.
Water will be poisoned. Rivers and streams.
TRUMPET 4
12 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.
With 1/3 of the sun, moon, and stars darkened - life on earth will be impacted. Plants will not grow right, life on earth will not function properly.
3 WOE'S PROCLAIMED
13 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”
Revelation 9 (ESV)
TRUMPET 5
9 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. 2 He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. 3 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. 6 And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them. 7 In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, 8 their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth; 9 they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. 10 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails. 11 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
Unbelievers will be tormented and unable to die. Creatures literally from the pit of hell will torment earth. They will want to attack believers, but will be restrained and directed torment and be a horror unto the unbelievers.
1ST WOE DONE
12 The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.
TRUMPET 6
13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. 17 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. 18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound. 20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, 21 nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
EARTHQUAKE #3
Revelation 11 (ESV)
2ND WOE IS DONE
14 The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.
TRUMPET 7
15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” 16 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying,
“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
who is and who was,
for you have taken your great power
and begun to reign.
18 The nations raged,
but your wrath came,
and the time for the dead to be judged,
and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,
and those who fear your name,
both small and great,
and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
19 Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
EARTHQUAKE #4
THE 7TH TRUMPET IS THE 3RD WOE
- The 6 Seals & 6 Trumpets happen over 1260 days (begins with the signing of the treaty that gives Israel "peace".)
- The 7 Bowl Judgments happen in 1260 days
- Which total is 7 years
Revelation 16 (ESV)
16 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”
BOWL 1
2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
Loathsome and malignant sores on the body of all who have accepted the mark of the beast.
BOWL 2
3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea.
The sea becomes congealed (Jello) not something that can sustain life. Those who live along the coasts of the earth will be forced to relocate - the stench of the blood, then the stench of all sea life that died in the sea.
BOWL 3
4 The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood. 5 And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say,
“Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was,
for you brought these judgments.
6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets,
and you have given them blood to drink.
It is what they deserve!”
7 And I heard the altar saying,
“Yes, Lord God the Almighty,
true and just are your judgments!”
All water is now blood - no drinking water.
BOWL 4
8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire. 9 They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.
The ozone layer will be gone. It will not be safe to be outside in the sunshine.
BOWL 5
10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish 11 and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores. They did not repent of their deeds.
The beast (Anti-Christ) and his kingdom will have no light - the darkness will be so oppressive it hurts. People will go crazy from the darkness and pain.
BOWL 6
12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. 13 And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. 14 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. 15 (“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”) 16 And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
There will be war again. And the leader of the Armies of Heaven will return to Earth.
BOWL 7
17 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” 18 And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake. 19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath. 20 And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found. 21 And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.
EARTHQUAKE 7
After the 7th bowl is poured out, Jesus returns to earth (HIS SECOND COMING) and the following happens:
- Jesus
- Descends from Heaven and returns to the earth for the 2nd time
- Matt. 24: 29, 30; 25: 31; Rev. 19: 11-13
- The armies in Heaven (The raptured Church…His bride)
- Follow Jesus on white horses as he descends to earth
- Rev. 19: 14
- SOULS of all BELIEVERS who died before Christ was crucified
- Descend to earth with Jesus.
- 1. Jesus resurrects their bodies from their graves,
- 2. Jesus gives them glorified bodies,
- 3. Jesus joins their souls with their glorified bodies, and
- 4. They all remain on earth with Him.
- 1 Cor. 15: 22-24; Dan. 12: 2a, 13; Rev. 20: 5b-6
- SOULS of all BELIEVERS who died during the 7 year period
- Descend to earth with Jesus.
- 1. Jesus resurrects their bodies from their graves,
- 2. Jesus gives them glorified bodies,
- 3. Jesus joins their souls with their glorified bodies, and
- 4. They all remain on earth with Him.
- 1 Cor. 15: 22-24; Rev. 6: 9-11; 20: 4-6
- SATAN
- Cast into the Abyss for 1000 years
- Rev. 20: 1-3
- THE ANTI-CHRIST
- Cast into The Lake Of Fire (Hell)
- Dan. 7: 11, 26; Rev. 19: 20
- THE FALSE PROPHET
- Cast into The Lake Of Fire (Hell)
- Rev. 19: 20
- All LIVING JEWISH UNBELIEVERS
- 1. Gathered & Slaughtered by Jesus,
- 2. Their BODIES are buried on earth, ashes or in the sea,
- 3. Their SOULS descend into The Well of Departed Souls (Hades)
- Dan. 12: 1, 7, 11-12; Matt. 24: 15-22; Zech. 13: 8; Amos 9: 8-10; Isaiah 10: 20-23;Num. 16: 30, 33; Luke 16: 22-28
- THE NATIONS
- (Living Gentile Unbelievers who gather for war with Satan against Jesus)
- 1. Jesus wages war against them by TREADING THE WINE PRESS from Bosrah, through the Kidron Valley, to The Jezreel Valley (Har Magedon-Armageddon,
- 2. Their BODIES are buried on earth, ashes or in the sea,
- 3. Their SOULS descend into The Well of Departed Souls (Hades)
- Isaiah 34: 1-8; 63: 1-6; Joel 3: 12-14; Rev. 16: 12-16; 14: 20; Rev. 19: 15-16; Rev. 20: 5a-6
- JESUS
- Establishes His throne in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount
- Dan. 7: 13-14; Matt. 25: 31
- JESUS
- JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS
- Dan. 7: 9-12; Matt. 25: 32
- All LIVING GENTILE BELIEVERS
- Jesus queue's them in a line and declares them to be SHEEP
- Mattt. 25: 32-40 (Sheep)
- All LIVING GENTILE UNBELIEVERS
- Jesus queue's them in a line and declares them to be GOATS
- Matt. 25: 32-33, 41-45 (Goats)
- All LIVING GENTILE UNBELIEVERS (GOATS)
- Cast ALIVE into The Lake Of Fire (Hell)
- Matt. 25: 46
- ALL LIVING JEWISH & GENTILE BELIEVERS
- Only these are left to populate the earth. They NEVER die, continue to have children, and live eternally with Him
- Matt. 25: 32-40, 46 (Gentiles) Matt. 24: 31; Isaiah 11: 11-12; Zech. 13: 8-9; 8: 1-23 (Jewish)
I hope that now knowing all that is to come - that the Church Age will end, that you will not hesitate in sharing the testimony of Jesus Christ. Share with the world that they can avoid the 7 years of tribulation - judgement, torment, and the wrath of God.
In the next few days and weeks I will share my notes on the Book of Revelation from the sermon series we are going through.I do have notes that I will share from other sources that enriches the notes I have from my pastor. I do not currently have sermon notes on the letter to the churches - our pastor plans to do those at the end of the sermon series. But, I do have notes from the precept study I did, and will share those. We believers need to be familiar with all parts of scripture, even the end of the book because we have a duty as watchmen to warn others about what is coming. 
