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THE GREAT TRIBULATION
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29
Jeremiah 30:1-11
Revelation 6:12-17
The Lord knows who are His.
THE GREAT TRIBULATION
The great tribulation refers to a seven-year period during which God’s judgments are poured down on the rebellious earth. It is also referred to as “The Day of the Lord” and “Daniel’s 70th Week” (Dan 9:25-27). The seven-year period begins after the “catching up” of believers (rapture) before the coming of our Lord to earth in power and great glory to establish His Millennial Kingdom.
The Day of the Lord. This is the day of reckoning when God unleashes His judgments on a rebellious world, on both Jews and Gentiles. Isaiah wrote: “Howl… for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty… with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof… I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity…” (Isa 13:6-11). “It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jer 30:7).
The Reign of the Beast. Mankind, having rejected God’s Lamb, falls into the grip of Satan’s Beast who rules over the world with Satan-inspired power, exercising absolute control for forty-two months, over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations, demanding to be worshipped. His power is such that no man can buy or sell without the mark of the beast, or his name, or number (Rev 13).
The Wrath of the Lamb. Strange, isn’t it, that the Lamb should be angry? But He is also the Lion of the Tribe of Juda (Rev 5:5) and those on earth who had spurned the sacrifice of the Lamb will have to face His righteous wrath. However, instead of repenting and begging for mercy, “the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains, And said ... Fall on us, and hide us…from the wrath of the Lamb” (Rev 6:15-16).
THOUGHT: Whom will I worship: Beast or Lamb?
PRAYER: May my life be pleasing to my Lord and bring glory to His Name!