The Tribulation

The greatest moment in time

Rev.19

Rev. 19

I. THE THEME OF THE BIBLE

Over 800 specific references of the Lord’s Day in the

Bible

5 times more references to the 2nd coming

than the 1st coming

A. It is the theme of the PROPHECY of

Revelation

(Rev 1:7) Behold, he cometh with clouds; and

every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.

Even so, Amen.

The FutureChapters 20-22

Covers the 1,000 year region and beyond

“the things which thou hast seen”

Church history The Application

• Historical (7 church of Asia Minor)

• Inspirational (to Churches and Individuals)

• Prophetical (The 7 church ages

from where Acts left off to the Rapture)

The PresentChapters 4-19

Covers the 7 year tribulation to the 2nd Coming of Christ

The PastChapters 1-3

Covers History from 90 AD - Rapture of the Church

“the things which are”

Chapters 4-19

The Lords Day

The Tribulation (and great tribulation)

The return of Christ with his Saints

The return is seen 4 times

“the things which shall be hereafter”

Chapters 20-22

The 1,000 year reign The great white throne

The New Heaven and New earth

The 4 accounts of the 2nd Coming of

Christ

Rev. 6:12-17 Rev.11-13-16 Rev. 14: 14-20 Rev. 19:11-21

B. It is the theme of all

the PROPHETS

(Act 3:19-21) Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted

out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was

preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all

things, which God hath

spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the

world began.

C. The theme is seen in the

PICTURES

“THAT DAY” • Gen. 30 (separation of sheep and goats)• Gen. 48 (the blessing of Ephraim and a

promise to return to the land)• Exodus 13 (plague of locust)• 1 Sam 16 (the anointing of David)• 1 Sam 19 (Saul and David father’s house)

John 5:45-47 – “Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe My words?”

1. Seen in the Picture

of the “Red Sea”

Exodus 14:30

(Exo 14:30) Thus the LORD saved

Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and

Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon

the sea shore.

(Exo 14:14) The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold

your peace.

(Isa 63:3) I have trodden the winepress alone;

(Rev 14:20) And the winepress was trodden without the city,

and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse

bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred

furlongs.

(Exo 14:19) And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud

went from before their face, and stood

behind them:

(Rev 1:7) Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced

him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even

so, Amen.

(Exo 14:20) And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud

and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the

one came not near the other all the night.

(Joe 2:2) A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and

of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a

great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall

be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

(Exo 14:24) And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto

the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire

and of the cloud, and troubled the host

of the Egyptians,

(Mal 4:2) But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun

of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye

shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

(Rev 22:16) I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and

morning star.

(Exo 14:24) And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the

Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the

host of the Egyptians,

(Rev 19:12) His eyes were as a flame of fire,

and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew,

but he himself.

(Exo 14:30) Thus the LORD saved

Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and

Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon

the sea shore.

2. Seen in the Picture

of the “Battle of Jericho” Joshua 6:15

(Jos 6:15) And it came to pass on the seventh day,

that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and

compassed the city after the same manner seven times:

only on that day they compassed the city seven

times.

(Jos 6:3-4) And ye shall compass the city, all ye

men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. And seven priests shall

bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye

shall compass the city seven times, and the

priests shall blow with the trumpets.

The six days represent the 6,000 years of man kind.The seven priest represent the 7 churches ages.The ark represents The Lord Jesus Christ .The seven trumpets are seen in the book of RevelationThe seventh day represents the Day of the Lord

The Priests

(1Pe 2:9) But ye are a chosen generation, a

royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out

of darkness into his marvellous light:

(Joe 2:1) Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

Paul1. The church of

the ROMANS2. The church of

the CORINTHIANS

3. The churches of the GALATIANS

4. The church of the EPHESIANS

5. The church of the

PHILIPPIANS6. The church of

the COLOSSIANS

7. The church of the

THESSALONIANS

Jesus1. The church in

SARDIS2. The church in

THYATIRA3. The church in

PERGAMOS4. The church of

EPHESUS5. The church in

PHILADELPHIA6. The church of the

LAODICEANS7. The church in

SMYRNA

(Jos 6:12) And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the

priests took up the ark of the LORD.

(Jos 6:15) And it came to pass on the seventh day,

that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and

compassed the city after the same manner seven times:

only on that day they compassed the city seven

times.

3. Seen in the Picture

of the “Sun

Standing Still” Joshua 10:28

(Jos 10:28) And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and

smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were

therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of

Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.

(Jos 10:11) And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones

from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were

more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew

with the sword.

(Rev 16:21) And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent:

and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague

thereof was exceeding great.

(Jos 10:12) Then spake Joshua to the LORD in

the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites

before the children of Israel, and he said in the

sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon

Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of

Ajalon.

(Luk 21:25) And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the

moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of

nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

(Rev 6:12) And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal,

and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun

became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as

blood;

(Jos 10:14) And there was no day like that before it or after it,

that the LORD hearkened unto the

voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.

(Jos 10:17-18) And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah. And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to

keep them:

(Rev 20:2-3) And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the

Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him

up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled:

and after that he must be loosed a little season.

(Jos 10:22) Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of

the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out

of the cave.

Vs. 22-28

4. Seen in the Picture

of the “Shoe

removal ” Ex. 3Josh. 5

Crossing the Jordan to Mt. Olives

(Jos 4:14) On that day the LORD

magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as

they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

(Exo 3:2) And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire

out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned

with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

(2Th 1:7-8) And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord

Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on

them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

(Exo 3:7) And the LORD said, I have surely seen the

affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their

taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

(Exo 3:8) And I am come down to deliver them out of the

hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large,

unto a land flowing with milk and honey…

(Jos 5:13-15) And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and,

behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his

hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for

our adversaries? And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto

his servant? And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy.

And Joshua did so.

(Rev 19:14-15) And the armies which were in

heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a

sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

King’s Highway

(Num 20:17) Let us pass, I pray thee,

through thy country: we will not pass through the

fields, or through the vineyards, neither will

we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until

we have passed thy borders.

(Isa 11:16) And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from

Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day

that he came up out of the land of

Egypt.

(Deu 33:1-2) And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the

man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. And he said, The

LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto

them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came

with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

Starting at Sinai

(Jdg 5:1-5) Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that

day, saying, Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.

Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel. LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou

marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the

heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. The mountains

melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD

God of Israel.

(Hab 3:3-4) God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah.

His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was

full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; he

had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the

hiding of his power.

Then to Teman

(Isa 63:1) Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from

Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in

the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to

save.

Then to Edom

(Zec 14:4) And his feet shall stand in that day upon the

mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof

toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very

great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward

the south.

Crossing the Jordan to Mt. Olives

Crossing the Jordan to Mt. Olives

(Jos 4:14) On that day the LORD

magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as

they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

D. The theme is seen in the

PSALMS