The Seven-Year Tribulation: Who Goes Through It & Why?
1. Israel, because it is the time of Jacob’s troubles.
Jeremiah 30:7 (NKJV) Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. [Note also Jeremiah 31].
2. The whole world.
Daniel 7:23 (NKJV) “Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, Which shall be different from all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, trample it and break it in pieces.
Luke 21:35 (NKJV) For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Revelation 13:7 (NKJV) It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.
Who Can be Saved During the Tribulation & How?
1. Anyone who calls on the Lord. Joel 2:32 (NKJV) And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance,
As the LORD has said, among the remnant whom the LORD calls.
Romans 10:13 (NKJV) For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”
2. Those who receive the love of truth. 2 Thessalonians 2:10 (NKJV) and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
3. Those who are not deceived and do not take the mark of the Beast. Revelation 14:9-11 (NKJV) Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”
Revelation 20:4 (NKJV) And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
What Lessons can Believers Today get from the Tribulation Coming?
1. The best preparation for the Tribulation is what I call Christ’s Tribulation Survival Guide, which He taught in Luke 21.
Pre-Tribulation Survival Tips
Jesus gave us these words before the end of days, before the tribulation arrives.
So, Luke 21 is a “Pre-Tribulation” Survival Guide. Whatever your view of the Tribulation: pre, post, or not at all, this passage has powerful lessons for all believers. Don’t miss His great lessons because of a theologically different view of eschatology.
In Luke 21, we see the end of everyone’s life as it was. Time stops. Life ends. Nothing is the same again. Christ’s Coming simply reveals what people have been all the time. Paul tells us later that "each man’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it" (1 Corinthians 3:13).
So either the Rapture, or our own death, or the Second Coming of Christ and the Tribulation that precedes it, will end life as we know it.
The dangers Jesus warned of are what His church has faced from the beginning. There have always been deceiving teachers, persecution, and disasters. But what He says is that each of these areas will increase and intensify as Christ’s Coming draws near.
Q&A-39
Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to access weekly video releases over the next year, totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS featuring weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Clips are taken at just one of the places where we are taking our virtual journey through all the Lands of the Bible & Great Museums of the Bible on Paul’s Life & Letters Course. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND, Paul’s Life & Letters Course STUDY RESOURCES, and John’s two most loved books–David’s Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join
Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/
DTBM Academy Courses:
https://dtbma.com/Default.aspx
Purchase John’s Books, MP3 & DVD resources:
E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy
Here are links to our Amazon Pages–
https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm
Donate to the ministry: https://dtbm.org/donations/partnership/
For more of Dr. John Barnett’s Bible teaching messages, go to: https://dtbm.org/
https://youtu.be/81mS2pqPJqo