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Chapter 11: What happens after the Rapture of the Church?

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Our God is slow to anger and forgiving. That is His nature. But a day will come when His anger will spill
out against those who live in rebellion against Him. There are those who stick their hand up in His face
and defy Him to judge. Well, He also is a God of justice and wrath against sin. And soon, in the future,
the world will experience His wrath in a period called “the time of Jacob’s trouble.” Great prophetic
detail is given in God’s Word about what will happen during this awful time on earth. He will remove His
church and the restraining power of the Holy Spirit from the world, and man’s sinful nature will go
unrestrained. It will be a time of famine and starvation, pain, anarchy, warfare, and massive loss of life.

It is such a time that people will try to commit suicide, but not be able to die. Our minds cannot fathom
the extent of destruction that awaits the world in the future. Your neighbors and perhaps relatives will
experience God’s wrath if they do not know Him as their Savior and Lord. As we study these things, we
should be motivated to tell them about the wrath to come and share with them the Gospel, their only
way out.

Objectives…

1. The student should be able to explain the seventieth week of Daniel and how it fits into prophecy.

2. The student should be able to explain what the tribulation period is in Bible prophecy.

3. The student should be able to describe each of the seven seals and seven trumpets of judgment to be
poured out on the earth during the tribulation

The Lesson ...

The seventieth “seven years” of Daniel.

Daniel 9: 25-27 Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore
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and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for
sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. And after the
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sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince
who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end
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there shall be war. Desolations are decreed. And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one
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week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of
abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

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