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REFLECTS EARTH BEING UNDER AHIGHLY MAGNIFIED CURSE FROM GOD
This is the last seven years of the fifth order. It is called the tribulation period. It begins with the rapture of the church and ends with the Second Coming of Jesus to earth.
Chart 22
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TFIFTH ORDER IN HEAVEN DURING THE TRIBULATION; CELEBRATION
There will be major changes in heaven during this short period of time. At the very start of this period Jesus will leave heaven and come to earth to collect his bride, the church. He will bring all of the spirits of believers living in heaven with him to earth. They will stop in the clouds above earth where Jesus will give each of them one of their gifts for belonging to him, a glorified, resurrected body which they will then have for ever into eternity. He will then call all living believers on earth to him and he will instantly change their human bodies into glorified bodies. There will then be a joyous return trip to heaven. Their stay in heaven will last only seven years, because at the end of the seven years Jesus will return to earth with all those making up his bride. He will end the terrible tribulation that is taking place on earth and save the earth from total destruction. Several other major things will also take place in heaven during this seven year period. Five months past the mid-point of the seven year period there will be another rapture event. This will be the rapture of the two witnesses. This will really be a very large group of people who will have accepted Jesus during the first half of the tribulation period, composed of both Jews and gentiles. They will be collected by the angelic forces of the antichrist and executed. They will be dead for three days after which they will be resurrected and raptured to heaven. Another major event in heaven will be the final expulsion of Satan and all of his angels from heaven sometime before the mid-point of the seven year period. They will be banned to earth and will not have any further access to heaven at any time. There will then be no more forces of evil in heaven, nor will there ever be again. There will be several reasons for celebration in heaven even while things are falling apart on earth. That tribulation on earth is really a forcing function to drive the Jewish people to finally accept Jesus as their God and Savior. It will be a success and will end with the Jewish people being gathered from all around the earth in belief with Jesus as their King of kings,
Chart 23
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FIFTH ORDER ON EARTH DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD
The last seven years of this order is a period known as the tribulation, a period initiated by the rapture of the church. It is a period when the blindness of the Jews will finally be removed and they will recognize Jesus as their God. Just as mankind was banned from access to heaven and confined to earth at the end of the second order so too will Satan and his evil angels be banned from heaven and confined to earth shortly before the middle of this seven year period. This represents the second and final event in the fall of Satan; the first a fall from the mount of God in heaven and the second a fall from heaven to earth. It will be a period when God will pour out his judgment on the earth for all of the wickedness of man, in a series of seven judgments. As a consequence the earth will be nearly destroyed. It will be saved from total destruction by the return of Jesus to earth at his Second Coming, Matt 24:21-22. Earth will be devastated by these judgments and about two thirds of all humans will be killed during the judgments. It will be a period of time largely dominated by the antichrist and the false prophet. It will see the earth hit by a large asteroid, razed by nuclear war, see all of its waters poisoned, become extremely hot, be tormented by evil angels released from the Abyss, and by Satan and his evil angels who will be cast down to earth from heaven. Talk about tribulation! Finally at the end of the seventh judgment Jesus will return to earth with his bride, put an end to the tribulation, send the antichrist and false prophet to the lake of fire, send Satan and his angels to the Abyss to be bound for a period of 1000 years, reconstruct the earth and place it back into a state of semi paradise, and finally conduct the sheep goat judgment. This judgment will determine who can stay on earth to begin the 1000 year millennium, during which Jesus will reign as King of kings. Only those who have accepted him as savior will be allowed to remain on earth. All other humans will be sent to Hades awaiting judgment at the end of the millennium. Whew!
Chart 24
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THE STATE OF MAN AFTER DEATH IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD
1. UNREDEEMED MAN
THIRD THROUGH SIXTH ORDERS: All unredeemed men, those who do not know or who have not accepted Jesus as Savior, will be sent to the “torments” section of Hades awaiting their final judgment. This judgment will take place at the end of the sixth order. See the discussion in the fourth order for details.
2. REDEEMED MAN
FIFTH ORDER DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD: This phase lasts from the time of Jesus death until the start of the millennium when Jesus will renew the three dimensional earth and place it back into a condition resembling the third order. Jesus death at the beginning of this order enabled a major change to be made in what happened to believers in Jesus when they died. He bought their pardon with his death; his shed blood then covered their sins so that they could again be seen as holy and perfect by God, permitting them to enter heaven. This represented the first phase of the removal of the barrier between heaven and earth which had been set up at the time of the fall of man. The spirits of those who accepted Jesus’ pardon were then able to enter heaven at the time of death. This act covered the sins of all believers past, present and future. Thus those in Abrahams Bosom were then eligible to have their spirits go to heaven. At the time of Jesus’ death he took the spirits of the redeemed who were in Abraham’s Bosom to heaven. The rapture will take place seven years before the end of this order and that will complicate things quite a bit. At the rapture Jesus will return to the vicinity of earth with the spirits of all of those in heaven. He will give each of them a glorified body and also collect all living believers on earth to him and transform their human bodies into glorified bodies. Jesus and all believers will then return to heaven for seven years. Each believer in heaven will then have a glorified body which can experience both heaven and earth at the same time. A complication will arise in that when those on earth who become believers after the rapture die they will go to heaven in spirit only. For the seven years of the tribulation there will apparently be believers in heaven both with and without glorified bodies. However it appears that there will be two more resurrections and raptures, one five months after the middle of the tribulation and the other at the Second Coming. Thus at the time of the Second Coming all believers of all ages who have died will have glorified resurrected bodies.