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📖 Timeline of Events After the Rapture
- The Rapture of the Church
1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 – Believers are caught up to meet Christ in the air.
1 Corinthians 15:51–52 – In a moment, the dead in Christ are raised, and living believers are transformed.
👉 The true Church (all saved believers) is taken. The world is left in shock and confusion.
- Rise of the Antichrist
2 Thessalonians 2:3–4 – The “man of lawlessness” (Antichrist) is revealed.
Daniel 9:27 – He makes a covenant for 7 years, marking the beginning of the tribulation.
👉 He brings temporary peace, likely explaining away the rapture and uniting nations.
- The Seven-Year Tribulation
This period is divided into two halves (3.5 years each).
First Half (3.5 years)
Matthew 24:4–8 – “Beginning of sorrows”: wars, famines, earthquakes.
Revelation 6 – The first seals are opened: conquest, war, famine, death.
Revelation 11:3 – Two witnesses preach in Jerusalem.
👉 Many left behind come to faith, but persecution rises.
Middle of the Tribulation
Daniel 9:27 – The Antichrist breaks his covenant.
Matthew 24:15 – The “abomination of desolation” (Antichrist defiles the temple).
Revelation 13 – He demands worship, enforces the mark of the beast (without it no one can buy or sell).
👉 This is the turning point — the world enters great suffering.
Second Half (3.5 years) – The Great Tribulation
Matthew 24:21–22 – “Great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world.”
Revelation 16 – God’s final judgments (bowls of wrath).
Revelation 7:9, 13–14 – A multitude of believers come out of the tribulation (many through martyrdom).
👉 Intense persecution of believers + escalating judgments of God.
- The Second Coming of Christ
Revelation 19:11–16 – Christ returns with the armies of heaven.
Matthew 24:30 – “They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds with power and great glory.”
👉 Jesus defeats the Antichrist and his armies (Battle of Armageddon).
- The Millennium (1000-Year Reign)
Revelation 20:1–6 – Satan is bound, Christ reigns on earth for 1,000 years.
👉 A time of peace and justice under Christ’s rule.
- Final Judgment & Eternity
Revelation 20:11–15 – Great White Throne Judgment of the unsaved.
Revelation 21–22 – New Heaven and New Earth; eternal life with God for believers.
✅ Summary:
Rapture → Tribulation (7 years) → Second Coming → Millennium (1000 years) → Final Judgment → Eternity.
