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The Tribulation:
The Seventieth Week of Daniel



A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FROM THE RESOURCES OF WStS
Compiled by Katie Stewart

DEFINITION OF "The Tribulation": the time in which God completes the Judgment of the World. Also known as "The Seventieth Week of Daniel" (Daniel 9:24-27). The Tribulation Week is a composite name derived from the term "weeks" from the Daniel 9 prophecy, and from the term "great tribulation" from Jesus' Matthew 24 Olivet Discourse. Please see our "Tribulation Timeline Big Chart" ---New Window for a visual depicting these events.

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PFYI article: The Seventy Weeks of Daniel by Tom Stewart

  1. "Seventy weeks are determined upon Thy people and upon Thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in Everlasting Righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy" (Daniel 9:24). Daniel's Seventieth Week (Daniel 9:27)-- known also as the Tribulation Week-- is the present focus of prophetic interest, because it still remains to be fulfilled. However, The Ancient of Days (7:9) has wisely outlined a much broader program of Seventy Weeks. Read More About It: The Seventy Weeks of Daniel ---New Window

  2. Contrary to the belief of the lost sinner-- and backslidden professing Christian-- all sin must be judged. "Every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward" (Hebrews 2:2) in the past. Since God has not changed-- "I am the LORD, I change not" (Malachi 3:6)-- He will still judge all sin. "For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged" (1Corinthians 11:31). God hates sin, so there will be a Tribulation Week. Read More About It: The Seventy Weeks of Daniel ---New Window

  3. It is entirely proper to view the Seventy Weeks (Daniel 9:24) as representative of a period greater than 490 days. "After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know My breach of Promise" (Numbers 14:34). Read More About It: The Seventy Weeks of Daniel ---New Window

  4. In his book The Coming Prince ---New Window (1895), Sir Robert Anderson carefully outlined the position that the Seventy Weeks could be taken as: (1) 69 weeks: adding together "seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks" (Daniel 9:25), plus (2) a disconnected and final 70th week, i.e., separated from the end of the 69th Week (April 6th 32 AD) by approximately 1,966 years until the beginning of the 70th Week (1998 AD): "he [the Antichrist] shall confirm the Covenant with many for one week [the 70th week]" (9:27). Read More About It: The Seventy Weeks of Daniel ---New Window

  5. John Gill's Expositor (1760) commented on Daniel 9:25-- "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times" (Daniel 9:25)-- in agreement with Sir Robert Anderson. Incidentally, Gill did briefly state another position on the Seventy Weeks taken from Sir Isaac Newton's Observations on Daniel. Read More About It: The Seventy Weeks of Daniel ---New Window

  6. The Seventy Weeks of Daniel prophecy (Daniel 9:24-27) concerns the Jews, i.e., Daniel's "people" (9:24). Read More About It: The Seventy Weeks of Daniel ---New Window

  7. Gabriel's delivery of this prophecy concerning the Jews and Jerusalem (Daniel 9:24-27) demonstrates how a deficiency of understanding of Old Testament prophecies has crippled modern Christianity's appreciation of this Time of the End (12:4). Read More About It: The Seventy Weeks of Daniel ---New Window

  8. When He whose "name is called The Word of God" (Revelation 19:13) appears at His Second Coming to "smite the nations" (19:15), then Everlasting Righteousness will be brought in. Read More About It: The Seventy Weeks of Daniel ---New Window

  9. Why would the LORD go through all the trouble of revealing His prophetic program to Daniel, only to tell Daniel to "shut up the words, and seal the book"? It appears that the LORD will divulge His battle plans only on a "need-to-know" basis. Read More About It: The Seventy Weeks of Daniel ---New Window

  10. That "fullness" (Romans 11:12) will come in a single day. "Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children" (Isaiah 66:8). Along with converted Israel will come the converted Gentiles to physically populate the world under the dominion of the King Of Kings, and LORD Of Lords. Read More About It: The Seventy Weeks of Daniel ---New Window

  11. The inhabitants of Heaven are awed by the "manifold Wisdom of God" (Ephesians 3:10) in the planning and execution of the Seventy Weeks. Read More About It: The Seventy Weeks of Daniel ---New Window

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PFYI article: Why Will There Be a Tribulation? by Tom Stewart

  1. The Angel Gabriel delivered to Daniel the prophecy of the Seventy Weeks (Daniel 9:24-27) that informs us that making "an end of sins" (9:24) is God's motivation for the completion of the 70th Week (or, the Tribulation Week). Read More About It: Why Will There Be a Tribulation? ---New Window

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PFYI article: Tribulation Timeline: When Shall These Things Be? (Part 1) by Tom Stewart

  1. The Seventieth Week of Daniel Outlines the Events That Are About to Unfold. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 1) ---New Window

  2. The First "Come Up Hither" is the event before the Tribulation Week begins where the LORD Jesus Christ removes His watching saints, as well as (in the opinion of this writer) all the innocents (those who are not yet moral agents -- such as young children or infants). Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 1) ---New Window

  3. The Second "Come Up Hither" is the event that this writer calls The Rapture. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 1) ---New Window

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PFYI article: Tribulation Timeline: When Shall These Things Be? (Part 2) by Tom Stewart

  1. The Seven Seal Judgments. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  2. The 1st Seal has a rider on a white horse going forth to conquer. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  3. The 2nd Seal has a red horse whose rider has a sword, implying war. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  4. The 3rd Seal has a black horse of famine. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  5. The 4th Seal has the pale horse of death. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  6. The 5th Seal is the martyrdom of the Tribulation Saints. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  7. immediately after the end of the Tribulation Week. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  8. The middle of the Tribulation Week. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  9. The 6th Seal is the heavenly turmoil as well as earthquakes. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  10. The Sixth Seal judgment is 11 1/2 days prior to the middle of the Tribulation Week. And here's why... Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  11. The Russian invasion of Israel, in alliance with the Arab nations that hate the existence of modern Israel, seems to be the event that is worthy of the beginning of the ministry of God's two witnesses, Moses and Elijah. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  12. Temple sacrifice will be in progress 220 days after the beginning of the Tribulation Week. How so? Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  13. God's prophets, Moses and Elijah, appear, and call down a supernatural judgment of fire. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  14. The 7th Seal is an ominous silence in Heaven for the space of 1/2 hour while the angels prepare to sound the following Trumpet judgments. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  15. the 7th Seal judgment opens up to all the remaining judgments. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

  16. This is the time of "Jacob's trouble" (Jeremiah 30:7). Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window

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PFYI article: Tribulation Timeline: When Shall These Things Be? (Part 3) by Tom Stewart

  1. The Seven Trumpet Judgments. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 3) ---New Window

  2. The 1st Trumpet judgment is hailstones, fire, and blood cast down upon the earth. The result is 1/3 of all trees and all green grass are destroyed by fire. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 3) ---New Window

  3. The 2nd Trumpet judgment is another instance of God casting a heavenly body to earth. This time it is described as a "great mountain burning with fire" (Revelation 8:8). An asteroid impact in the sea could have the effect of wiping out 1/3 of all of life in the sea as well as ships in the area of contact. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 3) ---New Window

  4. The 3rd Trumpet judgment is the star called Wormwood crashing down upon the rivers and the springs or sources of the fresh water. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 3) ---New Window

  5. The 4th Trumpet judgment causes the light of the sun, moon, and stars to be lessened by 1/3. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 3) ---New Window

  6. The 5th Trumpet judgment is the plague of demonic locusts that the LORD releases upon wicked men for 5 months. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 3) ---New Window

  7. The 6th Trumpet judgment is the slaughter of 1/3 of all remaining men by wicked angels as they are assisted by an army of 200,000,000 demonic horsemen. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 3) ---New Window

  8. Because man was created on the 6th day of creation, six is the number of man. Accordingly, the Sabbath-Millennium gives man six 1,000 year days for a total of 6,000 years before the last 1,000 years or Sabbath-Millenial day takes place-- for a total of seven days or 7,000 years. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 3) ---New Window

  9. the 6th Trumpet will sound on approximately day 2,122 of Daniel's 70th Week, which is about one month shy of 6 prophetic years into the Week. It occurs 150 days after the 5th Trumpet, and it lasts for 391 days and 1 hour (a year, a month, a day, and an hour). Who needs to know this? You, my reader, may need to know this. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 3) ---New Window

  10. The 7th Trumpet judgment is the announcement that the kingdoms of this world are now become the kingdom of Christ. This is the prelude to the opening of the Vials of the wrath of God. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 3) ---New Window

  11. This is the judgment that is identified with the Last Trump. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 3) ---New Window

  12. This can properly be called the Second "Come Up Hither", or the Rapture, because the LORD resurrects His two prophets and gives the command to Moses and Elijah, approximately one hour prior to this 7th Trumpet judgment, to "Come up hither". Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 3) ---New Window

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PFYI article: Tribulation Timeline: When Shall These Things Be? (Part 4) by Tom Stewart

  1. The Seven Vial Judgments. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 4) ---New Window

  2. The 1st Vial Judgment is the vial, or bowl, which begins the pouring out of "the wrath of God upon the earth" (Revelation 16:1). Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 4) ---New Window

  3. The 2nd Vial Judgment is where the angel of the Most High God pours out a vial upon the sea, which turns it to blood. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 4) ---New Window

  4. The 3rd Vial Judgment is God's judgment upon fresh water and its sources. An angel pours out the vial upon all fresh water. It all becomes blood. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 4) ---New Window

  5. The 4th Vial Judgment is the pouring out of a vial on the sun. The result is the scorching of mankind with great heat. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 4) ---New Window

  6. The 5th Vial Judgment is a painful darkness that the 5th angel pours out upon the kingdom of the Antichrist. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 4) ---New Window

  7. The 6th Vial Judgment is the 6th angel pouring out a vial upon the Euphrates River to prepare the way for the Kings of the East-- and the rest of the world-- for the Battle of Armageddon. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 4) ---New Window

  8. The 7th Vial Judgment is poured by the 7th angel into the air. Thunders, lightnings, a great earthquake, a disappearance of islands and mountains, and a great hail result from this Vial Judgment. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 4) ---New Window

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PFYI article: 1998: Year of the Apocalypse (Part 2) by Tom Stewart

  1. As we approach the Seventieth Week of Daniel, it would greatly aid the faith of those who are watching and waiting, as the Wise Virgins of Matthew 25, to see how the LORD told Ezekiel to record a prophecy in 593 BC that would mathematically bring us to the 1967 Israeli recapture of Jerusalem during the Six Day War. Read More About It: 1998: Year of the Apocalypse (Part 2) ---New Window

  2. In essence, disobedience would be punished by allowing Israel's enemies to consume them (Leviticus 26:14-16). Jehovah promised that He would set His face against them (26:17). They would be in Servitude to Israel's enemies. "They that hate you shall reign over you" (26:17). But, God solemnly warns what He will do if that Servitude does not reform them. "And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins" (Leviticus 26:18). A sevenfold judgment would be pronounced. Read More About It: 1998: Year of the Apocalypse (Part 2) ---New Window

  3. Ezekiel's 430 Day prophecy mathematically brings us to the May 14, 1948 rebirth of the nation of Israel and to the June 7, 1967 recapture of Jerusalem. Nothing can be more definitive than the words of our LORD: "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled" (Luke 21:32). Again, we are the Terminal Generation. Read More About It: 1998: Year of the Apocalypse (Part 2) ---New Window

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PFYI article: 1998: Year of the Apocalypse (Part 3) by Tom Stewart

  1. the doors of Jesus' statement in the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24:33) refer to the Two Raptures. The "all these things" (Matthew 24:33,34) refers to the events preceding the Two Raptures, but more specifically to the 2nd and final Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Tribulation Saints. Therefore, the words of the LORD Jesus, "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled" (Matthew 24:34), tell us that the Terminal Generation ends at the Pre-Wrath Rapture (or, the Second "Come Up Hither"). Now, if we could only determine exactly how long a generation is... Read More About It: 1998: Year of the Apocalypse (Part 3) ---New Window

  2. the concept of being delivered from "the hour of temptation" (Revelation 3:10), doubles as a general promise of escape from the entire Tribulation Week for the watching and waiting ones at the Pre-Tribulational Rapture, as well as a specific promise of escape for the Tribulational Saints at the Pre-Wrath Rapture. Read More About It: 1998: Year of the Apocalypse (Part 3) ---New Window

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PFYI article: For the Elect's Sake by Tom Stewart

  1. the final Salvation of both the Nation Born In A Day (Isaiah 66:8), i.e., Israel, as well as the Salvation of the Gentiles, who shall enter the Millennium, depends upon the LORD God's merciful cutting short of the Tribulation Week. Read More About It: For the Elect's Sake ---New Window

  2. Exactly How Long Will the Tribulation Week Be? / Daniel's 70th Week is the Tribulation Week / A Prophetic Week is 7 Years / A Prophetic Year is 360 Days / Time, Times, and Half a Time is 3 1/2 Years / If 1,260 Days is Half of a Week, Then 2,520 Days (1,260 X 2) is a Whole Tribulation Week. Read More About It: For the Elect's Sake ---New Window

  3. The 4th Trumpet Judgment / Occurs During the Second Half of the Tribulation Week / Designed to Strongly Influence But Not to Finally Judge Mankind / The Remaining 3 Trumpet and 7 Vial Judgments Take Up Approximately 18 Months of the Remaining Tribulation Week / The 4th Trumpet Judgment Points to a Speeding Up of the Rotation of the Planet Earth. Read More About It: For the Elect's Sake ---New Window

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PFYI article: The Tribulation Survival Guide by Tom Stewart

  1. I am persuaded that the single most important human factor that affects our survivability until the LORD would take us out of this world, is our faith in God. Read More About It: The Tribulation Survival Guide ---New Window

  2. Though mere existence for the sake of existence is not the goal of the Saints, the fact that God maintains His people on this planet during the troublesome times of the Tribulation Week (Daniel 9:24-27) is a glory to God and a vexation to the Antichrist. "But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal" (Romans 11:4). Read More About It: The Tribulation Survival Guide ---New Window

  3. Remember, if you expect directions, you will receive directions. "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My Name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full" (John 16:24). Read More About It: The Tribulation Survival Guide ---New Window

  4. Falling into the Great Sin of the Tribulation-- worshipping the Man of Sin as God-- as repulsive as it now seems, will then be more seductively easy than ever. But, the LORD will give His people faith to escape this delusion. Read More About It: The Tribulation Survival Guide ---New Window

  5. Strangely, the complete hopelessness (humanly speaking) of the plight of the Tribulation Saints is an argument for Divine Intervention. "I, even I, am He that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass" (Isaiah 51:12). Read More About It: The Tribulation Survival Guide ---New Window

  6. No one can honestly dispute that the time of the Tribulation Week will be unusual times. "For then shall be Great Tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be" (Matthew 24:21). The Saints should expect the assistance of the LORD's angels. "For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways" (Psalm 91:11). Read More About It: The Tribulation Survival Guide ---New Window

  7. Fleeing to another city-- as opposed to a wilderness location-- depends upon what expectation you have been given. Read More About It: The Tribulation Survival Guide ---New Window

  8. Divine Interference may be more noticeable during the Trumpet Judgments of the second half of the Tribulation Week (Revelation 8-11). Read More About It: The Tribulation Survival Guide ---New Window

  9. Scripture clearly reveals that many-- but not all-- will be martyred during the Tribulation Week. Read More About It: The Tribulation Survival Guide ---New Window

  10. Never underestimate the Love of God. Read More About It: The Tribulation Survival Guide ---New Window

  11. The very incomprehensible nature of the judgments of God makes preparation for the Tribulation Week impossible. Read More About It: The Tribulation Survival Guide ---New Window

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PFYI article: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 1) by Tom Stewart

  1. The serial nature of the list of Seven Churches gives rise to comparing them to a serial or chronological list of periods representing the totality of Church History, as well as a chronological list of Tribulation Week Progress.. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 1) ---New Window

  2. "out of His mouth went a sharp twoedged sword" Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 1) ---New Window

  3. "the things which shall be hereafter" Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 1) ---New Window

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PFYI article: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 2) by Tom Stewart

  1. "Ten days" seems to be a determined period of testing, as it was with Daniel eating the king's meat. "Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink" (Daniel 1:12). Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 2) ---New Window

  2. Overcoming for the faithful. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 2) ---New Window

  3. "Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds." Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 2) ---New Window

  4. Coupled with the LORD's exhortation to repent, is a threat-- repent "or else I will come unto thee quickly". Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 2) ---New Window

  5. That only those who are presently walking with the LORD could pay heed to the message to the Seven Churches, is evident by the phrase, "he that hath an ear". Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 2) ---New Window

  6. Suffering and persecution are God's appointed tools to sanctify His people. Though this concept may startle contemporary professing Christians, it was employed by the Father in the sanctification of His own Son. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 2) ---New Window

  7. "even where Satan's seat is" Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 2) ---New Window

  8. May we always remember that God's hatred of our sinning and worldliness will always move Him to deal with us. "They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they Him to anger" (Deuteronomy 32:16). Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 2) ---New Window

  9. This sounds much the same as the warning to the professed Christians to disassociate themselves from Babylon before its coming destruction. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 2) ---New Window

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PFYI article: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 3) by Tom Stewart

  1. The condition of basically Alive-in-Name-Only Sardis is much more critical than apparent to modern readers of the Revelation, for the LORD said, "I have not found thy works perfect before God." Perfection, as far as our LORD Jesus was concerned, is simply to give ourselves 100% to God, as He has completely offered Himself to us. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 3) ---New Window

  2. Even inside the Professed Church, there are only a "few" that had "not defiled their garments". Why? Defilement occurs because we do not hate sinning. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 3) ---New Window

  3. Our omniscient Eldest Brother (Hebrews 2:11), the LORD Jesus, assessed the condition of Faithful Philadelphia, with the offer of a Window of Opportunity to accomplish the ministry of His Word, i.e., "I have set before thee an Open Door". Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 3) ---New Window

  4. When God's people are unwilling to let the difference between the holy and the profane, to become blurred by those who falsely profess Spirituality, i.e., the "synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie", then the LORD Jesus will ensure that that difference will be upheld at His Judgment Seat. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 3) ---New Window

  5. Because of Faithful Philadelphia's keeping of the "Word Of [His] Patience", the LORD Jesus has promised those who have that Spiritual character of the Philadelphians: "I also will keep thee from the Hour of Temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the Earth." Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 3) ---New Window

  6. With the words "hold that fast which thou hast" (Revelation 3:11), the LORD warns His faithful to "keep on, keepin' on". The key to receiving the benefit of anything received by faith, is patience and perseverance. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 3) ---New Window

  7. The description of the LORD Jesus as the "Amen, the Faithful and True Witness" is our LORD's way of showing the necessity of clear-cut delineations between good and evil, light and darkness-- as opposed to the unwillingness to take a stand for the good and against the evil. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 3) ---New Window

  8. It is actually a matter of joy that the LORD sees something about Deceived Laodicea's sonship, that Laodicea could only prove by repentance. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 3) ---New Window

  9. However, notice that the LORD Jesus Christ is standing outside of the church at Laodicea-- knocking for permission to enter. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 3) ---New Window

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PFYI article: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 4) by Tom Stewart

  1. this chapter of the Revelation begins with a new, Heavenly vision, when he saw that a "door was opened in Heaven" (4:1). This is the Open Door of the Pre-Tribulational Rapture that was shown to the faithful Philadelphians. "I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept My Word, and hast not denied My Name" (3:8). Interestingly, the LORD Jesus described more than one door in His Olivet Discourse. "So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors" (Matthew 24:33). Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 4) ---New Window

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PFYI article: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 5) by Tom Stewart

  1. "Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the Book, and to loose the Seven Seals thereof." Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 5) ---New Window

  2. The new song begins, "Thou art worthy to take the Book, and to open the seals thereof" (Revelation 5:9), because the LORD Jesus' worthiness is key to His ability to open the seals. "O sing unto the LORD a new song; for He hath done marvellous things: His right hand, and His holy arm, hath gotten Him the victory" (Psalm 98:1). The song continues, "Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation" (Revelation 5:9), demonstrating that His atonement is the basis for His worthiness. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 5) ---New Window

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PFYI article: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 6) by Tom Stewart

  1. When considering the Apocalyptic Judgments, we must remember that "God is the Judge" (Psalm 75:7). Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window

  2. This is the First Seal Judgment, which signifies political conquering... white horse. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window

  3. This Second Seal Judgment (6:4) shows us a red horse, which indicates the blood of warfare. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window

  4. The Third Seal Judgment reveals a rider of a black horse (6:5). Black indicates the suffering of famine. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window

  5. "A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny" Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window

  6. A pale horse is ridden by one named "Death"-- followed by "Hell" (6:8)-- in this Fourth Seal Judgment, which is hardly a good name for anyone but an emissary of Satan. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window

  7. The Martyrs' Seal is the Fifth Seal Judgment. Death for the "Word of God, and for the testimony which they held" (6:9) is distinguished from simply dying as the unelect in the Fourth Seal Judgment. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window

  8. "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" Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window

  9. "every mountain and island were moved out of their places." Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window

  10. These Seal Judgments encompass a period of 3 1/2 years-- the first half of the Tribulation Week; and, the "vials of the wrath of God" (Revelation 16:1) will not be poured out until the End of the Tribulation Week. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window

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PFYI article: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 7) by Tom Stewart

  1. The Judge of All the Earth (Genesis 18:25) not only can, but will seal the "servants of our God in their foreheads" (7:3) to righteously preserve His Saints and judge His enemies. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 7) ---New Window

  2. This "Great Multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues" (7:9) speaks primarily of the Gentile Believers that come out of the Second Half of the Tribulation Week, i.e., "out of Great Tribulation" (7:14). Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 7) ---New Window

  3. What a majestic spectacle this would be, to see, hear, feel, and experience more than 100,000,000 angels-- "ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands" (5:11)-- worshipping God! Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 7) ---New Window

  4. These martyred, but now glorified Saints now stand before the "throne of God", serving the LORD "day and night in His Temple" (7:15). Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 7) ---New Window

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PFYI article: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 8) by Tom Stewart

  1. When the LORD Jesus Christ opens the Seventh Seal Judgment, the immediate effect is silence in Heaven. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 8) ---New Window

  2. A picture of the Judgments of the Tribulation Week would begin with the Seal Judgments (6:1-17; 8:1) occupying the First Half of the Week. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 8) ---New Window

  3. The angel that "stood at the Altar" (8:3) would be one of the four divisions of Holy Angels described in Scripture. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 8) ---New Window

  4. 1/3 of all "trees" and "green grass" will be "burnt up" (8:7), when the First Trumpet Judgment sounds. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 8) ---New Window

  5. Again, 1/3 of something is affected-- this time by the Second Trumpet Judgment, i.e., the "third part of the sea became blood". Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 8) ---New Window

  6. This Third Trumpet Judgment is an act of God, resulting from the impact of a star "called Wormwood" (8:11). Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 8) ---New Window

  7. The overall effect of this Fourth Trumpet Judgment is a shifting of man's perception of time, as well as, utter chaos and confusion; while not breaking His Word that He gave in the Noahic Covenant. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 8) ---New Window

  8. If the LORD was only designing to annihilate mankind at this time, why would He warn the wicked, "Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the Earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound" (8:13)? Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 8) ---New Window

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PFYI article: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 9) by Tom Stewart

  1. As the Second Half of the Tribulation Week progresses from the Seal Judgments to the Trumpet Judgments, the intensity of God's dealing increases by at least a third... This chapter begins with the sounding of the Fifth Trumpet Judgment, where a "star" falls "from Heaven unto the Earth" (Revelation 9:1). Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 9) ---New Window

  2. The "Bottomless Pit" (9:2) is the Abyss. This place cannot be a physical confine, but a spiritual cage for demons. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 9) ---New Window

  3. Ants, bees, and termites are the most numerous and prevalent of insects upon the planet; but, possibly, the locusts are best known for their destructive plagues.. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 9) ---New Window

  4. To these, suicide is preferable to the pain of living; but, God does not allow the afflicted rebels the luxury of death-- "death shall flee from them" (9:6). Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 9) ---New Window

  5. "And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men." Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 9) ---New Window

  6. "And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the Bottomless Pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 9) ---New Window

  7. At the sounding of the Second Woe (8:13) or the Sixth Trumpet Judgment (9:13), the very voice of the Living God comes forth "from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God" (9:13)... The angel, who sounds the Sixth Trumpet Judgment, is divinely commanded to set free "four angels" (9:14). These four angels must be evil angels, because God never imprisons the righteous angels-- only the evil. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 9) ---New Window

  8. If the Tribulation Week began with 6 billion people, then the Fourth Seal Judgment would slay a "fourth part of the Earth" (6:8)-- or, 1.5 billion dead-- leaving 4.5 billion. A "third part of men" (9:15)-- or, 1.5 billion men-- are slain in the Sixth Trumpet Judgment. The combination of both judgments yields 3 billion dead, which is half of the initial number to enter the Tribulation Week. "For by fire and by His sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many" (Isaiah 66:16). Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 9) ---New Window

  9. An army of 200 million-- "two hundred thousand thousand" (9:16)-- horsemen are described. It can be seen that these are not mere human soldiers, but Demonic Horsemen. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 9) ---New Window

  10. As the Sixth Trumpet Judgment proceeds toward the last few months of the Tribulation Week, the men that will repent, have done so; and, those who will not repent, are hardened. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 9) ---New Window

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PFYI article: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 10) by Tom Stewart

  1. The Book of Revelation is a book of angels, since about a fourth of all mention of angels in Scripture, occurs in the Apocalypse. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 10) ---New Window

  2. The "mighty angel" (10:1) holds a "Little Book open" (10:2), indicating that the information contained therein is from God and that the Apostle John was given access to the "open" Book. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 10) ---New Window

  3. Seven times in the Twenty-Ninth Psalm does the Psalmist mention the Voice of Jehovah. This is a clue to the identity of the Seven Thunders. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 10) ---New Window

  4. The expression "the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound" (10:7) refers specifically to the Seventh Trumpet Judgment (11:15), which sounds approximately 8-9 days before the End of the Tribulation Week. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 10) ---New Window

  5. The angel responds to John with further instructions. "Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey" (10:9). Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 10) ---New Window

  6. But, the fact that the Apostle John was shown the contents of the Little Book and was told not to divulge it to the readers of this Apocalypse (10:4), indicates that John will be back at a future time in the Tribulation Week to make plain to all exactly what he was shown. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 10) ---New Window

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PFYI article: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 11) by Tom Stewart

  1. Four times in the Revelation does the Apostle John use the expression, "in the Spirit" (1:10; 4:2; 17:3; 21:10). Each of these instances signifies a vision that John was given to "shew unto [Christ's] servants things which must shortly come to pass" (Revelation 1:1). The four visions divide the structure of the Revelation. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 11) ---New Window

  2. It is the belief of this writer that the ministry of the Two Witnesses begins 11 1/2 days prior to the Middle of the Tribulation Week. A number of assumptions are necessary to support this conclusion. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 11) ---New Window

  3. The Two Witnesses-- Moses and Elijah-- are identified as the "two olive trees, and the two candlesticks" (11:4). Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 11) ---New Window

  4. Through His Two Witnesses, the LORD Jesus Christ reveals Himself as a Fierce Opponent that devours, hurts, and kills His enemies.. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 11) ---New Window

  5. Moses and Elijah are most probably the Two Witnesses indicated in this verse because of the similarity of their previous earthly ministries to the deeds of these Two Witnesses.. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 11) ---New Window

  6. Revelation tells us that the ministry of the Two Witnesses will be cut short by their death. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 11) ---New Window

  7. the world, that has been watching the spectacle of their dead bodies crumpled in the streets of Jerusalem, now will see the Omnipotent, Resurrection Power of the Almighty at work in the resurrection of the Two Witnesses. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 11) ---New Window

  8. Just as the Pre-Tribulational Rapture will be announced by the First "Come Up Hither" (Revelation 4:1), the Pre-Wrath Rapture will be announced by this Second "Come Up Hither" (11:12). Why call this Rapture a Pre-Wrath Rapture? Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 11) ---New Window

  9. "And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of Heaven." Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 11) ---New Window

  10. as the Seventh Day of the Creation Week symbolized the completion of God's creative work (Genesis 2:2-3), the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet is both the completion of this series of Seven Trumpet Judgments, as well as the Last Trump to sound before the Resurrection of all the Saints of all time. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 11) ---New Window

  11. That this is the time of the Pre-Wrath Rapture, can be seen by: (1) The "vials of the wrath of God" (16:1) are now to be poured out, i.e., "Thy wrath is come" (11:18). (2) The Bema Seat Judgment (2Corinthians 5:10) of all the Saints occurs at this time. Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 11) ---New Window

  12. "And the Temple of God was opened in Heaven, and there was seen in His Temple the Ark of His Testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail." Read More About It: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 11) ---New Window
WStS NOTE: More will be added from the "Commentary" as it becomes available.

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PFYI article: Thy Hidden Ones by Tom Stewart

  1. If I were to miss the Pre-Tribulational Rapture, it would only be because I was walking in known sin... After making right my repentance, I would immediately beg God's Spirit to teach me His will for what I should now do. Read More About It: Thy Hidden Ones ---New Window

  2. God alone will decide what action is to be taken, and one need not fear the lack of approval from other Tribulation Saints. Read More About It: Thy Hidden Ones ---New Window

  3. If the Seven Churches of Revelation 2-3 represent the history of the Church-- not to mention, seven kinds of professing Christians at any time, or seven kinds