Revelation 6:17

17 For the great day of His wrath (vengeance, retribution, indignation) has come, and who is able to stand before it?

After our Father allows a fourth part of the earth to be controlled and devastated by the powers of the Four Horseman, we see an increase, our Father actually adds to His wrath. Men see that the destruction is far greater than just war and the agonies of war; they now see natural disasters happening as well. Our Father will allow asteroids to hit the earth, He will unleash great earthquakes, the sky will roll back, and the sun will be darkened and moon will look like blood. These events now begin to affect a third of the earth. We will see that the effects of our Father’s wrath increases over the entire world in Revelation 8 with the description of the wrath of the Seven Trumpet’s.  Our best science today shows us that a very small asteroid hitting the earth, or a major earthquake or a volcano, will affect great expanses of the earth. 

Think of what the people of the earth will have been seeing during this time of tribulation with a fourth of the earth in a war. They will have seen people being killed by the millions and now they will see these massive natural disasters and know that more misery is coming. Inflation will be out of control, money will be useless. People will be starving and diseases will be decimating millions of people. The anti-christ will be furious and he will rage even more war. Babylon, the term that our Father gives to the worlds system of government and business, will completely collapse. No one will be able to repay their debt and banks will fail completely. The air will be filled with dust. Air travel and communications will be severely disrupted. 

This all comes on the world extremely fast too, in a single hour. There is going to be one devastation after another. It will all begin and end in just 3 1/2 years. Jesus also tells us that right before all of this Great Tribulation begins, that the world will be saying that all is peaceful and safe, 1 Thessalonians 5:3. When the wicked begin to say this, sudden destruction will overtake them. Remember though, we are not of this world, even though we are in this world, John 15:19. Our peace is that we are kept by our Father from all evil, John 17:15. 

I am asked all of the time if we are in the end times? I do not believe that we are yet. I believe that it is close though, but no one is saying that things are peaceful and safe right now. I also believe that the Body of Christ is not fully mature yet. When we are, the power that our Father will show through us will allow the wicked to say that things are safe and peaceful. When we are fully mature the wicked will take credit for our Father’s actions through us. Then the end times will begin. 

The world will suffer tremendously during the great Tribulation, but we will be used to serve those in need in this great time of trouble, Matthew 24:45-46. We will give food without buying it. We will give water, when there is none available. We will do the works that Jesus did and even greater works, John 14:12, because we will be a perfect church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, Ephesians 5:27!