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would happen (Matt. 24-25)—an account which outlines the
book of Revelation from chapters 6 through 19. The book of
Revelation was written with special attention to what is and will
happen to the nation of Israel. It covers the spectrum of the
end times, from the Ephesus synagogue in chapter 2, to the
New Jerusalem as recorded in chapter 22. The last days of the
different synagogues (churches) will be as they were during
their first days.
Virtually all Bible expositors believe that all, or nearly all,
the churches in Revelation chapters 2 and 3 are in the past. But
with just a cursive inspection of the passages, the churches are
evidently Jewish in nature, they are in, “…great tribulation”
(Rev. 2:22)—and this tribulation is yet future.
TRIBULATIONS WILL LEAD TO THE END
People will suffer terrible tribulation (as clearly shown with
the Churches of Smyrna and Thyatira)! Such tribulation will be
unequaled from the beginning of the world, including the days
of Noah, and will never again be equaled (Matt. 24:21). The
things that will happen will first be God’s judgement of Israel,
and second God’s judgement of the Gentiles (the rest of man-
kind). What will happen to Israel is outlined in both the Old
and New Testaments of the Bible—in Daniel and Revelation.
END 490 YEARS OF SIN
God decreed 490 years for the Jews and Jerusalem to finish
transgressions, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to
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