In Luke 21, Jesus preaches a sermon about the End of the World.
The world’s end is easier to understand when we compare it to the world around us.
That is what Jesus does. He points to things they knew and said, amplifying and multiplying them exponentially; then you will understand what is coming. Basically, Jesus describes a Global Final Holocaust—not merely of Jews and Christians—but of humans!
Within that message is what amounts to a survival guide for believers who have to exist during the Final Holocaust.
Although the believers He addresses are Tribulation saints, Jewish believers, and those saved through the ministry of the 144,000 Jewish evangelists and the Two Witnesses, the lessons have profound implications for us living in the days just before those events.
This morning, Christ’s words call us to be ready for the onset of the worst time in history. It will begin after the Church is raptured, but the climate of the Tribulation is already here. Are you prepared to survive the storms before the final storm?
Hitler’s Holocaust, horrible as it murdered over six million Jews alone, pales when compared to the Final Holocaust. If you watched the news this week, you saw images of what we most often use to remind us of the Final Solution—Hitler’s genocide. Briefly, here are the facts:
About 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz, of whom about 1.2 million were Jewish. That means that 1/5th of the six million Jews exterminated by Hitler died in this complex.
Other groups of people who died included Polish political prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, Gypsies, people with disabilities, and prisoners of conscience or religious faith.
The complex comprised three camps and at least 36 sub-camps, which were constructed between 1940 and 1942 on a 40-square-kilometer isolated site outside the town of Oswiecim.
If you listened this week, an incredible comparison can be drawn between Auschwitz and the Great Tribulation.
• Most scholars consider the first half of the seven-year final period of the Earth’s history relatively normal. The second half seems to have incredible destruction, demon armies, and death. In biblical terms, the Great Tribulation lasts 3 ½ years or 42 months.
• Auschwitz opened its doors to death by the gas chamber on September 3rd, 1941. The advance of the Soviet Army closed down the camp on January 27th, 1945. The death camp of the Holocaust operated for 3 ½ years or 42 months.
• So the death camp at Auschwitz and the Great Tribulation lasted almost precisely the same length of time. That is where the comparison stops. The Final Holocaust is so terrifying, so deadly, so inescapable that God personally steps in to stop it lest not one human be left alive!
WNS-06 – Jesus Explains the Tribulation (050130AM)
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