Armageddon

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Armageddon

• Antichrist Last Stand
• Dan 1140-45

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War, Conflict, Fighting's

• In the Last 3400 years
• 268 years of peace
• Over 8000 peace treaties
• In the 20th Century over 100,000,000 people slain
  in armed conflict.

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War, Conflict, Fighting's

• Since WW2 there have been
• 18 limited wars
• 100s of political assassinations,
• Over 60 national revolts
• Over 100 rebellions for independence
• Over 200 Social revolutions
• Hundreds of thousands of murders

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Why???

• James 41 From whence come wars and fightings
  among you? come they not hence, even of your
  lusts that war in your members?
• The source of war comes from the heart of man!

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The Rush to Destruction

• Like a snow rolling down a hill we are gathering
  momentum in our rush toward Armageddon.
• If you want the details of that battle you must
  turn to Revelation.
• If you want the chronology of that battle you
  must turn to Daniel 11.

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The Sequence of EventsEvent 1 (Daniel 1140)

• Event 1 - An Invasion From the South
• A Bloc of nations invade Israel.
• Egypt will be the leader
• When ? During the middle of the tribulation
• Why ? It reaction to the antichrist desires, the
  south challenges Antichrist.

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Event 2 (Daniel 11 40)

• An invasion from the North (USSR)
• A block of nations north of Jerusalem
• In conjunction with Egypt
• Ezekiel 38 describes the details of the invasion.

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Event 3 (Daniel 11 40)

• The occupation of Israel by Antichrist
• He shall enter also into the glorious land, and
  many countries shall be overthrown

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Event 4 (Daniel 11 41-43)

• Antichrist retaliation against his enemies.
• Egypt destroyed
• Libya and Ethiopia will unite with the antichrist
• While in the South Antichrist will hear tidings
  out of the east
• An impending invasion of Israel by a 200,000,000
  man army.
• Also tidings out of the north Russia is coming
  again.

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Event 5 ( Daniel 1144)

• How? with great fury
• Where? at Armageddon
• Joel say the valley of Jehosophat
• Isaiah says Jerusalem
• Revelation says 1600 furlongs or 200 miles.

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Event 6 The Revelation of Jesus Christ

• The lights of heaven will be extinguished
• The shall appear the sign of the son of man
• Jesus Christ returns
• At that moment the Europeans, Russians, Chinese
  stop fighting one another and prepare to assault
  the Lord.

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The Glorious Return

• Whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness
  of his coming
• The Lord shall reign forever.

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Some Practical Lessons

• The Providence of God
• The wickedness of Mans Heart
• World peace is a pipe dream until Christ returns
• We are teetering on the brink of World War
• The gospel of Christ is our contribution to world
  peace.

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Chinese Proverb

• If there is righteous in the heart, there is
  beauty in the character.
• If there is beauty in the character, there is
  harmony in the home.
• If there is harmony in the home, then order is in
  the nations.
• If order is in the nations then there will be
  peace in the world.

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Only God !!!!!

• Only the gospel of Jesus Christ can put
  righteousness in the heart.
• Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ?