The Great Tribulation starts 3 1/2 years after Israel signed a peace treaty with the leader of the 10 Muslim nations that surround Israel. This will happen very soon. This treaty is called in Isaiah a covenant of death [Isaiah 28:15: “Because you have said, ‘We have cut a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
Isaiah 28:18: Your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it].
The first 3 1/2 years of this treaty will be relatively peaceful. At the beginning of the second 31/2 year period, a war begins in heaven between the archangel Michael and the loyal angels and Satan and the rebellious angels, and Satan will be cast down to this earth. [Revelation 12:7-9: And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels went to fight with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back, they were not strong enough, nor was a place found for them in heaven anymore. Revelation 12:12: How terrible it will be for the earth and the sea because the Devil has gone down to you, having great fury, knowing that he has but a short time.”]
When Satan is cast down, he will enter into the leader of the Beast Power - the 10 Muslim nations that surround Israel and at that time the Beast Power will attack Israel. That is the beginning of the Great Tribulation, it will be a time like no other!
At the beginning of the attack, many people of Israel will flee to Mount Sinai located in Saudi Arabia. Satan will send a flood [army] to destroy them, but the earth will swallow up that army. As the invasion continues 2/3rds of the people of Israel will either be killed or taken captive to become slaves. A remnant will go up to Jerusalem and be protected by the 2 witnesses, that God will have sent there. This tribulation time will affect the rest of the world's nations, as there will be great economic upheaval at that time, as the Beast power will control the oil in the Middle East. At the end of the 31/2 years God- Yehovah will send down His uniquely begotten son to take his place on the throne of David at Zion. [Zechariah 12all]
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