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There is only one place in the Bible which can help us to put all Bible prophecies in chronological order. It is chapter 12 of Revelation (in details on page 11). The chapter summarizes Bible prophecies of the past and future in its chronological order.

Verse 6 tells that Christian church was under persecution during 1260 prophetical years (from 606 to 1849 AD - see prophecy about the little horn).
Verse 7 - after that there was the heavenly war in heaven caused by Satan and his angels.
Verse 8 - Judgment upon Satan and his angels (Dan. 7:10, 21-22, 25-26 tells the same).
Verse 9 - Satan and his angels were cast down to earth. Verse 11 (and Dan. 7:27) - the heavenly sanctuary was cleansed (in 1850 AD - see prophecy about 2300 days),
Verse 10 (and Dan. 7:13,14) Jesus received all power in the Kingdom of Heaven, He defeated Satan and was chosen to open the Book of Life (Rev.5:5). Thus, Jesus had began to open the seals of the book (v.12) from 1850.

The 1-st seal (white horse - ideology) – 1850 – New Age Movement - new doctrines disguised under Christianity or which had replaced it, such as: Spiritism, evolution, theosophy, Mormons teachings and ctr.; technical revolution, that gave people false illusion that people can live without God and themselves can become gods.
The 2nd seal (red horse - wars) –1914 – First and Second world wars.
The 3rd seal (black horse - hunger) - After the First World war the largest famine in the history began.
The 4th seal (pale horse - death) – highest death rate on ¼ of the planet (Africa, Near and Middle East).
The 5th seal (killing of Christians) was opened in the 1990s. From that time on radical Islam was getting power, and Christians of many Eastern countries were forced to make the choice: to convert to Islam or to die. It is where we are right now.

The opening of the 6-th seal will be the greatest world disaster ever: “every mountain and island were moved out of their places;…every slave and every free man” will see it (Rev.6:14,15). This will be the passing of the Planet-X.

Then the righteous will be sealed by God. When 7-th seal will be broken, the antichrist will announce himself as God, and God's power over the earth will be removed. From catastrophic events only those who will have His seal will be protected, to protect rest of the people God will not have the right. Those who will have His seal can be killed only by antichrist's servants.

Daniel's and John's prophecies clearly speak that everything is already prepared for antiChrist government (The image, beasts of Daniel and "Revelation" Beasts of "Revelation" Whore of Babylon).

10 toes of the image from the Daniel's prophecy do not mean 10 ancient tribes Roman empire (the terrible fourth beast with 10 horns) was divided into. Because the government of the little horn was much later than governments of the 10 horns, but even his government was finished at 1849 (1260 days of the little horn ), and most of the 10 tribes/kingdoms exist even today, horn in the prophecy symbolizes not a kingdom, but a person in power. 10 horns mean the last world government before Jesus' coming . This is the same government, John spoke about. It is the beast with 7 heads, 10 horns and 10 crowns upon them. So the 10 toes of the image are the 10 horns of the beast with crowns on them. This is the last world government.

Today we already have this beast with 7 heads, it is NATO. Soon after Russia (Bear) will be included to NATO, the power will pass to the global government. 10 horns/persons (perhaps, UN Security Council ) will receive crowns and will manage the destiny of the planet. The antichrist will be among them. The Ultimate governing body besides UN can be some another union, that can be created after the opening of the 6-th seal.

The Prostitute Babylon (Vatican) already sits on the beast - NATO (in all 27 Christian countries the Catholic church has most influence). When 10 horns will receive authority, they will burn out Vatican (out-of-date religious center), and will transfer their authority to the antichrist.

The antichrist will rule for 7 years. The beginning of his 7-year government will be marked by the peace treaty that he will manage to make with Arab nations. That will give him world popularity, then after the opening of the 6-th seal - the crossing of the planet X- the world power will be given to the 10 horns (UN Security Council, a controlling organ of NATO or some other new union), and "the world famous peacemaker" antichrist will be in there also. After the opening of the 7 seal 10 horns will give complete power to the antichrist and he will proclaim himself god. From occupation of Jerusalem, for 3,5 years, he will have absolute universal power (The 70 weeks prophecy ). When he will receive complete control, angels will begin to blow into the trumpets (Trumpets of “Revelation”).

With the first trumpet Jerusalem, which has to become the new religious world center, will be surrounded by armies of the antichrist.
«And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary....» (Dan.11:31).

Mat.24:15,16; Mark 13:14; Luke 21:20,21 say about the event before the Second coming: “When ye therefore shall see the .. desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet (the verse above), stand in the holy place (the sanctuary)… Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains”

“They have blown the trumpet… But they that escape of them .. shall be on the mountains (it is the same as “flee into the mountains”)… and they shall pollute my secret place (the sanctuary)” (Ezek.7:14-18,22).

From the occupation of Jerusalem or from the first trumpet the great tribulation of Christians will start. “great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Mat.24:21, Mark 13:19, Dan.12:1). That means 3,5 years of the great power of antichrist will start from the first trumpet.

3,5 years of antichrist’s full power it is: “a time, and times, and half a time” before the resurrection of the dead (Dan.12:7), time of persecution of the church (Rev.12:14), time of the antichrist -“half of the week” (Dan.9:27), time of occupation of Jerusalem “forty and two months” (Rev.13:5), time of two prophets “1260 days” (Rev.11:3).

Thus, after the occupation of Jerusalem the antichrist will sit in the temple as god. He will have all the power over the world for 3,5 years and he will make all people to receive his mark, “taking his seat in the temple of God , proclaiming that he himself is God” (2Thes.2:4)

The parallelism of trumpets and bowls of Revelation allows us to conclude that some people will have mark (Seal of God and Mark of the Beast The Book of Life ) of the beast already at the sounding of the first trumpet. Compare with Rev.16:2 “The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly and painful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped his image”.

7-year's ( "for one week " Dan. 9:27) the tripartite peace treaty between the Christians, whom he will represent, Jews and Muslims. The treaty will restore peace in the Middle East, and at that time the temple in Jerusalem will be built. But in 3,5 years (" in the middle of the week") he will break the treaty with the Jews and will take over Jerusalem. The treaty with Muslims will be lasting till it's end. 7 years later Muslims will attack Antichrist in hope to take over Jerusalem, which (The Temple Mount) is second (after the Kaaba at Mecca) holiest site in Islam.

With the 6-th trumpet the big war will take place in the valley of Megiddo (Har-Mageddon in Greek - 2Chron.35:22; Judg.5:19; 2King.23:29) - Armageddon (Armageddon).

Armies of Antichrist will be defeated by multitude of Gog (many Muslim nations). “the king of the north (Gog) shall come against him (antichrist) like a whirlwind…” Dan.11:40. After 3,5 years from the occupation of Jerusalem antichrist’s power will end.

Then Gog will surround Jerusalem and God will stop him. “O Gog…I will .. cause you to come up from ... the north and will lead you against the mountains of Israel” Ezek.39:1,2
“I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it.. Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations” Zach.14:2,3

In 1290 days (Dan.12:11) with the sounding of the 7-th trumpet Jesus will come (The 7-th trumpet ). «And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.... thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned» (Rev.11:15,17).

«For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven .. with the trump of God” (1Thes.4:16) and saints will be taken to heaven “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: … the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1Cor.15:52; 1Thes.4:16,17 )

With the seventh trumpet, in 1290 days (Dan.12:11) after the occupation of Jerusalem by antichrist the alive and resurrected saints will be taken to the Kingdom of heaven. That will happen 'In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye".

With the 7-th trumpet Jesus will reign, and the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of God. Hence 7 bowls of wrath can not be poured out after the Second coming. They will be poured out at another time. After the 1000 years.

After the Second coming there no other beasts will be. 3,5 years of power of the beast-antichrist will finish before the 7-th trumpet.

Therefore at the time of the 7 bowls another beast will be in power (Rev.16:10). The Bible says the red beast will govern (After the 6-th bowl of wrath ). And the beast will be Satan himself, who will be released from abyss (the bottomless pit) in 1000 years after the Second coming.

“the beast that thou sawest was (before the Second coming), and is not (was cast into abyss- bottomless pit - Rev.20:2,3) ; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit (after 1000 years- Rev. 20:7), and go into perdition (will be eliminated forever)” (Rev.17:8).

7 bowls of wrath are “The seven last plagues; for in them the wrath of God is ended” (Rev.15:1б AMP). “Ended” means: there no the wrath of God will be again, therefore it can happen only 1000 years after the Second coming.

Mistakes in interpretation of Bible prophecies often have been rooted in misunderstanding of the principle of parallelism in prophecies (Parallelism in prophecies ). Because of the similarity of some events many people perceive them as one. However Bible says that Jerusalem will be attacked 3 times: there will be AntiChrist's attack and Gog's attack before the Second coming, and Gog's attack 1000 years after the Second coming. Disasters will be after sounding of the trumpets before the Second coming, the disasters will be after pouring of the bowls 1000 years after the Second coming. Armageddon will be before the Second coming and 1000 years after that. The beast will be before the Second coming and 1000 years after that. Even the mark of the beast will be repeated in 1000 years.

Today some churches (as Adventists) teach that at the Second coming all the righteous, alive and resurrected, will be taken to heaven, all the wicked will be destroyed, all the earth will be burned up. Others (as Torah Jews) teach, that after the Messiah's coming all the righteous will live on the restored earth. So, who is right? No one.

The Bible says very clearly that glory of saints and of righteous will be different. When Jesus will come only the saints will be resurrected. They will be taken to heaven without Judgment: «He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment» (John 5:24) (In KJ the word “condemnation” was used. However the right word is “judgment”. Here the Greek word “kpicin” was used, which is the same word John used in 5:22 «For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son». The same word was used in Mat.12:18,20,41,42. See word- by-word translation from Greek http://www.scripture4all.org).

These are people who had been justified by Holy Spirit, whom Jesus knows by name. These are His Bride.

Judgment of “the rest of the dead ” (Rev. 20:5): the righteous and the wicked will be after the 1000 years (Rev. 20:11,12). If all the righteous would be taken to the Kingdom of heaven at the Second coming, and after the 1000 years only the wicked ones would be resurrected, that would mean only one thing: the Judgment already would had place at the Second coming. And that is not what the Bible teaches. The Bible says the books of deeds and Book of Life will be open only after the 1000 years.

There in the Kingdom of heaven saints will learn how to be priests of God and kings on the new earth: “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: … they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years” (Rev.20:6).

This is the Bride of Jesus - the New Jerusalem: "new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a Bride adorned for her husband" (Rev.21:1,2). As there is no bride without groom, the same people can not come into the Kingdom of Heaven (to be the Bride) without Jesus (groom) (BRIDE and GUESTS on WEDDING FEAST).

Thus, at the Second coming of Jesus all the saints will be taken to heaven, all alive wicked will be destroyed. Satan and his angels will be chained deep under the ground, in Sheol (hell) where souls of all unrepented sinners go to after their death ("What happens when we die?").

The earth will be completely restored (After the last battle).. «And, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the temple eastward:...(also Zech.14:8;Joel 3:18) These
waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.... every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live» ( Ezek.47:1,8,9).

The righteous, who will not reach the Kingdom of heaven, will cleanse the land from all dead bodies and weapons. “And there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude, and they shall call it the Valley of Hamon-gog [multitude of Gog]. For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, that they may cleanse the land” Ezek.39:11,12.

Gog - Muslim nations, that will attack Jerusalem "in the last days" -Ezek.38:8,16.

“the LORD my God shall come (the Second coming), and all the saints with thee... And the Lord shall be the King over all the earth... And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem (the righteous) shall even go up (to Jerusalem) from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts (i.e. will live on earth)” (Zech.14:5-7,16).

For the 1000 years among offspring of those righteous the wicked people will appear again (let’s not forget that after the Flood the only righteous Noah family left, but a wickedness appeared among them almost right away after the Flood). After the 1000 years Satan will be released for the short time (Rev.20:7), and he again will deceive nations. Then the bowls of wrath will be poured out on the earth.

Satan will organize the living wicked -Gog (Rev.20:7) - on the last battle: “O Gog…and many people with thee…in the latter years thou shalt come into the land…of Israel, which … is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them…dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates” (Ezek.38:3,6,8,11…
That is not New Jerusalem which do have walls and gates. It is restored Jerusalem - New or Restored Jerusalem?)

Then alive righteous will be taken on the New Earth, and on the wicked 7-th bowl of wrath will be poured out - the rain of fire. «Upon the wicked he shall rain .. fire and brimstone, .. this shall be the portion of their cup (bowl)» (Ps.11:6 74:9; Jer.25:15,28,31,33).

Then the Great Judgment - the resurrection of "the rest of the dead" (Rev.20:5) (Second Resurrection): the wicked and the righteous, who didn't reach the Kingdom of Heaven : "the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation" (John 5:28,29, also Dan.12:2). The wicked will be cast down onto the burning earth, into the lake of fire. Everything on the old earth will be burned out.

The new earth will be completely new planet, not the restored one:“ Behold, I make all things new” (Rev.21:5). Our old earth will become a smoking planet: "And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for eons and eons" (Rev.14:11).

The resurrected righteous will be placed not in the Kingdom of Heaven, but on the new earth: “I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel” (Ezek.37;12).

The Bible says the bodies of the saints, who will be taken to the Kingdom of Heaven, will be changed (1Cor.15: 52, 53). Their bodies will be like body of Jesus – spiritual bodies (Phil.3:20,21; 1Cor.15: 44), like angels have (Luke 20:36). Their bodies will not require food (What happens when we die?) .

The righteous who will be resurrected 1000 years after the Second coming, will have their bodies not spiritual, but perfect physical bodies, like Adam and Eve had (1Cor.15:47,48; 1Cor.15: 37-42). They will not enter the Kingdom of heaven, because “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (which is Kingdom of Heaven)”(1Cor.15:50). Their bodies will require food.

When all the righteous (Guests- "they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb" -Rev.19:9) will be gathered on the New earth, New Jerusalem (the Bride) - the saints- will descend to there. And then "the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has prepared herself (after the 1000 years of preparation in the Kingdom of heaven)” (Rev.19:7).

So who are the saints (Bride), and who are the righteous (guests) (BRIDE and GUESTS on WEDDING FEAST )? Or what a person has to do in order to be saved and what he has to do not just to be saved but to enter the Kingdom of Heaven?

As you remember 10 commandments were written on the two stone tablets. And it is not by an accident. God did it not because He couldn't write all the words on one tablet. The commandments written on the first tablet can be summarized as "love your God"; commandments on the second tablet - as "love your neighbor". The second tablet is tablet of salvation. Those who followed those commandments had a chance for salvation. Even pagans, in whose hearts the God's law was written: : “For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts” – Rom.2:13-15.

Those who followed commandments written on the tablet of salvation and on the tablet of Kingdom of Heaven (the first one) had chance to enter the Kingdom of heaven.

Jesus came to the world to teach people not about the salvation (how to be a righteous), but about the Kingdom of heaven (how to be a saint). «I must preach the kingdom of God .. for therefore am I sent» (Luke 4:43; Luke.16:16).

Salvation Jews could gain by automatically following the Law.
«He who.. hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live » (Ezek.18:8-9).
"Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore"(Ps.37:27).

Jesus came to fulfill the Law: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill” (Mat.5:17).

The fulfillment of the Law was LOVE.
“Love is the fulfilling of the law” (Rom.13:10).
“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” (Gal.5:14).
“the end of the commandment is love” (1Tim.1: 5).

Jesus didn’t teach how to be good in order to have salvation, He taught how to be perfect in order to enter Kingdom of Heaven.

LAW taught: “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot” (Ex.21:24)

JESUS taught:“And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also “ (Luk.6:29)

He taught people to love. “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you” Mat.5:43,44

Love is perfection: " love.. is the bond of perfectness" (Col.3:14). And only perfect in love people will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus taught people to be perfect: “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (Mat.5:48, 2Cor.13:11)

Into the Kingdom of heaven is impossible to come without love which is fruit of the Holy spirit. “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water (repentance) and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5).

Jesus not only taught but demonstrated by His own death the perfect love: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”
(John 15:13)

Salvation is gift of God.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast” ( Ephes 2:8,9).
“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved” (Mark16:16).

Salvation doesn’t require a perfect love. The fear of God will save people also.
“His salvation is near to those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him” ( Ps.85:9)

However “He that feareth is not made perfect in love” (1John 4:18), and therefore he is not perfect for the Kingdom of heaven.

Kingdom of heaven is reward to the saved people for the perfection of their faith.
«By works was faith made perfect» (James 2:24,22). These are not works of Law, this is the work that makes the love visible.

«I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded» (Philip.3:14,15).
“That ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer” (2Thes 1:5; 1Cor.3:13-15).

All curtained complex of the tabernacle was symbol of salvation (ch.32,35). However the structure inside of the tabernacle – the sanctuary (Holy and Most Holy places) was the symbol of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Those entered the tabernacle who repented their sins. Out of the fear of the Lord they brought their animals for sacrifice for their sins, therefore salvation is for all who fear God and ask for forgiveness.

Into the sanctuary only Levites (the chosen ones) could enter. The tribe of Levi - Levites - were people chosen by God instead of the firstborn (Num.3:12), who were redeemed by blood of the Passover lamb during the last plaque in Egypt. Thus Levites, who were allowed to enter the sanctuary, symbolize people redeemed by the blood of the Lamb –Jesus.

Levites could enter the sanctuary only after washing themselves with the water in the laver, which was before the sanctuary. The laver was symbol of water baptism of repentance for the remission of sins (Luke 3:3). In order to enter the sanctuary they needed to go through the veil. The veil is barrier between salvation and the Kingdom, it can be taken down only by Holy Spirit (2Cor.3:14-17), given by Jesus.

Only those will be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, who will be purified by the blood of Jesus and born again "of water and the Spirit" (John 3:5), i.e. through repentance and accepting of Holy Spirit.

In the given work it is shown that all holy feasts symbolize some major events which will have place in the life of humanity (Holy Feasts ).

Feast of Unleavened bread lasted for 7 days ( 7-number of eternity) and it symbolized the eternal salvation given to us through blood of the Passover lamb – Jesus..

Feast of the Firstfruits - the first harvest – ascension the saints to the Kingdom of Heaven at Jesus’ coming.

Feast of trumpets – trumpets of Revelation .

Feast of the Weeks was celebrated in 50 days after Feast of the Firstfruits and symbolized the event which will follow 50 days after ascension the saints. The earth will become the exclusive property of the righteous.

Feast of tabernacles or feast of gathering of fruits in the end of year lasted for 7 days and symbolized the event when saints and righteous will be gathered together on the new earth for eternity.

Day of Atonement symbolized many events: Jesus ascension to heaven after the resurrection, when judgment was given to Satan;
the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, when Satan as scapegoat was thrown on earth;
the Second coming, when wicked will be sacrificed as sin goats and Satan as scapegoat will be thrown under the ground;
Jesus’ coming after the 1000 years, when all sins will be burnt out.

It is shown that the sacrifices on these holy feasts also had symbolic meaning and by themselves confirmed the meaning of the feasts (ch.33).

We learn that Jesus death as Passover sacrifice was in reality the ritual of consecration of people into the priests for Kingdom of Heaven, and by His death He opened the door into Kingdom for every His believer (ch.35).

Thus,
the prophecies;
significance of the two stone tablets;
teachings of Jesus and His disciples about the Kingdom of Heaven;
the meaning of the feasts and its sacrifices;
the structure of the Tabernacle;
the meaning of Jesus’ sacrifice;
the two types of resurrected bodies of the righteous -

all pointed to the fact that Kingdom of Heaven is the highest goal of salvation. And it is not the gift of God, but reward for the labor of love and complete trust in Him.

In this work it is shown that our generation is the last one (When will Jesus return? ). Some of us will be taken to heaven, and some with tears of disappointment will observe this breathtaking event. While it is not too late everyone can change something in their lives for become closer to the Kingdom.