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Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying, “Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there. 2 But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months. 3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.” Revelation 11:1-3

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00:00Now to look at the mid-trib or the pre-wroth view.
00:04If we go to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 1, which I haven't actually put up there.
00:16And 2 Thessalonians chapter 2.
00:21It says, Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him,
00:26we ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or word or letter,
00:31as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
00:34Let no one deceive you by any means, for that day will not come,
00:37unless the falling away comes first and the man of sin is revealed,
00:41the son of perdition who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God,
00:45all that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
00:51One of the features of the great tribulation period is the revelation of the man of sin,
00:55also known as the Antichrist.
00:58It appears from my understanding of scripture that he will come out of the general period of chaos,
01:03which we're moving into right now, and some will come up with a solution,
01:08whether he will come up through the United Nations or through America or through Europe.
01:13Remains to be seen, but there will be a great ruler who will come with power,
01:16will take on the control of the nations, perhaps using artificial intelligence,
01:20using all the modern technology to bring in some kind of a control system,
01:26which you read about in the book of Revelation,
01:28and in the process you'll also persecute those who believe in Jesus.
01:32Revelation 13 makes that very clear.
01:35So anyone who comes to faith during this time will face the opposition
01:38and the potential persecution of the Antichrist, even leading to death.
01:44It's said that two Thessalonians implies that, first of all, the falling away will come,
01:51and then the Antichrist, the man of sin, will be revealed,
01:54and that after that the rapture of the church will take place.
01:58One of the major scriptures pointing to the mid-tribulation view
02:02that the rapture comes in the middle of the tribulation.
02:06So this explains who the Antichrist persecutes in the first part of the tribulation,
02:14which is basically Christians like you and me.
02:18The preacher view says that actually there will be a special group of Christians
02:21who will be saved immediately after the tribulation, after the rapture,
02:25as described in Revelation 7, where the 144,000 go out and preach the gospel,
02:30and a great multitude of Gentiles come in as a result.
02:33We also have the question about the word wrath.
02:38The word wrath is used of the tribulation period and used of the bold judgments in particular,
02:43which, if you find in Revelation chapter 16, are the most severe time of judgment
02:47which falls upon the earth, and are described as being the wrath of God,
02:52as opposed to the wrath of Satan, who comes down with great power before this takes place.
02:57And the church is around for the wrath of Satan period,
03:01but not around for the wrath of God period,
03:03so the rapture comes somewhere between the halfway period
03:07and about three-quarters of the way through the final period.
03:12Okay?
03:13Believe me, that's what it says.
03:15Some of you are looking a bit puzzled here.
03:17But that would be the pre-wrath view and the mid-tribulation,
03:21which is allied to the mid-tribulation view.
03:23They're slightly different, but similar.
03:25For the sake of time, I'm not going to go into all the details of that.
03:28I'm not going to go into all the details of that.