When All Hell Breaks Loose – Part 1

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God's Word with you every day on this Bible teaching program. On today's edition of Pathway to Victory. Suicide bombings, terrorist threats, threats of nuclear warfare, remind us that any peace that is brokered right now in the Middle East is only a temporary peace.

There will be no lasting peace in the Middle East until the Prince of Peace, the Lord Jesus Christ, returns. Welcome to Pathway to Victory. With author and pastor, Dr. Robert Jeffress. The Bible describes a seven-year period of intense chaos known as the Tribulation, during which the Antichrist will have free reign to unleash his evil power. And today on Pathway to Victory, Dr. Robert Jeffress shares why he believes the groundwork for the Tribulation is already in the process of being laid. Now, here's our Bible teacher to introduce today's message.

Dr. Jeffress. Thanks, David, and welcome again to Pathway to Victory. Few things make us feel more depressed and fearful than reading the latest headlines. Around the world and within our own country, terror and tragedy abound. And most days, it seems as though our situation is completely hopeless.

Well, we can't rescue the world from the destructive path that it's on. But for those who know Jesus Christ as Savior, there is no need to fear. And I've found that there's no better way to quell fear than to gain a better picture of God's plan for the future. As your radio pastor and Bible teacher, I want to show you how God's master plan, which was determined long before the creation of the world, is our only hope. So, in addition to these daily programs and my teaching series called Perfect Ending, I've written a best-selling book I want to send to you.

It's called Perfect Ending, Why Your Eternal Future Matters Today. Now, this isn't a pamphlet. It's a full-length book containing more than 200 pages of biblical knowledge about the last days and your eternal home.

And a copy is yours when you give a generous gift to support the ministry of Pathway to Victory. When my book arrives at your home, you'll notice that I've included another helpful resource. This one gives you a visual representation of God's timeline that I've called the End Times Illustrated.

We'll say more about these two books and other resources later on. But right now, if you have your Bibles, turn to Daniel chapter 9. Today, we're going to look at what happens on earth after the rapture of the church. It's a seven-year period that we commonly call the Great Tribulation.

I titled today's message, When All Hell Breaks Loose. Certainly, for the last several weeks, the focus of our entire world has been on the battles going on in Washington, D.C. But that is only going to be a temporary focus because soon, the attention is going to shift back to that real area of conflict that has been in turmoil for more than 4,000 years.

And I'm talking about the Middle East. For 4,000 years, that area has been a cauldron that has been boiling all because of a piece of real estate in Israel that God promised to Abraham and his descendants 4,000 years ago. Suicide bombings, terrorist threats, threats of nuclear warfare, all emanating from that area remind us that any peace that is brokered right now in the Middle East is only a temporary peace.

There will be no lasting peace in the Middle East until the Prince of Peace, the Lord Jesus Christ, returns. And that's the focus of our series we've been in, Perfect Ending, Why Your Eternal Future Matters Today. We're examining what God's Word says about the events that will precede and follow history's most important event, the second coming of Jesus Christ. The Bible says before Christ returns, however, to earth, he has some final business to wrap up here on planet earth. And that period of time in which God finishes his dealings with Israel and the world as a whole is a period of time we're going to look at today. It's that period of time we commonly call the Great Tribulation. And it's going to be in that Great Tribulation that the world is immersed in political chaos and natural catastrophes, but most of all, the world will be the recipient of God's condemnation. And today and next week, we're going to look and see what the Bible says about the last seven years of earth's history that we call the Great Tribulation. Now the place to begin understanding the Tribulation is not in the book of Revelation where the Tribulation is realized, but in the book of Daniel where it is prophesied. So I want you to take your Bibles today and turn to Daniel chapter 1.