Willmington: What Will Anti-christ's 7 Years Be Like?

Olivet Discourse Notes:

A. The Great Tribulation — what it is (Mat 24:1-4, 6-13, 16b-22)

1. God himself will lay waste to the entire earth (24:1): The earth will become a great wasteland, and the people will be scattered.

2. All people and fallen angels will be judged (24:2-4,21-22): No one will be spared from God's wrath, and the fallen angels will be put in prison.

3. Very few will survive (24:6): A curse will consume the earth and its people, who will be destroyed by fire.

4. Happiness will no longer exist (24:7-13): All joy in life will be gone.

5. Evil and treachery will be everywhere (24:16b-18): People possessed by sheer terror will flee from one danger only to be confronted with something even more horrifying.

6. The earth will stagger like a drunkard (24:19-20): It will fall and collapse like a tent, unable to rise again because of the weight of its sin

B. The Great Tribulation — why it occurs (24:5): Humanity has twisted the laws of God and has broken his holy commands.

Source: Willmington's Bible Handbook by Harold Willmington Copyright © 1997 by Harold L. Willmington. Produced with permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.