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INTRODUCTION: The Lord asks a question “…whether a man
doth travail with a child?” The
question relates to the future date, during the tribulation time, that the “Nation
of Israel” accepts the Lord Jesus as Saviour.
It will be a hard labor to accept Him. (Martyrdom)
I. THE END TIME AFFLICTIONS
A. The Day of
The Lord
1. A
day of judgment
2. A
day of desolation and fear
Read Isaiah 13:6-16
Isaiah 13:7-8 Therefore
shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt: 8And they shall be
afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as
a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall
be as flames.
Joel 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my
holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the
LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
a.
It shall come as destruction
From the Almighty
Isaiah 13: 6
b.
Every man’s heart shall melt: and they shall be
afraid. Isaiah 13:7-8
3. Darkness
and gloom
Joel 2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds
and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people
and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more
after it, even to the years of many generations.
a.
A day of clouds
b.
A day of thick
darkness
Joel 2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun
and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
c. The earth shall quake
Zephaniah 1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble
and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess,
a day of clouds and thick darkness,
d. A day of wrath
e.
A day of trouble and distress
f.
A day of wasteness and desolation
4. Phenomena earthly and celestial
Isaiah 13:9-10 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with
wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the
sinners thereof out of it. 10For the stars of heaven and the
constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in
his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
a.
Lay the land
desolate
b.
No stars
c.
No Sun
d.
No Moon
Isaiah 13:13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth
shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the
day of his fierce anger.
e.
God will shake the heavens
f.
God shall move earth out of it’s place
5. Wrath
Zephaniah 1:14-15 The
great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even
the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. 15 That day is a day of
wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day
of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness
a.
That day is near, it is near
b.
That day is a day of wrath
c.
The mighty shall cry bitterly
5. Death
Zephaniah 1:17-18 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. 18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
a.
Their blood shall be poured out
i.
As dust
ii.
Flesh as dung
b. A speedy riddance
i.
Of all
6.
Unprecedented warfare
Revelation 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to
the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
a. Spirits of devils
i.
Working miracles
ii.
To the kings of the earth
iii.
And the whole world
iv.
To gather them, the kings to fight God Almighty
II. NATION OF ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED (v 7)
A. That Day (v
8)
1. Salvation
Joel 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
a. The Jews will see
Zechariah 14:2-3 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city
shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the
city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be
cut off from the city. 3
Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when
he fought in the day of battle.
b. Then shall the Lord go forth c. To do battle against those
nations.
2. Righteousness
2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless
we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein
dwelleth righteousness.
3. Peace and Posterity
Joel 3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall
drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah
shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the
LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
Joel 3:20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to
generation.
Zechariah 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that
day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
4. The
return of the Messiah
Zechariah 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of
Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives
shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and
there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove
toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
5. His
worship and Adoration
Zechariah 14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that
is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from
year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of
tabernacles.
CONCLUSION: We have seen from this dissertation the
time of Jacob’s trouble. Many Jews will
die without accepting Jesus Christ as their Saviour. However, many will accept Jesus and be martyred to return to this
earth and reign with Jesus the Christ.
There is two things that are
evident in all this, to get to heaven a person first must accept Jesus Christ
as Lord and Saviour, then we must die.
I know you are going to tell
me, Hey Bro John what about Enoch and Elijah? They went to heaven without
dying.
Yes they did, however in Revelation
11:4-14, the two candlesticks are thought to be Enoch and Elijah.
You see God has saved them for
a time, to be used of Him.
They also must die just like
you and I.
If we haven’t accepted Jesus
and He comes today, you will likely go through all of Jacob’s trouble
How do you avoid all of
Jacob’s trouble, is simply to acknowledged Jesus Christ as Saviour and believe
that God hath raised Him from the dead.
Romans 10:9 John 3:16
It all hangs on believing
(faith), believing Jesus was born
of a virgin;
Believing He lived a sinless
life; Believing God placed Jesus,
His only begotten Son, on the cross to die for you and I; Believing God raised Jesus from the
grave, and defeated death; Jesus now sits
at the right hand of God, waiting for this return which could start any second
then it would be to late.
Accept Him now, come.