GOD’S GOOD NEWS IN THE MIDST OF BAD NEWS
Revelation 6:17
For the great day of his (Jesus’) wrath has come. And who is able to stand?
Good news: people get saved during the tribulation
The tribulation: A time of divine reckoning with God showing us He is supreme over nature and over nations
Because of God’s holiness, He will judge. Because of God’s heart, He will save.
2 Peter 3:9
He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. NIV.
1Timothy 2:4
(God) wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. NIV
People will hear the Gospel from two witnesses (Revelation 11)
People will hear the Gospel from 144,00 Jewish evangelists
Revelation 7:4
Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. NIV
People will hear the Gospel from an angel
Revelation 14:6
Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to
proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. NIV
GOD’S PROTECTION WILL BE ON GOD’S PEOPLE
Revelation 7:1
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding
back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: 3 “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” 4 Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. NIV
A seal signified ownership and protection
God’s protection:
Noah and his family
Hebrew families prior to leaving Egypt
Rahab and her family
Jews in Jerusalem with repentant hearts
Romans 9:4
They are God's people; he made them his children and revealed his glory to them; he made his covenants with them and gave them the Law; they have the true worship; they have received God's promises; 5 they are descended from the famous Hebrew ancestors; and Christ, as a human being, belongs to their race. GNT
God uses the tribulation to prepare Israel to receive their messiah
John 1:11
He came to his own people, and even they rejected him. NLT
Romans 11:25
Blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles has come in.
The nation of Israel will look upon him whom they have pierced (John 19:37, Revelation 1:7, Zechariah 12:10)
Apostles turned the world upside down (Acts 17:56)
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GOD SAVES GREAT MULTITUDES OF NON-JEWS
Revelation 7:9
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count. NIV
Revelation 7:9
from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the lamb.”
Revelation 7:11
All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and
the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying, “Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!” 13 Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?” 14 I answered, “Sir, you know.” And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 7:16
Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not
beat down on them, nor any scorching heat. 17 For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’ ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.'"
Matthew 24:14
The Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole
world, so that all nations will hear it; and then the end will come. NLT
When the world experiences its greatest mess, God will be delivering the greatest message (The Gospel)