Revelation Charts

The chart above and other great resources are at revelationlogic.com

The link below is to a video on youtube.  If you pause it as soon as you get there you can make the screen bigger and look at it.  I will cover the points as best as I can below.

https://youtu.be/rSMppLZvH3I?list=PLekyKj4hnn9y2fgvoJ5SWeATTiOSh-RX3&t=3896

Daniel Chapter 8, 9  and 11 have some events that occur during the last 7 year period.

• 9:27 speaks of a 7-year covenant that is made that allows for the start of the rebuilding of the temple.
• 8:9-14 speaks of the "little horn" who rises up to become the anti-Christ and it has a specific day count of 2,300 that seems to indicate that about 8 months into this final 7 year period the daily sacrifice on an altar (the temple doesn't have to be fully rebuilt) will start.
• 11:25-28 speaks of a war that takes place before the final 3 1/2 years that results in the man who will become the anti-Christ having more power and wealth. His location is North of Jerusalem and he fights someone south of Jerusalem.  (Historically armies from the east or the north both attack from the north in this region.)

This begins a series of events that occur just before, during and after the only "time event" that is a solid marker, the abomination of desolation, that marks the beginning of the great tribulation, the 3 1/2 year time period spoken of in Daniel and Revelation.

• The man who will be the anti-Christ is now referred to as the King of the North he comes down to attack Jerusalem but is stopped by powers from the west.  At this time or soon afterward he is given a fatal wound. (Zechariah 11:17, Revelation 13:3)
• At this time the sealing of the 144,000 takes place.
• Revelation 12 and 13 speak of resurrection of the anti-Christ from his fatal wound. Also in Revelation 12 Satan is cast out of heaven.
• With the new found fame of being "resurrected" the anti-Christ is now able to form alliances with 10 kings that give him an overwhelming army (along with the casting down of Satan and his forces to the earth) with which he conquers Jerusalem, stands in the temple, declares himself God (the abomination of desolation).
• At this point the 7 trumpets begin and the 7 bowls start at the 7th trumpet very near the end of this time.

The overwhelming death and devastation that is necessary for the close and the cleansing of this evil age would indeed leave "no flesh" that could survive.  It is mercy that warns us of this time.  It is mercy that protects a remnant.  It is mercy that is constantly warning us not to put any ultimate hope in anyone or anything in this evil age. It is mercy that calls us to moment by moment dependence on His life not on our own understanding. It is mercy that guarantees a future kingdom for those who suffer martyrdom because of remaining faithful to Him. It is mercy that told Daniel of the time period of 70 7's.  It is mercy that left a gap after 483 of those 490 years.  That gap is where the gentiles have been coming into this Kingdom.  That gap has been very costly to the Jewish people.  This final 7 year period of time will result in the beauty of Daniel 9:24 coming to pass. “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place."  

In talking with a friend recently we recalled the Lord's words to Peter that ultimate forgiveness was not 7 times but 70 x 7 times.  This period of time spoken of in Daniel is the only other 70 x 7 in the Bible.  We can trust the ONE who is Faithful and True to bring about ultimate forgiveness.  We can trust the ONE who way back in Exodus and Leviticus proclaimed that the last 3 feasts were to be trumpets, with a call to repentance, atonement with sins forgiven and tabernacles with God dwelling with His people.  All of these things happen or start to happen in the final 3 1/2 years.  To God be the glory, the only One who can tell the end from the beginning.