*A Proposed Chronology of the Times
(Pre-Tribulational and Pre-Millennial Perspective)
- EVENTS IN HEAVEN
a. The Rapture of the Church (1 Cor. 15:51-58; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Rev. 3:10)
b. The Judgment Seat of Christ (Rom. 14:10; 1 Cor. 3:9-15; 4:1-5; 9:24-27; 2 Cor. 5:10)
c. The Marriage of the Lamb (2 Cor. 11: 2; Rev. 19:6-8)
d. The Singing of Two Special Songs (Rev. 4-5)
e. The Lamb’s Receiving of the Seven-Sealed Scroll (Rev. 5:1-14)
II. EVENTS ON EARTH
A. Seven-Year Tribulation
1. Beginning of the Tribulation
a. Seven-year Tribulation begins when Antichrist signs a covenant with Israel, bringing peace to Israel and Jerusalem (Dan. 9:27; Ezek. 38: 8,11)
b. The Jewish temple in Jerusalem is rebuilt (Dan. 9:27; Rev. 11:1)
c. The reunited Roman Empire emerges in a ten-nation confederation (Dan. 2:40-44; 7:7; Rev. 17:12)
2. First Half (Three and a Half Years) of the Tribulation
a. Jesus opens the seven seal judgments (Rev. 6:1-17; 18:1-5)
b. The 144,000 Jewish believers begin their great evangelistic ministry (Rev. 7:1-8)
3. The Midpoint of the Tribulation
a. Gog and his allies invade Israel, and God decimates them (Daniel 11: 40-45; Ezek. 38-39)
b. Antichrist breaks his covenant with Israel and invades the land (Dan. 9:27; 11:40-41)
c. Antichrist begins to consolidate his empire by plundering Egypt, Sudan, and Libya, whose armies God has just destroyed in Israel (Dan. 11:42-43; Ezek. 38-39)
d. While in North Africa, Antichrist hears disturbing news of insurrection in Israel and immediately returns there to destroy and annihilate many (Dan. 11: 44)
e. Antichrist sets up the abomination of desolation in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem (Dan. 9:27; Matt. 24:15; 2 Thess. 2:4; Rev. 13:5, 15-18)
f. Sometime during these events, Antichrist is violently killed, possibly as a result of a war or assassination (Dan. 11:45; Rev. 13:3,12,14;17:8)
g. Satan is cast down from heaven and begins to make war with the woman, Israel (Rev. 12:7-13). The chief means he uses to persecute Israel is the two beasts of Revelation 13
h. The faithful Jewish remnant flee to Petra, in modern Jordan, where they are divinely protected for the remainder of the Tribulation (Matt. 24:16-20; Rev. 12:15-17)
i. Antichrist is miraculously raised from the dead to the awestruck amazement of the entire world (Rev. 13:3)
j. After his resurrection from the dead, Antichrist gains political control over the ten kings of the reunited Roman Empire. Three of these kings are killed by Antichrist, and the other seven submit (Dan. 7:24; Rev. 17:12-13)
k. The two witnesses begin their three-and-a-half-year ministry (Rev. 11: 2-3)
4. Last Half (Three and a Half Years) of the Tribulation
a. Antichrist blasphemes God, and the false prophet performs great signs and wonders and promotes false worship of Antichrist (Rev. 13:5, 11-15)
b. The false prophet introduces and enforces the mark of the Beast (666) (Rev. 13:16-18)
c. Totally energized by Satan, Antichrist dominates the world politically, religiously, and economically (Rev. 13:4-5, 15-18)
d. The trumpet judgments are unleashed throughout the final half of the Tribulation (Rev. 8—9)
e. Knowing he has only a short time left, Satan intensifies his relentless, merciless persecution of the Jewish people and Gentile believers on earth (Dan. 7:25; Rev. 12:12; 20:4)
5. The End of the Tribulation
a. The bowl judgments are poured out in rapid succession (Rev. 16:1-21)
b. Babylon is destroyed (Rev. 17-18)
c. The campaign of Armageddon begins (Rev. 16:16)
d. Antichrist kills the two witnesses, and God resurrects them three and a half days later (Rev. 11:7-12)
e. Christ returns to the Mount of Olives and slays the armies gathered throughout the land, from Megiddo to Petra (Rev. 19:11-16; Isa. 34:1-6; 63: 1-5)
f. The birds gather to feed on the carnage (Rev. 19:17-18)
6. After the Tribulation (Interval or Transition Period of Seventy-Five Days—Dan. 12:12)
a. Antichrist and the false prophet are cast into the lake of fire (Rev. 19: 20-21)
b. The abomination of desolation is removed from the temple (Dan. 12:11)
c. Israel is regathered (Matt. 24:31)
d. God judges Israel (Ezek. 20:30-39; Matt. 25:1-30)
e. God judges the Gentiles (Matt. 25:31-46)
f. Satan is bound in the abyss (Rev. 20:1-3)
g. God resurrects Old Testament and Tribulation saints (Dan. 12:1-3; Isa. 26:19; Rev. 20:4)
B. One-Thousand-Year Reign of Christ on Earth (Rev. 20:4-6)
a. Satan’s Final Revolt and Defeat (Rev. 20:7-10)
b. The Great White Throne Judgment of the Lost (Rev. 20:11-15)
c. The Destruction of the Present Heavens and Earth (Matt. 24:35; 2 Pet. 3: 3-12; Rev. 21:1)
d. The Creation of the New Heavens and New Earth (Isa. 65:17; 66: 22; 2 Pet. 3:13; Rev. 21:1-8)
e. Eternity (Rev. 21: 9-22: 5)”
*The Complete Book of Bible Prophecy by Mark Hitchcock
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