Oxford Bible Church - Living in the Last Days (audio)

In response to the Mark of the Beast, in Revelation 14 God makes 7 Announcements predicting the victory of Christ and the failure of satan’s project. They reveal the final outcomes of different groups of people, encouraging believers to stay faithful, and calling the world to God, warning them to not take the Mark.

At Mid-Tribulation the false prophet will rise up glorifying the antichrist and doing miracles, causing the world to worship antichrist and submit to him. To enforce this total control, he creates the Image and Mark of the Beast (666). To buy or sell one must receive his Mark and this requires you to worship him.

Revelation 13 describes the operation of satanic trinity - the devil, antichrist and false-prophet, the counterfeit of the Tri-une God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They will manifest themselves in such a way as to deceive the Jewish and Islamic worlds by appearing to fulfil their messianic expectations.

Revelation 17 describes the Harlot sitting on the 7-headed Beast (the religious power united to the political power). Together they form Babylon the Great, which has opposed God from Babel. The harlot on the 7th head is destroyed at Mid-Tribulation to make way for the new state religion of antichrist worship.

The Dragon wages war on the saints using the 7-headed Beast of Revelation 13. The 7th head with 10 horns (the 4th beast of Daniel 7) is the final worldly Kingdom (the Revived Roman Empire or Islamic Caliphate) which antichrist will take over, when he rises up to become world-dictator at Mid-Tribulation.

After the dragon is cast down to the earth at the 7th Trumpet, he tries to destroy the fleeing woman (Israel). But God enables her to escape to a place where she is kept safe in the final 1260 days before Christ's Return, the time of antichrist's world dictatorship when he wages war on all the saints (Revelation 13).

The 7th Trumpet, blown in response to the Abomination of Desolation, immediately releases judgment on satan's kingdom. Michael and his angels cast the devil and his angels from the first heaven to the earth. Satan then tries to destroy the Woman (believing Israel) who starts her flight to Petra on this same day.

Immediately after the 7th Trumpet, a Woman flees from the dragon into the wilderness, where she is safe for the last 1260 days (Revelation 12:1-6). She is believing Israel fleeing to Petra on seeing the Abomination at Mid-Tribulation (Matthew 24:15-21, Daniel 9:27). Thus the 7th Trumpet is on the same day as the Abomination.

We see the sequence of events leading up to the 7th Trumpet at Mid-Tribulation. After the 2 witnesses ascend, the 7th Trumpet is blown releasing the desolating judgments of the Great Tribulation on antichrist's kingdom in response to the Abomination of Desolation, which continue to the 2nd Coming.

The Tribulation will start on the same day as the Rapture. As in Noah's Day a worldwide Judgment (the Tribulation Flood) will fall on the same day that the believers will disappear into the Ark of their Salvation (Christ). The Mid-Tribulation Interval begins with the death of 2 witnesses (Revelation 11) and a Mighty Angel announcing the coming 7th Trumpet (Revelation 10).