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    Post-Tribulation and the Two Beasts of Revelation: A Historical Approach to Revelation
    Post-Tribulation and the Two Beasts of Revelation: A Historical Approach to Revelation
    Post-Tribulation and the Two Beasts of Revelation: A Historical Approach to Revelation
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    Post-Tribulation and the Two Beasts of Revelation: A Historical Approach to Revelation

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    The seven-year Tribulation is a time much spoken of in the Scriptures and is the focal point of Jesus’ Olivet Discourse. As we are coping with pandemic and global warming many believe we are at the last hour before the end of the age. God made the sun to rule the day but the moon and the stars to rule the night. Jesus said the night is coming when no man can work. This night period is the final week of Daniels 70 week prophesy in Daniel 9:24. The church needs a clear picture of what Jesus says is going to happen in this period. Christ is the light of the world. As we follow Him we too can lead many to righteousness. This book is about being on the alert so that when the master comes we may hear the words, well done good and faithful servant. This book hopefully will offer some guidelines for our watch.
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    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJan 29, 2021
    ISBN9781664219526
    Post-Tribulation and the Two Beasts of Revelation: A Historical Approach to Revelation
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    Wayne Grant

    Wayne Grant (ThM, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) has taught short term at Pwani Bible Institute, Mombassa Kenya, and at ECWA Theological Seminary, Igbaja, Nigeria. He has a passion for Biblcal Prophesy and this book is a culmination of forty years of study on Eschatology.

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      Post-Tribulation and the Two Beasts of Revelation - Wayne Grant

      Copyright © 2021 Wayne Grant.

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      WestBow Press rev. date: 1/29/2021

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 End of the Age

      Chapter 2 Olivet Discourse

      Chapter 3 Historical View of Revelation

      Chapter 4 Reformer’s View of Rome

      Chapter 5 Rapture According to 1 Thessalonians 4:13–17

      Chapter 6 Antichrist Revealed in the Church

      Chapter 7 The Little Horn and His Boasts

      Chapter 8 Does the Rapture Appear in Matthew 24?

      Chapter 9 Revelation 13 and America’s Role in Prophecy

      Chapter 10 How Close Are We to the Final Week?

      Chapter 11 The Feast of Tabernacles

      Afterword

      References

      DEDICATION

      To the Lord Jesus Christ and to all who love His appearing

      I hope this book will inspire you to keep studying the scriptures and waiting for the day of Christ.

      He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He

      increases power. Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous

      young men stumble badly, yet they who wait upon the Lord will

      gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they

      will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.

      —Isaiah 40:29–31

      PREFACE

      After I wrote this book, I was reminded of the book of Joshua and the entrance of the sons of Israel into the land of Canaan. The conquest of Canaan took only six years, but each step was triumphant, beginning with the fall of Jericho. Only once were they defeated, and that was at Ai, but God turned even that into a victory. I was adding up the battles, and the record was about 31 to 1. This impressive record reminds me of the victory we have through our Lord Jesus Christ.

      Another interesting fact is that when the Israelites crossed the Jordan, it was during harvest, when the spring rains caused the flooding of the river. This speaks of the Holy Spirit. Now, when they entered the land, God had already provided food, since it was harvest, so He did not muzzle the ox while it was treading the grain. We are approaching a similar battle to the Israelites. The tribulation causes fear in the hearts of many people, and I think this is because we have been fed a wrong view of the tribulation. Not to say it is easy street, but we must not fear the waves that are under the feet of Christ (Psalm 46).

      But when I look at the conquest of the land by Joshua and the Israelites, I am reminded that our inheritance is certain because of the finished work of Jesus Christ. This is His land because He bought it with His own blood. As we harvest souls for Christ, we cannot be defeated. Satan and his angels have been disarmed by the cross of Christ and, like the kings of Canaan, they know their time is short.

      Knowing how severely God dealt with the Israelites in their first attempt at the land, Joshua must have been completely fixated on not coming up short, as before. He and Caleb had been denied the Promised Land because of the bad report of the other ten spies and the unbelief of the older generation. This time was going to be different. This group had faith.

      So, as we approach this time, we need to look again at what God has done for His people in the past and move out with renewed courage. We can recall the sound of the seventh angel who blew the last trumpet and announced, The kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign forever and forever (Revelation 11:15). The end is already announced.

      What is significant about the land of Canaan is that, according to Genesis 15:18, there were ten nations in Canaan. Joshua then was about to overthrow these ten nations. Jesus Christ is about to defeat the ten nations represented in the feet of the image of Daniel 2. Now it says, "In the days of those ten kings the God of heaven will raise up a kingdom which will never be destroyed" (Daniel 2:44).

      What a great time we live in, and I know that we, together, will do great things for our God.

      INTRODUCTION

      I heard an interesting sermon on John 6 on the feeding of the five thousand. The point was whether we, like the little boy, are willing to surrender our meager lunch of five loaves and two fishes into the hands of Jesus in order to see a harvest of souls. Our human efforts can never feed a multitude, but when we surrender what we have to Christ, then God can use our gifts to feed many. Even what we have is a gift because we no longer live, but Christ lives in us, and not I but the grace of God in me, as Paul says. So here, I offer this feeble work into the hands of Jesus Christ and ask Him to use it for His glory.

      I wrote this book because the time of the end has drawn near. We know that prior to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, the Bible speaks of a seven-year tribulation period, where great upheavals take place and difficult times fall upon humankind. Jesus said, We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; the night is coming when no man can work (John 9:4). This period we are talking about is called the night. Christ is the day; Antichrist is the night. Christ represents spiritual life; Antichrist, spiritual death. One is light; the other, darkness. The night is coming. This is when darkness has authority for three and one-half years, when Antichrist reigns upon the earth. This is a time of the persecution of Christians much greater than we have experienced in the past. Other signs are mentioned as well, such as pestilence.

      The COVID-19 pandemic is just a reminder to us of what can happen in a short time. But the first sign Jesus mentions is not pestilence or persecution but deception. Jesus says, Take heed that no man deceives you. For many will come in my name saying ‘I am Christ’ and shall deceive many (Matthew 24:4–5 KJV).

      Deception, then, is where we need to begin. Today, we have a great amount written on prophecy. But Jeremiah 23:21–22 says,

      I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

      Jesus said, And many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. (Matthew 24:11).

      Prophecy should lead the church to repentance and to returning to the Lord. Most of the prophetic books coming out of America today promote the pretribulation rapture theory. However, many simply state their pretribulation view and still discuss the Olivet discourse, as warning to the church. Others, in order to support their dispensational positions, exclude the Olivet discourse as spoken ¹to the Jews and not the church. The pretribulation rapture theory, unfortunately, has become one of those deceptions.

      Another deception prevalent today, and more to the text, is the identity of Antichrist. Jesus is saying, Take heed that no man deceives you. For many will come in My name saying ‘I am Christ’ and will deceive many. The particle for gives the reason or cause of the deception. This is the present deception about Antichrist. Let no man deceive you. Stop allowing yourself to be deceived. The Reformers believed the Antichrist was a historical figure, but most prophetic books today look for a future Antichrist, not a historical one. These writers are, not surprisingly, closed to a post-tribulation rapture as well. Jesus’s first sign corresponds with the opening of the first seal in Revelation 6:2, where a rider on a white horse appears. Both this rider on the white horse and the many saying I am Christ are the same Antichrist. (This will be discussed in more detail.)

      In this book, I attempt to give evidence from scripture and other scholars on what the Reformers have always said; namely, that in the papacy, we must find this man of sin, the son of perdition, who exalts himself above every so-called God or object of worship so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, showing that he is God (2 Thessalonians 2:4).

      I also attempt to show, as many others have said, that the futurist view of Revelation has its source not in the Word of God but in the counter-Reformation, beginning with a work on Revelation by the Jesuit Francisco Ribera in 1595 (Wikipedia, Francisco Ribera). Ribera taught that Antichrist could not be the pope because the book of Revelation speaks only of a future Antichrist at the end of time. This man and others of the same persuasion set out to undo the claim of the Reformers that the pope is the Antichrist, the man of sin, the one who takes the seat of Christ.

      But the papacy has claimed to be the vicar of Christ since the late fifth century (Wikipedia, Pope Gelasius I). The pope, alone, claims to be Christ on the earth, something no political leader has done or is doing. Therefore, the many who say I am Christ are the many popes.

      The key text the Reformers used for their claim

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