The Bible warns of a coming 7-year period of time (a “week of years”) during which most living creatures on Earth will be utterly destroyed.
Many call this prophetic 7-year period the Apocalypse. This is because the book we now know in English as “The Revelation” of Jesus Christ was first entitled “The Apocalypse” of Jesus Christ in the original Greek, and the book of Revelation describes in great detail the cataclysmic events which will come upon the Earth during this final “week” of 7-years.
What many people don’t realize is the Bible warns this coming 7-year period of the Apocalypse will start on the exact day a coming Peace Plan (“Covenant”) will be enforced upon nation Israel by a coming World Leader, the coming Antichrist.
The Bible tells us this coming World Leader (falsely considered a “man of peace” who will first rise quickly over a group of 10 nations which were once part of the Roman Empire), will be a very popular leader who will one day ENFORCE a Peace Plan (“covenant”) upon nation Israel.
In fact, we are told that through this act of enforcing a coming Peace Plan upon Israel is how he will be “revealed” as the Antichrist to those who know the Bible Prophecies.
However, the Bible does NOT say he writes or composes this coming Peace Plan. It may be some form of an earlier peace proposal drawn up by a different world leader, or the UN, or the “Quartet” of World Powers (UN, US, EU, and Russia) whose charter for a number of years now has been to develop a Peace Plan for Israel (the “Middle East”).
The Bible warns us to BEWARE of those who wish to artificially impose a “peace” upon Israel …
“Because, even because
they have seduced My (God’s) people, (Israel)
saying, ‘Peace’,
AND THERE WAS NO PEACE …”
(Ezekiel 13:10)
“For they have healed the hurt
of the daughter of My people (Israel) slightly,
saying, ‘Peace, Peace’;
when there IS NO PEACE!”
(Jeremiah 8:11)
“For you yourselves know perfectly
that the Day of the Lord (the coming “Apocalypse”)
so comes as a thief in the night.
For when they say, “Peace and safety!”
then sudden destruction comes upon them”
(1 Thessalonians 5:2-3)
As you will find if you read our study on the Coming Peace Plan for Israel (the “70th Week of Daniel” prophecy), the book of Daniel contains some of the most remarkable prophetic passages found in the Bible.
Yet, the Bible clearly warns there will be no lasting peace in Israel until the Messiah (Jesus Christ) returns, and there are many who believe “the Rapture” (the escape from “these things that will come to pass”) must take place sometime before this coming Peace Plan is enforced upon Israel.
Those who don’t take the Bible Prophecies seriously should be diligently challenging and testing these things to see if they are true, while sitting on the edge of their seats with white knuckles as we watch these events slowly beginning to unfold.