June 25, 2022, Answer to question asked me – Does the bible say anything about how soon after the rapture that the  tribulation would start?

The Last Chronicles of Planet Earth June 23, 2022 Edition by Frank DiMora

I was asked a question today from one of the people following my ministry. This is the question. Does the bible say anything about how soon after the rapture that the  tribulation would start?

This is not a easy question to answer however, we do have information that helps us to know this answer.  The most important section of scripture that will help us get to this answer is found in Daniel chapter 9 were God tells Daniel He is going to be dealing with the Jews for a period of 490 years. We know from Daniel 9 and the book of Revelation that this time period of 490 is broken up into different parts. As you can see from the photo below the first part was for a period of 49 years which has already been fulfilled. The second part was for a period of 434 years which was also fulfilled already. Both the first and second parts equaled 483 years and at the end of that 483 years God’s time clock dealing with the Jews would pause until the last time period of 7 years would begin. Notice from the photo that after the completion of the 483 years God’s attention was now directed toward the Lord’s Church. In other words after the 483 years the world was placed on hold before the Lord’s time clock would start again.  So the question is, when will that last 7 year time frame start. We know that answer for sure and it is found in Daniel 9:27   He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’^[a] In the middle of the ‘seven’^[b] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple^[c] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.

So we know for sure the last 7 years of Daniel’s 490 year prophecy will start when we see that there has been a confirming of a 7 year covenant with Israel and her enemies. Let me make this clear, when this confirming of the 7 year covenant is seen you will know the tribulation period has started. Anyone who is teaching the tribulation has already begun had better show the news reports that show there was a confirming of a 7 year covenant with Israel. As of today June 25, 2022 there has not been any such 7 year covenant. Jesus made it very clear when we would know the timing by specific giving us the number 7. We would not have to second guess when it started. In other words if you hear a peace deal between Israel and her enemies for any time other than the 7 years as outline in Daniel 9:27 it will show you it is not the time period we are looking for. 

Now we come to the answer that was asked of me today concerning “Does the bible say anything about how soon after the rapture that the  tribulation would start?”  To help us with this answer we need to read 2 Thessalonians 2 ³ Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness^[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.  Paul told us that two things we going to happen that would tell us when the rapture would take place. Notice the rebellion has to take place and the Antichrist would be revealed.  This is very important because we need to see in God’s time line where the Antichrist is revealed. We know from Daniel that the Antichrist will be reveal at the half way point in the tribulation period as seen in the photo above. At the end of the first 1,260 days is when the man of sin (Antichrist) goes into the Temple that will be rebuilt in Jerusalem and tells the world he is god. That is the only real revealing of the Antichrist we see in the word of God.  What does that tell us? That the rapture of the Church will not take place until we see the rebellion take place and the Antichrist’s revealing which takes place in the middle of the tribulation. So, as right after the world see the man of sin proclaim he is god the Church will be taken into heaven. That being said, there is no time given as to how long after the revealing of the man of sin the Church leaves Earth. We are not told of any time such as minutes, hours, days, or weeks, or months. All we know for sure is we will be gone before God’s wrath begins to be poured out on any Godless generation. It does appear that sometime after the sixth seal is broken the Church will go home to the Lord.

The sixth seal is when all hell on Earth breaks out. Revelation 6: ¹² I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, ¹³ and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. ¹⁴ The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. ¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. ¹⁶ They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us^[f] from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ For the great day of their^[g] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”  We know for sure that before the wrath of the Lamb is poured out we have to be gone. Look at what Paul wrote to us in 1 Thessalonians 5:9 ⁹ For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,”

In closing I want to tell everyone I am hoping I am wrong because, it would be much easier knowing the Church was taken out of the Earth at the beginning of the tribulation. However, knowing that the revealing does not take place until the middle of the tribulation I am preparing anyone who is following my ministry to place it in your minds we may have to go through half of the 7 years.

If there is anyone out there who can show me any other time when the Antichrist is revealed to the world other than in the middle of the tribulation  I would request you e-mail me any scripture that would back up what you are teaching.  The bottom line is the rapture sign is based on the Antichrist’s revealing!  Keep in mind, we are told in 2 Timothy 4:3 the following, “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.”

I can’t imagine how people who have been taught that they will be rapture at the beginning of the tribulation are going to feel after the Antichrist confirms that last 7 years and they did not get raptured.  What is sad to me is how many Christians will get upset with me telling them we can not leave this Earth until the revealing of the Antichrist takes place.  I believe most who will get upset do so based out of fear thinking they will have to go through half of the tribulation.  I teach what Jesus shows us and, what He shows us in Daniel 9:27 is as I stated a very specific time that goes hand in hand with what Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians 2 ³ Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness^[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.