Matthew Chapter 24

Once again,

Verse 21 “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.”

“In the days previous to the flood the fallen angels had materialized and taken human wives, and violence was in the earth. In other words, incidental to and preceding the Flood, there was the prevalence of evil, but all that evil was not the trouble. THE trouble was the Flood. The big difference is trouble caused by men and/or fallen angels versus trouble caused by nature as ordered by God. In exactly the due time, the Flood cascaded and drowned the entire human race all except for Noah and his family. The hybrid race (the offspring of the fallen spirits) was likewise all destroyed, and the fallen angels dematerialized and left the earth; however, they were not allowed to return to heaven. Thus, to the fallen angels, the door down here was closed (no more materialization’s) and also the door to heaven. They were confined in earth’s atmosphere called tartaroo. It was like the genie of Aladdin’s lamp being reduced and squeezed into a little bottle, and so all of the fallen angels have been squeezed down around this tiny little planet. Thus the first order or dispensation was destroyed with the flood.

The future antitypical “flood,” a miraculous display, will be the destruction of the present order of things (the “present evil world”) and all corrupt systems. The trouble (Anarchy) at that time will be terrible, but God will not rise up to the prey with mighty demonstrations of power until the setting of Jacob’s Trouble when He delivers Israel. At that time, Isaiah says, darkness will be on ALL people, but God will arise “upon thee,” that is, on Israel (Isa. 60:2).

The first world ended with the loosing of water in a literal flood, and it was the God of nature who had so timed this flood. God said He would bring the Flood, but He would wait awhile—120 years (Gen. 6:3, 13, 17). Even the loosing of the fallen angels will be something God does. They are imprisoned in chains of darkness UNTIL the judgment of the great day. (Jude 6) When that prison door is opened and the incorrigible fallen angels are loosed and cascade down upon the earth that will be like a flood. God will do that—it will be a supernatural occurrence (although it’s possible that the fallen spirits will believe that they have somehow circumvented God’s control over them). The materialized fallen spirits, just like the Flood of Noah’s day, will be THE true trouble.

“The enemy shall come in like a flood” in Jacob’s Trouble (Isa. 59:19). The forces of Gog will spread out over the land like a mighty cloud, but more is implied here than just the (fleshly) people from the north coming down against natural Israel. The fallen angels will be loosed en masse, and an evil thought will come into the mind of Gog.

What is the first thing the fallen angels will do when they materialize?

They will go after the Lord’s people—first the Great Company (the true Church having already been completed and beyond the vail). The fallen angels will go after anyone called a “Christian,” anyone who maintains that stand.

When Babylon falls, the people will leave the churches for one reason or another. Some will be “burned” (destroyed, die) as tares (that is they will denounce all claims of being Christians), not wanting persecution. Tares claim to be Christians out of prudence, not moral conviction, whereas the Lord’s people who remain after the Little Flock is complete will flee for moral reasons. The Great Company will have to obey (refuse to renounce their faith and their Lord) if they ever hope to get life.

After the Great Company, the fallen angels will go against natural Israel, the natural people of God, wanting to completely exterminate them. Therefore, it will be necessary for the elect to step in—not only to save the Holy Remnant but also to prevent all flesh from being destroyed.

Remember the Great Company were called to sacrifice the human nature in the hopes of gaining a heavenly inheritance, a new nature, a spirit nature the same as that of the very elect and although they may have lost the prize for which they were originally called (joint heirship and immortality with their Lord) they may still receive life on the spirit plane howbeit on a much lower plane of existence (similar to that of angels) should they overcome during the great tribulation. In contrast the “Holy remnant” of Israel is an earthly class of over-comers; theirs is a promised earthly inheritance.

The reason for the extreme animosity between the fallen angels and the Lord’s professed people both natural and spiritual is because they hope to disrupt the Lord’s great plan and because they feel a hatred for all God’s children because he took their children in the flood.

Only eight people survived the Flood of Noah’s day. In the coming “flood,” more will be saved. How many? We know not, perhaps only a billion or so, perhaps less. This implies that during this great time of trouble more than three quarters of the population will perish some six billion people.

We only know that if the trouble were not cut short, all would die. Incidentally, any nuclear exchange, plague or etc., as bad as that might be, or even the ramped mobs of anarchist masses scouring the earth pale in significance to the trouble which is to come when the fallen angels are let loose and are able to materialize once again. Your worst nightmare falls far short of what is to come.

The fallen angels will first direct their efforts at the Great Company, who will die as a class suddenly. Of course some individuals will die in the interim between the completion of the Little Flock and the sudden execution of the remainder (the majority) of the Great Company at the hands of the fallen angels. The feet members will also die as a class suddenly, but earlier.

Their deaths will not come at the hands of the fallen angels, but at the hands of the corrupt church. Just as Jezebel got Ahab to do her dirty work so the antitypical Jezebel (the church nominal) will get the people (the government) to do their dirty work, possibly proclaiming the true Church to be domestic terrorist because they are proclaiming the end of the present order is upon us, the end of society as we know it and thus should be classed in with the rest of those promoting anarchist ideas even though this is completely against what they are saying.

Many professed Christians (tares in reality) will be amongst those forwarding this lie, these unfortunately will be found among those resurrected to age lasting shame, when in the kingdom they realize that in persecuting the true Church whom they believed to have been false prophets they were in truth persecuting the Lord. Poor souls the shame and regret with which they will endure will be staggering. Pray that you are not found amongst them.

At the end of the age, the nominal systems will cut them off so that none will be left. The faithful, zealous feet members will put their own heads in the noose, as it were, by speaking out. This is like Jesus—he intentionally went to Jerusalem at the end of his ministry, knowing the Pharisees were lying in wait to kill him. He went to the slaughter as meek as a lamb, for he knew it was God’s will and he was ready to die under that circumstance. It will be the same at the end of the age when Babylon is in power. Those who stick their heads out will be targets right away.

Although the coming trouble is an unpleasant subject, that is what these verses are saying.  To be forewarned is to be forearmed. The trouble will be “such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” The future trouble will be worse than anything in the past or anything ever to occur again.

Mark 13 describes a similar situation, but notice Verse 18: “Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter”—period! The emphasis is clearer than in Matthew 24. Verse 19 is interesting too: “For in those days shall be AFFLICTION, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.” This makes the matter very plain, for Matthew 24 might convey the thought of “age”; that is, that the Flood of the first age is not included. Mark 13 plainly includes ALL dispensations—past, present, and future.

“And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days” (Mark 13:20). In this verse we have the liberty of understanding the tense as future. This technique is commonly used in the Old Testament where many prophecies yet future are spoken of as already fulfilled. The context determines the perspective in which the future event is being viewed. Sometimes the prophet is transplanted in time as if he were living in our day; then he states a future event as if it is already in progress or already past.” (The Gospel of Matthew)

In our next post we will move on to Verse 23.