Study of the Book of Revelation: Chapter 11
by Pastor Jim Summerson

THE GREAT TRIBULATION
TEXT: Revelation 11

    INTRODUCTION

    The Tribulation Has Just Become The Great Tribulation!

  1. THE TEMPLE, vs.1-2

    1. Three Temples

      1. Solomon's in 1 Kings 8

      2. Zerubbabel's in Ezra 3

      3. Herod's in John 2:20

    2. God's Temple Today

      1. 1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (There is neither an earthly temple or an alter associated with Christian Worship)

    3. This Temple Will Be Built in Jerusalem

    4. The Anti-Christ Will Appear and Demand Worship

      1. 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

      2. John 5:43 I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

      3. Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

  2. THE TIMES, v.2

    1. Prophesied by Daniel

      1. Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

      2. Daniel 12:7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

    2. The Last Half of Daniel's 70th Week

  3. THE TWO WITNESSES, vs.3-12

    1. They Are Persons, v.4
      Note: Compare Zechariah Chapters 4-5

    2. They Are Prophets

      1. Forth Telling

      2. Fore Telling

    3. Their Personal Identity

    4. They Are Powerful, vs.3,6
      Note: This is the Day of Judgement Not the Day of Grace

    5. They Are Persecuted, vs.7-9

    6. They Are Preserved, v.11

    7. The Pharisaical Praise, v.13

  4. THE THIRD WOE, vs.15-19

    1. Anticipation, v.15

    2. Acclamation, v.16-17

    3. Anger, v.18