will Christians soon disappear
raptured before seven years of tribulation when the Antichrist makes
war against the Jews Jesus Christ gave this special warning about the last days
take heed that no one deceives you join us now a seminar speaker Steve Wohlberg
presents tribulation delusions the book of Revelation says the time is at hand
thank you for coming back for part two of this special series called endtime
delusions if you have a Bible I invite you to open up the good book to John
chapter 14 John 14 we're gonna look at verse 3 in just a just a minute this
topic brings back memories to me because the last time I spoke on seven years of
tribulation was in front of a large crowd in socal California was in a big
auditorium we were recording for for television I had monitors in front of me
it was live streaming on the internet and after about maybe 15 minutes or 20
minutes of this getting into this subject I looked down at the monitors
and they were flashing labor now labor now labor now and I looked at the crowd
and I said I've got to go my wife is having a baby it was a Seth came three
weeks early and we weren't expecting this but you just never know what
happens and I'm happy to say that I'm now a proud father of a little baby boy
Seth Michael Wohlberg that was born July 22nd 2004 so I know that's not gonna
happen this time because he's already born but here we go back again to this
topic of the tribulation and let's bow our heads and let's pray before we start
dear father in heaven father thank you for the chance to talk about Jesus and
about the Bible and to have this program recorded so people can can watch it
anywhere around the world and we pray in Jesus name that the Holy Spirit will be
here with us right now and take charge in Jesus name
man okay I'm just going to review a little bit of what we talked about in in
part one we do know that just about everybody knows or at least a lot of
people know that Jesus did come once he was here two thousand years ago I
mentioned briefly the same Mel Gibson film The Passion of the Christ whatever
you think about this film it certainly did lead people to to begin thinking
about the first coming of Jesus it was a huge box-office hit over 600 million
dollars in gross sales as a result of this film people thinking about the
first coming of Christ and then the next question comes what about his second
coming he came once Willy come again John chapter 14 verse 3 Jesus said to
his disciples right before he went to heaven he said if I go and prepare a
place for you I will do what I will come again right and I will receive you to
myself that where I am there you may be also
hallelujah I am looking forward to this I can't wait to look into the eyes of
the one who died for me to see my Savior so Jesus is clear he's going to come
again he was here once he's coming again so far this is pretty simple not too
difficult to understand now beyond this it gets a little more complicated we
have to get into his two issues because when we think about what's gonna happen
before he comes and what's gonna go on around that time this is where there are
many many different different opinions just about as many different well
there's not quite as many opinions as there are people but there's a lot of
opinions I'm Jewish so I can get away with this somebody said what happens
when you get two Jews together you'll get three opinions we a lot of opinions
when it comes to the end times but we do know that Jesus is coming again but
what's going to happen right before that well the the biggest series of books
that give a certain interpretation on endtime events is left behind
the Left Behind series teaches that at some point in the near future Christians
will just disappear they will just vanish they'll disappear leaving their
their clothes their pyjamas their wedding rings their jewelry their socks
and ties and whatever else may be their false teeth their glasses these will all
be left upon upon the earth as they disappear and are taken up to heaven
this is the event called the rapture the world will not see it
according to that view but the Christians only will know what has
happened as they are taken up and that event the rapture will initiate a
seven-year period of tribulation for all that are all that are left behind after
the or actually during the seven years I pushed the wrong button there during the
seven years this man will rise up the evil Antichrist and the Left Behind
series his name is Nikolai Carpathia he rises up he takes over the world he
brings order out of chaos he looks like a nice guy but he's really a bad guy
he's the evil Antichrist I'm in our next meeting after this in part three we'll
talk all about the Antichrist I'm going to share some fascinating and very
controversial facts about this subject so the Antichrist makes war on the Jews
during the seven years and then at the end of the seven years that's when Jesus
appears visibly in the clouds which is his his second coming just about
everywhere I go when I hold seminars on Bible prophecy and I've done a lot of
these I've done these for years I've been to Russia I've been Canon I've been
to New Zealand I even had a big meeting and Pakistan
once don't think I'd go to Pakistan today but I I went there many years ago
and just about everywhere I go when I hold seminars on the Bible on prophecy
on the book of Revelation on the end times people inevitably come up to me
and ask me this question they'll say Steve are you pre-trib are you mid-trib
or are you post-trib which one are you and what they mean by that is do you
believe Jesus is coming at the beginning of the seven years do you believe he's
coming in the middle of the seven years or do you believe that he's coming at
the end of the seven years of tribulation predicted predicted in the
Bible this this doctrine is so thoroughly
embedded into modern evangelical theology that it's even recorded in
Newsweek I mentioned this article this magazine came out a few months ago this
was May 24 2014 all about left behind how popular they are that concept is
embedded right here in what they call their glossary of terms it says the
tribulation is the seven years of calamity described in the book of
Revelation the seven years of calamity described in the book of Revelation now
I've got here a copy of my my book endtime delusions that deals with all of
these issues in great detail and I'm going to just quote a little bit inside
this book there are references to the Left Behind series book after book after
book and this is what book 2 of the Left Behind novel says quote that the
disappearances referring to the rapture and the vanishing of Christians the
disappearances have ushered in the seven-year period of tribulation that's
a book called the tribulation force book 3 is called nicolai about the Antichrist
and it says that the 7-year tribulation is nearing the end of its first quarter
book 6 in the 12 part series says it is the midpoint now of the seven year
tribulation that's the book called the indwelling book it begins with the dawn
of the second half of the seven year period of tribulation and then that's
from the mark of the beast and then another book is called Armageddon and it
also talks about how we're now 6 years into the tribulation and were 2 and 1/2
years into the Great Tribulation so just by quoting these you can see
that the whole Left Behind series is is based upon this concept of 7 years and
each book the first book the rapture takes place the Christians are gone the
next book follows the saga of those that are left behind and many of them become
believers they become Christians they've become part of what's called the
tribulation force and then they have to do battle with the Antichrist and each
book takes you farther in farther into the 7 years until finally you get to the
end of the 7 years you get to the incoming and that's where the last
left-behind book came out which was called the glorious appearing came out
March 28th 2004 describing the second coming of Christ
the publisher who published my book destiny image decided to make the cover
similar to the Left Behind books and we released this book on April 1 of 2004
and the last left-behind book came out March 28
so both books came out together we timed it that way and I'm thankful I just it's
a long story how all this happened but God has worked some in a major way
and opened up some big doors and put this book in a lot of bookstores and
sometimes they're right next to the Left Behind books so people can have a choice
and they can they can just study the issues and realize that there's
different views out there and they need to read their Bibles for for themselves
so anyway