The Pre-Tribulation Rapture - Outline of End Time Events

After The Cross

• Christ is the first fruits of our resurrection

The Church Age

• The dispensation of grace
• Christ reconciled and sanctified the Church
• The Church is not under the Law
• The Church is not in darkness
• The work of the Holy Spirit restrains evil
• Christ seals the Church with the Holy Spirit
• Birth pangs

Rapture of the Church

• The rapture of the Church
• Restrainer taken with the Church
• The Church's work of spreading the Gospel given to others
• All believers will go in the rapture
• The innocent taken in the rapture with believers

Period between the Rapture and Daniel's 70th Week

• Bema - Judgment Seat of Christ
• The elders in Heaven represent the Church
• God will turn His focus from the Church back to the Jews

First Half of Daniel's 70th Week

• Covenant brokered by the antichrist begins Daniel's 70th Week
• God will send a strong delusion to those that rejected Christ
• The Babylonian religion will rise
• God's judgments begin
• The 5th Seal martyrs

Great Tribulation

• Abomination of desolation - The end of the "great harlot"
• Resurrections in the midst of the Tribulation
• Harvests of souls
• The two witnesses
• An angel will proclaim the Gospel to the world
• The last Judgments poured out
• Babylon destroyed
• Number of martyrs complete

2nd Coming of Jesus and Restoration

• Jesus will return from His Wedding
• Angels gather the "elect" at the Great Trumpet
• The "Great Supper of God" and defeat of the antichrist
• Satan bound
• The "Sheep and Goat Judgment" - Believers enter the Millennium
• The Tribulation martyrs resurrected
• "Marriage Supper of the Lamb"
• Restoration period before the Millennium

Millennium and Beyond

• Christ's millennial rule
• Satan will deceive the nations
• The "Great White Throne Judgment"
• Resurrections and Judgments
• Eternity
• Final thoughts on why the rapture must occur before the Tribulation