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The End of the Church Age...and After
Chapter 7. The Church Age Has Come to an End
The Bible discloses the fact that following the season of the early Pentecostal rain (the church age), which has brought in the harvest of the firstfruits, there would be a time of a spiritual famine of hearing the Word of God. This would also be a time of judgment on the churches. This time symbolically would be three and a half years in duration. It is called the time of Great Tribulation. This time of Great Tribulation will be immediately followed by the return of Christ and the end of the world. We read in Matthew 24:21: And in Matthew 24:29, God declares:
This Great Tribulation period is not only described in Matthew 24 and Mark 13, but it is also described in the language of Revelation 13, Daniel 7, Daniel 8, and many other Scriptures. It is typified by the 70-year period beginning with the death of King Josiah in 609 B.C. and ending with the conquer of Babylon by the Medes and the Persians in 539 B.C. It is a time typified by God bringing judgment upon Judah because they refused to remove the high places where heathen gods were worshipped. God had warned in Leviticus 26:30:
He reiterated this warning in Ezekiel 6, verses 3 and 4:
The character of the events occurring in the 70-year period from 609 B.C. to 539 B.C. was the total rule of Babylon over Israel. When the Israelites were taken captive into Babylon they had no temple, no holy city, and no priesthood. They were entirely separated from Jerusalem and all the sacred activity that previously had been taking place there. Likewise, the character of the Great Tribulation spoken of in Matthew 24 is that Satan has occupied the churches and has become victorious over the saints. In Revelation 13:7, we read: In Daniel 7:25 God prophesied:
In Daniel 8:11 and 12 the Bible declares:
These passages show that the
time was to come when God would give Satan the victory over all the local
churches and congregations. This was at the end of the church age, when
Satan was given complete victory over the external corporate church.
When we understand that Satan is given victory over the external church, which consists of all the local congregations, we wonder how this can be. Don't we read in Revelation 20, verses 2 and 3:
We do know that Satan was bound in the sense that he could no longer frustrate the purpose of the Gospel to save people. During Jesus' ministry, virtually no one became saved. On the one hand, the Holy Spirit was not at work applying the preached Word of God to the lives of those who were to be saved. On the other hand, Satan appeared to be present almost everywhere Jesus preached. As Luke 8:12 indicates, the devil took the Word out of the hearts of those who heard the Word lest they should believe and be saved. The fact that about 3,000 people were saved seven weeks after the time of the cross indicates that this was the dominant meaning of the truth that Satan had been bound. It was at the cross that Satan was given the death blow and was bound so that he could no longer deceive the nations. Beginning at the time he was bound and all through the church age, people all around the world did become saved. We must, therefore, ask the question: How is it possible that Satan is able to gain victory over the churches during the Great Tribulation? Did he finally figure out a plan whereby he could do this? The answer is, No! It is God who loosed Satan as a judgment upon the churches. We read about this loosing of Satan in. Revelation Chapter 20:7-8:
Christ alone has the key that opens and shuts (Revelation 3:7). Very deliberately, Christ loosed Satan in the sense that He again allowed Satan to frustrate the preached Word so that it could not save. The time coincided with the withdrawal of the Holy Spirit from the churches. Once he was loosed, Satan, as the constant enemy of Christ, of course could be expected to immediately attack the body of Christ, which was found in the local churches all over the world. Thus, we can know that it is only
because God is orchestrating the details of the Great Tribulation and the
end of the world that Satan can become so victorious during the time of
the Great Tribulation. When we look at the sending forth of the Gospel during the church age, we must take note of the two witnesses of Revelation 11. These two witnesses represent the true believers. Initially, they identify with the true believers in the churches during the church age. The command to go into all the world with the Gospel had been given at the beginning of the church age. The carrying out of this command was typified by the two witnesses of whom the Bible speaks in Revelation 11. Revelation 11:3 and 4 declare:
The two witnesses are identified in Revelation 11:4 as two olive trees and two candlesticks. The two olive trees identify with the olive tree of Romans 11:16-24. This underscores the fact that these two witnesses represent the true believers. The two witnesses also identify with the two candlesticks. This immediately identifies them with the church age. Revelation 1:20 and Revelation 2:1 teach us that symbolically, each church is represented by a candlestick amongst which Christ walks. The candlestick represents the light of the Gospel as it is sent into the world during the church age by the churches and during the latter rain by true believers who are outside of the churches. The number two (two witnesses, two olive trees, two candlesticks), identifies with true believers who faithfully bring the Gospel. Remember, Jesus sent the twelve disciples out two and two (Mark 6:7), and also, the 70 were sent out two and two (Luke 10:1).
We see the end of the church age in the death of these two witnesses, as we read Revelation 11:7, which declares:
The death of the two witnesses
identifies with the destruction of the church. Satan is loosed at the
beginning of the Great Tribulation and is allowed by God to destroy the
churches. Even as God finally destroyed Judah and Jerusalem in 587 B.C. because they had not removed the high places, God indicates that the churches, too, will be destroyed because they do not remove their high places. Remember we read in II Corinthians 10:4-6:
As we learned earlier, the high places of the churches are the doctrines held and taught by the churches that are not true to the Bible. Some of these doctrines are imbedded in their Confessions but additional wrong doctrines are also taught. Divorce for fornication is one example of such perversion of the law of God. Even as Israel refused to permanently destroy its high places, so, too, the churches and denominations of our day refuse to remove from their Confessions and from their other teachings those doctrines that are not true to the Bible. As we learned earlier, their refusal to remove wrong doctrines from their Confessions and other doctrinal teachings may be a result of the false notion that the church is the pillar and ground of truth. Later in our study, we will learn that only God can be the pillar and ground of truth. Thus, both Revelation 11:7 and II Corinthians 10:4-6 teach that there comes a time when the work of the church is finished (Revelation 11:2), its obedience has been fulfilled (II Corinthians 10:6), and then judgment comes
upon the church. This is so even as God's judgment came
upon Old Testament Israel and Judah. It is true that during the 322-year
duration of Judah, from the death of Solomon in 931 B.C. until the death
of Josiah in 609 B.C., God tolerated and overlooked the high
places.
Likewise, throughout the entire New Testament era, God overlooked and tolerated the high places in the churches. Even though many churches and denominations insist that the Bible is the only infallible Word of God, they cling to a number of doctrines of men rather than submit entirely to the truth of the Bible. We have learned that these false doctrines are equivalent to the high places of ancient Judah. As we have seen, the Great Tribulation of Matthew 24 was typified by the destruction of Jerusalem in the period from 609 B.C. to 587 B.C. Therefore, we can expect that even as Judah and Israel were destroyed because they would not remove their high places, so, too, the New Testament Israel will be destroyed during the Great Tribulation because high places are found in the churches throughout the world. The destruction of the churches is not a physical literal destruction as was the situation in 587 B.C. Instead, it is a spiritual destruction as God allows the true believers to be driven out. The churches become spiritually desolate because, as we will learn later in this study, the Holy Spirit no longer works in the churches and Satan rules in them. This destruction of the churches is made evident by the declaration of Revelation 11:7, where God says: It is seen in the language of II Corinthians 10:6:
II Thessalonians 2, verses 3 and 4 speak of it in this way:
All of these passages tell us in different ways that the end of the church age will come. We see the believers in the churches killed in Revelation 11:7. God will "revenge" the disobedience of the churches after their work is done. The phrase "when your obedience is fulfilled" matches Revelation 11:7, which says, "when they shall have finished their testimony." The II Thessalonians 2 passage tells us that the death of the churches comes with Satan ruling in the churches. So, all of these passages are telling us the same thing, namely, that the end of the church age will come at some point. As we will see in this study, that time is now. The Beast that Comes from the sea Let us examine some verses in Revelation 13 to better understand this Great Tribulation time and the end of the church age. We will start with verses 1-3, where we read:
This beast is a representation of Satan. But this passage is looking particularly at Satan's rule over all of the unsaved during the Great Tribulation of our day. We know this to be so for at least two reasons. The first reason is that he comes out of the sea. In the Bible, the sea frequently represents hell. Remember, Satan was cast into hell (he became subject to the wrath of God), at the cross. But remember, too, that Revelation 20 teaches that just before the end, Satan is loosed from his prison so that he would go out to deceive the nations of the world (Revelation 20:7-8). That is why Revelation 13:3 declares his death wound was healed.
This beast has seven heads and ten horns but the ten horns are crowned. This indicates the rule of Satan during the Great Tribulation period. In Revelation 17:12, we read:
We will discover later that the phrase "one hour" or "one day" refers particularly to the entire Great Tribulation period. (See Appendix A.) Returning to Revelation 13:2, we read that this beast, who we now know represents the rule of Satan during the time of the Great Tribulation, was like a leopard, a bear, and a lion. It is a picture of Satan coming as a savage wild beast to destroy. Verses 4 and 5 continue:
The unsaved all over the world worship Satan during this time of Great Tribulation. It might be noted that in our day, the intense interest in the occult and in things like Halloween indicate the enormous adulation that Satan is receiving. Verses 6 and 7 state:
Because Satan has been loosed by God to again deceive the nations, his chief attack is against the true believers in Christ. This is so because they are the body of Christ, and Christ is the chief enemy of Satan, and Satan wishes to destroy Him. God has loosed Satan to prepare the world for Judgment Day . But in God's divine arrangement, judgment is to begin at the house of God (I Peter 4:17). Therefore, verse 6 teaches that Satan blasphemes, that is, he mocks,
ridicules, and speaks scandalously against the true believers, and he was able to overcome the saints (the true believers).
How can Satan overcome the saints? Aren't they forever safe with Christ? True, but he overcomes them in the sense that they are driven from the churches and congregations. Remember John 16:2:
During the Great Tribulation, as we will presently see, Satan will be ruling in the congregations, and the true believers will be killed (driven out of the churches). This identifies with Revelation 11:7:
Thus, during the Great Tribulation, except for the true believers who are no longer a part of the churches and congregations, Satan rules over all, both in the churches and outside of the churches. Satan's rule in the churches corresponds with the end of the church age, when God is no longer using the churches to evangelize the world. Thus far we have learned that the beast that comes out of the sea represents Satan as he rules during the Great Tribulation period of our day. Continuing with Revelation 13, we read in verses 11 and 12:
The Beast that Comes Out of the Earth God now is speaking of a beast coming out of the earth. We know that this beast also is Satan. However, Satan now is presented as antichrist, that is, he looks and acts like Christ. He has two horns like a lamb (that is, like Christ the Lamb of God). Yet we are not to be deceived, "he spake as a dragon." It is Satan masquerading as Christ as he takes over the rulership of the churches and congregations during the Great Tribulation of our day. This identifies with the language of II Thessalonians 2:3-4:
The temple of God is the churches and congregations. But during the Great Tribulation, Satan will be sitting (that is, ruling) in the churches. God the Holy Spirit will no longer be in the midst of the congregations. Satan has overcome the true believers by driving them out (they are killed), and now he is free to rule as he pleases. Those who remain in the churches think they are worshipping God, but in actuality, they are worshipping Satan. Thus, this beast that comes out of the earth also represents Satan. More particularly it represents Satan as he rules in the churches and congregations during the Great Tribulation period of our day. Later on, in Revelation 19:20, he is called the false prophet. Satan is called the false prophet because he is ruling in the churches and congregations, where false doctrines are taught. Fire from
Heaven
We read here that Satan will be calling down fire from heaven. However, as we study the Bible, we learn that Satan cannot literally call down fire from heaven. This is proven by the contest between the 450 prophets of Baal, who were Satan's emissaries, and Elijah. We read about this in I Kings 18. But God gave Satan a demonstration that showed that causing someone to fall backward is equivalent to calling down fire from heaven. In Numbers 16 we read that the rebellion against Moses was led by three men, Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Numbers 16:2-3:
The consequences of this rebellion were that the earth opened up and swallowed the families of the three men and the destruction by fire of the 250 men who rebelled. Numbers 16:35 says, "And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense." The next day the Israelites complained. Then Numbers 16:41 says, "But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD." As a result of this added rebellion on the part of Israel, God sent a plague into Israel that began to kill the Israelites in great numbers. Only the timely intervention of Aaron in making an atonement for Israel kept God from killing all of Israel. We read of this terrible judgment and its remedy in Numbers 16, verses 45-48:
In this account, rebellious Israel is representative of mankind who has rebelled against God. The plague that killed many of the Israelites and the fire that came down and destroyed the 250 men point to the judgment of God that will destroy all the unsaved. The atonement offered by Aaron and Aaron himself, as he stood between the dead and the living, represent Christ who stopped the wrath of God from falling on all those for whom He made atonement. Thus, we see much of the Gospel of salvation in this account. Does Satan Make Fire Come Down from Heaven? We read in Revelation 13:13, that the beast "maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men." Does this mean that at some point in time, Satan will be able to literally make fire come down from heaven? Actually, this phenomenon is presently happening worldwide, but it is not a literal fire, it is an activity that is the equivalent of calling down fire from heaven. Let us search the Bible to see how this can be. In two outstanding examples, Satan, through his emissaries, threatened believers, and fire came down from heaven to destroy the wicked ones. In II Kings 1, we read of the wicked king of Israel sending a captain with 50 men to take Elijah. In the face of Satan's open assault on believers, Elijah, who represents believers, called down fire from heaven and the captain and 50 men were destroyed. In Revelation 20, we read of Satan assaulting the camp of the saints by means of the nations from the four corners of the earth, and fire came down from heaven to destroy these nations. There was another time when Satan assaulted the kingdom of God and fire should have been called down from heaven to destroy him. But instead, a different action was taken in order to show that Satan could have been destroyed by fire. That action, therefore, became the equivalent of calling down fire from heaven. The event was when Jesus was in
the Garden of Gethsemane and Judas and the temple soldiers came to take
Jesus. Satan was there, because a bit earlier, he had entered into Judas
(Luke 22:3). Satan was so much a part of what followed that Christ called
Judas a "devil" (John 6:70-71). Jesus asked
Judas and the temple soldiers, "Whom seek ye? They
answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am" (John
18:4-5).
At that moment, following the action of Elijah as recorded in II Kings Chapter 1, and the action against the forces of evil as recorded in Revelation Chapter 20, Jesus should have called down fire from heaven to destroy the enemies who would bind Him, but Jesus could not take that action at that time. He declared to the temple soldiers, "this is your hour, and the power of darkness" (Luke 22:53). Christ could not destroy these enemies because it was necessary that He be bound and go to the cross to pay for our sins. Only then could He be our Savior. Jesus showed that He was willingly being bound and that it was God's will that He be taken, but Christ could have destroyed these enemies. Instead of bringing fire from heaven, when Jesus said, "I am," He caused them to reel backward and fall to the ground (John 18:6). This was a substitute action to show that He had the power to destroy them.
We learned from Revelation 13:13 that Satan will cause fire to come down from heaven, but the Bible also instructs us that Satan cannot make fire come down from heaven. Do you recall the contest between Elijah and the prophets of Baal in I Kings 18? The 450 prophets of Baal, whose head is Satan, tried all day to cause fire to come down to the altar they had made. But they failed totally to accomplish this. Elijah, on the other hand, prayed that God would send fire on the altar that Elijah had built, and fire came down and consumed the offering, the wood, and even the stones of the altar. Therefore, Satan cannot literally call down fire from heaven. Satan was present when Jesus caused those who came to take Him to fall backward as a substitute for calling down fire from heaven (John 18). This is the solution to the prophecy that Satan would call down fire from heaven, that is, he causes people to fall backward to the ground under some supernatural power, which is the equivalent of calling down fire from heaven. Thus, this could be the manner through which Revelation 13:13 finds its fulfillment. Among the false gospels of our day, there is an extensive phenomenon going on in which many people fall backward by some supernatural power. Among some, this is called "being slain in the spirit." Since Satan cannot literally call down fire from heaven, he follows the lead of Jesus and causes people to fall backward, which is a substitute for calling down fire from heaven.
Falling Backward Equals Fire from Heaven Thus, this miracle of people falling backward to the ground, which is occurring all over the world, is clear evidence that we are now in the Great Tribulation period of Revelation 13 and Matthew 24. This supernatural activity is one of the signs Satan employs to assure those in the churches that Christ is still active within these churches. Satan wishes to be like God. God is the judge of all the earth. God shows His right and ability to judge by calling down fire to destroy the one being judged. Satan is not the judge in any sense, but he tries to show he is a judge by causing people to fall backward. That is why in the churches where he does this, they speak of it as being "slain in the spirit." Additionally, other supernatural activities, such as people receiving messages by means of visions and speaking in tongues, are from Satan as he tries to assure those in these churches that Christ is still ruling there. In these verses in Revelation, God tells us that Satan, as he comes as the beast out of the earth or as the false prophet, causes those who dwell on the earth to "make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live" (Revelation 13:14), that is, to make an image of Satan. Furthermore, concerning this image, we read in Revelation 13:15:
How are we to understand this
image of Satan to which life has been given? This is a very important
question because in Revelation 14:9, we read about those who worship his
image. And remember in Revelation 14:7 we read the warning that we are to
worship only God the Creator.
The Image of the Beast Making an image is the same as making a likeness of any entity. The image or likeness is not the entity but it represents the entity. The true believer, for example, has become the image of Christ. We read in II Corinthians Chapter 3, verse 18:
We read in Colossians 3:10: And in Romans 1:23 we read:
Studying these verses assures us that the image of God is the true believers. The image of Satan is all the unsaved. This agrees with Jesus' assessment of the Israel of His day. He declares in John 8:44:
Thus, we can understand that the image of Satan consists of the unsaved within the churches. They have been given life only in the sense that they have contact with the supernatural as they receive messages by means of tongues or voices or visions. They have contact with the supernatural by falling backwards. It, of course, is false life, but to those who experience these things, the experiences assure them that they must be alive in Christ. What then could the Bible mean when it speaks about worshipping the image of the beast? We worship our master, the one we look to as our authority. To worship means to bow down before the one to whom we have surrendered our will. Thus, as true believers, our will has been surrendered to Christ because we worship Him as our Lord and our God. The question must be posed: In any church or congregation, who is the authority that rules in our life? Is it the Bible alone? Or is it the theologians and Bible teachers of the denomination to which we belong? In any conservative church of today, the answer comes very quickly, the Bible alone is our authority. But is that really so? Who developed the doctrines that we must accept Christ to become saved, that we must be baptized in water as a condition for salvation, that faith is an instrument God gives us so we might become saved, that water baptism seals us in some way, that a wife can divorce an adulterous husband, etc. Since these doctrines did not come from God, they could have come only from the minds of men.
Some or all of these doctrines are adhered to and effectively obeyed in virtually every church and congregation of our day. If these doctrines came from the minds of men, the lofty thinking of theologians, they did not come from God. The very fact that they dare to hold these doctrines as truth when they are not truth means that they are trusting a lie. That in turn means that ultimately, they are worshipping the father of lies, who is Satan. And they themselves are the image of Satan. We must remember that throughout the history of the New Testament church, many false doctrines existed in churches that God used to further the great commission of evangelizing the world. However, we must also remember that God is a long-suffering God. He has tolerated these New Testament high places for a long time. We have seen the same patience of God as He tolerated the high places of Israel and Judah for hundreds of years. But there is an end to God's patience. God has decreed that there would come a time when He would destroy all the high places. He did this by destroying Israel in 709 B.C. and Judah in 587 B.C. He did this by loosing Satan so that he would rule in the temple, that is, in all the churches and the congregations of our day.
Significantly, in virtually every church that exists anywhere in the world, the image of the beast is worshipped. That is, doctrines developed out of the minds of men are regarded as God's truth. Fact is, the matter of regarding
any doctrines that are spawned by the thinking of theologians as God's
truth betrays the mentality that the corporate church effectively rules
over the Bible. Protestants fault the Roman Catholics because they plainly
contend that the church rules over the Bible, but the reality is that the
same condition prevails in the Protestant churches. This is another way of
saying that the image of Satan, that is, the minds of corruptible man is
being worshipped. Remember we read in Revelation 13:15, "that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." The evidence of the reality of this statement is seen in startling fashion in our day. In any conservative
church today, which we may have considered to be the most faithful to the Bible, if we try to remain there as a member but take serious issue with statements of the confessions of that denomination, statements that can be shown to be in violation of the Bible, for example, if we take issue with that church's stand on marriage and divorce, ordinarily, such action will cause us to be driven out. Spiritually, in a sense, we will be killed. If a pastor of such a church begins to object to the doctrines of his church , and which he can show to be in violation of the Bible, he will be driven out of that denomination. Spiritually, in the sense of the illustration in Revelation 11, he will be killed. Returning to Revelation 14:7, now we can understand why God is warning that the Gospel we are to proclaim during the latter rain should emphasize that we are to worship God who "made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." Trusting our church, theologians, or any entity rather than God the Creator will no longer be tolerated by God. In fact, this is a solemn warning to a ministry like Family Radio, that is, we better be sure that the doctrines we bring to the world are as Biblical as possible. As we have already learned, we are to be especially concerned that the salvation message does not in the slightest way teach that any work that we do can assist in our salvation. And now, continuing a bit longer in Revelation Chapter 13, we read in verses 16 and 17:
These two verses introduce more questions. What is signified by the mark of the beast? What does it mean to buy or sell? Satan's rule in the temple, that is, his rule in the churches and congregations during the Great Tribulation, causes everyone there to receive Satan's mark. We must understand this to mean that those who are not saved carry the ownership brand of Satan. Like a cattleman puts his ownership brand on his cattle so there is no question about who owns the cattle, so Satan spiritually has his mark or brand on those who worship him or his image. Similarly, we read in Revelation 14:1 that the 144,000, who are the complete fullness of all those who became saved during the church age, have an identification mark. They have their Father's name written on their forehead. We know, of course, that a name is not literally or physically placed on each believer's forehead. Rather, it is language to show that these 144,000 are eternally
owned by God and they are citizens of His kingdom. Later
in our study, we will look again at these 144,000. What does the phrase "buy or sell" signify? This is a crucial question because Revelation 13, verse 17, declares that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark of the beast. When we search the Bible to help us understand the phrase "buy or sell," we find that God employs language that identifies Jesus as a merchant. In Matthew 13:45 and 46 we read:
The merchant in this parable can only be Christ. The pearl is the kingdom of God. Christ sold all that He had, that is, He emptied Himself of His glory and became the suffering servant in order to obtain the kingdom of God. In Isaiah 55:1 we read:
This language is also the language of a merchant who has the Gospel for sale. It is the Gospel that can be bought without money and without price. In other references, the sending forth of the Gospel is typified by merchant ships (for example, the ships of Tarshish), that bring gold, silver, and all manner of precious things to Jerusalem. The virtuous woman of Proverbs 31:18, "perceiveth that her merchandise is good," and Proverbs 31:14 says, "She is like the merchants' ships." Proverbs 31:24 says, "She maketh fine linen, and selleth it." She can be shown to be a picture of the believers as we buy without money the Gospel and sell it to others who buy from us without money. Thus, buying and selling has entirely to do with sending forth the Gospel. Returning to Revelation 13:17, we read that in the churches and congregations that are under the rule of Satan, no one can buy or sell, that is, no one can bring a gospel there unless they have the mark of the beast.
What terrible information this is. Effectively, God is saying that in these churches and congregations where Satan now rules, no one can preach or teach there unless they are not saved. What is even worse is that, since everyone in the congregation believes they have a prophetic office to declare the Word of God, based upon passages like Acts 2:17, the ominous warning of Revelation 13:17 in principle can apply to everyone in the congregation. This information dramatically increases the problem faced by pastors and Bible teachers in churches. It cannot mean that every pastor ministering in any church is automatically proven to be unsaved. But it does mean when a pastor or any believer within that church is faced with the Biblical information concerning the Great Tribulation and then insists that this is not the time to flee from his church, or if he insists that somehow his church is the exception and he can continue to minister in this congregation, or if he offers any other rationale as to why he should not leave, the serious question must be raised, "How then does this pastor or believer answer to the terrible warning of Revelation 13:17?" Indeed, these are extremely serious verses. The serious nature of these warnings is further set forth in Revelation 14:9-11: we read:
As we have studied these verses in Revelation 13, we have seen more and more evidence that the beginning of the Great Tribulation spoken of in Matthew 24 corresponds with the end of the church age. Revelation 13 shows that during the Great Tribulation, the churches are under God's judgment and that God has given the churches over to Satan. With the churches under God's wrath and under Satan's rulership, we can see clear proof that the beginning of the Great Tribulation signifies that we are at the end of the church age.
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