Each and every unsaved person will experience the full wrath of God. If Christ has not paid the penalty for your sins, you will experience the full wrath of God.

No one likes to talk about this kind of information. Nothing could be more demoralizing. It is far easier to live in complete denial, secretly hoping that all of this talk of judgment day is just talk and is not to be taken seriously.

However, when we know that the Bible is absolutely true and authoritative, we are commanded to tell the world all that the Bible teaches concerning that awesome event. The true believers in Christ have no option. They must warn the world of impending judgment. The prophet Jonah, for example, was commanded by God to go to Nineveh to warn that wicked city that in 40 days, God would destroy them. Jonah was not at all happy to take that terrible news to Nineveh, but, finally, he did obey. Wonderfully, the people of Nineveh repented and humbly pleaded with God, hoping that God would have mercy on them. And God did have mercy on them, and God did not destroy their city.

The situation is the same today, except the whole world is in view. The time is less than four years, rather than 40 days. While the whole city of Nineveh repented, the whole world of our day will not repent. However, the good news is that the Bible declares that a great multitude, which no man could number, will humbly plead with God for mercy, and a great harvest of people, whom God has chosen to save, will be given eternal life, and they will escape the judgment of God, which they deserve because of their sins.

A very common assertion is made, especially by those who are members of local churches, that Christ will come as a thief in the night. Thus, they contend that no one should be interested in attempting to learn from the Bible what God says about the timing of the end of the world.

These dear people are correct. The Bible does teach that for many people, Christ will come as a thief in the night. We read in I Thessalonians 5:2-3:  

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

But then the Bible says in verses 4-6:

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

These verses are teaching that there are two kinds of people in the world who realize that this world will come to an end, at which time God will separate the saved from the unsaved. Both groups know that the unsaved will experience the full wrath of God, and that those who have become saved will be forever with Christ in the greatest happiness and glory.

One group includes many people who believe they are saved, but in reality, they are not saved. They are not aware that in our day, God has revealed, in the Bible, a great amount of information that relates to the timeline of history, all the way to the end of the world, and they do not care to try to learn all that the Bible teaches. They are confident that they have become saved, and therefore, it really makes no difference when Christ will come. For them, He will come as a thief in the night. But sadly, these verses teach that when Christ comes, “sudden destruction” will come upon them. By their lack of interest in wanting to know as much as possible about what the Bible teaches, they are demonstrating that they are not saved, and they are still subject to the awful wrath of God.

But there are also many people who, because of their love and respect for the Bible, have learned that the Bible gives much information about the timeline of history. Thus, they have learned a great many details concerning end-time events, as well as the timetable of these events. The Bible speaks of them as “watchmen” (Ezekiel 33:2-9), in that they are able to warn the unsaved of the world of the impending end of the world, which is so near.

This book was written so that hopefully, you, too, will realize the absolute seriousness of the predicament the world is in. There is no way to change the plan of God for the end of the world. However, it is possible that you, too, could be one of those who will escape the wrath of God through the mercy of His wonderful salvation.

In this book we will look briefly at God’s actions throughout the history of the world, as God unfolds His salvation plan to the world. We shall particularly focus on the final period of earth’s history, when two great events are