Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you,

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with a great tribulation as we pick up in Matthew chapter 24 verse 20 and now with today's message

here's Pastor Chuck.

Jesus said, pray that your flight will not be in the winter neither on the Sabbath day.

For then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no,

nor ever shall be. The time of the greatest tribulation that the world has ever seen.

Now there are some who say that this took place, the abomination of desolation, took place

when Titus came in and

destroyed the temple. No, because the great tribulation had not taken place. It did not follow

Titus's destruction of the temple. And John, writing the book of Revelation, wrote long after the temple was destroyed by Titus

and details the Great Tribulation as a yet future event that will take place after the church

things.

In chapter 4, verse 1 of the book of Revelation, now after these things, after what things,

the things of the church in chapters 2 and 3. I saw a door open in heaven, the first voice of a trumpet saying to me, come up hither and I'm going to show you things that are going to be after these church things. And immediately I was caught up by the spirit. I saw the throne of God and he describes it. Chapter 5, he describes the scroll in the right hand of him that is sitting upon the throne and the worship and glory that is given to Christ when he takes the scroll and assumes the authority

and the power that is his. Chapter 6, he begins to break the seals of this scroll. And as he does,

first of all, the white horse with his rider, the Antichrist, coming over, taking over the earth,

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