If you want to know how and when the tribulation starts then follow the steps listed below.
Step 1. OK the first thing you need to do is totally forget the Psalm 83 war or the Gog Magog war because they don't happen before, during or immediately after the tribulation. Psalm 83 and the Gog Magog war describe a war that happens at the end of the millennial reign of Christ.
How do i know that?
1. A quick study about the 1000 year reign of Christ reveals how it all perfectly fits as the war that happens after the 1000 years when Satan is let loose for the last time to gather the entire world against Christ in Israel.
Two great commentaries on the Gog Magog war.
A great commentary on the 1000 year millennial reign of Christ.
Step 2. Realize that the pre-trib rapture is the only thing that makes sense.
Great pre-tribulation rapture resources below
Step 3. Realize that His return is Imminent.
So many people talk about this has to happen or this isn't ready or this technology has to be ready, this army must be over here etc....
The real truth is that Jesus could return and any moment. Now I will agree that certain things had to happen before He would return yet if He decided too he could come sooner.
Israel. Israel being gathered together was really a prerequisite to the end times. Ezekial 37 valley of dry bones.
Israel becoming a stumbling block to all nations
Now that Israel has been reborn as a nation since 1948 and we already have technological abilities needed to accomplish the new world government, nothing else has to happen for Christ to return and rapture His church.
Step 4. The peace treaty.
We know that the rapture will happen before or right about the same time as the 7 year peace treaty that Israel signs with the anti-christ. Everything else mentioned in Revelation, Daniel and other books about the Tribulation can and probably will happen as a direct result of Christians being removed in an instant from this earth.
The Holy Spirit who dwells in the believers will be removed. The bible calls it The Restrainer. http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/revelation/related-topics/who-is-the-restrainer.html
The Holy Spirit and Christians are what is holding this world back from destruction. Who stands against the tide? Who fights abortion, gay marriage and sin? Once we are removed everything the anti-christ has to do can happen swiftly and without much resistance.
So how will it go down? Bill Clinton and presidents before him have tried tirelessly to broker a peace treaty with Israel. They all want to be the one who put the two sides together and bring back peace to the middle east. Clinton came closer than anyone else and Barak Obama wants it to be his legacy too.
I think it could quiet possibly be a normal day, nothing major going on, no big news stories and then all of the sudden it's announced that a world leader has brokered a peace treaty with Israel and while the world is celebrating the anti-christ accomplishment we quietly slip away to be with Christ. Before anyone realizes it we're gone and then the man of sin is revealed and gives some story as to why we are all gone.
Or
It could be that a war in the middle east is waging and the outcome of that war is a peace deal. It could be the start of world war 3 when it happens but frankly the next world war will probably start with 1 shot and in a day world war is announced.
No major military exercise or build up is needed. The apostolic church is already in place with the Pope as it's leader. The new world order is already established and the one world system of monitoring money and tracking people is already here.
Now that Israel has been reborn as a nation since 1948 and we already have technological abilities needed to accomplish the new world government, nothing else has to happen for Christ to return and rapture His church.
Step 4. The peace treaty.
We know that the rapture will happen before or right about the same time as the 7 year peace treaty that Israel signs with the anti-christ. Everything else mentioned in Revelation, Daniel and other books about the Tribulation can and probably will happen as a direct result of Christians being removed in an instant from this earth.
The Holy Spirit who dwells in the believers will be removed. The bible calls it The Restrainer. http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/revelation/related-topics/who-is-the-restrainer.html
The Holy Spirit and Christians are what is holding this world back from destruction. Who stands against the tide? Who fights abortion, gay marriage and sin? Once we are removed everything the anti-christ has to do can happen swiftly and without much resistance.
So how will it go down? Bill Clinton and presidents before him have tried tirelessly to broker a peace treaty with Israel. They all want to be the one who put the two sides together and bring back peace to the middle east. Clinton came closer than anyone else and Barak Obama wants it to be his legacy too.
I think it could quiet possibly be a normal day, nothing major going on, no big news stories and then all of the sudden it's announced that a world leader has brokered a peace treaty with Israel and while the world is celebrating the anti-christ accomplishment we quietly slip away to be with Christ. Before anyone realizes it we're gone and then the man of sin is revealed and gives some story as to why we are all gone.
Or
It could be that a war in the middle east is waging and the outcome of that war is a peace deal. It could be the start of world war 3 when it happens but frankly the next world war will probably start with 1 shot and in a day world war is announced.
No major military exercise or build up is needed. The apostolic church is already in place with the Pope as it's leader. The new world order is already established and the one world system of monitoring money and tracking people is already here.