This is the true meaning of Peter's saying that judgement begins with the house of God. People love to puzzle their brains with the Apocalypse but the open statements of Paul are very clear and easy to understand.
Antichrist will sit in the temple and declare that he is himself God and the Lord will destroy him in an instant by His power and His coming. This is the beginning of God's wrath.
Antichrist will not come up to Jerusalem alone, he will come up with a mighty, massive army, from all the nations that he will be in control of. It is upon them that God's fury will be poured.
Now you can understand two things
First you can understand why Israel is being gathered and will be fully gathered, it is on THEIR behalf that God is going to come and fight.
Second you can understand why the rapture or gathering of the church, there is NO WAY that God will pour His fury upon the nations while the church is there.
The tribulation is something quite different, all these things happen not at the beginning of Antichrist's career but at the end, before he sits in the temple Paul says "he will oppose everything called god"
He is going to do his best [or his worst] to stamp out religion...ALL religion. That is the tribulation, the great tribulation or the great endtime persecution which Jesus warned about.
Antichrist will sit in the temple and declare that he is himself God and the Lord will destroy him in an instant by His power and His coming. This is the beginning of God's wrath.
Antichrist will not come up to Jerusalem alone, he will come up with a mighty, massive army, from all the nations that he will be in control of. It is upon them that God's fury will be poured.
Now you can understand two things
First you can understand why Israel is being gathered and will be fully gathered, it is on THEIR behalf that God is going to come and fight.
Second you can understand why the rapture or gathering of the church, there is NO WAY that God will pour His fury upon the nations while the church is there.
The tribulation is something quite different, all these things happen not at the beginning of Antichrist's career but at the end, before he sits in the temple Paul says "he will oppose everything called god"
He is going to do his best [or his worst] to stamp out religion...ALL religion. That is the tribulation, the great tribulation or the great endtime persecution which Jesus warned about.