What is the coming day of God's wrath in the tribulation?
The coming day of God's wrath is the last three and a half years of the tribulation, beginning at its midpoint. At the sixth seal a great earthquake occurs, the sun blackens, and the moon turns as blood. Scripture declares, 'the day of his wrath is come,' a period worse than any other in human history.
Les teaches that the sixth seal is at the midpoint of the tribulation. When it is opened, there is a great earthquake; the sun becomes black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon becomes as blood, which Les relates to cataclysmic earthquakes, volcanoes, and pollution in the air. Revelation 6:17 then says, 'for the day of his wrath is come.' Les identifies that day with the last three and a half years, the period Matthew 24 says is worse than any other in human history. The midpoint timing is confirmed by the two witnesses: they prophesy 1,260 days (three and a half years), are put to death, are resurrected three days later, and ascend; at the same hour there is a great earthquake, matching Revelation 6. Before that, the first three and a half years are not a utopia, and the remainder becomes progressively worse.
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What does 'the day of his wrath' refer to in Revelation?
The 'day of his wrath is come' refers to the last three and a half years of the tribulation, a period Matthew 24 says is worse than any other period in human history.
What did Jesus compare the tribulation judgments to?
The tribulation judgments are like birth pangs: they start mild and far apart and intensity increases as the end approaches.