The seven-year tribulation's purpose is to deliver the earth from the curse and bring about the restitution of all things.
Les Feldick teaches that the seven years are the travail that leads to the planet's delivery from the curse it has been under since Adam. The tribulation pays off the curse and restores the earth to its Edenic condition. It also separates the unbelieving element of Israel through judgment from the believing remnant who enter the Kingdom.
Matthew 24:8 — Jesus calls the tribulation events the beginning of sorrows, which connects them to travail and delivery.
Isaiah 24:6 — Isaiah says the curse has devoured the earth, showing what the tribulation will deal with.
In Matthew 24, the disciples ask Jesus on the Mount of Olives, "Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?" Jesus warns of deceivers and then says, "All these are the beginning of sorrows." This places the tribulation events in the context of sorrow that precedes a greater event. Isaiah 24 describes the same period: "The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left." The Bible plainly says the curse devours the earth during this time, leaving few survivors.
Les Feldick teaches that the seven years of tribulation are not an arbitrary punishment. Using the analogy of a woman in childbirth, he says the travail of the tribulation results in the delivery of the planet from the curse. From the day the earth was subjected to the curse, God has promised a day of redemption for it, and the tribulation is how that redemption comes. Les also teaches that the scroll in Revelation 5 is a mortgage that Satan has held since Adam fell. The tribulation pays off that mortgage and restores the earth to its Edenic condition. During those seven years God deals primarily with the Jew, judging the unbelieving element and bringing the believing remnant into the glory of His rule and reign.
Les compares the tribulation to birth pangs. Just as travail leads to delivery, the seven years of tribulation lead to the earth's delivery from the curse. The events Jesus lists in Matthew 24 are called the beginning of sorrows — or travail — showing that the earth is approaching the day of her delivery.
Les describes the scroll in Revelation 5 as the mortgage that Satan has held ever since Adam fell. The tribulation pays off that mortgage. The earth has been under the curse for almost 6,000 years, but it is going to be restored to its Edenic condition and once again be a beautiful Garden of Eden. This is the restitution of all things.
Les says that once the tribulation seven years starts, it will be seven years of God dealing primarily with the Jew. God's righteousness dictates that by the end of the seven years the unbelieving element will have suffered His wrath and judgment, while the believing remnant will come into the glory of His rule and reign when He sets up His Kingdom. Les calls this a short work the Lord will make upon the earth.
Les describes the start of the tribulation with the Antichrist signing a seven-year treaty with Israel. That treaty gives Israel relative peace and safety, then a great invasion from the north precipitates a demise in the food supply, triggering famine and pestilence, corresponding to the black horse of Revelation 6. Jesus called all these things the beginning of sorrows.
According to Les, during the Tribulation there will be cataclysmic events, including what appears to be nuclear activity, and few men will be left. But there are survivors who come through the awful seven years. Isaiah 24 says the inhabitants of the earth are burned and few men left, but the idea is not total annihilation.
Preparation Before the Curtain Rises
Les teaches that present-day increases in earthquakes and perplexity are not the tribulation itself, but preparation, like the rehearsals before the curtain rises on the tribulation.
Delivery of the Planet From the Curse
The whole purpose of the seven years is to bring the earth to a delivery from the curse; the travail of tribulation is connected to the planet's redemption.
God Dealing Primarily With the Jew
During the seven years God deals primarily with the Jew, judging the unbelieving element and bringing the believing remnant into His Kingdom.
Paying Off the Curse
This whole reason for the Tribulation is to pay off the curse and deliver the earth from it, leaving only a few men as survivors.
Beginning of Sorrows as Travail
The tribulation events are the beginning of sorrows, better understood as travail or earth pangs, showing the earth approaching the day of her delivery from the curse.
Paying Off the Mortgage
The scroll in Revelation 5 is a mortgage that Satan has held since Adam; the tribulation pays it off and restores the earth to its Edenic condition.
Isaiah 24 Cataclysms
Isaiah 24 describes the cataclysmic emptying and wasting of the earth during the tribulation, with the curse devouring the earth.
Beginning of the Seven Years
The tribulation begins with a seven-year treaty with Israel, followed by invasion, famine, and pestilence — the beginning of sorrows Jesus spoke of.
Matthew 24:3: And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
This is the disciples' question that leads Jesus to describe the tribulation events.
Matthew 24:8: All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Les uses this verse to show that tribulation events are only the beginning of travail leading to delivery.
Isaiah 24:5: The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah describes the moral condition of the earth during the tribulation.
Isaiah 24:6: Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
This verse directly points to the curse that the tribulation pays off.
Romans 9:28: For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
Les quotes the short work of the Lord as part of the seven-year tribulation's purpose.
According to Les Feldick, the purpose is to bring the earth to a delivery from the curse. The tribulation is the travail that precedes the planet's redemption, paying off the curse that has devoured the earth since Adam.
No. Les teaches that the earth is being delivered, not destroyed. Cataclysmic events leave few men, but survivors come through, and the earth is restored to its Edenic condition.
Les teaches that the tribulation seven years is God dealing primarily with the Jew. The unbelieving element suffers wrath and judgment, while the believing remnant enters His Kingdom.
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