What Is the Great Tribulation? -Conclusion of Event During the Great Tribulation

* Gathering of Kingdom rulers. Faithful ones who have been chosen to rule with Christ will finish their earthly course and be resurrected to life in heaven. - MATTHEW 24:31; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:50-53; 1 THESSALONIANS 4:15-17.

* Armageddon.  This "war of the great day of God the Almighty" is also called "the day of Jehovah." (Revelation 16:14, 16; Isaiah 13:9; 2 Peter 3:12)  Those judged adversely by Christ will be destroyed.  (Zephaniah 1:18; 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10)  This will include the destruction of the worldwide political system, pictured in the Bible by a seven-headed wild beast. - REVELATION 19:19-21.

Events after the tribulation

* Confinement of Satan and the demons. A great angel will hurl Satan and the demons "into the abyss," a symbol of deathlike inactivity. (Revelation 20"1-3) Satan's condition in the abyss could be likened to being in prison, he will be unable to influence affairs elsewhere. - REVELATION 20:7.

* The Millennium begins. God's Kingdom will begin its 1,000-year reign, which will bring great blessings to mankind. (Revelation 5:9, 10; 20:4, 6) An unnumbered  "great crows" will "come out of the great tribulation," surviving it to see the start of the Millennium on earth." - REVELATION 7:9, 14; PSALM 37:9-11. 

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