From our point of view, the following sequence of events will take place:

Now, today, we are being prepared for the most powerful of all revivals—the promised latter rain.

The latter rain of the Holy Spirit will fall on the whole world during the first half of the "week."

In the middle of the week, after the witness has been borne, God will withdraw the Divine authority, thus permitting the witness to be overcome. This will enable Antichrist to attain rulership over the nations. There will be a time of temptation and of great tribulation during the second half of the week.

After the great tribulation, there will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars. The heavens will be shaken. There will be distress of nations, the sea and the waves roaring. This is the budding of "the fig tree, and all the trees" (Luke 21:29,30).

Finally, the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven with a shout, the voice of the archangel, and the trumpet of God. He will gather His saints to Himself from one end of the heavens to the other.

The preparation for the revival is beginning today. We have much to learn. We are being brought through the Divine fire. All worldliness, all sin, and all self-will are being burned out of us.

It is a period of the most strenuous testing. A Gideon's army is being formed that is sternly obedient to the Lord. God will not allow the glory of the latter-rain outpouring to be dissipated by self-seeking believers who do not know the Lord.

The latter-rain revival itself, described in the eleventh chapter of Revelation as the testimony borne by the two witnesses, will be worldwide. It will be so powerful that current economic and political forces will be brought to a standstill.

The Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached to every nation for a witness and each nation will be compelled to listen. The authority given to the end-time witness will be a foretaste of the thousand-year Kingdom Age in which the nations of the saved will be forced, by the rod of iron of the Holy Spirit, to obey the laws coming from Zion.

The saints of the Lord will bring plagues on the whole earth. They will direct every nation to be baptized and to obey the Lord's commandments, in obedience to the Great Commission of the last chapter of the Book of Matthew.

We think the majority of people on the earth will become Christians, even if only nominally.

Then, in the middle of the "week," God will withdraw the authority of the last revival. The saints will be overcome by Antichrist. There will be sin on the earth until the love of most of the believers grows cold. The Jews and the true saints will suffer persecution. It will be the time of Jacob's trouble.

After the great tribulation has created a remnant without spot or wrinkle (a firstfruits of the whole Church), the end of the age will be here. The Divine signs will be seen in the heavens. The generation living at that time will not pass away until all events have been concluded. The saints then are to look up for their redemption draws near. The Kingdom of God will be at hand.

To be continued.