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If you followed along in the Revelation study then you already know that in the first three-and-a-half-years of the Tribulation, half of the world’s population will die. Famine and starvation and crime and worse, will be running rampant. The most terrible storms in all of human history will be occurring and will keep on occurring.

Now, most normal people would see this and figure that this was not normal.

But here we have the Jewish people, living in Israel and specifically in Jerusalem, with all hell tearing the world apart, and then suddenly they are surrounded in the last months of the Tribulation, with the real Armageddon crashing down upon them, and they are surprised?

Like a dream. They are comfortable in their way of life, ignoring the realities all around them. Not believing that they are the real target, and then suddenly the worlds armies are surrounding them on all sides.

And it will all seem not like a real thing, but like a dream, a nightmare. Maybe we will wake up and this is not really happening.

And this is the course and pattern of the Jewish people throughout history. They have long rejected Christ and long rejected the idea that they might just be wrong in their beliefs, and that all of history is against them, because they are Gods chosen. And that is completely wrong.

Life comes down hard against people when they reject truth, reject Christ, reject doctrine. And God allows this discipline in order for people to wake up and see the realities of life, and their failures in life.

Some people wake up. Many do not.

Some people look at history and see the patterns. Most do not.

As goes your attitude toward Jesus Christ, so goes your life. Positive attitude toward Christ, positive life. Negative attitude, negative life. It does not get any simpler.

But you cannot grab people by the collar and shake sense into them. All you can do is put doctrine in front of them and they will either see it, or they won’t.

Do you remember what the word, Ariel, means? Hummm. We studied it in detail just a few studies ago. How does it apply here?