Introduction

There are all over the world a great number of exegetes, who deal with the interpretation of the altogether 66 books of the Bible. The majority of them treat a particular one of these books; some few have set themselves the task to represent the overall connection of all prophetic texts of the Bible. Also this paper can be counted as one of the latter group. In contrast to single interpretations, where one can deal with one book after another, an overall interpretation requires an exhaustive study of all books of the Bible in order to acquire a general knowledge of the focal points and connections first. Only after this it is possible to decide which texts from which book belong to which subject. And for that a purposeful study of the entire Scriptures is necessary once again. By proceeding this way it is also possible then to support the interpretation offered by parallel passages from various books of the Bible and to comply with the old-established principle of a reliable exegesis that only Scriptures shall interpret Scriptures.

In conventional interpretations these parallel passages are quoted with their addresses of origin – that is to say for instance Isa 52,7 for: book Isaiah, chapter 52, verse 7. But as one can easily imagine, there is only a very restricted readership that take the trouble to look up the text in his Bible every time. In most cases the readers trust the indications and go on reading. But with that one often does not only renounce an essential help for a better understanding, sometimes it also turns out that this connection with other texts does not make any sense. Either because the interpreter sees here a connection that obviously does not exist at all or quite simply because the indication of the source address is wrong.

As the paper on hand here deals with the prophetic texts of the Holy Scriptures as a whole and as due to the complexity of the matter the reader should get all possible support, all parallel texts were directly inserted – to the extent necessary for the respective analysis. The fact that as a result of that the number of pages of the individual sections was extended quite considerably, was accepted for the benefit of the advantage that the reader disposes of an immediate opportunity to get the information right away and also to check what message can be derived from this passage from the Scriptures for the subject which is being dealt with at the moment.

The first part, the main part, deals with the last days in its chapters 1-14. The subject matter of the individual chapters is based on both the preceding and the subsequent chapters and therefore, they form a logical connection, which can be inferred from the general survey at the end of this section.

The second part of this paper comprises the excursuses 1-12. In each of these excurses a controversial subject of the exegesis of the Bible is taken up and analyzed. These excursuses are independent of each other as well as independent of the main part. However, reference is made in the main part to the respective excursus by means of footnotes (links) when these subjects are being dealt with.

In the third part, there are tables, (the first and last two in portrait format, all others in landscape format). These tables are essentially working papers that help to understand the analysis. They are also independent of the main section and the excursuses, but there are also links to the corresponding documents as well.

Further down in this introduction the hyperlinks to all documents are indicated in a table of contents.

The Great Tribulation

The tribulation of those days

1^st seal: The first Antichrist
5^th seal: The martyrs in heaven
6^th seal: The Great Darkness
7^th seal: Silence in heaven

The plagues of the trumpets 1-6
God's two witnesses
The 7^th trumpet
The two witnesses of God killed by the raised up Antichrist / The fall of Jerusalem
The dominion of the second, demonic Antichrist
The day of the wrath of God

The judgment of reward in heaven / The First Resurrection
The return home of the redeemed
All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to the Messiah
God's new and everlasting covenant with Israel / God pours out His Spirit on Israel
The remnant of Jacob conquer all their enemies
The rebuilding of Israel / The entering of the LORD into the temple

Satan gathers all nations / The last fight
The General Resurrection / The Last Judgment
The Death and Hades annihilated
The passing away of heaven and earth

The new heaven and the new earth / There is no longer any sea
The heavenly Jerusalem / The tabernacle of God among men
The city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it.
The glory of God illumines it, and its lamp is the Lamb / There is no more night

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MENTION OF SOURCES

In the English version the passages from the Bible had been taken from the Revised Standard Version 1947 and the New American Standard Version 1995. In special cases the New Testament had been quoted from the Greek text of the Nestle-Aland translation, the King James and the Darby translation and the Old Testament from the translation of Martin Buber. Texts in the translations of the Bible which are not translated according the Greek original text are translated conform to the Bible if it is required for an interpretation based on the Bible.

CONFESSION OF FAITH

o  Nowadays many churches call themselves "Christian". First and foremost the hypocritical Catholic Church, which practices idolatry through the worship of the dead ("saints" = death cult) and the Catholic "Maria" (not identical to the biblical Maria, the mother of our Lord!) and therefore should be counted among the pagan cults.

o  Then also the Protestants / Evangelicals, who among other things also appoints unrepentant homosexual bishops and therefore cannot be counted among biblical Christianity.

o  Going on from this we find Adventists, Baptists, Mennonites, Methodists, Pentecostals (charismatic movements), Jehovah's Witnesses, and so on – all these claiming to be Christian religions. They all have various unchristian excrescences, but essentially there are three differences between all these religions and true biblical Christianity.

o  First of all, they are all religions with liturgies (from the Ancient Greek λειτουργία – ‘leiturgía’, – "leadership, public service" in English), whereas biblical Christianity is not a religion but a relation, a connection. A connection or relationship between each individual biblical Christian and his or her God.

o  So biblical Christianity, secondly, does not have any liturgy (public leadership) either; instead, in this spiritual community of faith each individual member has his or her wholly personal contact in spirit with our Lord Jesus Christ and with God, our Father in heaven. This is the God we worship in spirit and in truth.

o  And finally, the third distinguishing feature of biblical Christian belief, which separates us from all other religions, is faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, as the one and sole mediator between God and human beings. Through this faith in the Son of God we also have access to the Father, and in honoring and loving the Son, we honor and love the Father at the same time.

o This biblical Christian faith is the one true access to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the one and and only God of the Bible. God the Father has given all power in heaven and on earth to the Son. Hence any religion which does not proclaim the Son of God as the sole savior and judge of humanity, as the central tenet of its faith, is a false religion, and should be seen as an attempt to keep people away from true faith in the living God.