I think this is all leading up to the period of peace before the start of Revelations. It has to be. "Lord, why do you tarry?" I tried searching for where it talks about a peace before the start of the end but it is eluding me at the moment. It must be when Israel and Palestine sign the peace 7 year peace pact or after the war of Gog and Magog, which is actually my belief.
Some of what is going on here now may be prophesied about in the Bible but as far as it being Revelations, my heart says no.
We have the war of Gog and Magog that must happen before the peace pact.
Link for sauce . . .
https:// flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/with-russian-iranian-forces-now-engaged-in-combat-in-syria-people-are-asking-what-is-the-war-of-gog-magog-heres-the-answer-part-one/
There are 3 parts
"The Hebrew prophet gives us more clues. This “Gog” is going to be from the “land of Magog.” One has to do some historical detective work to determine what Magog is, but it is possible. Flavius Josephus, the first century Roman historian, wrote in his famous book, The Antiquities of the Jews, that the people of Magog are the people whom the Greeks called “Scythians.” This is a critical clue because we know from history that the Scythians were a people group that migrated from the Middle East northward and settled north of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the region we know today as Russia and the former Soviet Republics.
There are other interesting clues, as well. Ezekiel 38:15 says that Gog “will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north.” Ezekiel 39:2 says Gog will come “from the remotest parts of the north” and come “against the mountains of Israel.” The country that is farthest to the north in relation to Israel is Russia."
'In Ezekiel 38:5, we learn that the first ally Russia will have is “Persia.” Until 1935, of course, Persia was the legal name of the country we know today as Iran. So we know that Russia and Iran will build an alliance in the last days to attack Israel.
Ezekiel tells us that another country in the alliance will be what many English Bible translate as “Ethiopia.” The Hebrew word, however, is “Cush” and Cush is the upper Nile region that we now know as Sudan. While the current state of Ethiopia may also be involved in the war, the focus is really Sudan, which today, of course, is a radical Islamic Sunni state closely allied with Iran and Russia and deeply anti-Semitic and anti-Israel."
Russia(Gog…the people from the farthest north) and Iran (Persia Magog) will attack Israel but Israel will be unharmed. Some think it will be the end of the muslim faith.
If you believe the Bible is the word from God then it must proceed exactly as written.
If something is happening out of 'turn' it can't be the time described in the Bible.
As far as the rapture, it is not really that
important. If you believe in the saving blood of
Jesus Christ . . . saved by grace not by works,
and it happens, hey . . we get a free ride outa here!! Not believing in it does not have a
baring on if one is saved or not. I tend to stay away from that subject when trying to witness.