Are we watching the stage being set right now? That’s the question hanging in the air in this session. Headlines feel unstable. Nations are lining up. Tensions are rising around Israel. So what does the Bible actually say about what comes next? Are we entering the seventieth week of Daniel?

Pre-Rapture Events And The Magog Question

Chuck Missler begins with what he calls possible pre-rapture events. Not dogma. Not date-setting. Just careful observations. One major focus is the Magog invasion of Ezekiel 38–39. Many scholars place it at Armageddon. Others see it happening before Daniel’s seventieth week. The key issue is timing.

The Magog alliance involves outer-ring nations—Persia, Cush, Put, Gomer, and others. Strikingly absent are Israel’s immediate neighbors. No mention of the Palestinians, Lebanon, Syria, or Jordan. That raises a serious question. Could something else happen first?

Psalm 83 And The Inner Ring War

Psalm 83 becomes important here.

Psalm 83 describes a confederacy of nations determined not to take spoil—but to wipe Israel off the map. The language is blunt. “Let us cut them off from being a nation.” That sounds very modern. The listed groups map closely to Israel’s immediate neighbors. This is a different war than Ezekiel 38. Different motive. Different participants.

Missler suggests Psalm 83 could be a preliminary conflict. Israel defeats her close enemies decisively. Borders expand. The nation dwells securely. That security then invites the outer-ring invasion of Ezekiel 38, where distant nations come to take spoil. God Himself intervenes there in dramatic judgment.

The Seventieth Week of Daniel Defined

Then comes the real centerpiece: Daniel’s seventieth week.

The seventieth week of Daniel is a seven-year period defined by a covenant enforced by a coming world leader. It is split exactly in half. Three and a half years. Forty-two months. One thousand two hundred sixty days. The Bible repeats it so many ways you cannot miss it.

The midpoint is critical. That is when the “abomination of desolation” occurs. This is not symbolic language. It happened once before under Antiochus Epiphanes in 167 B.C. He desecrated the Temple. Jesus referred to that historical event and said it would happen again. That tells us it is still future.

The coming world leader breaks his covenant with Israel. He stops temple sacrifices. He sets up an idol in the Holy of Holies. That act launches what Jesus called the Great Tribulation. The worst time in human history.

The Coming World Leader

So who is this leader?

He has many titles in Scripture. The prince that shall come. The little horn. The willful king. The man of sin. The son of perdition. Revelation describes him as the Beast. And he does not act alone. Revelation 13 presents a duo—a political leader and a religious enforcer often called the False Prophet.

This leader is brilliant. Charismatic. Politically skilled. A master speaker. He rises through diplomacy and peace, not open conquest at first. The world sees a savior. Scripture sees a counterfeit.

The Rapture And The Restrainer

Missler also revisits the debate about the Rapture. Does the Church go through the Tribulation? He leans toward a pre-tribulation view because of the doctrine of imminence. Believers are told to expect Christ at any moment. The revealing of the man of sin appears to follow the removal of the restraining work of the Holy Spirit.

This creates an interval between the Rapture and the start of the seventieth week. That interval may allow the geopolitical shifts described earlier to unfold.

The Mark Of The Beast

Then comes one of the most controversial discussions—the mark of the Beast.

Revelation 13 says people receive a mark on the right hand or forehead. It is not primarily about technology. Not barcodes. Not microchips. The focus is allegiance. It is his name. His number. His identity.

The number 666 in Greek comes from three letters with numeric value. But Missler also presents an alternative theory raised by Walid Shoebat. What if the symbols John saw were not Greek letters but Arabic? If read from right to left, they could represent “in the name of Allah.” That is a debated view. Not settled. But it raises serious questions about Islam’s role in the last days.

Missler argues that Islam is not just another religion. It is a system with global ambitions rooted in Sharia law. That makes it a major player in any serious end-times discussion.

A Defined Climax

The session closes with urgency, not panic. We are not called to speculate wildly. We are called to understand the times. To be ready. To study carefully. To avoid extremes—both obsession and apathy.

The seventieth week is coming. The covenant will be enforced. The Temple will stand again. The abomination will occur. The Messiah will return as King.

History is not drifting. It is moving toward a defined climax.

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