Think on this: “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling…I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves…On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.” (Zechariah 12:2-6)
Pray on this: Father give us courage and insight from your Holy Spirit regarding the difficult days ahead. We receive your admonition to “be always on the watch and pray that you will have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and that we you might be able to stand before the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:36)
Not sure if you read these comments or not but I would like to make a few points for you to consider.
1) depending on the translation the antichrist “confirms” not makes a covenant with many [Dan 9:27]. So it maybe already in place before he arrives on the world stage.
2) You have the church going through the Day of Lord or as some refer to it as the wrath of G-d. But yet Paul states in 1 Thessalonians 5:9 we are not appointed unto [G-d’s] wrath. He does not say we are excluded from Satan wrath [Great Tribulation].
3. The wrath of G-d begins with the opening of the 7th seal. The opening of 6th seal warns of it soon coming. The Bride of Christ is raptured between the opening of the 6th & 7th seal . These 3 points are dealt with not only in the book you read called “The Sign” but also in the book by Marv Rosenthal, “Pre Wrath Rapture of The Church”.
As for the antichrist, I would never attempt to address it here. But what everyone over looks is the antichrist and false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire alive along Satan and his fallen angels at some point. In other words those beings do not have to die to enter the lake. Yet everyone else who goes into the lake of fire must die first. This is the 2nd death. Just something to make you Mmmmmmmm !
Shalom “JH”.