Great tribulation

beginning of sorrows

there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Matthew 24.4-8 Mark 13.5-8

The saints and churches are raptured.

"... the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain

shall be caught up together with them in the clouds,

to meet the Lord in the air:"

"...only he who now letteth will let,

until he be taken out of the way.

8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed,..."

7 years of tribulation after the rapture

The antichrist will make a covenant with many (Jews)

27 "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:..." (7 years)

"and in the midst of the week" (3.5 years)

Great Tribulation

"he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,..." Daniel 9.27

war in heaven - - Revelation 12.7

"people ... shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;"

"and the end thereof shall be with a flood,"

15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman,

that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth,

and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

Revelation 12.15-16

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