Great tribulation
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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