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Tribulation
Feature Pages(3)
- FeatureThe Seventy Weeks — Daniel 9:24–27Seventy sevens decreed: the six goals of verse 24, the four candidate decrees, the 7 + 62 + 1 count, and the five ways the church has read it.
- FeatureLast Things — what we believeJesus Christ will come back — personally, bodily, and visibly. The dead will rise, everyone will be judged, and God will make a new heaven and a new earth where his people live with him forever. The end of the story is not the world's destruction but its healing.
- FeatureThe RaptureThe blessed hope: four anchor texts, and four timings plotted on one seventieth-week line — pre-tribulational flagged, the rest at full strength.
Verses(5+)
- VerseMark 13:24But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
- VerseMark 13:19For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.
- VerseMatthew 24:21For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
- VerseRevelation 2:22Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds.
- VerseJohn 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
Words (Strong's)(4)
Themes(3)
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
- ThemeHope**Biblical hope is not optimism.** It is confident expectation anchored in God's character and God's word, held by people who often cannot see the outcome and sometimes cannot…
Topics(1)
Prophecies(3)
- ProphecyThe Great TribulationA period of unprecedented trouble will come upon the world before Christ's return.
- ProphecyAbomination of DesolationA final desecration of the temple will signal the beginning of the worst tribulation.
- Prophecy144,000 Sealed Witnesses12,000 from each tribe of Israel will be sealed for protection and witness during the tribulation.
Authors(3)
- AuthorJohn of KarpathosJohn came from Karpathos, a long thin island in the Aegean between Crete and Rhodes. He is usually placed in the seventh century, and some accounts make him a bishop of the…
- AuthorJoseph A. SeissJoseph Augustus Seiss was born on March 18, 1823, at Graceham, Maryland, into a family of Moravian descent. He attended Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, studied theology…
- AuthorPeter OliviPeter John Olivi was born in 1248 at Sérignan, in Languedoc in southern France. He joined the Franciscans at twelve and was sent to Paris to study. He was one of the sharpest…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resource2 Esdras 16:19Behold, famine and plague, tribulation and anguish, are sent as scourges for amendment.
- Study resourceSirach 40:9Death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, calamities, famine, tribulation, and the scourge;
- Study resourceAdditions to Esther 11:8And lo a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar, upon earth.
- Study resource1 Enoch 98:13Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you.
- Study resource1 Enoch 102:11‘Nevertheless they perished and became as though they had not been, and their spirits descended into Sheol in tribulation.’