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Christians disagree over whether the Tribulation will be a relatively short period of great hardship before the end of the world and Second Coming of Christ (a school of thought sometimes called "Futurism"); or has already occurred, having happened in AD 70 when Roman legions laid siege to Jerusalem and destroyed its temple (sometimes called Preterism); or began in 538 AD when papal Rome came ...
The Olivet Discourse or Olivet prophecy is a biblical passage found in the Synoptic Gospels in Matthew 24 and 25, Mark 13, and Luke 21.It is also known as the Little Apocalypse because it includes the use of apocalyptic language, and it includes Jesus's warning to his followers that they will suffer tribulation and persecution before the ultimate triumph of the Kingdom of God. [1]
In this view, the Church has always been in the Great Tribulation, which is already been fulfilled. It is a major view that can be traced to the early church. The tribulation is spiritualized, or non-literal. [15] The tribulation precedes the Second Coming, after which there will be a literal Millennium (1,000 year reign of Christ on earth). [16]
The posttribulation position places the rapture at the end of the tribulation period. Posttribulation writers define the tribulation period in a generic sense as the entire present age, or in a specific sense of a period of time preceding the second coming of Christ. [99] The emphasis in this view is that the church will undergo the tribulation ...
In the subsequent period of 62 weeks, or what are actually 434 years, the city is rebuilt and settled (verse 25b), [64] at the end of which time an "anointed one shall be cut off" (verse 26a); this "anointed one" is generally considered to refer to the High Priest Onias III, [56] [65] whose murder outside Jerusalem in 171/0 BCE is recorded in 2 ...
They also believe a tribulation will occur – a seven-year period of time when believers will experience worldwide persecution and martyrdom. Futurists differ on when believers will be raptured, but there are three primary views: 1) before the tribulation; 2) near or at the midpoint of the tribulation; or 3) at the end of the tribulation.
The 'Great Tribulation' is a future period of God's judgement on earth. The 'Great Tribulation' occurred 2000 years ago when apostate Israel was judged and destroyed by God, culminating in the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem at the hands of the pagan armies of the Roman Empire.
Thus, it is argued that the scope of the tribulation prevents the church from participating in the time. [6] Advocates of the pretribulational rapture often argue that the lack of an explicit mention of the church within the book of Revelation when describing the tribulation period implies that the church was taken away. [7]