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Who is the Great Tribulation for?
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:46 am
by Blev
Is it a warning of things that are going to happen to the early Christians/Church by the Romans and Jews? Or is it for what is going to befall the Jews in the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70?
Re: Who is the Great Tribulation for?
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:52 pm
by steve
I believe that the tribulation mentioned in Matthew 24 is primarily the "day(s) of vengeance" (Isaiah 61:2; 63:4/Luke 21:22) upon those who killed the prophets and who did the same to Christ and His followers. This, according to Jesus, was "Jerusalem" (Matt.23:29-38)), and, by extension, the Jewish Commonwealth, of which it was the capital. That's why the passage parallel to Matthew 24:21ff, in Luke 21:23, says that it will be "great distress in the land (i.e., Israel)" and "wrath upon this people (i.e. the Jews)."