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  Surviving the Great Tribulation - Christian Library
For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Notice that this tribulation is "great" not only because of persecution, but also because of the great length of time the people on the earth was to endure it.
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
www.steps2life.com /library/prophecy/survivingtribulation.htm   (8208 words)

  
 On Thin Ice: How Thomas Ice Refutes a Future Great Tribulation
Preterists, of course, take the position that the Olivet Discourse was fulfilled in the first century, corresponding to Israel's Great Tribulation in the years AD 67-70 which climaxed in the destruction of the Old Covenantal world, temple and state.
Therefore, Ice either must concede both passages to the preterist view, admitting the Great Tribulation is fulfilled, or recant on his view that Luke 21:20-24 is fulfilled so as to consistently maintain that the events described never came to pass.
Israel's Great Tribulation of AD 67-70 was sovereignly designed by the Almighty to mark the completion of all things that were written concerning the Messianic generation.
www.preteristvision.org /articles/on_thin_ice.html   (1175 words)

  
 The Great Tribulation--Is It About To Happen?
The duration of this great time, which is the exact same time as the "Great Tribulation" spoken of by Jesus Christ, is "a time, times, and an half" (Daniel 12:7), or three and one-half years.
Great drought and famine are in the offing, and it will not always be something Americans, Canadians, Britons, and others in the British Commonwealth will read about in their newspapers in some far away, overpopulated, third-world country like India or Bangladesh.
Daniel saw the fourth beast as "dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns" (Daniel 7:7).
www.garnertedarmstrong.ws /pubs/greattri.htm   (16056 words)

  
 Daniel's 70th week
I would also question that the great tribulation is a short period at the end of time.
Many people would argue that the great tribulation of Mat 24 has already been fulfilled, by the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70, just compare Mat 24 and Luke 21.
In Mat 24 the great tribulation is clearly local to Judea and not world-wide.
www.apocalipsis.org /70weeks.htm   (2442 words)

  
 Why There Will Be A Great Tribulation
Christians who are familiar with the doctrine of the Great Tribulation are aware of this.
The second reason for the Tribulation, not nearly so well known, is to chastise the Christians for their failure to live the kind of lives they should have been living in the years prior to the Tribulation.
One of the big reasons for the Tribulation is to chastise Christians for their failure to get the job done, and all the other disobedience that contributes to that failure.
www.be-ready.org /whythere.html   (2146 words)

  
 Apocalypse
The present is a time of trial and tribulation, and its meaning will only be made clear in the last days before the final judgment occurs.
With the advent of the Messiah will come the great Day of Judgment in which the dead shall rise from their graves to begin a new life.
When the Sixth Seal is revealed, it displays the coming signs of a great Day of Wrath at hand when there will be Earthly upheavals, a darkened sun, stars falling from the heavens, mountains and islands removed, and more strife and revolution throughout the nations.
www.unexplainedstuff.com /Religious-Phenomena/Apocalypse.html   (1664 words)

  
 About Prophecy - Prophecy Central Links
Babylon The Great Is Falling - Jack D. Hook
The Historicist Viewpoint - Protestant view- Prophecy being fulfilled through centuries of tribulation, with the Roman Catholic Church being Antichrist.
The Mid-Tribulation Viewpoint - Rapture at the middle of the Tribulation
www.bible-prophecy.com /links.htm   (1754 words)

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