The Great Tribulation is also known in scripture as "the time of Jacob's trouble" although the term only once appears in scripture by that name. Jeremiah.30. 7.10
Tribulation means trouble.
Because it is called so people have always leaped the conclusion that Israel is to pass through very grim times ahead before they are to be brought to the light.
Here is what scripture says Jeremiah.30.3-10
For lo the days will come saith the Lord that I will bring again the captivity of My people Israel and Judah saith the Lord and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers and they shall possess it.
And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel and Judah
For thus saith the Lord, we have heard a voice of trembling, of fear and not of peace.
Ask ye now and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Alas for that day is great so that none is like it, it is even the time of Jacob's trouble
but
he shall be saved out of it
for it shall come to pass in that day saith the Lord of hosts that I will BREAK THE YOKE OFF THY NECK and will BURST THY BONDS and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him. But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their King whom I will raise up unto them.
Therefore FEAR NOT o My servant Jacob saith the Lord, NEITHER BE DISMAYED o Israel for lo I will save thee from afar and thy seed from the land of their captivity. And Jacob shall return and SHALL BE IN REST and shall be QUIET and NONE SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID.
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Look carefully at what the Lord says, it is not the man who travails in childbirth, Israel is God's firstborn son, but it is the woman, the church.
Why then is it called "the time of Jacob's trouble?" because it is trouble coming upon the nations because of Israel, God has got a quarrel with the nations for the way they have treated His firstborn son during the long years of their diaspora.
And the church is among the nations.
Tribulation means trouble.
Because it is called so people have always leaped the conclusion that Israel is to pass through very grim times ahead before they are to be brought to the light.
Here is what scripture says Jeremiah.30.3-10
For lo the days will come saith the Lord that I will bring again the captivity of My people Israel and Judah saith the Lord and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers and they shall possess it.
And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel and Judah
For thus saith the Lord, we have heard a voice of trembling, of fear and not of peace.
Ask ye now and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Alas for that day is great so that none is like it, it is even the time of Jacob's trouble
but
he shall be saved out of it
for it shall come to pass in that day saith the Lord of hosts that I will BREAK THE YOKE OFF THY NECK and will BURST THY BONDS and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him. But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their King whom I will raise up unto them.
Therefore FEAR NOT o My servant Jacob saith the Lord, NEITHER BE DISMAYED o Israel for lo I will save thee from afar and thy seed from the land of their captivity. And Jacob shall return and SHALL BE IN REST and shall be QUIET and NONE SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID.
*
Look carefully at what the Lord says, it is not the man who travails in childbirth, Israel is God's firstborn son, but it is the woman, the church.
Why then is it called "the time of Jacob's trouble?" because it is trouble coming upon the nations because of Israel, God has got a quarrel with the nations for the way they have treated His firstborn son during the long years of their diaspora.
And the church is among the nations.
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