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Related Scriptures for Tribulation and End Times Self Study
Acts 2:14-21 14But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: 15For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. 16But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17And it shall come to pass in the last days , saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 19And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 20The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: 21And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Matt 24:21 21 For then shall be great tribulation , such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. Matt 24:29-31 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Joel 2:31-32 31The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. Jer 46:10 10For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. Isa 34:8 8For it is the day of the LORD 's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. From these scriptures, it is seen that the word ‘tribulation’ is used as persecution or distress, often aimed at God's people although all may be in distress, and at times aimed against the world such as when God judges. Be alert to how the word tribulation is used and aware that tribulation is guaranteed to God's people who suffer for the Word, learn obedience and are strengthened by it. Also note that the Day of the Lord occurs which is a just response to an evil world during which the world is repaid in like kind. The world will be against Israel during the last war of the era, Gog and Magog, that culminates in the coming of the Messiah during the Day of the Lord, which ends the Gog Magog war with the final battle at Armageddon. |