Many students of Bible prophecy believe that when Jesus spoke of “the tribulation”, he was referring to a posited seven year period leading up to his visible return to earth. They do so on their understanding of Daniel’s seventieth, and final, “seven”, as referring to a final seven-year period leading up to Jesus’ visible return to earth at His Second Coming. It is this time-period, they say, which is described in chapters 6 to 19 of the Book of Revelation.
It is the contention of this website author that, although part of Jesus’s “Olivet Discourse” refers to His Second Coming, when Jesus spoke of “the tribulation”, he was not referring to a final seven-year period leading up to his visible return to earth at the Second Coming, but to the siege and fall of Jerusalem between AD 67 and 70.
In addition, it is this website author’s contention that Daniel’s seventieth “seven” has already been fulfilled in a seven-year period which began with Christ’s baptism in the Jordan and closed seven years later with the conversion of the first Gentiles.
See Philip Mauro’s The Seventy Weeks and the Great Tribulation and chapter 6 of Dr Robert Gurney’s God in Control where arguments for these views are presented.
However, since the term “tribulation” is synonymous in most people’s eyes with a future period of tribulation which the world will go through prior to the Second Coming, we will adopt this common use of the term here.
This page explores issues concerning the Tribulation.
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