Eschatology : The Purpose of the Tribulation.

4. The Purpose of the tribulation.

Why this Terrible Period? Here are some answers.

1. To harvest the Crop sown throughout the ages by God, Satan, and humanity.

The Parable of the Sower.

Mat 13:3  He then spoke many things to them in figurative language. "The sower goes out," He said, "to sow.

Mat 13:4  As he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and the birds come and peck it up.

Mat 13:5  Some falls on rocky ground, where it has but scanty soil. It quickly shows itself above ground, because it has no depth of earth;

Mat 13:6  but when the sun is risen, it is scorched by the heat, and through having no root it withers up.

Mat 13:7  Some falls among the thorns; but the thorns spring up and stifle it.

Mat 13:8  But a portion falls upon good ground, and gives a return, some a hundred for one, some sixty, some thirty.

Matt 13 :18-30 Explains this Parable

The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares. [darnel]

Mat 13:37  "The sower of the good seed," He replied, "is the Son of Man;

Mat 13:38  the field is the world; the good seed--these are the sons of the Kingdom; the darnel, the sons of the Evil one.

Mat 13:39  The enemy who sows the darnel is *the Devil*; the harvest is the Close of the Age; the reapers are the angels.

Mat 13:40  As then the darnel is collected together and burnt up with fire, so will it be at the Close of the Age.

Mat 13:41  The Son of Man will commission His angels, and they will gather out of His Kingdom all causes of sin and all who violate His laws;

Mat 13:42  and these they will throw into the fiery furnace. There will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth.

Mat 13:43  Then will the righteous shine out like the sun in their Father's Kingdom. Listen, every one who has ears!

2. To Prove the falseness of the Devil’s Claim that he is the rightful ruler of the Universe.
3. To prepare a Great Martyred Multitude for heaven

tribe of Benjamin, 12,000.

Rev 7:9  After this I looked, and a vast host appeared which it was impossible for anyone to count, gathered out of every nation and from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in long white robes, and carrying palm-branches in their hands.

Rev 7:10  In loud voices they were exclaiming, "It is to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb, that we owe our salvation!"

Rev 7:14  "My lord, you know," I replied. "They are those," he said, "who have just passed through the great distress, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

4. To prepare a great Living Multitude for the Millenium. Matt 25:32-34
5. To punish the Gentile Nations.

2Th 2:11  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie,

2Th 2:12  so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned.

6. To Purge Israel for her stubbornness and unbelief in Messiah.

Eze 20:37  And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

Eze 20:38  And I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who sin against Me. I will bring them out from the land where they reside, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.

Mal 3:2  But who can endure the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.

Mal 3:3  And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may be offerers of a food offering in righteousness to Jehovah.

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Eschatology : The Nature of the Tribulation.

Tribulation comes from the Latin,tribulum, which is an agricultural tool used for separating the husks from the corn. As found in the Bible, the Theological implications would include such concepts as a pressing together, an affliction, a burdening with anguish and trouble, a binding with oppression. The best term for this Period is ‘the Tribulation’. Willmington p.834

Isa 13:6  Howl! For the day of Jehovah is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

As a destruction from the Almighty - Not as a desolation from man, but as destruction sent from him who has all power in heaven and on earth. Destruction meditated by man might be resisted; but destruction that should come from the Almighty must be final and irresistible. The word ‘Almighty’ שׁדי  shadday, one of the names given to God in the Scriptures, denotes, properly, “one who is mighty,” or who has all power; and is correctly rendered Almighty, or Omnipotent; Gen_17:1; Gen_28:3; Gen_48:3; Exo_6:3; Rth_1:20; Job_5:17; Barnes notes

Isa 13:7  Therefore all hands shall be faint, and every man's heart shall melt;

Isa 13:8  and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. They shall be in pain like a woman who travails. They shall be amazed at one another, their faces like flames.

Isa 13:9  Behold, the day of Jehovah comes, cruel and with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land waste; and He shall destroy its sinners out of it.

Isa 13:10  For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not reflect its light.

Isa 13:11  And I will visit evil on the world, and their iniquity on the wicked. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the pride of tyrants.

The heavenly lights above the earth go out; the moon does not shine; and the sun, which is about to rise, alters its mind. “The Orions” are Orion itself and other constellations like it, just as the morning stars in Job_38:7 are Hesperus and other similar stars. It is more probable that the term cesiil is used for Orion in the sense of “the fool” (= foolhardy),

(Note: When R. Samuel of Nehardea, the astronomer, says in his b. Berachoth 58b, “If it were not for the heat of the cesil, the world would perish from the cold of the Scorpion, and vice versa,”

13. Henry The stars of heaven shall not give their light, but shall be clouded and overcast; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, rising bright, but lost again, a certain sign of foul weather. They shall be as men in distress at sea, when neither sun nor stars appear, Act_27:20. It shall be as dreadful a time with them as it would be with the earth if all the heavenly luminaries were turned into darkness, a resemblance of the day of judgment, when the sun shall be turned into darkness. The heavens frowning thus is an indication of the displeasure of the God of heaven.

Isa 34:2  For the anger of Jehovah is on all nations, and His fury on all their armies. He has completely destroyed them, He has delivered them to the slaughter.

Isa 34:3  Also their dead shall be thrown out, and their stink shall come up out of their dead bodies, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Isa 34:4  And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled like a scroll; and all their host shall droop, as a leaf falls off from the vine, and as the falling from the fig tree.

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Isa 63:3  I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with Me; for I will tread them in My anger and trample them in My fury; and their blood will be sprinkled on My garments, and I will stain all My clothing. Isa 63:4  For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come.

For a day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redemption was come. And I looked round, and there was no helper; and I wondered there was no supporter: then mine own arm helped me; and my fury, it became my support.

And I trode down nations in my wrath, and made them drunk in my fury, and made their life-blood run down to the earth.” He had indeed trodden the wine-press (pūrâh = gath, or, if distinct from this, the pressing-trough as distinguished from the pressing-house or pressing-place; according to Fürst, something hollowed out; but according to the traditional interpretation from pūr = pârar, to crush, press, both different from yeqebh: see at Isa_5:2), and he alone; so that the juice of the grapes had saturated and coloured his clothes, and his only. When he adds, that of the nations no one was with him, it follows that the press which he trode was so great, that he might have needed the assistance of whole nations. And when he continues thus:

And I trod them in my wrath, etc., the enigma is at once explained. It was to the nations themselves that the knife was applied. They were cut off like grapes and put into the wine-press (Joe_3:13); and this heroic figure, of which there was no longer any doubt that it was Jehovah Himself, had trodden them down in the impulse and strength of His wrath. The red upon the clothes was the life-blood of the nations, which had spirted upon them, and with which, as He trode this wine-press, He had soiled all His garments.K&D Commentary

Luk 21:25  "There will be signs in sun, moon, and stars; and on earth anguish among the nations in their bewilderment at the roaring of the sea and its billows;

Luk 21:26  while men's hearts are fainting for fear, and for anxious expectation of what is coming on the world. For THE FORCES WHICH CONTROL THE HEAVENS WILL BE DISORDERED AND DISTURBED.

Luk 21:27  And then will they see the SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD with great power and glory.

1Th 5:2  For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. 1Th 5:3  While they are saying "Peace and safety!" then in a moment destruction falls upon them, like birth-pains on a woman who is with child; and escape there is none.

When they shall say. When ‘unbelieving and unthinking’ men are persuading themselves that there is no cause for apprehension, then destruction comes upon them suddenly.

As travail upon her that is with child. This is the usual expression in Scripture for great anguish, but the point of the comparison in this passage seems to be the suddenness of the pang. The woman is seized as she travels, or sits at table, or lies asleep the suddenness being all the more striking because she thinks she is prepared for it. The inevitable nature of that pain may also be in the apostle’s mind, and may have suggested the following clause. A Popular Commentary on the New Testament

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Rev 6:12  When the Lamb broke the sixth seal I looked, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became as dark as sackcloth, and the whole disc of the moon became like blood.

Rev 6:13  The stars in the sky also fell to the earth, as when a fig-tree, upon being shaken by a gale of wind, casts its unripe figs to the ground.

Rev 6:14  The sky too passed away, as if a scroll were being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

Rev 6:15  The kings of the earth and the great men, the military chiefs, the wealthy and the powerful--all, whether slaves or free men--hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,

Rev 6:16  while they called to the mountains and the rocks, saying, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne and from the anger of the Lamb;

Rev 6:17  for the day of His anger--that great day--has come, and who is able to stand?"

Labour Pains

Eschatology : The Tribulation.

David says to Saul, that evil tormented King; 1Sa_26:24  And behold, as your life was precious in my eyes this day, so let my life be precious in the eyes of Jehovah, and let Him deliver me out of all tribulation.

so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord; David does not say in the eyes of Saul, as it should have been by way of retaliation, and as it might have been expected he would have said; but he had no dependence on Saul, nor expected justice to be done him by him; but he prays that his life might be precious in the sight of Lord, and taken care of, and protected by him, as he believed it would:

and let him deliver me out of all tribulation; for as yet he did not think himself quite out of it, notwithstanding all that Saul had said, but believed the Lord would deliver him in due time; from him alone he looked for it, and on him he depended.

We, the church, in this day must look to the Lord for His deliverance out of all tribulation.

Mat 24:13  But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe.

Mat 24:14  And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all nations. And then the end shall come.

Mat 24:15  Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand).

Mat 24:16  Then let those in Judea flee into the mountains.

Mat 24:17  Let him on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house;

Mat 24:18  nor let him in the field turn back to take his clothes.

Mat 24:19  And woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck in those days!

Mat 24:20  But pray that your flight is not in the winter, nor on the sabbath day;

Mat 24:21  for then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor ever shall be.

Tribulation: θλίψις thlipsis Thayer Definition:

1) a pressing, pressing together, pressure

2) metaphorically oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits

The tribulation Plagues Ebola, Wars and Catastrophes are  near

What is the Great tribulation or Distress?

Answer:The Tribulation is a future time period when the Lord will accomplish at least two aspects of His plan: 1) He will complete His discipline of the nation Israel (Daniel 9:24), and 2) He will judge the unbelieving, godless inhabitants of the earth (Revelation 6 - 18). The length of the Tribulation is seven years. This is determined by an understanding of the seventy weeks of Daniel (Daniel 9:24-27; also see the article on the Tribulation). The Great Tribulation is the last half of the Tribulation period, three and one-half years in length. It is distinguished from the Tribulation period because the Beast, or Antichrist, will be revealed, and the wrath of God will greatly intensify during this time. Thus, it is important at this point to emphasize that the Tribulation and the Great Tribulation are not synonymous terms. Within eschatology (the study of future things), the Tribulation refers to the full seven-year period while the “Great Tribulation” refers to the second half of the Tribulation.

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Even though this distress will be relatively short, it nevertheless will destroy more people than all previous wars and disasters combined. In fact one billion will perish at the beginning of this disaster. Willmington p.833

Mat 24:22  And unless those days should be shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened.

Mat 24:23  Then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ! Or, There! Do not believe it.

Mat 24:24  For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders; so much so that, if it were possible, they would deceive even the elect.

Mat 24:25  Behold, I have told you beforehand.

Mat 24:26  Therefore if they shall say to you, Behold, He is in the desert! Do not go out. Behold, He is in the secret rooms! Do not believe it.

Mat 24:27  For as the lightning comes out of the east and shines even to the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Mat 24:28  For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered.

Mat 24:29  And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

Mat 24:30  And then the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in the heavens. And then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory.

Mat 24:31  And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

Mat 24:32  Now learn a parable of the fig tree. When its branch is still tender and puts out leaves, you know that summer is near.

Mat 24:33  So you, likewise, when you see all these things, shall know that it is near, at the doors.

Mat 24:34  Truly I say to you, This generation shall not pass until all these things are fulfilled.

Mat 24:35  The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away.

Mat 24:36  But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not the angels of Heaven, but only My Father.

Mat 24:37  But as the days of Noah were, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man.

Mat 24:38  For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark.

Mat 24:39  And they did not know until the flood came and took them all away. So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Mat 24:40  Then two shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Mat 24:41  Two shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Mat 24:42  Therefore watch; for you do not know what hour your Lord comes.

NAMES FOR THIS PERIOD OF OPPRESSION AND DISTRESS

There are twelve Names in the Scriptures for this blood--chilling period.

1. The Day of the Lord.

This title is used more frequently than any other.

Isa 2:12  For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;

Eze 13:5  They don't guard the places where the walls have crumbled, nor do they rebuild the walls, and so Israel cannot be defended when war comes on the day of the LORD. GNB

Eze 30:3  The day is near, the day when the LORD will act, A day of clouds and trouble for the nations.

Joe 1:15  The day of the LORD is near, the day when the Almighty brings destruction. What terror that day will bring!

Joe 2:1  Blow the trumpet; sound the alarm on Zion, God's sacred hill. Tremble, people of Judah! The day of the LORD is coming soon.

Joe 2:2  It will be a dark and gloomy day, a black and cloudy day. The great army of locusts advances like darkness spreading over the mountains. There has never been anything like it, and there never will be again.

Joe 2:11  The LORD thunders commands to his army. The troops that obey him are many and mighty. How terrible is the day of the LORD! Who will survive it?

Joe 2:12  "But even now," says the LORD, "repent sincerely and return to me with fasting and weeping and mourning.

Amo 5:18  How terrible it will be for you who long for the day of the LORD! What good will that day do you? For you it will be a day of darkness and not of light.

Amo 5:19  It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall---only to be bitten by a snake!

Amo 5:20  The day of the LORD will bring darkness and not light; it will be a day of gloom, without any brightness.

1Th 5:1  There is no need to write you, friends, about the times and occasions when these things will happen.

1Th 5:2  For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief comes at night.

1Th 5:3  When people say, "Everything is quiet and safe," then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.

2. It is the day of God’s Vengeance

Isa 34:5  The LORD has prepared his sword in heaven, and now it will strike Edom, those people whom he has condemned to destruction.

Isa 34:6  His sword will be covered with their blood and fat, like the blood and fat of lambs and goats that are sacrificed. The LORD will offer this sacrifice in the city of Bozrah; he will make this a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isa 34:7  The people will fall like wild oxen and young bulls, and the earth will be red with blood and covered with fat.

Isa 34:8  This is the time (DAY) when the LORD will rescue Zion and take vengeance on her enemies.

Isa 34:9  The rivers of Edom will turn into tar, and the soil will turn into sulfur. The whole country will burn like tar.

For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance - A time when Yahweh will take vengeance.

The infliction of pain on another, in return for an injury or offense. Such infliction, when it proceeds from malice or more resentment, and is not necessary for the purposes of justice, is revenge, and a most heinous crime. When such infliction proceeds from a mere love of justice, and the necessity of punishing offenders for the support of the laws, it is vengeance, and is warrantable and just. In this case, vengeance is a just retribution, recompense or punishment. In this latter sense the word is used in Scripture, and frequently applied to the punishments inflicted by God on sinners.Webster’s Dictionary

3. The Time of Jacob’s Trouble

Jer 30:5  For so says Jehovah, We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

Jer 30:6  Ask now, and see whether a man is giving birth? Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labor, and all faces are turned into paleness?

Jer 30:7  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.

Jer 30:8  For it shall be in that day, says Jehovah of Hosts, I will break his yoke from your neck and will burst your bonds. And strangers shall no longer enslave him,

Barnes Notes: It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble - Rather, and it is a time of trouble to Jacob, i. e., of anxiety to the Jews, for the usages of war were so brutal that they would be in danger when the enemy made their assault.

In the previous verses of Jeremiah 30, we find that the Lord is speaking to Jeremiah the prophet about Judah and Israel (30:3-4). In verse 3, the Lord promises that one day in the future, He will bring both Judah and Israel back to the land that He had promised their forefathers. Verse 5 describes a time of great fear and trembling. Verse 6 describes this time in a way that pictures men going through the pains of childbirth, again indicating a time of agony. But there is hope for Judah and Israel, for though this is called "the time of Jacob's distress" (NASB), the Lord promises He will save Jacob (referring to Judah and Israel) out of this time of great trouble (verse 7).

InJeremiah 30:10-11the Lord says, “‘I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid. I am with you and will save you,’ declares the LORD.”

Also, the Lord says He will destroy the nations who held Judah and Israel in captivity, and He will never allow Jacob to be completely destroyed. However, it should be noted that the Lord describes this as a time of discipline for His people. He says of Jacob, “Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only with justice; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.”

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We are first introduced to the time of the Tribulation in the Old Testament book of Jeremiah, and the prophet calls it the time of 'Jacob's trouble' because it will primarily center on the Jews in Israel. 

This is our first clue as to who will go through the Tribulation and who it will affect. As we have shown throughout this series on the Rapture, when Jesus returns for His Church, made up of believing Jews and Gentiles, and 'catches them away' to be with Him in Heaven, the Bible says that God will once again focus on the Jews, and the great and terrible time of the Great Tribualtion will begin. And that's why Jeremiah calls it the time of 'Jacob's' trouble - because it's about the Jews even though it will have ramifications that affects the entire world. <nowtheendbegins.com

Rows of bodies of dead inmates fill the yard of Lager Nordhausen, a Gestapo concentration camp

4. Daniel’s Seventh Week

Dan 9:24  Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.

Dan 9:25  Know therefore and understand, that from the going out of the command to restore and to build Jerusalem, to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of affliction.

Dan 9:26  And after sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of the ruler who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And the end of it shall be with the flood, and ruins are determined, until the end shall be war.

Dan 9:27  And he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. And in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease, and on a corner of the altar desolating abominations, even until the end. And that which was decreed shall be poured on the desolator.

5. The Time of the END.

Dan 12:9  He said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.

For the words are closed up, and sealed till the time of the end; that is, till the time comes, or draws near, that they shall be accomplished; till then they would not be clearly understood, but remain in a great measure dark and obscure, though sure and certain: it is suggested they would not always remain so; time is the best interpreter of prophecy, and, the nearer the time of the accomplishment of it is, the clearer it appears, things leading the way to it being gradually fulfilled; but clearest of all when it is accomplished; then it is no more shut and sealed, but open and manifest; J. Gill

6. The Great Day of God’s Wrath.

Rev 6:15  And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains.

Rev 6:16  And they said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him sitting on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;

Rev 6:17  for the great day of His wrath has come, and who will be able to stand?

J.Gill. For the great day of his wrath is come,.... The Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read, "of their wrath"; both of Him that sits upon the throne, and of the Lamb, against the Heathen gods and Heathen persecutors, in answer to the cry of the martyrs in Rev_6:9.

And who shall be able to stand? against either of them, or in their presence, and so as to bear their wrath and displeasure; all which expresses guilt, shame, fear, and despair.

Psalm 7:11 – Because He is a just God, God is angry with 

sinners every day. Surely God’s anger is not wrong. It is 

proper, for it is even based on His justice.

7. The Hour of His Judgment.

Rev 14:7  saying with a great voice, Fear God and give glory to Him! For the hour of His judgment has come. And worship Him who made the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

8. The End of the World

Mat 13:40  Therefore as the darnel are gathered and burned in the fire, so it shall be in the end of this world.

Mat 13:49  So it shall be at the end of the world. The angels shall come out and separate the wicked from among the just,

Mat 13:50  and shall cast them into the furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

9. The Indignation.

Isa 26:20  Come, my people, enter into your rooms and shut your doors around you; hide for a little moment, until the fury has passed by.

Isa 26:21  For behold, Jehovah comes out of His place to punish the people of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also shall reveal her blood, and shall no more cover her dead.

Indignation :  anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean

Isa 34:1  Come near, nations, to hear; and, you people, listen; let the earth hear, and its fullness; the world, and its offspring.

Isa 34:2  For the anger of Jehovah is on all nations, and His fury on all their armies. He has completely destroyed them, He has delivered them to the slaughter.

Indignation or rage θυμός thumos

Thayer Definition:

1) passion, angry, heat, anger forthwith boiling up and soon subsiding again

Isa 34:3  Also their dead shall be thrown out, and their stink shall come up out of their dead bodies, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Isa 34:4  And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled like a scroll; and all their host shall droop, as a leaf falls off from the vine, and as the falling from the fig tree.

Isa 34:5  For My sword bathed in the heavens. Behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of My curse for judgment.

10. The Overspreading of Abominations.

Dan 9:27  And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate. ASV

Dan 9:27  And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

And for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate - The marginal reading here is very different, showing clearly the perplexity of the translators: “Upon the battlements shall be the idols of the desolator.” There is great variety, also, in the ancient versions in rendering this passage. The Latin Vulgate is, “And there shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation.” The Greek, “And upon the temple shall be an abomination of desolations.” The Syriac. “And upon the extremities of the abomination shall rest desolation.” The Arabic, “And over the sanctuary shall there be the abomination of ruin.” Luther renders it, “And upon the wings shall stand the abomination of desolation.” Lengerke and Hengstenberg render it, “And upon the summit of abomination comes the destroyer.” Prof. Stuart, “And the water shall be over a winged fowl of abominations.” These different translations show that there is great obscurity in the original, and perhaps exclude the hope of being able entirely to free the passage from all difficulties.

An examination of the words, however, may perhaps enable us to form a judgment of its meaning. The “literal” and “obvious” sense of the original, as I understand it, is, “And upon the wing of the abominations one causing desolation” - משׁמם שׁקיצים כנף ועל  ve‛al kenap shı̂qqytsı̂ym meshomēm. The word rendered “overspreading” (כנף  kânâp) means, properly, a “wing;” so called as “covering,” or because it “covers” - from כנף  kânap), to cover, to hide. Then it denotes anything having a resemblance to a wing, as an extremity, a corner, as

(a) of a garment, the skirt, or flap, 1Sa_24:4 (5), 11 (12); Num_15:38, and hence, as the outer garment was used by the Orientals to wrap themselves in at night, the word is used for the extremity or border of a bed-covering, Deu_22:30 Deu_23:1; Rth_3:9.

(b) It is applied to land, or to the earth - as the earth is compared with a garment spread out, Isa_24:16; Job_37:3; Job_38:13.

(c) It is used to denote the highest point, or a battlement, a pinnacle - as having a resemblance to a wing spread out.

So the word πτερύγιον  pterugion is used in Mat_4:5. See the notes at that passage. It would seem most probable that the allusion by the word as applied to a building would not be, as supposed by Gesenius (Lexicon), and by Hengstenberg and Lengerke, to the “pinnacle or summit,” but to some roof, porch, or piazza that had a resemblance to the wings of a bird as spread out …...

Barnes Notes

Matt 4:5 The Pinnacle of the temple The temple was surrounded with porches or piazzas 50 feet broad and 75 feet high. The porch on the south side was, however, 67 feet broad and 150 high. From the top of this to the bottom of the valley below was more than 700 feet, and Josephus says that one could scarcely look down without dizziness. The word “pinnacle” does not quite express the force of the original. It is a word given usually to birds, and denotes wings, or anything in the form of wings, and was given to the roof of this porch because it resembled a bird dropping its wings. It was on this place, doubtless, that Christ was placed. Barnes

Matthew 24:15-16 “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains."

Mark 13:14 "But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains."

In Luke's version of Jesus' warning, the abomination is not mentioned, and the sign that it is time to flee Jerusalem is explicitly said to be that Jerusalem would be surrounded by armies.

Luke 21:20-21 "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the town depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it.

The Time of trouble such as never was.

Dan 12:1  And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

12. The Tribulation.

Mat 24:21  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Mat 24:29  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:

GOD HAS NOT APPOINTED US FOR WRATH BUT TO OBTAIN SALVATION THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST