guysmith Posted June 14, 2013 Group: Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 10 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 34 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/28/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted June 14, 2013 We all seem to have a different perception of what the GT entails. Your thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 The Day The KING Returns To Jerusalem The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land. Zephaniah 1:14-18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinM Posted June 17, 2013 Group: Royal Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 144 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 4,512 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 625 Days Won: 10 Joined: 04/11/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/07/1979 Share Posted June 17, 2013 It's a period of time when the world will become unredeemable. When people have no hope of a future, or redemption, what do you think they will do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted June 18, 2013 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,993 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,691 Content Per Day: 11.77 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted June 18, 2013 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 Israel. 2.He will judge the unbelieving,godless people of the earth Daniel 9:24 “Seventy weeks[a] are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of[b] sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy. Revelation 6-18 The Great Tribulation is the last half of the Tribulation period.31/2 years in length.The entire length of the tribulation is 7 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Posted June 25, 2013 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 115 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 8,281 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 249 Days Won: 3 Joined: 03/03/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/30/1955 Share Posted June 25, 2013 It is an extra-biblical phrase & an imaginary construct READ INTO the Scripture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlessedByTheBest Posted June 25, 2013 Group: Senior Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 631 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 119 Days Won: 2 Joined: 10/24/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted June 25, 2013 It is an extra-biblical phrase & an imaginary construct READ INTO the Scripture. hi brother Leonard. if i am to believe what you say here, then how am i to interpret this? Matthew 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. Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlelambseativy Posted June 25, 2013 Group: Royal Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 230 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 4,941 Content Per Day: 0.95 Reputation: 2,003 Days Won: 14 Joined: 02/08/2010 Status: Offline Share Posted June 25, 2013 It is a time after the 'rapture' of the church when God turns His attention back to Israel (because the bride is gone) and once again attempts to 'woo' her back. It is a time when 'mens' hearts will fail them' and when the weather that is experienced no is nothing like it will be then. Will people be saved - yes, but at great cost because it will be difficult to be a christian and not have any protection, be hungry because you did not accept the mark of the beast. No salary no buying or selling without that mark. If you think government surveillance is bad now - just wait. People spying on one another to curry favour or food. Hot like summer has never been. Cold with nothing to heat the house - unless you have the mark. Call it 'tribulation or great tribulation' it is not a time when the bride is here - she is snatched away - raptured! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Posted June 27, 2013 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 115 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 8,281 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 249 Days Won: 3 Joined: 03/03/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/30/1955 Share Posted June 27, 2013 It is an extra-biblical phrase & an imaginary construct READ INTO the Scripture. hi brother Leonard. if i am to believe what you say here, then how am i to interpret this? Matthew 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. Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Interpret it as it says. 'There will be great tribulation' NOT 'THE'Great Tribulation. The Greek for 'tribulation' (thlipsis') simply means 'pressure.' If translated simply as 'gobs of pressure,' we wouldn't have lots of imaginatine books about some mythical 'THEGobs of Pressure'!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlessedByTheBest Posted June 27, 2013 Group: Senior Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 631 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 119 Days Won: 2 Joined: 10/24/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted June 27, 2013 lol ok yes, exceedingly humongous gobs of affliction. i don't see how it is such an imaginary construct to add 'The' behind 'Great Tribulation', though. it will be a period of great gobs of persecution, such as never before seen, ever. doesn't that sort of single it out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Posted June 27, 2013 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 115 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 8,281 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 249 Days Won: 3 Joined: 03/03/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/30/1955 Share Posted June 27, 2013 But we ADD the definite article 'the' which simply isn't there in the original texts, and then BUILD AND BUILD AND BUILD on this mythological construct which isn't there at all. Try reading the same scriptures without thinking through the 'THE Great Tribulation' colored lenses, and see what you think...... For one thing, Jerusalem WAS 'compassed about with armies' less than 40 years after Jesus talked about the time of great pressure. Jerusalem's Temple WAS destroyed 'until not one stone was left upon another....' in A.D 70! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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