Desolation

Is there really a future seven year tribulation? Does the Bible really teach that there is going to be a future seven year span of tribulation on this earth? Which is ordinarily called the great tribulation. We want to go through in detail some of the things that our Lord said in Matthew 24.

Matthew 24 has been that chapter that has been used to come up with a lot of different ideas concerning the future and it is applied to our generation. Does it really apply? Does Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 really just apply to our generation as the last days? The teachings that have been based upon these chapters talks about first of all, a rapture, that is to take place and then immediately after that rapture a seven year period. Where all kinds of terrible, horrible, horrendous things and conditions are going to exist on this earth. The Reformation fathers had the interpretation that Matthew 24 took place and applied to the Judah nation in the First Century. it applied to them because of their rejection of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. But the Roman Catholic Church in their counter reformation came up with different ideas because they had to take the heat off of the Papacy because the Reformation fathers went ahead in their interpretation and identified Pagan Rome and then Papal Rome as the seat of the beast.

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