If you understand that God's Wrath on Judah and Jerusalem was executed in the Roman war centred around AD 70, read no further.
If you have shunted this monumental, epochal, divinely ordained event somewhere into the future, and wrapped some crazy eschatology around it, then consider Paul's words very carefully:
Romans 9: 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction
If you are caught up in the lie of Futurism, then I believe that you need to consider conforming your mind to the mind of Christ.
In a very real sense God made a Declaration Of his Power in AD 70, and as a Futurist you are committing a sin of ignorance, by denying his statement
The great tribulation has not happened yet,for when it does it will be on a world wide level,that involves the Christians that rebelled against the beast kingdom,which is a kingdom that involves the whole world,the ten horn kingdom,the world split in to ten sections with a leader in each section.
Jesus said that this tribulation will be the worse tribulation ever,and was not a tribulation like it before,and will not be a tribulation like it again.
It has nothing to do with the overthrow of Israel,and Jerusalem,in 70 A.D.,which they were overthrown because of their rejection of Christ,which God gave them a certain amount of time as a nation to turn to Jesus,but they did not do it,so God allowed the Roman Empire to overthrow them,and cast them in to the nations,which God will one day bring them back to their land,and bring them to the truth that Jesus is their Savior.
The overthrow of Jerusalem,and Israel,is a physical overthrow because they rejected Christ,but Jesus speaks to watch out for spiritual deception,but the overthrow of Jerusalem has nothing to do with watch out for spiritual deception,but was a physical overthrow,which what is there to look out for if it cannot be avoided,for they will get overthrown despite those that are with Christ,for the nation rejected Christ.
Mat 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
Mat 24:2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
This is the only reference to the Roman Empire overthrowing Jerusalem.The disciples said to Jesus look at all these lovely buildings,and Jesus said all these buildings are coming down.
That was it,and Jesus only said those buildings are coming down,because they said look at these great buildings.
Mat 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Mat 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Then the disciples wanted to know the sign of Jesus' coming,and the end of the world,in which Jesus told them future events that are past the overthrow of Jerusalem,at the time of the end,and to watch out for spiritual deception,which is going on now,especially with the new age movement.
The world will come together and form a kingdom that does not believe in a personal God,based on nature worship,and the exaltation of people,and make war with all the people that did not take the mark.
The great tribulation is a future event,against all the Christians,in which they will be resurrected,and the wrath of God is poured upon the world,which they go against Israel,and God comes back with His saints and puts the world down,and Jesus rules the world for 1000 years over all the people that God spared at the battle of Armageddon.
Zec 12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
Zec 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
Zec 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
The Roman Empire overthrew Jerusalem,but here it is the entire world gathered together against Israel,all nations against her.
Zec 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zec 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zec 14:3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zec 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zec 14:5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
God said He is going to gather all nations together against Jerusalem to battle,and then God will come back with the saints,and fight against them like He did in the day of battle.
ec 14:6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
Zec 14:7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Zec 14:8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
Zec 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
The LORD shall be king over all the earth,and in that day there shall be one LORD,and His name one,which means nobody will acknowledge any God or spiritual figure,but only the LORD.
Zec 14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zec 14:17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
All the people that God spared out of the nations that came against Israel shall have to go up year after year,and worship the LORD at Jerusalem.
This surely did not happen in the past,and is a future event.
Act 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
Act 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
Act 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Jer 46:27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
Jer 46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Eze 39:21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
Eze 39:22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
Eze 39:23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
Eze 39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
Eze 39:25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
Eze 39:26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
Eze 39:27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
Eze 39:28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Eze 39:29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
The great tribulation has nothing to do with the overthrow of Jerusalem,and Israel,in 70 A.D.,but a future event,which is a persecution of all the Christians that rebel against the beast kingdom,which is the worse persecution ever because it involves the whole world going against them.
All nations will go against Israel,but God brought them to the truth that Jesus is their Messiah prior to that time,and God saves them,and the kingdom is restored to Israel in the millennial reign of Christ.
