The Great Tribulation

Jesus has told us that the Great Tribulation will be preceded by the Abomination of Desolation, and end with the heavenly signs (stars falling, sun darkened, etc.), which announce his coming in the clouds for his elect. Matt. 24:15-31

Revelation 12 and Daniel 11:45 - 12:2 also prophesy about this period. Exodus 11-19 (telling of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt in 1507 B.C.), in a ‘type and shadow of things to come,’ does also. Here are excerpts from these four passages:

Matthew 24:15-16 “Therefore when you see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the [lit. a] Holy Place…then let those who are in Judea flee…”
The Holy Place is on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. The flight of God’s people is also found in Rev. 12:6f.: “…the Woman fled into the wilderness…”

Daniel 11:45 - 12:1 “[The King of the North] shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between [the] seas at the glorious holy mountain… At that time your people shall escape.”
“The glorious holy mountain” is, again, the Temple Mount. The King of the North’s setting up his headquarters there is either itself the Abomination of Desolation, or soon precedes it.

Exodus 12:23, 29, 33 …the Destroyer…[of] the LORD struck…the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne… [Then the Israelites fled] out of the land in haste.
Pharaoh was worshiped as the god Osiris, and his firstborn son as the god Horus. The Destroyer killed Horus in the temple-palace of Egypt, thus defiling/desolating it.

To summarize: in all three passages, 1) a desolator/destroyer comes to a world-revered temple site, 2) causing it to be defiled. 3) The righteous then flee, as a period of ultimate crisis begins:

Matt. 24:21 “…then there will be [the] Great Tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.”

Dan. 12:1 “And [then] there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that time.”

Ex. 11:6 “And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as was not like it before, nor shall be like it again.”