Has the Tribulation Begun?

Chapter 2

The seven-year tribulation is called “the time of Jacob’s trouble,” and is given other names as well. Circle/highlight the terms you find in the below verses. What are these other names.

Isaiah 34:8 NIV

8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.

Zephaniah 1:15 NIV

15 That day will be a day of wrath— a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness—

Joel 2:2 NIV

2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was in ancient times nor ever will be in ages to come.

Revelation 6:16–17 NIV

16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”

Genesis 12:1–3 NIV

1 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 17:17 NIV

17 Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”

Ezekiel 36:23–24 NIV

23 I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I am proved holy through you before their eyes. 24 “ ‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.

Zechariah 13:8–9 NIV

8 In the whole land,” declares the Lord, “two-thirds will be struck down and perish; yet one-third will be left in it. 9 This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”

Leviticus 20:26 NIV

26 You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.

Leviticus 19:3–4 NIV

3 “ ‘Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God. 4 “ ‘Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:37 NIV

37 “ ‘Keep all my decrees and all my laws and follow them. I am the Lord.’ ”

Genesis 17:7–8 NIV

7 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8 The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”

Leviticus 26:44 NIV

44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the Lord their God.

Psalm 121:8 NIV

8 the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

Romans 11:17–18 NIV

17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18 do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.