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The Millennium Identifying the Time of the Great Tribulation
The New Testament passages bearing most fully and directly on the Great Tribulation are: Matt. 24:1–31; Mark 13:1–37; and Luke 19:41–44; 21:5–36. However, a very remarkable prophecy spoken by Moses and found in Deuteronomy 28 throws much light on this subject. It set forth on the one hand the great blessings that would attend Israel as a nation if they remained true to God and kept His covenant, and on the other the fearful consequences that would follow if they broke the covenant. Said Moses:
But while we reject the idea of a Great Tribulation at the end of the age, and hold that the one spoken of by Moses and Daniel and in the Gospels had its fulfillment in the destruction of Jerusalem, we nevertheless find that there are many tribulations, that the life of a Christian in this present world is in a sense a continuing tribulation. We have cited Christ’s words, “In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33); and Paul’s admonition that “through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22). In the first chapter of the Revelation John addresses himself to his readers as follows: “1 John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience which are in Jesus …” (1:9). In other words, the tribulation was then in progress, and John and the Christians to whom he was writing were partakers in it—as also are we and all Christians who have lived and suffered for their faith since that time. Concerning the saints in the intermediate state John wrote: “These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” (7:14). Philip Mauro has well said: “The ‘tribulation saints’ of the futurist system are altogether an imaginary company; and we, the Lord’s people of this dispensation, are the true ‘tribulation saints.’ ”
Loraine Boettner, The Millennium (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1957), 202–203.
30 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
judgement on Babylon
10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.
Judgemtn on the Nations
4 All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.
Lament Over Pharaoh and Egypt
7 When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
The Coming Glory of the Temple
6 For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.
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10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. 11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up. 8 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. 9 A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. 10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter. 12 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night. 13 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”
Jesus Coming
6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 9 And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. 10 And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, 11 and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”