Both the prophet Daniel and the Lord Jesus both spoke about a period of testing, trial and affliction on a global scale at the end of this present age which would be like nothing that has happened in past history or like anything to happen in the future. In fact things will become so bad that if God does not intervene no humans would survive. However, for the sake of His elect saints, for the sake of Israel and for the very survival of the human race God will intervene and cut those days short
We also know that this time of distress, anguish and trial will last for three and a half years and that during this time Israel and the faithful Church, spiritually grafted into Israel, (metaphorically the Olive Tree), will be physically persecuted oppressed and subjugated by the beast empire of the Antichrist (Daniel 7:21, 25; 8:25; 12:7) (Revelation 12:6, 17; 13:5-7) (Revelation 11:3).
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