Jacob’s Trouble

The Great Tribulation

Great Distress!

• Jer. 30:7, “How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.”

• Matt. 24:21, “For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now- and never to be equaled again.

• See also Zeph. 1:15, Ps. 86:7, 107:11+28.

Messianic Jews Hated

• Matt. 10:21-23, “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another, I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.”

Olive Tree Beaten

• Isa. 17:5b-6, “It will be as when a reaper gathers the standing grain with his arm- as when a man gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. Yet some gleanings will remain, as when an olive tree is beaten.”

• Isa. 24:13, “So it will be on the earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as when gleanings are left a after the grape harvest.”

• Jer. 6:9, “Let them glean the remnant of Israel”

Israel’s Furnace

• Isa. 48:10-11, “I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another.”

• Zech. 13:8, “In the whole land declares the Lord, ‘two-thirds will be struck down and perish; yet, one-third will be left in it. This third I will bring into the fire.’”

Israel’s Tribulation Residue

• Amos 5:3, “The city that marches out a thousand strong for Israel will have only a hundred left.”

• Isa. 4:1, “In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, ‘We will eat our own food and provide our own clothes; only let us be called by your name.”

No Allies

• Jer. 30:13-14, “There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sore, no healing for you. All your allies have forgotten you; they care nothing for you.”

Israel’s Last Battle

• Ezekiel 38:11-12+15-16, “You will say, I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people-all of them living without walls and without gates and bars. I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, living at the center of the land.”

Last Battle From Zechariah

• Zech. 14:1, “A day of the Lord is coming when your plunder will be divided among you. I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.

Satan’s Jews Purged

• Isa. 20:38, “I will purge you of those who revolt and rebel against me. Although I will bring them out of the land where they are living, you they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”

• Zech. 14:2b, “Half of the city will go into exile but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.” (See Zeph. 3:11.)

Israel’s Elect Marked

• Ezekiel 9:4-6, “Go throughout the city Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it. As I listened, he said to the others, ‘Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion. Slaughter old men and young men and maidens, women and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.’ So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple”

Jesus’ Return

• Ezekiel 39:19-20, “In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will crumble and every wall..fall”

The Great Escape

• Zech. 14:3, “Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle. On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west forming a of Judah great valley…You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king.”

The Escape- by Ezekiel

• Ezek. 7:5-6, “Disaster! An unheard-of disaster is coming. The end has come.”

• Eze. 7:15, “All who survive and escape will be in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valleys, each because of his sins. Every hand will go limp and every knee as weak as water.”

• Eze. 7:27b, “Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

God’s Wrath Ends

• Isa. 51:17, “Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath.”

• Jer. 17:18, “Bring on them the day of disaster destroy them”

• Isa. 40:2b, “that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.”