Christians: Is Isaiah 24: the great tribulation which Jesus spoke about before he returns for his redeemed.?

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The terrible time of trouble foretold by Isaiah in chap. 24 vs.1 was about the future  destruction of the land of Israel (even though it spoke of 'the earth', that word can also be translated as 'the land' - the land of Israel). But in vs. 4 both the land and the world are mentioned, so in that case, the wider world is meant - the inhabited world. Isaiah wrote that in the year the Assyrian army was suddenly destroyed but the destruction of God's nation, at God's decree, still awaited. Because many parts of Isaiah's prophecy are so similar to phrases in the N.T. and in the book of Revelation, parts of it have been called "The Little Apocalypse".

However, when Jesus spoke of a time of tribulation greater than anything else in the world, and not to be equalled in the future, He did not mean the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Worse disasters, and ones afflicting many nations, not just the nation of Israel, have come and gone since then. No, Isaiah 24 was a shadow - a type of what would come just before Jesus' return to Earth, which has not yet happened. To get the understanding, we need to study all the prophecies in the Bible, including those given to Daniel, and Ezekiel and John etc., and tie them up with what Jesus said....Show more

In Matthew, Jesus spoke about two distinct events: The first was the end of the Temple Worship System and the fiery destruction of Jerusalem, at the hands of the Romans, which happened in 70 A.D.; The second event is the definitive end of the age, which occurs when Jesus returns in power and glory, to finally vanquish evil and to judge the living and the dead....Show more

If your god wanted to make it clear then he would have done so.

Instead, he gave you something so ambiguous and open to interpretation that no one can agree on what event(s) it refers to.

Someone has decided that passage refers to the current day, every day since it was written.  That makes it effectively worthless....Show more

I'm not seeing a question.

If you are asking in a very grammatically incorrect manner: "Is the Covid-19 pandemic a great tribulation---on the grand scheme of things---to count as a possible match to the verse you mentioned?"

Well, even a complete dullard would know that there has been much greater tribulations in the last 100 years that make the pandemic a fairly light graze..

At any rate, the Isaiah verse doesn't refer to Jesus at all. Jesus has nothing to do with Isaiah. Also, Jesus was human and is dead. Thus, except possibly for the Hindu concept of many lives (reincarnation), Jesus ain't coming back.

If he did reincarnate, he wouldn't know who he was in a past life.

All the bull about Jesus being son of G*d, that stuff even Jesus never proclaimed. Only fraudulently composed texts made in the 3rd and 4th centuries talk in that manner---the Church was merely trying to compete with other religions. So they turned Jesus the philosopher into Jesus son of G*d.

Anybody that believes the son of G*d stuff is truly gullible.

G*d has never been said to be male, have a penis nor ever reproduced....Show more

The “great tribulation” took place between 66 and 70 CE when the jewish culture in Palestine was destroyed and the Temple destroyed.
  This is not what Isaiah 24 is referencing....Show more