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Christians: Is Isaiah 24: the great tribulation which Jesus spoke about before he returns for his redeemed.?
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. Matt. 24:21
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- Annsan_In_HimLv 711 months agoFavorite Answer
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.
- Doug CatholicLv 711 months ago
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.
Source(s): www.askmeaboutgod.org - 11 months ago
"Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more" (II Corinthians 5:16).
After Holy Spirit baptism (Acts 1:5;8; Romans 6:3-4)
"But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His" (Romans 8:9).
We have "joined to His Spirit" (I Corinthians 6:17) and are NO LONGER IN THE FLESH!
Therefore Isaiah 24 is speaking of "tribulations" in the flesh but Jesus performing by His "POWER" through us (Acts 1:8) in the Spirit!
“I, the Lord, have called you and given you (((POWER))) [Received after Holy Spirit baptism; Acts 1:5; 8]
to see that justice is done on earth.
Through you I will make a covenant with all peoples;
through you I will bring light to the nations" (Isaiah 42:6; GNT).
Therefore GOD is waiting for (((US))) to create the new heaven and new earth by HIS "POWER" to "Give glory to His Name" (Isaiah 43:7).
"So He said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: 'Not by [Your] might nor by [Your] power, but by MY SPIRIT,' says the LORD Almighty" (Zechariah 4:6).
Today's Christians are just sitting around waiting for Jesus to come back and do everything NOT KNOWING
>>>HE CAME BACK<<< in the glory of the Holy Ghost (Acts 1:2) on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:2-4) as PROMISED (John 14:18; 26; II Corinthians 5:16).
"Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it" (Jeremiah 1:12)!
"Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets" (Amos 3:7)!
- Anonymous11 months ago
HARDLY, THERE IS MUCH MORE TO COME.
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- Anonymous11 months ago
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.
- ALv 511 months ago
No, Isaiah chapter 24 described what happened when Jerusalem was taken over by Babylon. But the parallels are indeed similar. The events of the 'last days' that Jesus spoke of are described in Matthew chapter 24 and Luke chapter 21, including the prevalence of wars, earthquakes and even pestilence. (Matthew 24:4-14, 23-25; Luke 21:8-12) Apostle Paul even described to Timothy how the people's attitudes would be during our time. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
Source(s): New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, JW.org - YodaLv 611 months ago
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.
- yesmarLv 711 months ago
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.