The seventieth week of Daniel is a very real physical series of tribulations, bringing to a close the 490 years promised to Israel to finish sin.
When Jesus described the scenes (in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21) He was describing real events, real tribulations and real destruction to a real Temple.
When Paul, wrote 'by the word of the Lord', he wrote of the departing of the Church, in 1Thess4:13-17, describing a very real event hidden as a mystery since the foundation of the world. And when the folks at Thessolonika got twisted around again, thinking it had already happened, Paul worte in 2Thess2 a reassurance that the man of sin would not emerge until the restrainer is taken out of the way. That is real stuff, for it takes deity to hold back an evil like satan.
When Jesus spoke of going to prepare a place for those who love Him (in Matthew 14), He told the disciples that when he had prepared a place He would come and take them there, THERE, to be with Him. The tribulation happens here, HERE, and He will come at the end of that Great Tribulation to once again, the second time, set foot upon the Earth. He will come for His Church before the tribulations, just as in the days of Noah. And the days of Noah were a real world wide flood.
I knew what you meant, lol, I am no stranger to typos!
We must read the scriptures from God’s perspective and not mans.
What would tribulation be to God, people dying outside of Christ lost or those in Christ being killed for their faith and glory for all eternity with Christ ahead of them? Clearly the former and not the latter.
The end times are to be marked by apostasy and deception. Matthew 24 is the clearest description of what is happening, there Jesus returns after the tribulation.
The Church has endured 2,000 years of physical persecution, some severe, some mild, but always there. What is different is the mass apostasy that has occurred the last 50 years and the Church no longer proclaiming Jesus as the way, the truth and the life. It is stunning and surely must mean Jesus stands at the door........