"What shall be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the world? (Matthew 24:3)
But first He tells definitely the time when the signs would begin to
appear, so that those who would intelligently look for His coming could know when to expect the signs, and as a consequence know that His coming and the end were near. Thus He says,
Immediately after the tribulation of those days......there shall be signs. (Matthew 24:29)
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. (Matthew 24:21-22)
For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he has chosen, he has shortened the days. (Mark 13:19-20)
---They are the days during which the power symbolized by the “little horn” of Daniel 7, “made war with the saints, and prevailed against them,” and wore them out. (Daniel 7:8, 20-22, 25).
---They are the days in which death, on his pale horse, rode prosperously, with hell following with him, while he killed “with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth” those who must be “slain for the Word of God and the testimony which they held.” (Revelation 6:8-9).
---They are the days in which that woman Jezebel, “Babylon the great, the mother of harlots, and abominations of the earth,” used her terrible power so astonishingly that she was “drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.” (Revelation 2:19; 17:3-6).
Thus those days are the twelve hundred and sixty years of papal supremacy, which began in A.D. 538, at the rooting up of the last of the three kingdoms mentioned in Daniel 7:8, 20, 24, and ended in A.D. 1798, when the papal government was abolished in Rome.
And “the tribulation of those days” is the terrible persecution inflicted by the Papacy and certified in the history of the Dark Ages."
A.T.Jones
But first He tells definitely the time when the signs would begin to
Immediately after the tribulation of those days......there shall be signs. (Matthew 24:29)
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. (Matthew 24:21-22)
For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he has chosen, he has shortened the days. (Mark 13:19-20)
---They are the days during which the power symbolized by the “little horn” of Daniel 7, “made war with the saints, and prevailed against them,” and wore them out. (Daniel 7:8, 20-22, 25).
---They are the days in which death, on his pale horse, rode prosperously, with hell following with him, while he killed “with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth” those who must be “slain for the Word of God and the testimony which they held.” (Revelation 6:8-9).
---They are the days in which that woman Jezebel, “Babylon the great, the mother of harlots, and abominations of the earth,” used her terrible power so astonishingly that she was “drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.” (Revelation 2:19; 17:3-6).
Thus those days are the twelve hundred and sixty years of papal supremacy, which began in A.D. 538, at the rooting up of the last of the three kingdoms mentioned in Daniel 7:8, 20, 24, and ended in A.D. 1798, when the papal government was abolished in Rome.
And “the tribulation of those days” is the terrible persecution inflicted by the Papacy and certified in the history of the Dark Ages."
A.T.Jones