Matthew 24 SERIES: vs. 21 pt.2

"Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 

The “great tribulation” mentioned here is that of the church of Christ, and not the tribulation of the Jews at the destruction of Jerusalem. We offer the following reason: 

GREATER THAN ANY PREVIOUS SUFFERING It is a fact that

the tribulation of the Christian Church, especially under the reign of the Papacy, was greater than God’s people had suffered before “since the beginning of the world.” 

The tribulation of the Christian church has been greater than it will ever be again. True, a time of trouble “such as never was,” spoken of in Daniel 12:1, is coming upon the wicked; but we find in the same verse this blessed promise, Daniel 12:1 ...and at that time your people shall be delivered. 

--The tribulation of the Jews at the destruction of Jerusalem was not greater than the world will ever witness. The vials of Jehovah’s unmingled wrath are yet to be poured out, not upon the people of one nation only, but upon the guilty inhabitants of all nations." 

A.T. Jones