What will happen during the tribulation period?
During the first three-and-a-half years of this tribulation period, God’s providential judgements will fall upon the earth (famine, wars, etc., Rev. 6ff.). The last three-and-a-half years will be much worse a time of unparalleled trouble: 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). This is the great tribulation. This second half-week is spoken of as three-and-a-half years (or times’), as 42 months, and as 1,260 days in Revelation 1113 etc. Oppression will come from the Jewish antichrist’ and from the government of the re-established Roman Empire (the first beast’ of Rev. 13). In addition to this, God’s direct judgments fall upon the earth (see Rev. 6-19).
