Could you please comment short on the following question? Is the event in Matthew 24:7 the same as in Matthew 24:21? If I've been listening to you correctly, these are two different events. Is there perhaps any assay on your Web specific to this topic?
At Mathew 24:7, Jesus said: “For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress.”
Being the beginning of the pangs of distress means that there are even worse disasters following. According to the chronology of events outlined in the 6th chapter of Revelation, the horsemen of the apocalypse are released one after the other resulting in peace being taken from the earth and a quarter of mankind is killed. Then the 6th seal is opened. “And a great earthquake occurred; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the entire moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell to the earth as when a fig tree shaken by a high wind drops its unripe figs. And the heaven departed as a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and every island was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth, the high officials, the military commanders, the rich, the strong, every slave, and every free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.”
Jesus spoke of the great tribulation coming after nations and kingdoms go to war against each other. There is no doubt that the great tribulation will be a direct result of the world war, resulting in the utter collapse of civilization, symbolized by the massive earthquake and the heavenly luminaries going dark. Jesus also used similar language in connection with the tribulation when he said: “Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken."
In saying "immediately after the tribulation" it could be understood that the dark days to follow are a result of the tribulation. We can also understand it to mean that the world will never return to "normal." Dark days will persist until Satan's world is obliterated at the place called Armageddon.
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that the seals of the scrolls were all opened more than 100 years, including the sixth seal. According to the Grand Climax book, chapter 19 paragraph two, the opening of the sixth seal “must fall within the same time frame as the opening of the other seals. Just when in the Lord’s day does this earthquake occur, and what kind of quake is it?”
So, even though the seal of the scroll was supposedly opened “within the same time frame as the opening of the other seals,” nothing has happened. How reasonable is that? Perhaps the Watchtower should rename its Revelation commentary? Maybe something like Grand Anticlimax?
Actually, what the Watchtower says makes sense and is logical. All the seals are opened during the same time frame. The only logical explanation to address their contradiction is that none of the seals have been opened. Although, now it is becoming more and more likely that the event is near.
Some say the proxy war in Ukraine between the Anglo-American kingdom and Russia is the beginning of World War Three. The Middle East is blowing up too. And the Anglo beast is pushing for war with China. It certainly appears as though the stage is set and we are waiting for the curtain to rise. Even so, up to this point, the members of the nuclear club have not begun shooting at each other directly. Just rumors of war. However, there certainly seems to be a determined effort to change that.
The troublesome aspect of all this is that after the Second World War, the United Nations was set up for the express purpose of preventing another world war. (And by the way, the Watchtower is on record saying that there cannot be another world war.) The primary victors of WWII became the permanent members of the Security Council, being the British, Americans, France, China, and the USSR, now Russia. And recent developments mean that half of the Security Council’s permanent members are at war with the other half. And the Security Council is responsible for maintaining peace and security!?!? How is that going to work?
Russia places Pacific fleet on ‘high alert’
Russia has placed its Pacific Navy fleet on high alert as part of a surprise combat readiness check
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