The Great Ribulation

XVi THE GREAT TRIBULATION
Jerusalem until the fhture conversion of the Jews (Remans
11), which will inaugurate a period of unprecedented
earthly blessings (w. 12-15), nothing else comes
close as a public manifestation of Christ’s new order.
What we need to understand is that Satan is a
great imitator. God defeated him at Calvary, but he
still seeks to defeat Christians in their lives. God imposed
a great tribulation on the old order of the
apostate Hebrews, but Satan imitates God by imposing
holocausts on mankind through his followers.
Christ inaugurated a new world order, and so
Satan’s followers now promise to bring us a new
world order. The Marxists do, the Nazis did, and
the New Age movement does. It is all a counterfeit.
Accept no substitutes! Remember Christ?s words:
“But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the
kingdom of God has come unto you” (Matthew
12:28). He cast out devils by the Spirit of God, so the
kingdom of God had come to them. It is now our inheritance
as members of Christ’s new nation, the
church, for He told the Jews of His day: “The kingdom
of God shall be given to a nation bringing forth
the fmits thereof” (Matthew 21:43). Christ’s new
world order has come, and the fall of Jerusalem is
proof. As Berman says of the resurrection: “This introduced
a new structure of history, in which there
was a fundamental transformation of one age into
another. This transformation, it was believed, could
only happen once: the life, death, and resurrection
of Christ was thought to be the only major interruption
in the course of linear time from the creation of
the world until it ends altogether.” The worst is over!