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The Great Ribulation

David Chilton

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THE LAST DAYS ~<br />

the “last days” arrived with Him. He came to bring<br />

in the new age of the Kingdom of God. <strong>The</strong> old age<br />

was winding down, and would be thoroughly abolished<br />

when God destroyed the Temple.<br />

From Pentecost to Holocaust<br />

On the day of Pentecost, when the Spirit had<br />

been poured out and the Christian community spoke<br />

with other tongues, St. Peter declared the Biblical<br />

interpretation of the event:<br />

This is that which was spoken of through<br />

the prophet Joel: ‘And it shall be in th last days,”<br />

God says, “that I will pour out My Spirit upon<br />

all flesh; and your sons and your daughters<br />

shall prophesy, and your young men shall see<br />

visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.<br />

And on My menservants and on My maidservants<br />

I will pour out My Spirit in those days,<br />

and they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in<br />

heaven above and signs in the earth beneath:<br />

blood and fire and vapor of smoke. <strong>The</strong> sun<br />

shall be turned into darkness, and the moon<br />

into blood, before the coming of the great and<br />

glorious Day of the, Lord. And it shall be that<br />

whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be<br />

saved” (Acts 2:16-21).<br />

We have already seen how the ‘Mood and fire<br />

and vapor of smoke” and the signs in the sun and the<br />

moon were fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem.<br />

What is crucial to notice at this point is St. Peter’s

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