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66 THE GREAT TRIBULATION Matthew 24 1. Wars (V. 6) 2. International strife (v. 7a) 3. Famines (v. 7b) 4. Earthquakes (v. 7c) 5. Persecutions (w. 9-13) 6. De-creation (w. 15-31) Mark 13 1. Wars (v. 7) 2. International strife (v. 8a) 3. Earthquakes (v. 8b) 4. Famines (v. 8c) 5. Persecutions (w. 9-13) 6. De-creation (w. 14-27) Luke 21 1. Wars (v. 9) 2. International strife (v. 10) 3. Earthquakes (v. ha) 4. Plagues and famines (v. llb) 5. Persecution (w. 12-19) 6. De-creation (w. 20-27) This is very perceptive of the commentators. What is astonishing, however, is that many of them fail to see St. John’s purpose in presenting the same material as Matthew, Mark, and Luke: to prophesy the events leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem. While all readily admit that the Little Apocal@e is a prophecy against Israel (see Matthew 23:29-39; 24:1-2, 15-16, 34; Mark 13:2, 14, 30; Luke
21:5-6, 20-24, 32), few seem able to make the obvious connection: the Big A@ca~@e (the Book of Revelation) is a prophecy against Israel as well! The Biblical Background of the Horsemen The central Old Testament passage behind the imagery of the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” is Zechariah 6:1-7, which pictures the Four Winds as God’s chariots driven by His agents, who go back and forth patrolling the earth. Following and imitating the action of the Spirit (cf. Revelation 5:6), they are God’s means of controlling history (cf. Revelation 7:1, where the Four Winds are identified with, and controlled by, angels; cf. also Psalm 18:10, where the “wings of the wind” are connected with “cherubs.”) Biblical symbolism views the earth (and especially the Land of Israel) as God’s four-cornered altar, and thus often represents wide-sweeping, national judgments in a fourfold manner. The Horsemen, therefore, show us God’s means of controlling and bringing judgment upon the disobedient nation of Israel. In particular, they symbolically represent the great devastations that Jesus predicted would come upon Israel in the last days of the Old Covenant era, leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple (Matthew 24). Just as important as Zechariah in the background of this passage is the Prayer of Habakkuk (Habaldmk 3), the traditional synagogue reading for the second day of Pentecost, in which the prophet relates a vision of God coming in judgment, shining like the sun, flashing with lightning (Habakkuk
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