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102 GREAT TRIBULATION To be precise, the Great Tribulation will coincide with the latter part of the rule of Antichrist. The early part of the rule of the deceiver will actually be like a honeymoon for the inhabitants of the earth: Progress will have reached an apex and the fight against illnesses and disease will be reaching such an advanced stage that it will seem as if even death would soon be conquered. 1 Wealth and material prosperity will be everywhere, and people will see an earthly paradise emerging under the rule of Antichrist, that they will acknowledge him as God and saviour of the human race. The many miracles that he will perform will completely dazzle a spiritually blind world and lead to the sad situation predicted in Revelation 13:3-8: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? ... and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. When Antichrist is acknowledged as God by all those whose names are not written in the Book of Life, all other religions will be outlawed, Christian churches will be confiscated and turned into centres for the worship of the new “God.” The Liturgy of the Eucharist as well as other Christian services will have to cease as we are told by the Fathers: And the churches, too, will wail with a mighty lamentation, because neither oblation nor incense is attended to, nor a service acceptable to God; but the sanctuaries of the churches will become like a garden-watcher's hut, and the holy body and blood of Christ will not be shown in those days. The public service of God shall be extinguished, psalmody shall cease, the reading of the Scriptures shall not be heard. 2 1 Pohalo and Novakshonoff: Apostasy and Antichrist. 2 Hippolytus: Discourse on end of the World and on Antichrist
GREAT TRIBULATION 103 Modern Orthodox commentators echo the same view: At the same time, the Christian sanctuary will be closed and in it will be placed an idol of Antichrist, a lifelike, speaking statue. This was called "the abomination of desolation" by the prophet Daniel. From that time on, the bloodless sacrifice of the Eucharist will cease on earth. 1 This view is not without Biblical support, for in Daniel 8:11 we are told, “Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.” Daniel 11:31 reiterates this, “And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.” In these verses the “sanctuary of strength” refers to the Christian sanctuary and the “daily sacrifice” refers to the Eucharistic bloodless sacrifice. It is at this point that the Great Tribulation will start, for we are told in Daniel 12:11, “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.” The abomination that maketh desolate is the talking idol that will be placed in the Christian sanctuary for people to worship instead of Christ. This is alluded to in Revelation 13:15, “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” The thousand two hundred and ninety days is the symbolic time of the Great Tribulation which is the same as the “time and times and the dividing of times” of Daniel 7:25 and the “forty two months” of Revelation 13:5. This period of three and a half year is not to be taken literally for as with many numbers in the apocalyptic scriptures they are symbolic. If seven is the symbol of perfection or completion then three and a half represents imperfection or a time that will not be completed or shortened. This agrees with the Lord’s assertion that, “except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.” (Mat 24:22) 1 Pohalo and Novakshonoff: Apostasy and Antichrist.
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