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Tag: Olivet Prophecy

Will any Gentiles be saved during the tribulation?

Answered by . April 25, 2012 - 3:56 am

The idea of a period of tribulation preceeding is based upon a section of the Olivet Prophecy, which reads as follows: For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been cut short, […]

What do Mark 13:15 (‘Let the one who is on the housetop not go down…’) and v17 (‘And alas for women who are pregnant…’) mean?

Answered by . February 23, 2011 - 9:01 pm

Mark 13:5ff. is what is now commonly known as the Olivet Prophecy (it has parallels in Mat. 24 and Luke 21). The majority of the prophecy refers to the destruction that later came on Israel when the Roman army attacked in A.D. 70.1 In Mark 13:14-15 Jesus is saying that, when these terrible things were […]