Time of Jacob’s Trouble RAVI CHANDRAN

Introduction Jer 30:7, “How awful that day will be! No other will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it. Matt 24:22, “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.”

Points to ponder Israel’s history of trouble leading to captivity from Egypt, Assyria, Babylon… Antichrist will rule 42 weeks (Rev 13:5) Western scholars have predicted the Antichrist (little horn) to be EU or US? (Dan 8:9)

Zechariah 12:2 “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.” Note – surrounding peoples! Dan 8:9 and Zec 12:2 talks about surrounding people led by the Antichrist.

Who are these surrounding people? Islamic States?

List of immediate neighbor nations Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Turkey etc. Coming Jewish captivity of Israel explained in Joel 3:1-6 with land divided among captives and Jewish children sold for sexual slavery.

Joel 3:1-6 1 “In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.

3 They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine to drink. 4 “Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon (Lebanon) and all you regions of Philistia (Gaza Area)? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.

5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples. 6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks (Javan or ancient Turkey), that you might send them far from their homeland.

Isaiah 11: And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Jewish captives gathered from here Assyria – North Irak Egypt / Patros – Egypt Ethiopia – North Sudan Persia – Iran Shinar – Irak Hamath – Syria

Jeremiah 16: Deliverence 14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 15 But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

Zechariah 2:6-7 - Deliverance 6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord. 7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. North – Turkey, Syria, Irak (Asyria) – Old Babylonian Kingdoms.

Daniel 11:40 – K.O.S & K.O.N And at the time of the end shall the king of the south (Egypt) push at him: and the king of the north (Antichrist) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

Zechariah 9: When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion (Israel), against thy sons, O Greece (Javan), and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. 14 And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet (Second Coming), and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.

Micah 5:2-6 2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. 3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. 5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. Nimrod – Tower of Babel – Irak – it all takes place in the Middle East

Zechariah 2:6-7 6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord. 7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.

Coming Beast Caliphate Kingdom of Babylon AD Turkey, Irak (Asyria), Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jorden, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel in the heart of it.

Standing Conclusion Judgement begins in the house of God. Jesus said, if they persecuted me… (Jn 15:20) Most of these events occur in the M.E. Just look at what is happening now and may I have to say more? Get ready for his coming…