THE GREAT TRIBULATION
A short but intense period of distress and suffering at the end of time. The exact phrase, the great tribulation, is found only once in the Bible <Rev. 7:14>. The great tribulation is to be distinguished from the general tribulation a believer faces in the world <Matt. 13:21; John 16:33; Acts 14:22>. It is also to be distinguished from God's specific wrath upon the unbelieving world at the end of the age <Mark 13:24; Rom. 2:5-10; 2 Thes. 1:6>.
The great tribulation fulfills Daniel's prophecies <Daniel 7--12>. It will be a time of evil from false christs and false prophets <Mark 13:22> when natural disasters will occur throughout the world.
