患難とは何か？各教会の見解の違い

The Tribulation is a time of terrible suffering that many Christians expect to fall on the whole earth just before Jesus comes back. In the version most of us have heard it lasts seven years, the Antichrist holds power, and Christians are taken up to heaven before it begins. That timetable belongs to dispensational evangelicals, and Pentecostal bodies such as the Assemblies of God also teach that the Church is taken up first. The Coptic Orthodox speak of seven years…