Chapter 35: The Time of Jacob's Trouble (Beginning of the Great Tribulation on Passover)


There is something I realized and noticed. Something huge!When the Great Tribulation begins, it is known as the "time of Jacob's trouble". With my calculations, I put the start of the Great Tribulation happening on the 2nd Passover due to the half hour of silence (30 days) and the 30 days between the 1260 days to the 1290 days. So I did some investigating on what this meant, the "time of Jacob's trouble".

"The Time of Jacob's trouble" was when he had to wrestle the angel on a particular night until dawn. I thought to myself, when does the angel come usually? It is on the Passover night. So I then thought to myself, that was it, when Jacob was wrestling the angel, the time of his trouble?

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I then did some more research related to this:

"The world is drawing closer and closer to an affixed point in human history that shall catapult the whole world into the epic drama of the Great tribulation. That epic era is depicted in the life and times of the Old Testament patriarch Jacob.

Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, (Tribulation era-Day of the Lord) so that none is like it: it is even the time of “Jacob's Trouble”; but he (Israel) shall be saved out of it.

The story in Genesis 32, in which Jacob wrestled with the angel of the Lord, is a prophecy of the final conflict, called “The day of the Lord.” As the father of the Twelve Tribes, he is central to the development of many Bible themes. The very course of his life foreshadows the future of his people, even to the coming dark night of the “Great Tribulation”. There are amazing similarities between his persona and the inner nature of national Israel. In and of themselves, the names of Jacob and Israel, literally define the people called by God to secure the land grant promised to his grandfather, Abraham.

Genesis 32:22-28 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. “And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. “And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. “And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. “And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

The Future Time of Jacob's Trouble

The “Day of the Lord” commences with a period of time known as the Great Tribulation. Jesus, Himself, used this term in Matthew 24:21: “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” This great prophecy is a direct answer to the disciples' questions about when He would come as Messiah to rule Israel. He tells them that there would be world wars, famines, pestilences, “sorrows,” and afflictions. He also tells them that they would be, “… hated of all nations for my name's sake” (Matthew 24:9).

Jesus spent a great deal of time making it clear to his disciples that although the promised Kingdom would one day be secured, it would not be without great deal of effort and suffering on Israel's part. He even calls this long period, “the beginning of sorrows,” where the word “sorrows” is translated from the Greek word for “birth pangs.” And Israel's rebirth, and its pain prior to birth is a major Bible theme. As was the case with Jacob, the pains will wrack the body, soul and spirit of Israel

The Old Testament is filled with prophecies to this effect. A good example is to be found in Isaiah 17, where the Old Testament prophet delivers the famous narrative concerning the Burden of Damascus prophecy. In this prophecy, the world's oldest continuously-inhabited city is said to be flattened, and erased from existence. This calamity happens in the contextual setting of the “Day of the Lord,” the ancient term for Israel's Time of Trouble, or Jacob's Trouble. It is the time of the great harvest, when the Lord comes forth to judge all the nations. And we are today at the very doorstep of that climactic episode. The current age will end in a massive overturning of powers, accompanied by massive and tremendous geophysical and meteorological catastrophes unmatched in the history of the world. But in the end, Israel will emerge triumphant, as first witnessed in the episode of Jacob's dark night of trouble.

Jeremiah 30:3-7 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. “And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

In this scripture passage, we are reminded of Jacob's long dark night of struggle, when he wept, pleaded and fervently prayed through the night, all the while being embroiled in a physical contest with the angel of the Lord."

[link to focusonjerusalem.com]

And the I saw something. Have a look at this (the link below!)

[link to www.chabad.org]

The day of Nissan 15 (1st day of Passover). It says it right there in the link, "Jacob Wrestles with Esau's Angel" Precisely what I thought!

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It will not be the 1st Passover that the Great Tribulation begins, but the 2nd Passover that it begins due to the particular time code I have deciphered.