– Jesus said the whole tribulation would happen before the generation to whom He was speaking would pass
– Jesus said it again by saying He was coming back in judgment before all those standing in front of Him died
– Jesus said it again by calling the Pharisees who asked for a sign the evil and adulterous generation that would be judged
– Jesus said it again by telling Peter they he would be dead, but John would be alive upon His return
– Jesus said it again by saying He would come back before His disciples made it through all the towns of Israel
– Jesus said born-again saints would be present for the tribulation and instructed them to keep their testimony, even unto death
– Jesus said the “taken” would be the ones thrown in the pile of dead bodies
– Jesus told the 1st century Pharisees that they would flog His disciples going into the tribulation
– Jesus told His disciples they would be flogged in synagogues going into the tribulation
– Jesus said the Holy Spirit would be present during the tribulation and speak through His disciples
– Jesus said the tribulation would be local
– Jesus said the tribulation would hit the towns of Galilee, Samaria, Judea, & Jerusalem
– Jesus said captives from the tribulation would be brought into the nations
– Jesus said the tribulation would involve the destruction of Herod’s temple
– Jesus said the tribulation would be escapable by running to the Judean mountains
– Jesus said the tribulation would be 3.5 years, not 7 years
– Jesus said that the event futurists call the “rapture” is fulfilled toward the end of the tribulation, at the 7th trumpet
– Jesus said the beast of the sea involved the city on 7 hills, with blasphemous names atop each of its hills
– Jesus spoke of 7 kings, not kingdoms, related to the beast of the sea, which was a single kingdom itself
– Jesus said that Revelation was given to John during ruler #6’s reign over the beast of the sea
– Jesus said all the things in Revelation would “shortly come to pass”
– Jesus said to “let the filthy remain filthy” because the events in Revelation were so soon
– Jesus said the destruction of Herod’s temple would consummate the age (not end the planet)
– Jesus said the destruction of Herod’s temple would fulfill “all that is written”
– Jesus said the times of the gentiles would end with the trampling of the temple
– Jesus used the same “planet-destroying” language of prophetic judgment against Jerusalem (whom He called “Babylon the Great”) that His Father through the prophet Isaiah used against literal Babylon – which was destroyed in 539 BC, while the literally planet was not
– Jesus said His kingdom would not come in visible ways that people can physically see