2 Timothy 3:12; Matthew 24:9, 10; Revelation 12:17

EW 33, 36, 85, 86, 271; 9T 227-231; GC  606, 607, 589-590; 9T 228; 8T 50;

There will be martyrs before the close of probation. [See Notes 12, 13]

Increasing trouble in the world. The day is coming soon when obedience to God’s Law will be treated as treason. PK 184; GC 608

• Events taking place in the world today declare that the end is soon going to be SUDDENLY THRUST UPON US with shattering surprise!
• “A GREAT TERROR is soon to come upon human beings.” 8T 28
• “SUDDEN DESTRUCTION is coming.” DA 635
• “The time of trouble is a fearful ordeal for God’s people.” GC 633
• “Past history will be repeated; old controversies will arouse to new life, and PERIL  WILL BESET GOD’S PEOPLE ON EVERY SIDE.:  TM 116
• “The conflict that is right upon us will be THE MOST TERRIBLE EVER WITNESSED.” 6T 407
• “In the last great conflict in the controversy with Satan, those who are loyal to God will see EVERY EARTHLY SUPPORT CUT OFF.” DA 121
• “The remnant in the time of trouble will cry, my God, my God why hast Thou forsaken me? “ SMC 2
• “The coming struggle will be marked with A TERRIBLE INTENSITY SUCH AS THE WORLD HAS NEVER WITNESSED.” GC XI.

THE DEATH DECREE

Rev. 13:15-17; Rev. 16:5, 6; EW 34,36, 37, 272, 282-285; GC 614,615, 628, 631, 635; 1T 353, 354; PK 512; FCD 14-17; See Notes [12 and 13]

• Begins at close of probation & 7 Plagues.
• The whole world is involved in ruin and desolation
• The saints are blamed

 
The saints live without an intercessor. EW 280.

Isaiah 59:16; Job 38:22-23; GC 613-634;; EW 56; 1T 206

The Time of Jacob’s Trouble

Jeremiah 30:5-7; GC 615-622, 635-636; 5T 451; GC 620; EW 282-295; 7BC 847; LS 117

And there shall be a time of trouble SUCH AS NEVER WAS since there was a nation even to that same time.” Daniel 12:1.

For then shall be great tribulation. SUCH AS WAS NOT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” Matthew 24:21, 22.

THE UNIVERSAL DEATH DECREE

FCD 14-17

Like the universal death decree of King Ahasuerus in the days of Queen Esther, Satan will again cause a universal death decree to be issued in an attempt to exterminate the people of God from the earth. Rev. 12:17; Rev. 13:15; Rev. 14:12-14; Rev. 16:5, 6; Rev. 17:6; Rev. 20:4; EW 34-37; , 282, 283; GC 604, 614, 615, 626, 635; 1T 354; TM  412; 9T 17; 3SG 132; SR 97; 5T 213; DA 121, 122; PK 189, 605, 606; LS 116, 117, 59, 213; GC 631; PK 512; FCD 17-20.

“The Seven Last Plagues… enraged the wicked against the righteous; they thought that we had brought the judgments of God upon them, and that if they could rid the earth from us, the plagues would then be stayed. A decree went forth to slay the saints, which cause them to cry day and night for deliverance. This was the Time of Jacob’s Trouble.” EW 36, 37. Zechariah 2:8; Isaiah 33:16; Isaiah 41:17; Psalm 34:7; Psalm 91:10, 11.