It’s going to take many miracles in order for the Lord’s elect to scarcely be saved from the horror that will afflict the world in the days to come. Jeremiah 30:7 says: 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. So, what is the Bible really mean when it refers to Jacob’s Trouble? There have been mass discussions and huge debates about what Jacob’s Trouble is, but I want to start by saying what it isn’t.
The Sacking of Jerusalem by Rome in 70 A.D.
It was a frightening time for Israelites when the Roman army invaded Jerusalem and destroyed the Holy Temple in 70 A.D. as well as scattered the Kingdom of Judah (the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi) to several regions in West Africa, but this war isn’t in the period that the Bible describes as the end times. Jacob’s Trouble alludes to a prophecy in the distant future, and we’re presently at the beginning of it.
Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Israelites were raped, robbed and murdered as well as enslaved from the 16th to the 19th centuries by the European nations of Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, the Netherlands, and Denmark. They were sold by West African slave traders to these European nations and shipped to the Americas via the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage (Deuteronomy 28:68). The North American and Seminole Indians (the tribes of Gad and Reuben respectively) were also massacred and enslaved by the same colonizers during that period as the Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom of Israel went into slavery together (Jeremiah 50:33). However, this wasn’t the worst time in the history of the world as described in Matthew 24:7―when nations will fight against nations, and famine and earthquakes will be everywhere; or in Daniel 12:1, when the archangel Michael will have to protect the Lord’s elect from the impending doom that will plague the world during Jacob’s Trouble; or in Jeremiah 30:7, when the Most High describes a terrible day like no other is coming on the Earth. The enslavement of Israelites after the Renaissance Period was a horrific time in our history, but it doesn’t compare to what’s coming down the pike in the near future.
Now that I’ve stated what Jacob’s Trouble isn’t, let me clarify what the Bible really says about it. The Book of 2 Esdras, Chapters 15-16 is a detailed depiction of what’s going to happen on Earth very soon―famine, pestilence, wars and rumors of wars, mass death, and the ultimate destruction of Babylon the Great―which allegorically refers to the destruction of America by thermal nuclear fire. The world’s population is presently over eight billion people, and the Most High will be casting customized judgments on every wicked individual in the world who has refused to take heed to HIS warning and repent before Jacob’s Trouble is in full bloom. All praise, honor, and glory go to Yahawah Bahasham Yahawashi.