The Terrible Tribulation

Matthew 24:15-31

Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • August 24, 2025

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1. God will bring history to an awful, powerful end.

“Forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation.

Daniel 11:31 (NASB95)

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

2 Thessalonians 2:3–4 (NASB95)

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 (NASB95)

2. God’s grace is revealed even in the darkest of times.

I said to him, “My lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 7:14 (NASB95)

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power, only do not put forth your hand on him.” So Satan departed from the presence of the LORD.

Job 1:12 (NASB95)

So the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your power, only spare his life.”

Job 2:6 (NASB95)

• The World will not continue as it is forever.

• God sets boundaries on our suffering.

• Eternal life is available NOW.