Matt.24:21 20Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath-speaking to the early church who escaped.. 21For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now- The Jews had never gone through a war that bad up until that time- and never to be seen again- the nation of Israel would never go through another war that bad again. Why? There wasn't a nation of Israelites to go through another war because they were destroyed the nation was destroyed. This doesn't mean that people post 70 A.D. would not experience a worse war that is to take it out of context. It was strictly speaking of the Israelite nation of Jerusalem
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