I explain why letting go of the secret rapture also led me to rethink the idea of a future seven-year Great Tribulation. Looking at Jesus’ Olivet Discourse and Revelation in their first-century context, I explore how many of the passages often used to predict a future apocalypse may instead be describing the fall of Jerusalem and the ongoing call for Christians to endure suffering faithfully. Rather than a roadmap for escaping the world’s chaos, these texts invite us to follow the cross-shaped way of Jesus as we go through it.

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