❖ THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE.
Israel’s Darkest Night Before the King’s Dawn.
“Alas, that day is so great there is none like it.
It is a time of trouble for Jacob,
but he will be saved out of it.”
Jeremiah 30:7
Jeremiah cries this prophecy, not calmly delivers it. The Hebrew tsarah means crushing siege-distress. The terror of a surrounded city with no escape. Jacob means Israel. This is not metaphor. Not the Church. A nation. A future hour. A promised rescue. Soon.
And the wrath driving i... more❖ THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE.
Israel’s Darkest Night Before the King’s Dawn.
“Alas, that day is so great there is none like it.
It is a time of trouble for Jacob,
but he will be saved out of it.”
Jeremiah 30:7
Jeremiah cries this prophecy, not calmly delivers it. The Hebrew tsarah means crushing siege-distress. The terror of a surrounded city with no escape. Jacob means Israel. This is not metaphor. Not the Church. A nation. A future hour. A promised rescue. Soon.
And the wrath driving it has purpose:
“The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will understand this.”
Jeremiah 30:24
Jacob’s Trouble is not chaos. It is God finishing His covenant work.
❖ THE TRIPLE PROPHETIC WITNESS
Daniel sees the same day:
“There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people… will be delivered.”
Daniel 12:1
Jesus confirms it:
“Then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now and never to be equaled again.”
Matthew 24:21
Three witnesses. One event. One unparalleled crisis. One guaranteed deliverance.
❖ THE DECEPTIVE COVENANT THAT STARTS THE CLOCK
“He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven’. In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation.”
Daniel 9:27
Peace is promised. Ink dries. Israel breathes. Then betrayal. Worship stops. The abomination stands. The Time of Jacob’s Trouble ignites.
❖ ISRAEL GIVEN UP UNTIL THE BIRTH PAINS END
“Therefore Israel will be abandoned until the time when she who is in labor bears a son. Then the rest of his brothers will return to join the Israelites.”
Micah 5:3
This is not extinction. It is labor. The nation in travail before new birth.
❖ THE WOMAN FLEES THE DRAGON
“The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.”
Revelation 12:6
The woman is Israel, not the Church. The dragon is Satan. God shelters His covenant people even in their darkest hour.
❖ SATAN’S GOAL VS GOD’S PURPOSE
Satan seeks destruction. God seeks refinement.
“I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them.”
Zechariah 13:9
And Messiah Himself declared:
“I will return again to my place until they admit their guilt and seek my face; in their misery they will earnestly seek me.”
Hosea 5:15
He waits in heaven until Israel calls for Him.
❖ THE GLOBAL COURTROOM GATHERS
“I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land."
Joel 3:2
“I will gather nations, assemble kingdoms, to pour out my wrath upon them.”
Zephaniah 3:8
This is not merely war. It is divine judgment on a global scale.
❖ THE NATIONAL MOURNING OF ISRAEL
“They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child.”
Zechariah 12:10
Isaiah foresaw the result:
“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins.”
Isaiah 59:20
Jesus affirmed the same condition:
“You will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
Matthew 23:39
❖ ALL ISRAEL SAVED
Paul seals the prophetic chain:
“And in this way all Israel will be saved… ‘The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.’”
Romans 11:26
Old Testament. Gospel. Apostle. One unified expectation.
❖ JERUSALEM SURROUNDED
“I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it.”
Zechariah 14:2
No escape. No ally. No human rescue.
Then heaven opens.
❖ THE WARRIOR KING ARRIVES
“The LORD will go out and fight against those nations. On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem.”
Zechariah 14:3–4
Isaiah adds the terrifying image:
“I have trodden the winepress alone… their blood spattered my garments.”
Isaiah 63:1–3
The King returns not only to reign, but to rescue.
Jeremiah’s cry is fulfilled:
“He will be saved out of it.”
❖ THE TIMEPIECE OF PROPHECY
Chuck Missler,
“Israel is the fuse that ignites God’s prophetic clock.”
When Israel enters trouble, the end begins.
When Israel repents, Messiah returns.
When Jacob is delivered, the Kingdom dawns.
The Time of Jacob’s Trouble is not the end of Israel.
It is the birth of Israel’s redemption.
And the arrival of the King to rule from Zion.
✠ Sir John Scivoletti ✠
✠ Turco Joan of Arc Priory ✠
✠✠Act and God will Act (Actus et Deus Act)✠✠
