I dont see where Luke is speaking of those things you are talking about.He is speaking about wrath upon those people in the time of God's vengeance.
Luke quoted Jesus. Paul tells us that GODS WRATH falls upon ALL the workers of iniquity and ALL the children of DISOBEDIENCE.
The only thing he says about the other countries is that they should stay out of Judea.Obviously there is something going on in Judea that is not in the countries.It appears that you just chose to ignore that fact.
Your understanding does not and CAN NOT line up.
The Wrath of GOD is an INNER matter. It cannot be understood as you 'think' you see it applied to a geographic area and the specific occupants therein.
Step inside your own TEMPLE...and you will see YOUR PRIOR CONDITION:
Ephesians 2:2
Wherein in time past
ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Even in the subtlety of the term 'ye' means that YOU were NOT alone, but that PRINCE OF DARKNESS was upon YOUR MIND.
Yes, YOU were a 'child of DISOBEDIENCE.' And GODS WRATH even then WAS UPON YOU.
WRATH is coming on the GENERATION OF VIPERS....
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them,
O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
You can NOT see 'these VIPERS.' They appear to you as MEN, but they are not.
Their GENERATION has existed and multiplied since THE GARDEN.
THEY were standing there IN MEN when our Lord was CRUCIFIED and they are STILL HERE and STILL taking their victims by the SCORE.
John 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and
he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but
the wrath of God abideth on him.
Romans 2:
7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
'The Tribulation' is going to be A TIME OF SEPARATION.
It will first come TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, but will also FALL upon the Gentiles.
It will be A WHOLE WORLD working.
The 'operations' of INNER WRATH are already ABIDING UPON and clearly seen and have been abiding and seen IN THE people of the supposed 'churches' for quite some time now. It is in every church and at EVERY posting board.
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Galatians 5:20
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even
Jesus, which
delivered us from the wrath to come.
Tribulation COMES FIRST....none of us will AVOID that working IF we remain ALIVE at that time.
AFTER the GREAT TRIBULATION, the TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE,
The FINAL WRATH shall come upon ALL THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY.
Wrath that is already IN MANKIND has been stewing in ALL the POTS OF FLESH...
It is in effect, DEATH boiling within same.
Believers were DEAD in 'tresspasses' and 'sins.' Unbelievers to this day remain BLINDED by the 'god of this world.' The PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR...that spirit that works in the CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE.
It is upon ALL OF THESE that GODS WRATH will fall.
The 'event' you put up in the first post is in fact the FINAL ACTION of the GREAT TRIBULATION....wherein the FINAL SEPARATION has come.
There is of course more to be said...in understanding this matter.
However, those who insist on looking at LANDMASSES or PEOPLE are not meant BY GOD to see these matters. They will not see and they CAN NOT see.
enjoy!
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