Tribulation as a process.

[rdclmn72]

Tribulation comes from the latin word tribulus which means the thresh.
Threshing was done at first with a stick to beat and separate stalks from grain.
Later a sled with tooth-like projections underneath would be driven over a pile of harvested stalks.

Threshing appears in scripture as happening to Israel as well as other nations.
In Zechariah 12 you see the present situation in Israel where they have always been protected.
All while the setting for the last invasion is slowly coming together.
In Zechariah 14 God no longer protects Israel as they are invaded for the last time, taking Jerusalem only to be destroyed by the second coming.

 

[Hidden In Him]

Tribulation comes from the latin word tribulus which means the thresh.
Threshing was done at first with a stick to beat and separate stalks from grain.
Later a sled with tooth-like projections underneath would be driven over a pile of harvested stalks.

Threshing appears in scripture as happening to Israel as well as other nations.
In Zechariah 12 you see the present situation in Israel where they have always been protected.
All while the setting for the last invasion is slowly coming together.
In Zechariah 14 God no longer protects Israel as they are invaded for the last time, taking Jerusalem only to be destroyed by the second coming.

Well, I think we have a good ways to go yet before the Great Tribulation, but I agree with your premise. It is a means of separating the wheat from the chaff, and that's precisely what the Tribulation will accomplish in the land of Israel just before His second coming.

Greetings and welcome to the forum (if I haven't welcomed you already).
Hidden

 

[Shilohsfoal]

Tribulation comes from the latin word tribulus which means the thresh.
Threshing was done at first with a stick to beat and separate stalks from grain.
Later a sled with tooth-like projections underneath would be driven over a pile of harvested stalks.

Threshing appears in scripture as happening to Israel as well as other nations.
In Zechariah 12 you see the present situation in Israel where they have always been protected.
All while the setting for the last invasion is slowly coming together.
In Zechariah 14 God no longer protects Israel as they are invaded for the last time, taking Jerusalem only to be destroyed by the second coming.

If the Jews in Israel didn't turn on the christians there and persecute them ,then perhaps God wouldn't hand those Jews over to the nations to be killed.

The tribulation of the saints in Israel isnt as far off as many might think.

Daniel 11:33-35
Wise leaders will give instruction to many, but these teachers will die by fire and sword, or they will be jailed and robbed.
During these persecutions, little help will arrive, and many who join them will not be sincere.
And some of the wise will fall victim to persecution. In this way, they will be refined and cleansed and made pure until the time of the end, for the appointed time is still to come.