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  2. Great Tribulation - Wikipedia

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    Christians disagree over whether the Tribulation will be a relatively short period of great hardship before the end of the world and Second Coming of Christ (a school of thought sometimes called "Futurism"); or has already occurred, having happened in AD 70 when Roman legions laid siege to Jerusalem and destroyed its temple (sometimes called Preterism); or began in 538 AD when papal Rome came ...

  3. Persecution - Wikipedia

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    For the next few years, Falun Gong was the fastest growing qigong practice in Chinese history and, by 1999, there were millions of practitioners. Following the seven years of widespread popularity, on July 20, 1999, the government of the People's Republic of China began a nationwide persecution campaign against Falun Gong practitioners, except ...

  4. Historic premillennialism - Wikipedia

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    Historic premillennialism is one of the two premillennial systems of Christian eschatology, with the other being dispensational premillennialism. [1] It differs from dispensational premillennialism in that it only has one view of the rapture, and does not require a literal seven-year tribulation (though some adherents do believe in a seven-year tribulation).

  5. Religious persecution in the Roman Empire - Wikipedia

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    In 186 BC, the Roman senate issued a decree that severely restricted the Bacchanals, ecstatic rites celebrated in honor of Dionysus. Livy records that this persecution was due to the fact that "there was nothing wicked, nothing flagitious, that had not been practiced among them" and that a "greater number were executed than thrown into prison; indeed, the multitude of men and women who ...

  6. Futurism (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    After the tribulation, Christ will return to establish His Millennial Kingdom. Prewrath tribulationists believe the Rapture will occur after the tribulation, but before the seven bowls of the wrath of God. Midtribulationists believe that the Rapture will occur halfway through the tribulation, but before the worst part of it occurs. The seven ...

  7. Events of Revelation - Wikipedia

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    The mark will not be implemented until the Antichrist appears to be dead after suffering a fatal wound, only to be miraculously healed by Satan, and after he defiles the Temple; and this will happen precisely at the midpoint of the tribulation. Thus, the vial judgments will be more severe.

  8. Tribulation (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The Tribulation is a period of strife and judgement in Christian eschatology. Tribulation or tribulations may also refer to: Tribulation, a 2000 thriller film; Tribulation (band), a Swedish metal band; Tribulation, a 1999 album by Dennis Brown; Tribulation, a 2006 album by Don Carlos "Trials, Troubles, Tribulations" (song), a 1959 song by E.C. Ball

  9. Eschatology - Wikipedia

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    The Tribulation is described in the Book of Revelation. "End times" may also refer to the passing of an age or long period in the relationship between man and God. [ 45 ] Adherents to this view cite the Second Epistle to Timothy and draw analogies to the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.