The tribulation (i.e. the apocalypse) is divided into two parts: the first part occurs during this generation and the second part occurs in the distant future. During the first part of the tribulation many difficulties trouble the whole world -- war, civil unrest, famine, death from a variety of causes. But the last afflictions of this part of the tribulation are even more severe. Then all of these sufferings culminate with the most severe event of...