📖 Daniel 9:24 • Jeremiah 30:5-7 • Matthew 24:21 • What is the tribulation? When does the rapture happen? What is Daniel's 70th week? This sermon explains God's prophetic timeline and Israel's future judgment.

⛪ Preached at Pilgrim Baptist Church • Cookeville, TN • February 15, 2026.

Most Christians are confused about end times prophecy. They don't understand the difference between the church age and the tribulation, or why God has a specific seven-year judgment planned for Israel. This sermon provides a clear dispensational framework distinguishing the rapture from Christ's second coming, explaining Daniel's 70th week, and revealing the sixfold purpose of the tribulation.

Pastor Fortunato walks through key prophetic passages showing that the tribulation (also called "time of Jacob's trouble" or "Daniel's 70th week") is specifically for Israel's national judgment and purification - not the church. The church will be raptured (caught away) BEFORE this seven-year period begins. After God judges and purifies Israel, Christ returns to establish His millennial kingdom.

This teaching also refutes replacement theology (the false doctrine that the church has replaced Israel). Understanding the distinction between Israel and the church is essential for rightly dividing Scripture and avoiding the confusion of Christian nationalism or attempts to "usher in the kingdom" through politics.

This prophetic teaching walks through multiple scriptures, explaining:

• Why the church age is different from the tribulation period

• The rapture vs. the second coming (two separate events)

• Matthew 24:21 - The worst judgment earth has ever known

• Jeremiah 30:5-7 - Time of Jacob's trouble and terror beyond description

• Daniel 9:24 - The sixfold purpose of Israel's judgment

• Romans 11:26-27 - How all Israel will be saved nationally

• Why men will look like they're in labor (unimaginable fear)

• The distinction between individual salvation and national purification

• Replacement theology vs. dispensational truth

• Why God hasn't rejected Israel permanently

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