I have heard people say that it is a global tribulation because Jesus said “everyone will hate you because of me”.

Matthew 24:9

“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.

Hence they say it’s way in the future.

I have always argued that Jesus was referring to the apostles as in “everyone will hate the apostles because of Jesus”. Hence its in the past.

I received a word from the Lord personally today. This is what he said.

I want us to note these verses first.

John 17:20-21

Jesus Prays for All Believers
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

You would note here John records for us Jesus’s prayer for all the believers. Notice the words “them alone” are actually referring to the apostles. The rest of the believers are referred to “those who believe through their message”.

So he could not have been talking about all believers when he said this and he said this before he turned to pray for the other believers in verse 21. Let’s look at the verses before that.

John 17:14
I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.

“The world has hated them”. This “them” therefore could only mean the apostles. It’s not a world wide tribulation.

The word “world” here does not mean the whole world but the system. That’s what “I am not of the world” means.

It’s AD70. That’s when the end of the “world” happened.
~Simon Yap

When we speak of fulfilled eschatology, people often wonder about the feasts. Are the feasts something we should celebrate today? Or, have all the feasts and their pictures been fulfilled, or do we await some later fulfilment picture in one of the feasts? Here is the answer: The feasts pointed to episodes in the finished work of Jesus. They have all been fulfilled. Let me explain:

1. Feast of Passover – Christ is our Passover, and He ate the passover meal with His disciples before going to the cross. This was fulfilled when He became the Passover Lamb at the cross.
2. Feast of Unleavened Bread – This was fulfilled as His body was the bread which was broken at the cross.
3. Feast of Firstfruits – This was fulfilled in His resurrection. He is the firstfruits of resurrection.
4. Feast of Weeks (Harvest or Pentecost) – This was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out.
5. Feast of Trumpets – This was fulfilled in the trumpet judgments of the harlot, old covenant system in 70ad.
6. Day of Atonement – Jesus was the atoning sacrifice, but the scapegoat was also part of the day of atonement, as the sins of Israel were put on its head, and it was led into the wilderness to be destroyed by the beasts. When the temple and city fell in 70ad, this was the picture of the scapegoat being destroyed by “the beast” (the Roman Empire). This has been fulfilled.
7. Feast of Tabernacles – This was the celebration of when Israel was released from Egyptian slavery and bondage and lived in tabernacles in the wilderness. Old Covenant Jerusalem was also a picture of Egyptian bondage, and when the city fell, the freedom from that slave system came as well. This has been fulfilled.

As Jesus said in Luke 21:22 “For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled”. The days of vengeance were the events of the 70ad destruction of the temple and Jerusalem. Therefore, the concluding events of the 70ad destruction were also the concluding fulfillments to any lingering old testament prophecy, which was the “all things which are written”, the entire old testament.
~ David Duncan