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The prophesied events of the tribulation have never been fulfilled YET!
To determine whether the tribulation events have been fulfilled in any prior age since the time of the New Testament, or are being fulfilled at the present, the reader need only com*pare the descriptions given of the tribulation with history. Covenantalists have already made this comparison and found no match with historythats why they arbitrarily switch to an allegorical method of interpreting tribulation prophecies, despite the fact that they apply a normal/literal method to most other prophecy (for example, the birth of Christ). The bias of this procedure is obvious. Only through a process of selective allegorical interpretation can one claim historical (or present) fulfillment of the tribulation prophecies. For example, we might ask: When, since the writing of the New Testament, did an object from space hit one of the worlds oceans destroying most of the life in it? Or, When did Christ return, as is clearly indicated to be the concluding event of the tribulation (Zech. 14:1-21; Matt. 24:3-31; Rev. 19:11-21)? There simply is no match to the tribulation prophecies in history, nor do we see the events we have previously described (in the last chapter) occurring at presentnor do covenantalistswhich is why they suddenly (and with patently biased intent) switch to an allegorical interpretation of these events.
To determine whether the tribulation events have been fulfilled in any prior age since the time of the New Testament, or are being fulfilled at the present, the reader need only com*pare the descriptions given of the tribulation with history. Covenantalists have already made this comparison and found no match with historythats why they arbitrarily switch to an allegorical method of interpreting tribulation prophecies, despite the fact that they apply a normal/literal method to most other prophecy (for example, the birth of Christ). The bias of this procedure is obvious. Only through a process of selective allegorical interpretation can one claim historical (or present) fulfillment of the tribulation prophecies. For example, we might ask: When, since the writing of the New Testament, did an object from space hit one of the worlds oceans destroying most of the life in it? Or, When did Christ return, as is clearly indicated to be the concluding event of the tribulation (Zech. 14:1-21; Matt. 24:3-31; Rev. 19:11-21)? There simply is no match to the tribulation prophecies in history, nor do we see the events we have previously described (in the last chapter) occurring at presentnor do covenantalistswhich is why they suddenly (and with patently biased intent) switch to an allegorical interpretation of these events.