"...narrow is the way...." (Mat 7:14 KJV)

Tribulation does not mean wrath of God

In my search to understand the word "tribulation," I found it to have much different Hebrew and Greek meanings than I believe most Christians have perceived. In my first perception of it, I thought of only judgments and wrath of God. I had the same perspective as most Christians until I studied it for myself.

When the Hebrew words "tsar" (H6862), "tsarar'"(H6887) and "tsarah" (H6869) in the O.T. and the Greek words "thlipsis" (G2347) and "thlibo" (G2346) in the N.T. are searched out and studied, one can better understand "tribulation," Israel's past troubles and Jacob's latter day trouble.

O.T. on tribulation

In the first three verses of the O.T. where the Hebrew word "tsar" (from the word "tsarar") was found, according to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Dictionaries, it was translated "enemies" and "narrow."

(Gen 14:20 KJV) "And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all."

(Num 22:26 KJV) "And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left."

(Num 24:8 KJV) "God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows."

In Deuteronomy 4:30, in the next and fourth verses where the word "tsar" was found, it was translated "tribulation," and in other verses "trouble" (2 Chr 15:3-4), "affliction" (Psa 106:42-45), "anguish" (Job 7:11), "sorrow, distress" (2 Sam 22:5-7), (things possibly experienced from an opponent,) "adversary" (Psa 74:10), "adversaries" (Deu 32:27, 43), "enemy" (Psa 44:10; 78:42), "enemies" (Deu 32:41; Neh 9:27; Psa 27:12), "foes" (1 Chr 21:12), (translated in other verses) "distress, close, strait, narrow, small" and etc.

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With love in Christ!
Al