What is the tribulation period?

[Bob Carabbio]

It could happen at any moment.

I doubt it. The Visible church is more interested in the color of the carpet in the auditorium than they are in God's Kingdom. I think that will change when it's time.

 

[SteveB]

The ONLY case where a prophesy in the bible was properly understood BEFORE the fact, is the return of israel from captivity as in ezra? Nehimiah. Jesus is clearly prophesied, but the Jewish theology was so corrupt that they didn't recognize Him when He came, and murdered Him as a blasphemer.

While the Biblical record is true, that DOESN'T MEAN that man's interpretation of any of it is meaningful.

Which is exactly why we need the Holy Spirit to teach, and instruct us.
We are after all told in 1 Corinthians 2,

1Co 2:10-16 WEB 10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit. 12 But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. 13 We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. 14 Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.


As well as what Jesus says in John 16:13-15

Joh 16:13-15 WEB 13 However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine and will declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine and will declare it to you.