“Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.”
The phrase 'time of Jacob's trouble' becomes canonical for describing eschatological tribulation (cf. Daniel 12:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:3). Yet the verse immediately adds 'but he shall be saved'—judgment is not final but a passage through which God's people emerge refined. This tension between affliction and deliverance shapes apocalyptic theology.
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