The specific time of THE great trib is here:
Mat 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Mat 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Mat 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Mat 24:25 Behold, I have told you before.
Mat 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
Mat 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Mat 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Well of course, Mat. 24 are the Lord's prophetic words, concerning some of the manifestations of when and how that which is "of great tribulation" shall come to pass in the world.
But, as I have shown in my previous post #703, whether in the earth, in heaven, by His Spirit, or that which is spiritually revealed by Him to our understanding,
Prophecy without manifestions,
is vain and empty, being void of the Holy Spirit of God, and therefore comes to nothing.
In your scripture selections of Mat. 24,
you began with verse 21 to 29,
when you should've begun in verse 1 to 29.
To start midstream in the context of the topic, is not wise.
Not only that, but it appears that you have not taken into consideration the words in Mark and Luke about the topic "of great tribulation". However, I have no doubt that you have read the accounts in Mark and Luke also.
So then, we must not put our whole emphasis on Matthew alone for interpretation, since Mark and Luke are also the words of Christ, as the Holy Spirit gave to them for understanding.
Again, prophecy
without the manifestations following, is nothing.
Therefore,
until we can spiritually discern by the Lord's revelation through His Holy Spirit in us, as to
what the manifestions were, are and/or shall be, we may discover that some have already come to pass.
To neglect that depth of thinking, while "having the mind of Christ" within us, but then to only dwell on His literal words, is like groping around in a dense fog.
We are to look for the reasoning of His mind about His own words, and not that of our own human reasonings.
Jesus did say: John 6[
63] It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth NOTHING;
the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Since the words that Jesus spoke
are spirit, then we can safely conclude that those words are Eternal, and if Eternal, then He is very capable of speaking in the
past,
present and
future all at the same time.
This is precisely why it is that we need to "have the mind (spirit) of Christ" within us.
John 3:3-8, Rom. 8:8-9.
My replies to this topic will be mainly based on Matthew, Mark and Luke, as well as some of OT scripture and the epistles in the NT.
So, let's go back to Mat. 24:1 and take it from there.