According to the Bible how many Jews are killed during the tribulation?

Answer 1

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The Bible does not mention any Jews being killed during the Tribulation, simply because the Bible never really mentions the Tribulation. The so-called 'Tribulation' was a theological invention of John Nelson Darby, founder of the Plymouth Brethren, in the nineteenth-century, and on that basis hardly a threat to Jews. Barbara R. Rossing (The Rapture Exposed) says that according to one critic, the Rapture has its origins with a young girl's vision. In 1830, in Port Glasgow, Scotland, fifteen-year-old Margaret MacDonald attended a healing service, where she was said to have seen a vision of a two-stage return of Jesus Christ. The story of her vision was adopted and amplified by Darby.

The belief that Jesus will come again was not new in Christian belief, and the Church has always taught that Jesus will return to earth and that believers should live in anticipation of his second coming. Darby's new teaching was that Christ would return twice, first in secret to "Rapture" Christians out of the world and up to heaven, then a second time after seven years of global tribulation for non-believers, to establish a Jerusalem-based kingdom on earth. According to John Darby and his followers, Jews would suffer through the seven years of tribulation, during which they may be given the chance to convert. In Darby's scheme, the only Jews who will be saved are those who convert.

There is no genuine support in the Bible for the Tribulation, and no good reason to believe that this or any of the events portrayed by Darby will ever occur. Therefore, there is no good reason to believe that Jews would ever face the so-called Tribulation or any of the gory fantasies put forward by proponents of Darby's scheme. John Nelson Darby has sunk into obscurity, apart from his followers in the Plymouth Brethren, and so should his Tribulation.