Mark 13:19 Meaning and Explanation
“For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.”
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Read Full Chapter →Those days will bring affliction unlike any from the beginning of God's creation until now — nor ever after.
What Does Mark 13:19 Mean?
Jesus describes the coming distress in language drawn from Daniel: a time of trouble such as never was. For Judaea the words came terribly true within a generation, in a siege whose horrors history still shudders to recount. Yet the phrase 'the creation which God created' quietly anchors even this dark hour inside the world God made and still governs.
Scripture does not minimize suffering to comfort us; it tells the truth and then sets the truth within God's rule over all things. The affliction is unequaled — and it is bounded: 'neither shall be' points to an after. However deep the valley, it has two ends. Faith in dark days does not pretend the darkness is light; it holds the hand of the One who made the world and walks through.
Mark 13:19 in the Original Language
thlipsis (θλῖψις), 'affliction' -- pressure, the crushing weight of distress.
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What does Mark 13:19 mean?
Those days will bring affliction unlike any from the beginning of God's creation until now — nor ever after.