<p>13:19 <i>For those days shall cause distress, such as there has never been similar, from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never shall be again</i>- The LXX uses this same word for &quot;distress&quot; or &quot;tribulation2 in several passages pregnant with latter day significance: <br />&ldquo;The day of my Jacob&rsquo;s <i>distress</i>&rdquo; at the hands of Esau (Gen. 35:3)<br />&ldquo;The <i>anguish</i> of his Joseph&rsquo;s soul&rdquo; at the hands of his half brethren and the Ishmaelites (Gen. 42:21)<br />&ldquo;I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and <i>troubles </i>shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?&rdquo; (Dt. 31:17)- a passage in the Song of Moses regarding Israel&rsquo;s latter day tribulations. <br />&ldquo;Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of <i>trouble</i>, and of rebuke, and blasphemy&rdquo; (2 Kings 19:3)- Sennacherib&rsquo;s Assyrian invasion at this time was a clear prototype for the latter day invasion described in Ezekiel 38 and elsewhere. <br />&ldquo;The time of Jacob&rsquo;s <i>trouble</i>&rdquo; from which he will be delivered (Jer. 30:7)<br />&ldquo;There shall be a time of <i>trouble</i>, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book&rdquo; (Dan. 12:1). This time of trouble is specifically for Israel in the last days.</p><p>Mk. 13:19 speaks of how &quot;in those days&quot; those in Judaea should flee to the mountains; &quot;for <i>in those days</i> shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of creation... neither shall be (referring to Dan. 12:1 concerning our last days)... except that the Lord had shortened <i>those days</i>... <i>in those days</i>, after that tribulation... <i>then</i> shall they see the son of man coming&quot;. Surely &ldquo;in those days&quot; shouts for a continuous application to the same &quot;days&quot; - the days of the second coming. At best, &quot;those days&quot; can have a primary reference to the events of AD70, but the <i>main</i> fulfilment of the whole prophecy must be in the last days. This point seems impossible to answer by those who disallow any reference to the second coming.</p>