The Beginning of Sorrows

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During the "beginning of sorrows" the land of Judah will have no want for gold or silver, there will be no end to her people's treasures, of horses and chariots there will be plenty, yet all this pride will be abased, and the glory of civilization and prosperity will wane. Their works and inventions, commerce, pleasant pictures, synagogues, sanctuary, and institutions will come under God's judgment, and money will become worthless, as idols of gold and silver are thrown to the moles and bats.
Troubles of every kind will add to the bitterness of Judah's trials. Earthquakes, famine, and pestilence, with nation rising against nation, will plague the land. Lack of machinery will make labor become drudgery, the army will fall into disarray, and rulers, counselors, judges, skilled artisans, and orators will all fail, while women, children, and babes rule.
Matt. 24:6,76And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. (Matthew 24:6‑7) Isa. 7:17-2517The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 18And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. 20In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. 21And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; 22And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. 23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. 24With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle. (Isaiah 7:17‑25) Isa. 3:1-41For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 2The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. 4And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. (Isaiah 3:1‑4)
Judgment will also enter the domestic, home circle, evidenced by a breakdown in fellowship between parents and children as they betray one another to authorities.
Necessities of life, even clothing, will be scarce. Sensual, feminine apparel and ornaments will disappear, and Judah, forsaken and desolate, will be left sitting on the ground.
The women who will be at ease will be told to tremble and be troubled, the careless ones to strip themselves bare and gird sackcloth upon their loins. Sackcloth will acknowledge the hand of God upon them as they mourn.
The prince of the Roman people will have made a seven-year protective covenant with Judah, but he will break it in the middle of the seven years, just before the beginning of the great tribulation.