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.
Isa. 2:7, ff.
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. 24:6,7 Isa. 7:17-25 Isa. 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.
Isa. 3:16-26
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.
Isa. 32:11
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.
Dan. 9:27