epistles, nor even in the Jewish-Christian epistles, is the great tribulation so much as mentioned. And those writings are replete with warnings. At whatever point a trial or danger awaited the church a warning went before. Is it conceivable that he who warned Israel again and again of the great tribulation would not once mention it, if indeed the church, which is so united to him that the members are his very own, and which is espoused to him as a chaste virgin to one husband (1 Cor. 12:12, 13;