Others take the participle to mean that these people are just coming out of the Great Tribulation at this time immediately before the breaking of the seventh seal. Proponents of this view indicate that this vision is of the time of the end, and they take the article “the” to mean that this is the final Great Tribulation at the end of this age.4 (See Revelation 3:10, and compare Daniel 12:1.) Although this view acknowledges that pressure and persecution have always been with the Church, it proposes