Jesus Starts, Controls, and Ends the Tribulation Period !

The Tribulation culminates the end of the so-called church age that ends in virulent apostasy. The historic form of the visible church remains, but the inward reality of the Faith is gone! Paul wrote that the end of this age will end in rampant spiritual decay. In the New Testament documents the word apostasy means to "stand off" from the person of Jesus. Lying teacher and lying prophets will lay waste to visible church in the days preceeding the Tribulation (squeezing), and the great Tribulation (the last 3.5 years of the tribulation).