The Return of the Lord Jesus, 13. Specific events in the city of Jerusalem. "The Great Tribulation." "Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it," Jeremiah 30:7. We will commence a study of the "Great Tribulation" today. It will commence half way through the seven-year period of Antichrist's domination of Jerusalem. Breaking the covenant he has entered into with Israel, he will turn from being an apparent saviour and helper into a tyrant and persecutor and "the destroyer of the Gentiles' and initiate the time of Jacob's trouble.