Hope in Difficult Times

The Scriptures provide at least three different avenues for people to interact with the things that shall come to pass after the 70th week of years starts. The first is to pray to escape them.

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. (Luke 21:36)

The second is to seek the Lord to be hid or concealed from them.

Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Before the decree bring forth, [before] the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’S anger come upon you. Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger. (Zephaniah 2:1-3)

And the third is to be kept or taken care of through them.

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. (Revelation 3:10)

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. (Matthew 24:13)

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. (John 17:15)

All three offer hope.