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The great multitude coming out of the great tribulation

**Artist’s impression** The multitude clothed in white robes, palm branches in hand, before the throne and the Lamb, as imagined by Albrecht Dürer (1498). Artist’s impression of an announced scene that has not yet happened. — Albrecht Dürer (woodcut, Apocalypse series, 1498) — National Gallery of Art, Washington, Wikimedia Commons · CC0

? Not yet happened, no date

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In short

The announcement. John, in the book of Revelation, toward the end of the 1st century, sees a huge crowd, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before God's throne, and learns that it “came out of the great tribulation”.

What happened. This has not happened yet. In the account, this crowd comes out of the great distress, which assumes that the distress is already under way or already past at that point.

What is still debated. the text does not say that the great distress begins after the sixth seal; it only says that the crowd comes out of it.

Main objection (in French for now)

POINT IMPORTANT : Ap 7 ne dit PAS que la grande tribulation COMMENCE après le 6e sceau. La foule en vient, ce qui suppose qu’elle est déjà en cours ou déjà traversée.

The text (World English Bible)

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen.” One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arr…
Rev 7:9-14