Nation against Nation

Is Mat 24:7 pointing to the Church in Tribulation? Let's examine.

NATION: BODY OF CHRIST, INCLUDING BABYLON IN JUDGMENT?

De 28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; A NATION whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

Jer 50:3 For out of the north there cometh up A NATION AGAINST HER, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

Re 18:3 For ALL NATIONS have drunk of the wine of the wrath of HER fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

Jer 2:11 Hath A NATION changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but MY PEOPLE have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

Isa 18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; A NATION meted out and **trodden down**, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

Lu 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and JERUSALEM shall be **trodden down** of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

Isa 25:10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and MOAB shall be **trodden down** under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

Re 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of THE NATIONS fell: and great BABYLON came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

Re 21:24 And the NATIONS of them which are SAVED shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an HOLY NATION, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Zec 8:22 Yea, many PEOPLE and strong NATIONS shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.

Ps 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause AGAINST an UNGODLY NATION: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

NATIONS AGAINST NATION: TRIBULATION ON THE BODY?

Mt 24:7 For <NATION shall rise against NATION>, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

2Ch 15:6 And <NATION was destroyed of NATION>, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.

Isa 9:19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no MAN shall spare his BROTHER.

Isa 9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat EVERY MAN the flesh of HIS OWN ARM:

Isa 19:2 And I will set the EGYPTIANS AGAINST the EGYPTIANS: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

Hag 2:22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, EVERY one by the sword of HIS BROTHER.

Eze 38:21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: <EVERY MAN’S SWORD shall be AGAINST HIS BROTHER>.

Zec 14:2 For I will gather all NATIONS AGAINST JERUSALEM to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Ga 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not CONSUMED ONE OF ANOTHER.

Eze 26:3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause MANY NATIONS to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.

Eze 28:7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the NATIONS: and they shall draw their swords AGAINST the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

NATION AGAINST NATION: A DIVIDED KINGDOM?

Mt 24:7 For <NATION shall rise against NATION>, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Mt 12:25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every KINGDOM DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

Mr 3:25 And if a HOUSE BE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF, that house cannot stand.

Lu 12:53 The FATHER shall be DIVIDED AGAINST the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Lu 12:52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house DIVIDED, three AGAINST TWO, and two against three.

Lu 11:18 If Satan also be DIVIDED AGAINST HIMSELF, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.

NO MORE DIVISION OF NATIONS: JUDGMENT ON BABYLON AND REDEMPTION OF THE BODY?

Mic 4:3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: <<NATION shall NOT lift up a sword AGAINST NATION>>, neither shall they learn war any more.

Joe 3:2 I will also gather all NATIONS, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Zec 14:3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those NATIONS, as when he fought in the day of battle.

Zec 14:12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the PEOPLE that have fought against JERUSALEM; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

Zec 14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the NATIONS which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Mt 24:6 And ye shall hear of WARS and rumours of WARS: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Ps 46:9 He maketh WARS to cease unto the end of THE EARTH; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

Isa 65:25 The WOLF and the LAMB shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

Isa 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy MOUNTAIN: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Isa 60:18 VIOLENCE shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

SUMMARY CONCLUSION

Nation against Nation appears to be related to the divided church in tribulation. Time when God allows Babylon to destroy the body through the lies of false prophets. But at the revelation of Christ, God makes that WAR to cease as He brings the redeemed body out of Babylon