For then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again.

12. How does the “great tribulation” come, and with what order of events? (Revelation 17:16; 19:19-21)

¹² How does the “great tribulation” take place? Jesus says that it comes suddenly, like a thief, within the “generation” of those who are observing the fulfillment of his “sign” today. (Matthew 24:34) As Revelation chapters 16 to 19 describe, Jehovah uses beastlike radical powers from within the United Nations as his agents in devastating the world empire of false religion, “Babylon the Great.”