Trying to understand the interrelationship of the Rapture, Great Tribulation, the Second Coming, Judgment, Apocalypse, and Armageddon (a place in Israel where this all supposedly occurs) as described in the Book of Revelation is a challenging exercise. Articles by theologians on this subject have often left me confused, mainly because there are multiple interpretations (translations?) and some of the jargon just leaves me hanging. Perhaps because of the politics of this sensitive subject it is a topic that is best avoided. In a Lew Rockwell article by Gary North entitled, The Foreign Policy of 20 Million Would-Be Immortals, I found this: "What is rarely discussed publicly by Jews or fundamentalists is the fundamentalists' view of the looming cost to Israelis for their return to Palestine. Fundamentalists believe that the Great Tribulation will wipe out two-thirds of the Jews in Israel. Hence, to encourage their return to the State of Israel is to encourage their destruction. "Nothing will be done by Christians to save Israel's Jews from this disaster, for all of the Christians will have been removed from this world three and a half years prior to the beginning of this 42-month period of tribulation. The only Christians present at that time will be recent converts to the faith, who had been left behind as non-believers at the time of the Rapture."