Jerusalem will be utterly destroyed by a nuclear explosion.
It is in the immediate aftermath of that time that the Beast will awaken.
When you see this occur, pray that you are prepared. Abandon all pretense of normal life.
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.