The time of Yaaqob's trouble is the second three and a half years of the unfolding 70th week — the wearing out of the qodeshim, the refining of the remnant through fire, of which Zechariah 13:9 declares: 'I will bring the third part through the fire, refine them as silver is refined, and try them as gold is tried; they will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, This is my people, and they will say, Yahuah is my Elohim.' The covenant people pass through but are saved out of it. The breaking of the yoke is the consummation — Mashiach returns, foreigners no more make a servant of Yisrael, and the kingdom age opens.