Tribulation = 3 1/2 years - Not 7 Years.

Is the Tribulation period 7 years long?

Or is it really only 3 1/2 years?

The answer is pretty clear.

Just look in the book of Daniel,

and in Revelation

You will find mention of

Time, Times, Half a Time 

( or 3 1/2 years ) 

= Daniel 7:25, 

Daniel 12:7 

and Revelation 12:14

1260 Days are mentioned in

Revelation 11:3 

and chapter 12 verse 6

42 Months are referenced

Revelation 11:2 

and chapter 13 verse 5

Also we find

1290 Days mentioned in 

Daniel 12:11

and 1,335 Days in

Daniel 12:12

I discuss the possible reasons 

why they are longer in other posts.

So, where did the idea of 

the 7 years of Tribulation come from,

Since there is no place in the Bible that says this?

It comes from one place - 

Daniel chapter 9 verse 27

and the way Dispensationalist interpret 

the 70 weeks of Daniel.

The 70 weeks or 490 years 

are divided into 3 parts.

7 weeks and 62 weeks 

and the final week.

Looking at Daniel 9 verse 24

we read

"Seventy weeks are determined
For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
To make an end of sins,
To make reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in everlasting righteousness,
To seal up vision and prophecy,
And to anoint the Most Holy.

In Verse 25,

We are told that after a period of 

seven weeks and sixty-two weeks, 

or 483 years

The Messiah would come.

In Verse 26 and 27

We find a list of things 

that would occur in the final week

or ( 7 years )

It says 

"And after the sixty-two weeks",

We are to expect the Messiah to be Cut Off,

( which occurred during this last 7 years )

and the city to be destroyed,

( which happened about 40 years later )

and He 

( I believe the Messiah in this context )

puts an end to sacrifice and offerings

( by His sacrifice and offering on the cross of Calvary ).

The 490 years 

likely ended after the stoning of Stephen

we see in Acts chapter 7. 

The Jews drove out the early Christains from Jerusalem,

and the message of the Gospel spread 

to the rest of the world from that point onward.

The time of the Jews 

as God's chosen instrument 

came to its end.

Daniel was told,

"Seventy weeks are determined

For your people and for your holy city,"

No 2000+ year "gap".

Although you will find many preachers 

repeating this theory from their pulpit.

Primarily because that is the way 

it was explained to them 

when they went to seminary school.

For more details on why 

the Tribulation Period does not last 7 years,

please check out some of the other posts on this channel.

Maranatha.

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