javajo
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Your welcome. My beliefs are: It comes partly from the 70 'weeks' of Daniel, each week being 7 years. According to Daniel 69 weeks have already happened but the 70th week of 7 years has not. This time is referred to as the 70th Week of Daniel, or the Time of Jacob's Trouble, or the Day of the Lord, and etc. In Revelation it says how at the midpoint certain events happen and uses the words of 'times, time and half a time' or 2 years plus 1 year plus 1/2 a year, or 3 1/2 years. Sometimes it is said 1,260 days or 42 months (Jewish calender had 360 days). I believe Jesus will rapture believers before the Tribulation, that's called a pre-tribulation rapture. Some believe in a mid-trib, some in a post-trib, and some in a 'pre-wrath rapture. Pre-wrathers believe the real wrath does not begin 'til around the midpoint of the tribulation, but with the opening judgements of the four horsemen, one fourth of everyone dies, so I don't believe that. There are also people who do not believe in the rapture or tribulation and there are many 'views' on end-time stuff. You can study the different views and see what makes the most sense from scripture. Here is the passage from Daniel:
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks
the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off...Daniel 9
So, 7 weeks plus 62 weeks is 69 weeks, leaving 1 more week of 7 years. Jesus was crucified. 62 X 7 is 434 years which is how long it was from the completion of the 2nd Temple to when Christ was crucified or 'cut off'.
The Seventieth Week of Daniel or Seven Year Tribulation begins with the signing of the 'covenant' by the Antichrist a couple passages down:
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. Dan. 9
