7 Year maybe 42 months near start
Hi John and Doves,
I found this post a few days back from 2021 which suggests that the bad part of the tribulation where Satan has authority may be nearer to the start of the 7 year period instead of the end.
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Looking at this idea, there may be the 3.5 years/1260 days including the 2 witnesses, and then there is the 3 extra days after the 2 witnesses are killed, and then possibly after this we have this piece somewhere within the Ezekiel 37 to 39 narrative about a 7 month period.
11" 'On that day I will give Gog a burial
place in Israel,.....
12" 'For seven months the house of
Israel will be burying them in order to
cleanse the land.
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https://stevekerp.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/seven-year-tribulation-eschatologys-flawed-lens/
(Pieces below from the post)
I think we’ve all been a little sloppy. Daniel chapter 9 is a word from God that pertains to “thy people and thy holy city.” It’s Jewish, written to the people of Daniel. The items listed in verse 24 refer to reconciliation, the restoration of a relationship, and God’s dealing with the issues that caused the rift. That’s the context. We know it’s yet future because much of it has not happened yet. Messiah came, He was vicariously cut off, the city and sanctuary were destroyed, and the Jews have experienced desolation ever since that destruction. We are safe in assuming that we are now on the threshold of Daniel 9:27.
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I have unpacked my disagreements with the popular prophetic narrative in many posts on this blog. My conclusions will fit into the following framework:
The church age will end with the rapture.
A brief (about ten weeks) period of great tribulation will immediately follow. Every person on earth whose name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will be killed.
After this tribulation, Satan will be given authority over Planet Earth and everyone living on it for 42 months. God’s wrath will be poured out, and nobody will repent.
Satan’s kingdom is crushed at a final battle. This is popularly called the “battle of Armageddon” however it is not fought at Megiddo, but rather at the Mount of Assembly above Jerusalem. This ends about 1,335 days after the final seven year period begins.
The last half of Daniel’s 70th week will be a period of peace, rebuilding, healing and reconciliation. It will be during this time that the Millennial Temple Complex described in Ezekiel 40-41 will be built.
At the end of the final seven years, the fall feasts will be fulfilled, reconciliation between God and the Jews will be complete, the Temple will be consecrated, and the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ will begin.
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((After digging into the above, I looked at a different version of Daniel 9, as per below, and the 70 week includes that "the Holy of Holies is annointed", so likely it does need time after the 42 weeks of chaos for Jerusalem to be prepared for Messiahs rule which seems to be part of the final week requirements))
https://theisraelbible.com/bible/daniel-9/
24“Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city until the measure of transgression is filled and that of sin complete, until iniquity is expiated, and eternal righteousness ushered in; and prophetic vision ratified, and the Holy of Holies anointed.
25You must know and understand: From the issuance of the word to restore and rebuild Yerushalayim until the [time of the] anointed leader is seven weeks; and for sixty-two weeks it will be rebuilt, square and moat, but in a time of distress.
26And after those sixty-two weeks, the anointed one will disappear and vanish. The army of a leader who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary, but its end will come through a flood. Desolation is decreed until the end of war.
27During one week he will make a firm covenant with many. For half a week he will put a stop to the sacrifice and the meal offering. At the corner [of the mizbayach] will be an appalling abomination until the decreed destruction will be poured down upon the appalling thing.”
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Also, if I look at Danial 9:27 in the interlinear, there is no word for "he" that I can see.
https://biblehub.com/interlinear/daniel/9-27.htm
The first 3 "words" in hebrew seem to be GREAT / COVENANT / MANY
Fleshing out the possible meaning of the first 3 words below
WORD 1
prevailed/strong/mighty/great/surpass /exert / (make a firm - but this is only in this verse) (there is no "he")
WORD 2
covenant/treaty/allies/alliance /(treaty between kings)/agreement/(your wife by covenant)/(Men allied with you)
WORD 3
great/much/many/older/abounding
And as I am writing this, maybe the great covenant with many is God saying "OK everyone, the rapture has happened, and the beast is about
to start his 42 months reign, so the deal now is simple. Give Alliegance to christ right now, last chance, or follow the beast"