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  • Where do futurists get seven years

    What passage(s) cause futurists to claim that there is a seven-year tribulation period? I see 3.5 years mentioned several times in Revelation, but not seven.

    Is it solely from Daniel 9:27? Because I think that is most likely referring to Christ, who was specifically called a "prince" just two verses earlier, who judged the temple "desolate" in Matthew 23:38, and who ended the sacrifices by letting himself be cut off.

    Is there anything other than that verse?

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    Originally posted by Obsidian View Post

    Is there anything other than that verse?
    No.

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    • #3
      I think it is part of Daniel's seventy weeks. Of which 69 passed and one is yet to come. Each "week" is 7 year period.
      http://www.gotquestions.org/tribulation.html

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Obsidian
        Is there anything other than that verse?
        No (x2)
        "Your name and renown
        is the desire of our hearts."
        (Isaiah 26:8)

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        • #5
          I'm a futurist. I believe there will be a 3 1/2 year Great Tribulation that will not be suffered by the saints. But that is the latter half of the 70th week of Daniel if I remember right off the top of my head.
          Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? -Galatians 3:5

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          • #6
            Even the Preterists say the events of Revelation are over a 7 year period, but they assume it happened already.

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            • #7
              Source: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf05.iii.v.i.xxv.html

              For when Daniel said, “I shall make my covenant for one week,” he indicated seven years; and the one half of the week is for the preaching of the prophets, and for the other half of the week—that is to say, for three years and a half—Antichrist will reign upon the earth. And after this his kingdom and his glory shall be taken away.

              Appendix to the Works of Hippolytus, chapter XXV

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              That's what
              - She

              Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
              - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

              I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
              - Stephen R. Donaldson

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Obsidian View Post
                What passage(s) cause futurists to claim that there is a seven-year tribulation period? I see 3.5 years mentioned several times in Revelation, but not seven.

                Is it solely from Daniel 9:27? Because I think that is most likely referring to Christ, who was specifically called a "prince" just two verses earlier, who judged the temple "desolate" in Matthew 23:38, and who ended the sacrifices by letting himself be cut off.

                Is there anything other than that verse?
                I suspect that it is believed the entire 70th week is the Tribulation. But I believe that only 3 1/2 years is the tribulation out of the entire 7 year period. That is, the tribulation was not 7 years but 3 1/2.

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