The Tribulation period is prophetically divided into a first and second half. Regarding the final half (the last half of the Seventieth Week) here is a crucial point.
Time Terms for the Final 1260 Days of This Age
The Tribulation period is prophetically divided into a first and second half. Regarding the final half (the last half of the Seventieth Week) here is a crucial point — all references to a three and one-half year period, whether termed "forty-two (42) months," "twelve-hundred and sixty (1260) days," or "time, times, and half a time," are speaking of the same three and one-half year time period, which is called The Great Tribulation. This is critical to a correct understanding of the chronology of end-time events.
The end time comprises a seven-year period (Dan. 9:27; Israel's Seventieth Week). It is broken midway by the Abomination of Desolation (Dan. 9:27; Mat. 24:15; 2 The. 2:3.4), leaving three and one-half years to go. Jesus said the Abomination would connect two events; the flight of a Jewish Remnant from the Antichrist and the beginning of the Great Tribulation (Mat. 24:15-21). On the basis of these facts, a clear linkage of the various time references becomes apparent and shows them to be identical.
The flight of the Jews, to which Jesus refers in Matthew 24: 15-21, is portrayed in Revelation 12. It is said to last 1260 days (v. 6), or a time and times and half a time (v. 14, i.e., a single time of one year plus the smallest plural of two years plus half a year). Thus, the time terms “1260 days” and “a time and times and half a time” are equated, both being equal to three and one-half years.
When the Antichrist sets himself up as God in the Temple — the act of the Abomination of Desolation — Jerusalem is "tread under foot" by the Gentiles. This extends for 42 months (Rev. 11:2). This means the Abomination not only triggers the “1260-day-time, times, and half a time” flight of the Jews, but also initiates the 42-month Gentile dominance over Jerusalem.
Therefore all three references encompass the same time period. The chart shows the other linkages.
—reference; The Assyrian Connection by Phillip Goodman—
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Written by 'Guest' on 2006-06-04 22:36:03
You are right, Dee, but this article isn't claiming to know the day or the time of the Rapture, nor is it even talking about the Rapture. | Dee
Written by 'Guest' on 2006-05-27 13:49:26
Only God knows the day and time. As the bible saus HE will come as a theif in the night |
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