ITS LENGTH, THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD, REVELATION CHAPTERS 6 - 19

The period is the seventieth week of Daniel’s great prophecy recorded in Daniel 9:24-27. Half of the time is said to be 42 months or 1,260 days (Rev 11:2-3). This, of course, is based on 30-day months which has sometimes been considered as an invention of students of prophecy. Notice, however, that 30-day months are found in non-prophetic passages such as Genesis 7:11, 24 and 8:4, and Numbers 20:29, Deuteronomy 34:8 and 21:13 where a 30-day period of mourning was called a full month. This 7-year period is divided into two equal parts by the breaking of the treaty which will be made at the beginning (Dan 9:27). Both parts will be characterized by intense persecution and judgment. MOODY THEOLOGY CD

 

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