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A problem I have with Rapture theory involves the GAP which pre-trib/mid-trib and post-trib put between the 69th and 70th week.
There is no biblical precedent that I can see for God declaring a certain number of years would go by until X, and then CALLING TIME-OUT before X and having "the prophetic clock STOP" as Dispensationalists are wont to say.
God predicted the jews would be in bondage in Egypt for a given amount of time -- that time ran concurrently -- no GAP.
Jeremiah predicted the seventy years captivity in Babylon. The time ran consecutively -- no GAP.
Daniel predicts seventy shauvim, which we see are weeks of years and beginning with a certain decree we come right to Messiah -- we should expect the time to run consecutively -- just as did the predictions of Bondage in Egypt and captivity in Babylon.
No justification for
"Oh, but wait, TIMEOUT! King's X!! The prophetic clock STOPPED!"
A special (false) hermeneutic is applied to Daniel's 70 weeks about this alleged GAP, when the time should be consecutive just like Bondage in Egypt and Captivity in Babylon. Don't you see how unfairly this time-period (70 weeks) is treated when we know from Bondage in Egypt and Captivity in Babylon that these forecasted lengths of time run without a break?
It's a miraculous thing that a prophet can prophesy X amount of years in Bondage to Egypt and it come to pass!
It's an awesome thing that Jeremiah can predict 70 years of Babylonian captivity and it come to pass!
It's a mind-blowing thing that Daniel can prophesy of when Messiah will be cut off -- centuries beforehand -- even the people that think Daniel was written ex eventu in Maccabean period can't get away from the fact that Messiah being cut off is right on the nose; whichever date for authorship of Daniel is taken as true -- either is still WELL BEFORE JESUS!!
So we have a third prediction of years -- just like Bondage in Egypt and Captivity in Babylon -- but people throw this GAP in there; no biblical hermeneutical warrant for that.
Seventy shauvim were prophesied, and they ran their course.
We still have a separate prophecy in 2 Thessalonians 2 about a Day of Christ, His coming and our gathering together unto Him -- a revealing of a son of perdition who will be destroyed by the brightness of the Lord's parousia -- that's future, hasn't happened yet.
But Daniel's 70 weeks are history.
There is no biblical precedent that I can see for God declaring a certain number of years would go by until X, and then CALLING TIME-OUT before X and having "the prophetic clock STOP" as Dispensationalists are wont to say.
God predicted the jews would be in bondage in Egypt for a given amount of time -- that time ran concurrently -- no GAP.
Jeremiah predicted the seventy years captivity in Babylon. The time ran consecutively -- no GAP.
Daniel predicts seventy shauvim, which we see are weeks of years and beginning with a certain decree we come right to Messiah -- we should expect the time to run consecutively -- just as did the predictions of Bondage in Egypt and captivity in Babylon.
No justification for
"Oh, but wait, TIMEOUT! King's X!! The prophetic clock STOPPED!"
A special (false) hermeneutic is applied to Daniel's 70 weeks about this alleged GAP, when the time should be consecutive just like Bondage in Egypt and Captivity in Babylon. Don't you see how unfairly this time-period (70 weeks) is treated when we know from Bondage in Egypt and Captivity in Babylon that these forecasted lengths of time run without a break?
It's a miraculous thing that a prophet can prophesy X amount of years in Bondage to Egypt and it come to pass!
It's an awesome thing that Jeremiah can predict 70 years of Babylonian captivity and it come to pass!
It's a mind-blowing thing that Daniel can prophesy of when Messiah will be cut off -- centuries beforehand -- even the people that think Daniel was written ex eventu in Maccabean period can't get away from the fact that Messiah being cut off is right on the nose; whichever date for authorship of Daniel is taken as true -- either is still WELL BEFORE JESUS!!
So we have a third prediction of years -- just like Bondage in Egypt and Captivity in Babylon -- but people throw this GAP in there; no biblical hermeneutical warrant for that.
Seventy shauvim were prophesied, and they ran their course.
We still have a separate prophecy in 2 Thessalonians 2 about a Day of Christ, His coming and our gathering together unto Him -- a revealing of a son of perdition who will be destroyed by the brightness of the Lord's parousia -- that's future, hasn't happened yet.
But Daniel's 70 weeks are history.