The false "7 year tribulation" doctrine

[BlessedCreator]

Let's examine scripture.


The seven year tribulation doctrine does NOT come from the following verse.

Revelation 7:14
"And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of
great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."

That verse is speaking of the tribulation of all saints, of all ages that have been martyred for their faith.
But it is also, more specifically speaking of the time when the Lord returned to destroy Jerusalem.
Jesus told us of that time when the Romans came and destroyed Jerusalem, that "for then
shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be."

So we see that those verses are not speaking of any end time tribulation period.

The other verses that people refer to and try to make a point that there will be some end time 7 year tribulation
period is in Daniel 9:24-27
"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and
to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting
righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore
and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem
unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built
again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall
Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall
destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of
the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in
the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the
overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."

The people that try to preach this false 7 year tribulation doctrine try to say that these verses
are speaking of the Antichrist. When it is actually speaking

of the messiah, of Jesus Christ. These 70 weeks were fulfilled during Christ's ministry. He fulfilled this

prophecy! Don't believe me? Just read commentaries on BibleHub on Daniel 9:27 and you will see.

Some try to say that the desolation of the temple from Matthew 24:15,
is what is referred to in the above scriptures of Daniel as
"the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease".
These are two different events. The desolation of the temple in Matthew is referring to
the desecration of the sanctuary by the mad attempt of Antiochus Epiphanes to
stop the "daily sacrifice," and to substitute an idolatrous worship in its place.

The scripture in Daniel is referring to when Christ, in the MIDST of the week, offered
his own body, that great sacrifice for the expiation of sin, to reconcile sinners to
God; by that most holy and acceptable victim, he completed and
abolished all the typical sacrifices of the law.

There is no end time 7 year tribulation period.

 

[Hank77]

Matt. 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand

The abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel - This abomination of desolation, St. Luke, (Luke 21:20, Luke 21:21), refers to the Roman army; and this abomination standing in the holy place is the Roman army besieging Jerusalem; this, our Lord says, is what was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, in the ninth and eleventh chapters of his prophecy; and so let every one who reads these prophecies understand them; and in reference to this very event they are understood by the rabbins. The Roman army is called an abomination, for its ensigns and images, which were so to the Jews. Josephus says, (War, b. vi. chap. 6), the Romans brought their ensigns into the temple, and placed them over against the eastern gate, and sacrificed to them there. The Roman army is therefore fitly called the abomination, and the abomination which maketh desolate, as it was to desolate and lay waste Jerusalem; and this army besieging Jerusalem is called by St. Mark, Mark 13:14, standing where it ought not, that is, as in the text here, the holy place; as not only the city, but a considerable compass of ground about it, was deemed holy, and consequently no profane persons should stand on it.

Matthew 24 Clarke's Commentary

This is what I believe about this verse.

 

[Douggg]

There is no 7 year tribulation period. It's a deception to leave you unprepared for what
is truly soon to come to pass.

What is the error is - is calling the 70th week of Daniel 9:27, the "tribulation period".

There will be the 70th week forthcoming. But for a big portion of it, the world will be thinking it has entered the messianic age of peace and safety. (1Thessalonians5:3).

So the world will not be in tribulation for that time, around 3 years.

The great tribulation, on the other hand, is the last 1335 days of the 7 years, based on Daniel 12:11-12, and Jesus's warning in Matthew 24 to flee to the mountains.
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The 7 years are also in Ezekiel 39, following the destruction and burial of Gog's army. Ezekiel 39:1-16.

 

[Douggg]

The people that try to preach this false 7 year tribulation doctrine try to say that these verses
are speaking of the Antichrist. When it is actually speaking
of the messiah, of Jesus Christ. These 70 weeks were fulfilled during Christ's ministry. He fulfilled this

The confirmation of the covenant for 7 years is something that Moses required back in Deuteronomy 31:9-13 of all future leaders of Israel, on a 7 year interval. Basically it is a big speech to the nation of Israel, from the place of God's choosing (the temple mount is what the Jews have told me is that place), on the feast of tabernacles, that God gave the land of Israel to the children of Israel as theirs forever.

When the Jews embrace the prince who shall come (from the EU), thinking he is their messiah, that person will make the speech and begin the 70th week.

None of the commentaries you read are going to mention Deuteronomy 31:9-13, because it never crossed their minds. If you find a commentary that does, please let me know.

 

[Richard T]

If you are ready for the tribulation, how can you not be ready for anything else?

 

[Expired Twinkey]

Jeremiah 30:9 mentions that after the time of Tribulation, God will raise up David to once again be the king of Israel, and again in Ezekiel 37:24.

I must have missed where he's been ruling over Israel continuously for the last 2,000 years. Does anyone have his current address or email?