Tribulation to last 3 1/2 not 7 years

Tribulation = 3 1/2 years - Not 7 Years. Is the Tribulation period 7 years long? Or is it really only 3 1/2 years? The answer is pretty clear. Just look in the book of Daniel, and in Revelation You will find mention of Time, Times, Half a Time ( or 3 1/2 years ) = Daniel 7:25, Daniel 12:7 and Revelation 12:14 1260 Days are mentioned in Revelation 11:3 and chapter 12 verse 6 42 Months are referenced Revelation 11:2 and chapter 13 verse 5 Also we find 1290 Days mentioned in Daniel 12:11 and 1,335 Days in Daniel 12:12 I discuss the possible reasons why they are longer in other posts. So, where did the idea of the 7 years of Tribulation come from, Since there is no place in the Bible that says this? It comes from one place - Daniel chapter 9 verse 27 and the way Dispensationalist interpret the 70 weeks of Daniel. The 70 weeks or 490 years are divided into 3 parts. 7 weeks and 62 weeks and the final week. Looking at Daniel 9 verse 24 we read "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy. In Verse 25, We are told that after a period of seven weeks and sixty-two weeks, or 483 years The Messiah would come. In Verse 26 and 27 We find a list of things that would occur in the final week or ( 7 years ) It says "And after the sixty-two weeks", We are to expect the Messiah to be Cut Off, ( which occurred during this last 7 years ) and the city to be destroyed, ( which happened about 40 years later ) and He ( I believe the Messiah in this context ) puts an end to sacrifice and offerings ( by His sacrifice and offering on the cross of Calvary ). The 490 years likely ended after the stoning of Stephen we see in Acts chapter 7. The Jews drove out the early Christains from Jerusalem, and the message of the Gospel spread to the rest of the world from that point onward. The time of the Jews as God's chosen instrument came to its end. Daniel was told, "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city," No 2000+ year "gap". Although you will find many preachers repeating this theory from their pulpit. Primarily because that is the way it was explained to them when they went to seminary school. For more details on why the Tribulation Period does not last 7 years, please check out some of the other posts on this channel. Maranatha. Full transcript and other Posts can be found here https://cloudsonthehorizon.blogspot.c...