There is a lot of debate on the timing of the Rapture. Is it pre, mid, pre-wrath, post?

I’ve been studying the Rapture for years, and I’m going to try to address what I have concluded are the best answers to the many questions raised.

The most definitive argument on this subject is contained in Daniel’s 70th Week prophecy found in Daniel 9:24. The prophecy defines the last seven years of judgments, closing this age.

“Seventy weeks are decreed
upon your people and upon 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.”
Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks are decreed upon your people…”

What Does The Bible Mean By “Week?”

In the Hebrew, a “shavua” (translated “week”) is a period of seven in the same sense that in English a decade is a period of ten.

Daniel here is addressing the last seven years of the age.

Upon whom is the last seven years determined?

This is the defining question.

. It is determined “upon YOUR people,” which is the Jews.
. It is determined “upon YOUR holy city,” which is Jerusalem.

It is not determined upon the church.

“For GOD DID NOT APPOINT US (THE CHURCH) TO WRATH,

but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ…”

1st Thessalonians 5:9

The Rapture takes place BEFORE the seven year Tribulation because the purpose of the Tribulation does not include the church. The church age closes so that the 70th week will begin.

What is the PURPOSE of the last seven years?

1. It’s “the time of Jacob’s trouble” in which God will be dealing with the Jewish people. It is not two

half-weeks that are “determined” upon Israel and Jerusalem, but one period of 7 years according to Daniel 9:24.

2. It’s the outpouring of the wrath of God which will fall upon the whole Christ-rejecting world.

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