Are There 7 Years Left for the Jews or 3 and Half Years?
1) Direct Answer
Three and a half years remain for the Jews, not seven.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Daniel 9:24-27 sets seventy weeks for Israel. Sixty-nine weeks ran to the coming of Messiah. The Bible says, “in the midst of the week” He would be cut off and cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease (Daniel 9:26-27). That shows the seventieth week was broken in the middle.
- Christ confirmed the covenant to Israel during His earthly ministry, then was cut off in the midst of the week. That leaves half a week—three and a half years—yet to be dealt with upon Israel.
- Revelation fixes that remaining period repeatedly:
- Forty-two months the holy city is trodden down (Revelation 11:2).
- The two witnesses prophesy 1,260 days to Israel (Revelation 11:3).
- The woman is nourished for “a time, times, and half a time” (three and a half years) (Revelation 12:14; compare 12:6).
- The beast continues forty-two months (Revelation 13:5).
- Romans 11:25 shows God turns back to Israel after the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, and Jeremiah 30:7 calls it the time of Jacob’s trouble.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
If Messiah was cut off “in the midst of the week,” then half of that week (three and a half years) remains. That exact span is echoed as 1,260 days, forty-two months, and “time, times, and half a time.” So the end-time dealing upon Israel is the last half of Daniel’s seventieth week, not a fresh seven years.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, if a full seven years still remained, why does Scripture keep marking the final period as forty-two months and 1,260 days? The Bible is consistent: three and a half years are left for Israel.
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Daniel 9: Daniel's Seventy Weeks
61-0806 §42
Then there is a allotted time, but nobody knows when it will be, see. It's a mystery, see, the Gentile's time. But Jews... And we cannot tell time by what the church ... whether it's backslid or whether it's going on, or what's it doing. You can't tell by that. But look at the Jews---there's the time calendar. Do you see it? God did allot them exactly a day, hour, and time, but He never the Gentiles. He did the Jews, so let's watch the Jews, then we'll see where we're at. Now, the seven weeks was forty nine years....
Revelation, Chapter 5, part 2
61-0618 §121
...ere with the little baby? Would bring it up at this time, we'd be glad to dedicate the little fellow. No, don't have to be little, just you come. (Some of the elders come stand with me, if you will, at this time.) How old? Two-and-a-half years old. What's his name? Scott, Scott Ford, little Scott Ford, four-and-a-half years old, wants to be dedicated this morning to his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. His mother brings him. (Just come forward, brother.) Gracious Lord, we bring to You this little baby this morning, i...
Seals 8: The Sixth Seal
63-0323 §78
And the same time the tribulation falls upon that people; and while the tribulation is falling, in there comes these two prophets of Revelation 11 to preach the gospel to them. And they preach a thousand, one hundred and three score days. See? Well, that's exactly, with thirty days in a month, like the real calendar has, is exactly three and one-half years. That's Daniel's seventieth ... one last part of the seventieth week. See, God doesn't deal with Israel in here. No, sir! A brother asked me not long ago, "Shoul...
Church Ages, part 9: The ten virgins, and the 144,000
60-1211M §105
Now, the judgment was set and the books were opened. That's when the bride comes back and sets the judgment. And the elected church, the church that's been taken up, will return after those three and a half years, and after the time... And over in Revelation it gives it. Said that the rest of the dead lived not again for a thousand years. How many's read it? Many, many times. "Lived not for a thousand years." Jesus returns with the bride. With the bride.
The cruelty of sin and the penalty it cost to rid it
53-0403 §74
That's my vision. That's what it is yonder: love. All God's great heart moving down there. And all that comes by Him will not be rejected. They'll all receive everlasting life. "He that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." God, may every individual here go home tonight with this on their mind, thinking of, What a sacrifice! What did it cost to redeem? What did it cost God? Never cost us nothing. It cost God His Son. It cost God the greatest price. It cost Christ His life. He was the Rose of Sharon; but to get...