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 §83
Listen. How many can see now? Do you see where the Scripture proves that the seventy weeks was forty-nine years? Do you see where the sixty-two weeks was 434 years? Do you see where the sixty-nine weeks then was... What was it? Eight hundred and ... 483 years---483 years till this time... You see where the Prince was cut off? See, it taken forty years for them Jews to finally get into the place where God said... Look over here where the Gentile age has come through everything that we said it would do. Not what we s...
Daniel 9: Daniel's Seventy Weeks
61-0806 §60
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Testimony (Raising dead boy)
53-1203 §51
I said, "If that boy isn't alive in the next few minutes, you pin a sign on my back as a false prophet." I said, "That's the boy, and he is going to live." Said, "How can he live? Look at him mashed up." I said, "You see if he doesn't live." I said, "Make every one be quiet now. They wanted to get him up. I said, "I know just how the Lord told me to kneel." I knelt to pray for this little lad. And I said, "Heavenly Father, over in the homelands of America, You showed me this little boy, in Florida, about two and a...
The curtain of time
55-0302 §20
Now, in Jerusalem, the beginning of our text tonight, it had been a very marvelous three and a half years. They'd had a revival. The great anticipations waited upon the people, on a Man that the world and the church rejected: the Lord Jesus. He was considered a fanatic. And we'd call it today, if we'd put it in the words today, He was a holy-roller. He absolutely disagreed with their theology. And yet, God vindicated that He was with Him. Peter said at Acts 2; he said, "You men of Israel, you should of known this....
Daniel 9: Daniel's Seventy Weeks
61-0806 §79
Now, we find ourself now in forty years of coming back since the First World War, and the Jews have returned back to their own land. God never did deal with Israel until she was in her own land. Now, you remember when the Jews was returning back, them Jews from down in the other nations, and the Look magazine give the article of it. I read a clipping from some paper, some religious magazine, that when them planes went down there to pick up these Jews way down in Iran... I don't know where all they were, just scatte...