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.
Ask a Follow-up Question
What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Sirs, we would see Jesus
57-0104 §60
Now, let us pray just a moment. Heavenly Father, it seems like there's no place to stop when we start on Your Word, with such a fine listening audience. And I pray Thee now, kind heavenly Father, that You will speak now. Your servant has spoke at length, and seemingly, the audience has received the Word. But one word from You will do more than all I could say in a many lifetimes. So as I have spoke of Thee, Father, I pray that You will confirm this Word. It may be a little different from the old school of thought,...
To whom would we go?
60-0606 §78
Now, you're in the stage of glorification the moment you accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour. Then go in the room there, where they will be seeking the Holy Ghost, and God will pour out the Holy Spirit upon you, and then you'll be filled with the Spirit. That'll give you power to live, live as Christians, until the time of the restoration of all things, when Jesus comes. Then you'll be taken up into glory with Him for that three and a half years, and return to the earth for a millennium, and then live with Him fore...
Show us the Father
63-0606 §62
When 120 little, cowardly people, who had walked with Jesus for three and a half years on earth---had seen Him raise the dead, and perform miracles, and signs, so forth... They were afraid of the threat of the Jews. They climbed up into the upper room on the outside of the building, the steps that went up the temple to a little upper room---a little prayer room of a thing on the outside---where some little olive oil candles was burning, or lamps with a wick in it. And they climbed up there and barred the doors beca...
Church Ages, part 10: The Laodicean Church Age
60-1211E §135
Then at the end of that three-and-a-half years He will come, like Joseph did, and make Himself known to His brethren. They'll cause a weeping all over, and they'll say... They'll separate their families, and weep, and say, "Where'd You get them scars?" And the ones that pierced Him shall see Him, and He'll make Himself known to His brethren. Now He's trying to make Himself known to His church. And they've pushed Him outside, and He's still standing knocking, saying, "Is there one more in there? One that would open...
What is the Holy Ghost?
59-1216 §60
No doubt the man said, "What you got, Sir?" "I got faith. I've got something in my heart that started about ten days ago. I was in the upper room up there, and all of a sudden, all the promises that God had made... I've walked with Jesus Christ for three and a half years. I fished with Him, out pulling in the fish; I done these different things. And I'd seen Him heal the sick. He kept telling me, 'The Father's in me; but when I leave, He will come in you.' So, I couldn't understand that. But He said, 'Now, I don't...