3.5 year tribulation NOT 7 YEARS???

Yes.

The tribulation period is only, and has only ever been prophesied to be, 3.5 years ( forty and two months, Revelation 13:5 ).
In the midst of the "week" ( 7 years ), this will happen:

" And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." ( Daniel 9:27 ).

The man above is the "beast" of Revelation, and is also known as Anti-Christ.

The timing of the events is found in Matthew 24 and Mark 13.
Immediately following the abomination of desolation, in the midst of the "week", the tribulation begins and lasts for 42 months / 12 = 3.5 years.
Messiah comes at the end and has the beast and the false prophet cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone ( Revelation 19:19-21 ).


May God bless you richly in your studies of His precious word.

 

Not according to the prophets. It is called the Day of the Lord and the Time of Jacob’s Trouble among others. Unless you compile every passage concerning the D O T L, you aren’t producing a biblical eschatological observation of the Tribulation.

 

I'm sorry, but I don't pay any attention to commentaries and scholars.

I simply read God's word and comment about it where I feel that something needs to be said.

 

What I've noticed about the concept of "orthodoxy" is basically this:

Whatever the commonly-accepted belief about a Biblical subject is, most professing believers tend to simply go along with;
Without really digging into God's word for themselves to see if it's true.
So, if there is a commonly-held error, then that error continues to propagate itself down through the centuries... despite Scriptures that teach to the contrary.

Whether that error is "soteriological" ( dealing with how and why God saves someone ),
"Eschatological" ( dealing with the prophecies of the end times ),
"Ecclesialogical" ( dealing with how the local church is internally organized ),
Or any other facet of the faith, I've noticed that the most common teachings ( whether in error or not ) are held by the greatest number of professing Christians.

For example:
Most local churches, no matter what "denomination", tend to organize themselves with pews facing forward to an upraised dias, with an "altar", etc. and the "audience" takes their cues from whoever is above them at the front.
This is not how the Bible describes the local assembly, a group of equals in Christ who have humble elders that are not looking for recognition from men, but from God alone.

 

I see that Daniel 9:24-27 gives us the definition of "week" ( 7 days ).

Do the math ( which I think I may be correct on )...
Daniel 9:25-26 states that from the going forth of the commandment to rebuild the temple until Messiah comes, is 7 + three score ( 3 x 20 ) and 2 = 62 + 7 "weeks".
Taking 69 "weeks" and multiplying by 7 years, we come to the number 483.

That's how many years ( not days ) that passed between Ezra and Nehemiah's building of the first Temple and Christ's first coming and being "cut off" ( crucified ).

I agree.

To me, the coming Tribulation's purpose was never about everyone "getting their act together" and the Lord giving all men a chance to repent and seek Him, like most scholars seem to think...
It is about God's prophetic timing and the events that will and must take place directly before His Son's coming again, gathering His sheep unto Him, and ruling for 1,000 years from the throne of His earthly father, David.


Watch and be sober, my friend.
The time is short, the days are beginning to look very bad.

That means that He is very near.

 

The Time of Israel’s Trouble, look it up bro

 

Jesus will not return until the Jews ask him to.