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I am a Christian that does not believe in the seven year tribulation period. Are there Christians that still believe that?
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- Anonymous7 years agoFavorite Answer
the 7 year trib is a false doctrine. the 7 years has to do with the last 7 years of 490 year prophecy when christ was crucified. Christ was crucified halfway through the 7 years.
the 7 years had to do with bringing the Jews to Christ but when the apostles failed when the 7 years had ended, the Gospel went to the gentile nations. (of course, the gentiles accepted the messiah with open arms, the jews were too stubborn)
Source(s): Book of Daniel. - Ernest SLv 77 years ago
The word used in the original and translated tribulation means inward anguish of spirit. It always means that and never anything else.
We can only enter the Kigdom of God through tribulation as is made plain in Scripture :
...Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
The various "end time" theories come from carnal minds, a sad failure to address and understand the Scriptures and those who are not entering the Kingdom of God. If they were they would not be so easily misled, don't you think?
- By FaithLv 77 years ago
I believe that God's word teaches us it will happen. The Great Tribulation is the name Jesus gave to the period of intense judgment which will occur just prior to His coming (Mt. 24:15-31). The O.T. prophets also spoke of this time. The prophecies of Revelation 4-19 give the details of the events of this period.
MAJOR PROPHECIES OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION. Is. 2:10-22; 13:1-16; 26:20-21; 28:21-22; 30:26-33; 31:4-9; 34:1-10; Je. 25:30-33; 30:7; Eze. 30:1-3; Da. 12:1; Joel 1:14-20; 2:1-11; 3:9-17; Am. 5:18-21; Ob. 15-21; Mi. 1:3-4; 5:8-15; Zep. 1:7-18; 2:1-2,11; 3:6-8; Hag. 2:6-7; Zec. 14:1-3; Mal. 4:1-3; Mt. 24: 3-31; 1 Th. 5:1-3; Re. 3:10; Re. 4-19.
THE LENGTH OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION. The Great Tribulation corresponds with Daniel's 70th Week referred to in Da. 9:27. It is therefore seven years in duration, but is divided into two 3.5 year periods. The last half is more intense and awful than the first. Re. 11:3 and 13:5 refer to the two 3.5 year segments of the Great Tribulation. [See Revelation.]
THE TIME OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION. Jesus' prophecy plainly reveals the time of the Great Tribulation. It will occur just prior to His Second Coming (Mt. 24:29-31).
THE DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION. "the great tribulation" (Mt. 24:21); "the day of the Lord" (Is. 2:12; 13:6); "the indignation of the Lord" (Is. 26:21; 34:2); "his strange work" (Is. 28:21); "a consumption" (Is. 28:22); "the day of the Lord's vengeance" (Is. 34:8); "the Lord's controversy with the nations" (Je. 25:31); "the time of Jacob's trouble" (Je. 30:7); "the time of the heathen" (Eze. 30:3); "time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time" (Da. 12:1); "a destruction from the Almighty" (Joel 1:15); "a day of darkness" (Joel 2:1); "the great and terrible day of the Lord" (Joel 2:31); "The great day of the Lord" (Zep. 1:14); "The day of the Lord's wrath" (Zep. 1:18); "The fire of my jealousy" (Zep. 3:8); "The great and dreadful day of the Lord" (Mal. 4:5).
THE CHARACTERISTICS AND EVENTS OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION. (1) It will be time of great deception--the day of the Antichrist (2 Th. 2:7-13; Re. 13; Da. 7-12). (2) There will be worldwide preaching of the kingdom message, which is the announcement of the impending kingdom of God and the divine demand to repent (Mt. 3:1; 4:17; 10:5-7). (Mt. 24:14; Re. 7). (3) There will be worldwide persecution of God's people (Da. 7:25; 8:24; 11:33-35; Re. 13:7; Mt. 24:9-10). (4) There will be fearful judgments of God (Is. 24:1--26:11; Re. 7-18). (5) Frightful armies will march and fight (Eze. 38-39; Da. 11; Ps. 2; Zec. 14; Re. 9:13-19; 16:12-16). (6) It will be a period of increased demonic activity (Re. 9:1-11; 13:2-4; 16:13-14). (7) It will be a day of supernatural signs by which multitudes will be deceived (Is. 34:4; Joel 2:10; 3:15; Mt. 24:29; 2 Th. 2:8-10; Re. 6:12-14).
THE PURPOSE OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION. (1) The Great Tribulation will be a time when God prepares Israel to receive her Messiah and to inherit her kingdom. During the "time of Jacob's trouble," God will purge the rebels from among the nation (Eze. 20:33-44; Je. 30:1-11). He will then gather the believing Israelites from among all nations and bring them into their land, never again to be removed or to be ruled by the Gentiles. Christ shall be their only Ruler. (2) The Great Tribulation will be a time of God's wrath and judgment upon all nations and men for their willful rebellion and sin (Is. 13:9-11). (3) The Great Tribulation is a time when God shall be exalted and man humbled (Is. 2:10-22; 13:11; 25:12; 26:5-6). (4) The worldwide deception of Antichrist will be a judgment upon unbelievers for their rejection of the Gospel of Jesus Christ (2 Th. 2:12; Is. 29:9-13). (5) The deception of the Antichrist will be the culmination of the warfare of this present age. The deceiving began in the Apostles' days and will gradually grow worse and worse toward a final worldwide state of deception (Ph. 3:18-19; 2 Ti. 3:13; 2 Pe. 2; 1 Jn. 2:18-29; 4:1-6; 2 Jn. 7). (6) The Great Tribulation will be a day of salvation for multitudes (Re. 7). Though multitudes will be saved during the Great Tribulation, for those today who willfully reject or carelessly put off the Gospel of Jesus Christ, God promises nothing but delusion and eternal judgment (2 Th. 2:8-12). Today is the day of salvation!
- Anonymous7 years ago
Mainstream Christianity (by which I mean the non-Evangelical sects) doesn't believe in the Rapture. This is/was a fringe belief less than 50 years old that seems to have metastasized.
- PaulCypLv 77 years ago
That idea is not and never was a teaching of original and true Christianity. Just one of the fanciful myths various Protestant denominations have dreamed up as a result of biblical misinterpretation.
- 6 years ago
i believe that their is but its not coming till a while maybe in like the year 5000 AD