I think the 3.5 yrs was foretold in Daniels 70 week prophecy.
This is the best chart I could find breaking this prophecy down.
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Dear quietthinker,
Yes, I agree with your chart
except for how it explains the last 3 1/2 years of the prophecy. That part is not correct.
Not many people understand the last week of Daniel's 70 weeks prophecy as referring to Christ. Christ is the one who confirms the covenant and that "confirmation" occurred when Christ was baptized by John the Baptist. This began the last 7 years countdown. In the "midst of the week", Christ was "cutoff" at the cross. This left 3 1/2 years for Christ to complete the goals of Dan 9:24.
The first 69 1/2 weeks were completed
under the Old Covenant which is physical and outward. The last 3 1/2 years are being completed
under the New Covenant which spiritual and within. This understanding is
vital in understanding how Christ completes the last 3 1/2 years of the prophecy.
Under the New Covenant, the last 3 1/2 years are completed
individually within a person. When a person receives the Early Rain (Holy Spirit of Promise, the down payment,
Eph 1:13-14) the last 3 1/2 years
begins for that person. It ends for that person when they receive the Latter Rain and are "born again". This 3 1/2 years will be repeated within every person who has ever lived. When the last person in the final age is saved, Dan 9:24 will be fulfilled.
All the verses which mention 3 1/2 years, 1260 days, 42 months or time, times and a half are referring to this last 3 1/2 years of Daniel's prophecy which is being spiritually fulfilled under the New Covenant. Also, there is a great deal of scripture which applies to this time period within a person and it is called "end-time" prophecy. End-time prophecy is not teaching on future world events which happen at the end of the literal age.
Those end-time prophecies are teaching on the spiritual events which happen to a individual between them receiving the Early Rain and the Latter Rain.
When the "ends of the ages" come to a person, they are converted and Dan 9:24 is fulfilled for them.
1Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
Joe