Vet, I'm well aware of all the prophecies concerning 1260 days, 42 months, a time, times and 1/2 a time, etc. and yes it makes a nice pretty mathematical picture when you divide the 70th week that way.
No man divided it that way; God did as shown within the Daniel prophecy about the end of the daily sacrifice and placing of the abomination instead, as per Dan.9:27; Dan.11:31, and Dan.12:11. Coupled with that timing is the 3.5 years the saints are given into the hand of the false one of Daniel, which is a direct parallel to the dragon's 42 months reign given in Rev.13.
So your negative affirmations against that simply do not work with those who do heed the Scripture as written to see that simple interlocking association with our Lord's Revelation.
However, scripture doesn't define it as the first half or the latter half of the 70th week.
That's simply another one of your negative affirmation attempts against the Scripture, since the Dan.9:27 verse about the "one week" (7 years) and the middle of that one week are specifically given. Once again, the Dan.9:27 verse divides that "one week" (7 years) period in half. So phrases like "first half" and "latter half" don't have to be specifically written to understand that's exactly what is meant.
So when other Daniel Scripture is giving info about a 3.5 year period of trial upon the saints, it doesn't take a lot of common sense to realize that's about either the first half or last half of that "one week" division. Doesn't require a lot of common sense to realize that's the period our Lord Jesus was talking about also in His Revelation, and in His Olivet Discourse when He quoted from the Book of Daniel.
We do because it seems to make sense.
Those you are listening to may tell you that, but that's just their excuse in order to hold to their own doctrines. Further, correct me if I'm wrong, but the Pre-Wrath position depends on Christ's coming and gathering of His Church at the time the abomination of desolation is setup, which is the mid-point of Daniel's "one week" period. Even you have preached that idea here on this forum.
So let's see; our Lord Jesus specifically showed His coming and our gathering after... the tribulation He mentioned in Matt.24. And He also showed the time of "great tribulation" being right after the point of that abomination of desolation being setup. Rev.13 reveals the dragon will have power over the saints for 42 months (i.e., 1260 days, or 3.5 years period, i.e., half of Daniel's "one week" period). Tribulation upon the saints? 42 months reign of the dragon? Abomination setup and then tribulation? Tribulation not over until Christ returns to end it? God's two witnesses prophecy for 1260 days through the 6th Trumpet - 2nd Woe period, and then Christ shown reigning right after the 7th Trumpet - 3rd Woe period? I think the order of events were made very clear per all that.
But you, have been found denying the "great tribulation" Jesus mentioned being for when after the AOD is setup, and the dragon being given power over Christ's saints for 42 months, and that the 7th Trumpet - 3rd Woe period represents the end of the tribulation time when Jesus begins His reign on earth.
What you're doing is denying the Scripture in order to serve the doctrines of men you'd rather hold to, i.e., the Pre-Wrath position which is just as false as the Pre-Trib Rapture theory.
There is nothing about the two witnesses prophecy that defines it as being first or latter half. It could just as easily be a combination of the two, (year 2-year 51/2 for example). The only thing regarding these time frames that I am pretty sure of is that Rev. 12:14 will be the latter half. I'm not closing my mind to the possibility that it is first/second half, I'm just keeping an open mind that it might not be, that's all, simply because a lack of sciptural clarification.
Wrong: the two witnesses are given to prophecy for a specific period and duration, 1260 days, as written in Rev.11. That period is the 6th Trumpet - 2nd Woe timing. It is also the time when the Gentiles will tred the courts of the temple under foot for 42 months. That 42 months is the same timing the dragon is given power over Christ's saints per Rev.13.
So... if Christ RETURNS with the 7th Trumpet - 3rd Woe period as written in Rev.11, then it has to mean that 1260 days period began when and ended when? Simple, the 1260 days the two witnesses prophesy end 3.5 days just prior to the sounding of the 7th Trumpet. And that 7th Trumpet sounds within the "same hour", and then Christ is shown reigning over the nations with His elect. Not difficult at all to figure out that the 1260 days the two witnesses prophesy is the last half of Daniel's "one week". Not only does that make 'sense', but it's what is actually written also.
It's foolishness to imply a doctrine is false because it makes sense. True Doctrine per God's Holy Writ will always... make sense, which is what the simplicity that is in Christ is about.
