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Still Looking for a Seven-Year Tribulation

Can't Find a Seven-Year Tribulation

By Gary DeMar / American Vision

In my debate with Thomas Ice on May 26, 2006, on whether the Great Tribulation is past or future, I asked Ice to offer in evidence a single verse from Revelation that says there will be a seven-year tribulation period. Although there are lots of sevens in Revelation (the number appears more than fifty times), and lots of seven things, everything from seven churches (1:4), spirits (3:1), candlesticks (2:1), and stars (1:16) to seven mountains (17:9), heads (12:3), kings (17:10), and plagues (21:9),1 there is no mention of seven years. In fact, “seven years” appears only once in the entire New Testament (Luke 2:36), and this verse has nothing to do with a Tribulation period. Full story...

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Posted by Editor at June 6, 2006 04:25 AM