Once again your point fails because my point was that nowhere does the bible say he reveals himself 3 1/2 years before the tribulation.
If the Tribulation is the last 3 1/2 years of the original covenant, then he reveals himself to the extent you, or I, or anyone recognizes him and his confirming of a covenant for 7 years.
That is why I asked, and even beg, you to show me where in the Bible the Tribulation is Not 3 1/2 years. Where is it 7 years?
Where?
Daniel 9:26-27 says he confirms a covenant for one 7 year period, so even if you go by this passage as saying the covenant being made reveals him then that is at the very start of the 7 year tribulation period, not 3 1/2 years before it.
In regard to your nice question, all we seem to differ on is the length of the Tribulation. I state that it is 3 1/2 years long.
Based on the Scripture I provided you in my previous post. You state that it is 7 years long. My question to you is: Can you support your position with the Bible? If so, where in the Bible? What Scripture(s)? That would help me a lot.
I get that the covenant when made is intended to be for 7 years. I get that God determined 70 7s on Israel, and that only one 7 remains to transpire. I get, and agree, with both of those. But nowhere, that I can find, does the Bible call those 7 years either Tribulation or Great Tribulation. Where do you find that the Tribulation is 7 years long?
But then you still have to take in account of what Jesus and Paul said and both point to the A.O.D. as the event that he reveals himself to the world. The A.O.D. is when he stands in the temple claiming to be God, and this happens at the mid point of the tribulation after the first 3 1/2 years, not at the beginning.
Ok, I'll be glad to try to take that into account. If you would be so kind as to share with me where in the Bible it might say or suggest or imply or indicate or show or prove or evidence or demonstrate or reveal or prophesy or define the Tribulation to be 7 years long. Where? I fully get that you state, and at least assume that it is 7 years. But where might the Scriptures say that?
In regard to the AOD: that is what the son of perdition (and false prophet) does. In Revelation and Daniel and Thessalonians (2 Thes 2:4). And that is certainly one, huge time when he 'is revealed.' But I do not read 2 Thes 2:1-12 as saying that is THE (one, single, only, unique) event by which he is revealed. Because of both the grammar of 2 Thes 2:3-4, and also because of Daniel 9:27 which states that he will make a firm covenant with the many 3 1/2 years Before...............he breaks it with his AOD.
Lastly, in regard to 2 Thes 2:1 about my (and other saints) gathering together to Him: the earliest (first) rapture (of the Manchild and Firstfruits; Rv 12; 14; Lk 21:36; Rv 3:10; Philip 3:11---the 'ek-'resurrection from the dead; Rv 7:9-17)
happens near simultaneously with the AOD. That is: at the start of the Great Tribulation (aka The Tribulation), of 3 1/2 years.
So that even if the AOD is the (only) meaning of the 'son of perdition being revealed' in 2 Thes 2:3----that is still simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, with the rapture of the overcomers.
The 3 1/2 years you are referring to in Revelation 11, 12, and 13 is the final 3 1/2 years of the 7 year period that Jesus referred as being the Great Tribulation.
From my reading (previous post of mine to this), those final 3 1/2 years are the Tribulation. Are the Great Tribulation.
The Tribulation, based on all the verses I can find, is 3 1/2 years long. Not 7 years.
The first 3 1/2 years he will bring in a false peace allowing the Jews to return to animal sacrifices, because they will have their temple rebuilt on the temple mount. After those first 3 1/2 years he will invade Israel and take over Jerusalem going into the temple claiming to be God, and this is the point Jesus tells the Jews in Judea to flee into the mountains.
I don't think it's impossible, in Scripture, that their temple might be rebuilt even before the last week of Daniel. Daniel 9 does not specify that the covenant initiates their animal sacrifices. Maybe the covenant will. I can see that. But regardless, I pretty much agree with your last paragraph : ) Which also indicates to me that the first 3 1/2 years is NOT tribulation. Thanks
Revelation 2:13 and 13:2 shows exactly where to look for this man of sin to rise from........Turkey !!!
Interesting. I never heard 2:13 used that way. Satan's throne is the World. Which is what I took 2:13 to represent. My idea of his nationality is based on Dan 8:9. Being Greece. But since Turkey at John's time was Greek, then that doesn't necessarily conflict with your thought. (I would say that Antichrist is definitely not ISIS, not Islamic, not Islam----though the spirit of all those is antichrist.) Nor should he be Arab or Turk. Your use of Rv 13:2----------I do not understand