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Originally Posted by herami
I am NOT asserting a mid-trib position.
What I am talking about is a possible mid-WEEK position, with the trib starting in the midst of the week.
NO dispensations are cut hard and fast.
There is ALWAYS a transition period between dispensations.
We see this in the book of Acts as God's program GRADUALLY shifts from the Jew to the church.
The first part of Daniel's week could be a possible transition period from the church back to the Jew culminating in the rapture of the church somewhere at the mid-week point.
There is much more scriptural evidence for this than to try and say that the whole week is the tribulation.
All the Scripture I've shown points to HALF the week as being the tribulation period.
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Let me share my "unsolicited" opinion, Herami. I find myself (for the moment) in disagreement with the quote above.
1. Changing the term "mid-trib" to "mid-week" seems to be a subtle way of promoting mid-trib rapture. As we read in Daniel 9, the 70th week is for Israel in which the Body of Christ has no part.
2. Some dispensations appear to be cut "hard and fast". It looks like the Dispensation of Innocence was cut "in the day" that Adam eats the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the Dispensation of Conscience began immediately after that. The Dispensation of the Patriarchs seems to be cut by the Dispensation of the Law in Mt. Sinai. I think the Tribulation period is not a dispensation, but serves as a transition period itself, ushering the Dispensation of the Kingdom. If some would argue that this is a major "dispensation", then it's cut immediately at the Second Coming and replaced by the Kingdom Age.
3. In the Bible, the last half is not usually called "tribulation" but "great tribulation", and there is no verse in Scripture that says the first half is
not "tribulation".