That entire 7 year period is owed to the nation of Israel alone. It's the last seven years of the 490 promised them in Daniel's prophesies. That is why God is gathering the people of the nation of Israel back to the land they were promised. The "church" cannot be on the earth during that period.
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>> “The point is, the first approximately 3.5 years of the tribulation are NOT the wrath of God, they are (like we are undergoing now), the permissive will of God.” <<
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The word is clear that the trib is 42 months.
It is equally clear that the trib is Satan’s tribulation of the saints.
Finally, The saints, all of them, are “The Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, and those that sojourn with them.”
To try to separate “the saints,” and “The House of Israel” is insanity, and a total rejection of the entire word of God.
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AMEN. And if a person believes that Paul was given, by Christ, the building and ministry of the Church the Body of Christ, then that person KNOWS, without a doubt, WHEN the Body began, WHAT the BOdy’s purpose was here on earth, and WHEN and HOW that Body will be removed from earth.