What does Daniel 9 teach about the 490 years and the seven-year tribulation?
Daniel 9 teaches that 490 years are determined upon Daniel's people Israel, with prophecy leading up to the crucifixion. This is where the idea of the seven-year tribulation comes from. That prophecy concerned Israel, and nothing in the Old Testament connects it to the Church, which is His Body.
Les explains that Daniel chapter 9 presents Daniel writing that 490 years are determined upon his people Israel. That prophecy leads up to the crucifixion, and from it comes the idea of the seven-year tribulation. He stresses that this prophecy concerned Israel, not the Church. Earlier, God gave a time-framed prophecy to Abraham—430 years of slavery in a land not theirs, then deliverance and return to Canaan. The Old Testament prophetic program was given to the Jew, and nothing in it connects the 490 years or the tribulation to the Church, which is His Body. In Psalms 2, the Gentile nations rage and Israel's rulers consult together, but the crucifixion itself involved both Jewish demand and Roman execution.
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When does the tribulation described in Matthew 24 begin according to Daniel 9?
The tribulation described in Matthew 24:9 is the last seven years of Daniel chapter 9, and the events of verse 9 begin once those last seven years begin.