Does Old Testament prophecy indicate a time gap between Christ's crucifixion and the next prophetic event?
Yes, Old Testament prophecy presents a definitive time element between Christ's crucifixion and the next prophetic event, though not a specific duration of months or a year. According to Psalm 2, the next event is God's wrath—the seven-year tribulation—followed by Christ establishing His Kingdom. The church age is absent from Old Testament prophecy.
Les explains that Old Testament prophecy does show a definitive time element between Christ’s crucifixion and the next prophetic event, though it does not specify a period of six months or a year. After Christ’s three years of ministry to Israel, crucifixion, and ascension, the next event in the prophetic program is His wrath—the seven years of tribulation—aimed at the nations and Israel in particular. Only after that wrath does Christ come to set up His Kingdom, as the psalmist writes of the King set on the holy hill of Zion. Les points out that what is missing from this Old Testament timeline is the church age; there is not a word about it in the Old Testament.