Can’t The Rapture Happen At Any Time?

Q. I have a question. No man knows the day or hour, but we can know the season. I assume you are a pretrib individual, but what has you so interested in the fact that the Rapture happens JUST prior to the trib? Could not the Rapture happen this very day? What makes you feel that 2018 is the date by which point in time all prophecy will be fulfilled? Why couldn’t the date of 2015 (7 years from now) be that critical point rather than 2018?

A. What I said in the article is “if the rapture only just precedes the 70th week”.  I was trying to use the most conservative estimates, just as I did with the 70 year duration between the beginning and the end of end times prophecy.  The rapture could happen at any moment, but the 70th week of Daniel is 7 years long and can’t begin until the anti-Christ enforces a treaty that permits the building of a temple in Israel. Current conditions in Israel indicate we’re still a ways away from that happening.