More About The Seven Year Treaty?

Q

Can you tell me more about the 7 year peace treaty? Between whom will it take place, when and will we be raptured before then? Is it the last thing to take place before the rapture?

A

The seven year treaty is called a covenant in Daniel 9:27 and starts the clock on Daniel’s 70th week. While there’s no clear Scripture identifying the signatories, I believe it will happen in the after math of Ezekiel 38-39 as Israel recognizes that God has once again intervened in the affairs of man and He’s on their side. I believe it will “guarantee” certain rights to Israel, one of which will be the right to construct a new Temple in Israel. I believe the rapture will precede this treaty because the Church has to be gone before Daniel’s 70th Week can begin.

In the middle of the seven years, the anti-Christ will violate the covenant by desecrating the very Temple he helped bring into existence. This will so anger God that He will immediately commence a 3 1/2 period of judgment upon the world for the purpose of defeating the anti-Christ and his followers and establishing a Kingdom that will never be defeated or given to another (Daniel 2:44).