Daniel’s Framework for the Timeline

This flow traces Shorey’s use of Daniel’s visions to support a seven-year tribulation and a midpoint deliverance.

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The Seventy Weeks

The Seventy Weeks A prophetic count Shorey cites Daniel’s seventy weeks as the framework for a timetable concerning Daniel’s people and holy city. He interprets sixty-nine weeks as completed before the remaining week of years. A future interval Because he places the final week after the earlier period, he treats it as a still-future seven-year span. That reading provides the duration needed for his end-times sequence.

The Covenant and Its Break

The Covenant and Its Break A seven-year covenant Shorey reads Daniel’s final week as beginning when a ruler confirms a covenant with many. At the midpoint, sacrifice and offering are stopped and the abomination is set up. Rejecting an alternative He rejects the interpretation that the covenant refers to Jesus Christ’s ministry because he believes the earlier sixty-nine weeks had already ended. This argument secures a future role for the Antichrist in his chronology.

A Time of Distress

A Time of Distress Michael stands up Daniel describes a time of distress unlike any before it, with Michael standing up for his people. Shorey reads the passage as a crisis immediately connected to the deliverance of those whose names are in the book. Resurrection and release The awakening of the dead to everlasting life becomes, for Shorey, evidence of the rapture. He uses this reading to place deliverance after three and a half years of tribulation.

The Three and a Half Years

The Three and a Half Years A measured duration The man clothed in linen gives the period as a time, times, and half a time. Shorey interprets this as three and a half years before the power of the holy people is broken and the events are completed. A midpoint rapture He connects that interval with the deliverance of the saints described earlier in Daniel. This becomes one of his key arguments for a mid-tribulation rapture.

The 1,290 Days

The 1,290 Days Daniel’s second question Daniel asks about the outcome of the astonishing events and receives a count of 1,290 days from the abolition of the daily sacrifice. Shorey treats this as a second measure related to the latter part of the tribulation timeline. A supporting calculation He argues that Daniel’s answers establish two distinct three-and-a-half-year spans. The calculation reinforces his model, though the book presents it as his interpretation of the prophecy.

In Shorey’s explanation of Daniel 9

At the beginning and midpoint of Daniel’s final week

At the midpoint of Daniel’s final week

From the beginning of distress to the saints’ deliverance

After the daily sacrifice is abolished