According to the Biblical Prophecy ‘Experts,’ What Starts the Last 7 Years?

 

That is a very good question, what do the most famous Biblical prophecy ‘experts’ believe will be the event that starts the last 7 years? 

Here is the answer, they believe the event that starts the last 7 years is the peace treaty.

 

In popular Christian eschatology (the study of end-times events), particularly within dispensational premillennialism, the signing of a seven-year peace treaty (or covenant) involving the Antichrist and Israel is the specific event believed to start the final seven-year period, often referred to as the Tribulation.

 

Many modern-day evangelical and dispensationalist Bible teachers subscribe to the view that a seven-year peace treaty (or covenant) involving the Antichrist and Israel will initiate the final seven years (the Tribulation period). This interpretation is a cornerstone of this specific eschatological framework.

 

Prominent figures and authors who teach this perspective include:

 

Dr. David Jeremiah: A well-known pastor, author, and founder of Turning Point Ministries, Dr. Jeremiah has written and taught extensively on end-times prophecy, adhering to the view that the Antichrist will confirm a seven-year covenant with Israel, which starts the Tribulation.

Dr. Mark Hitchcock: A prolific author and Bible prophecy expert, Dr. Hitchcock focuses on current events aligning with prophetic timelines, and he teaches that the seven-year covenant is the key trigger for the final period.

Robert Clifton Robinson: An author and teacher who frequently writes blog posts and books on biblical prophecy, emphasizing that the Daniel 9:27 prophecy of a seven-year peace plan is the beginning event of the Tribulation.

 

Dr. J. Dwight Pentecost: While his prominent work, the Bible Knowledge Commentary, was published decades ago, his interpretation of the Daniel 9 prophecy as a future seven-year covenant made by the Antichrist remains highly influential and is the basis for many modern teachers' views.

 

Joel Richardson: An author and filmmaker known for his focus on Middle Eastern prophecy, Richardson discusses the role of the covenant, although his views on the Antichrist's origin might differ slightly from traditional interpretations, the core concept of the treaty remains central to the timeline.

 

This teaching is widely disseminated through prophecy conferences, Christian television and radio, books, and online resources. The general consensus among those who hold this view is that the treaty will be brokered by a rising world leader (the Antichrist) and will guarantee Israel's security, allowing for the rebuilding of their Temple in Jerusalem.

 

And you know what, I agree that the last 7 years, or the 70^th Week will begin with the signing of the peace treaty with the many. In fact, it just happened: On October 13, 2025 the peace treaty was signed with the many.

 

So, why aren’t all these Biblical 'experts' proclaiming that the last 7 years has begun? It is probably because they also believe in the pre-tribulation rapture theory, which states that the rapture also occurs at the beginning of the last 7 years.  And since Christians have not been raptured yet, they reason the last 7 years has not begun. BTW, most pretribbers erroneously call the last 7 years the tribulation even though the tribulation events are only from Seals 1 to 4.

Part of the reason for their incorrect rapture thinking and failure to realize that the last 7 years has begun is that they also believe in a man-made theological system that came about in the 1830s called dispensationalism. This system forces them to interpret scripture in a certain way.

 

Dispensationalism is a Christian theological framework for interpreting the Bible that views history as a series of distinct "dispensations" or "administrations" in which God relates to humanity in different ways. A core tenet is maintaining a distinction between Israel and the Christian Church, and using a consistent literal interpretation of Scripture, especially biblical prophecy.

 

With their dispensational constraint they then interpret scripture based on what their theological system dictates rather than allowing the scriptures to speak for themselves. And the theological system of dispensationalism dictates that there has to be a pre-tribulation rapture.

 

In dispensationalism, the Rapture is a central and distinct event in end-times prophecy that involves the sudden removal of the Christian Church from the earth before a seven-year period of Great Tribulation. This event serves to "pause" God's dealings with the Church (the current "Dispensation of Grace") so that He can resume His specific prophetic program with national Israel.

 

So, basically they are allowing a man-made system dictate to them how to interpret scripture rather than interpreting scripture for what it says. 

And what does scripture say regarding the rapture? I refer you to the Apostle Paul who addressed the Thessalonians about their incorrect rapture belief—they believed the rapture was imminent or had already occurred and God through the Apostle Paul told them that certain things had to occur first.

 

1 Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,

 

2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit, or a message, or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

 

3 No one is to deceive you in any way! For it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

 

4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. 2 Thes 2:1-4

 

As you just read God told them that before the rapture, which occurs at the day of the Lord, that the apostasy must occur first, the antichrist be revealed and the abomination of desolation occur. All of that must occur before the rapture.

 

Therefore, since those things must occur first, then the rapture is not imminent until those things occur. Thus, the dispensational theory that contends the rapture is imminent cannot be correct because it contradicts scripture. 

And here is another scripture that disproves dispensational thinking. How can God have a different dispensation for Israel and Christians when they have been grafted together into one.

 

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree, Rom 11:17.

 

So, how can there be a dispensation for two groups when we have been combined? There cannot.

And if you don't believe me about the dispensational error here is what the 'experts' say.

The most significant argument against thebiblical interpretation system of dispensationalism is that it fragments the unified message of Scripture by postulating a fundamental distinction between Israel and the Church, leading to an inconsistent interpretive method and a denial that Christ and the New Testament are the culmination and fulfillment of Old Testament promises. 

 

Critics, primarily from the covenant theology perspective, raise several specific points:

 

·         Disunity of Scripture: Dispensationalism is accused of "chopping up" the Bible into distinct, self-contained "dispensations" (periods of time where God tests humanity under specific rules), which obscures the overarching, continuous story of God's single plan of redemption through Jesus Christ that spans the entire Bible.

·         Separation of Israel and the Church: A core tenet of dispensationalism is a hard distinction between national/ethnic Israel and the Church as two separate peoples of God with different promises and destinies (one earthly, one heavenly). Critics argue that the New Testament presents the Church as the spiritual "Israel of God" and the continuous people of God, where the wall between Jew and Gentile has been broken down in Christ.

·         Inconsistent Hermeneutic: While dispensationalists advocate a "plain" or "literal" interpretation, especially for prophecy, critics point out this is applied inconsistently. For example, when the New Testament interprets an Old Testament prophecy (like the rebuilding of David's tabernacle in Acts 15) as being fulfilled spiritually in the Church, dispensationalists may label this an "application" to maintain the need for a future literal fulfillment in a physical Israel. This leads to a complex system rather than a "plain" one.

So, having established that the dispensational system is faulty, when in the end times does the rapture occur? God in scripture tells us It occurs at the day of the Lord.

 

That you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit, or a message, or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 2 Thes 2:2

 

And when in the end times does the day of the Lord occur? God clearly tells us it begins after the sun is darkened and the moon is turned to blood.

 

The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. Acts 2:20

 

And the sun is darkened, and the moon is turned to blood after the Sixth seal is opened.

 

12 And I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;

 

13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind.

 

14 The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

 

15 Then the kings of the earth and the eminent people, and the commanders and the wealthy and the strong, and every slave and free person hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;

 

16 and they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the sight of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;

 

17 for the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” Rev 6:12-17

 

Therefore, the rapture and the day of the Lord occur after the sixth seal has been opened. Take note that in the scripture passage above the men of the earth hide because they see Jesus. That is exactly what happens at the rapture, Jesus is seen in the clouds and men hide. And after the rapture God’s wrath begins to be poured out upon the earth, which is exactly what the passage above says will happen—for the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

 

According to the ‘experts’ the last 7 years begins with the peace treaty, I agree, but their man-made erroneous dispensational system does not allow them to recognize that the last 7 years began on 10/13/2025 with the signing of the peace treaty with the many, and it also forces them to deny the fact that the rapture occurs at the day of the Lord after the opening of the sixth seal.

And since the last 7 years have begun, this is what we have to look forward to in the next 3.5 years—by the spring of 2029—we should see Seals 1 to 5 occur; a conquering world force, nuclear world war, a hyperinflationary financial collapse, a 25% population drop, the ‘coming on the scene’ of the UFO connected antichrist, the strengthening of the peace treaty, a rebuilt Jewish temple, the abomination of desolation, the mark of the beast, and the antichrist war of persecution against Jews and Christians. 

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:36  

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Whispers of the Six Seals of the Apocalypse

 

With the signing of the peace plan with the many on 10/13/2025, which is exactly 2520 days or 7 prophetic years before Rosh Hashanah in 2032, end times prophecy took on a whole new level of relevance inferring that we are in the last 7 years—the end times—NOW! 

And if we are in the last 7 years before Jesus returns to the earth, then we should be hearing whispers of the 6 seals of Revelation. 

Whispers of Seal 1, the white horse of world conquest

 

1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

 

2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

 

Just after the signing of the peace treaty with the many on 10/13/2025 the Pope received a white horse. What a ‘coincidence.’ Is this a sign that we are in the last 7 years and the Seal 1 ride of the white horse is imminent?

 

Some prophecy watchers believe that the white horse represents a conquering political and religious force that will eventually take over the world and establish a one world religion of which the pope is the head—“he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.” I believe UFOs and alien ETs will also be intertwined in this.

 

11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

 

12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

 

13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

 

14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

 

15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

 

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

 

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

 

Whispers of Seal 2, the red horse of war

 

3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

 

4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

 

All we have to do is read the news as to what is going on in the world in the area of national conflicts and within nations themselves—killing and rumors of killing. Here is one of the latest headlines. 

Putin told 'Moscow will be wiped off map' if he dares making one chilling move 

And here is what Martin Armstrong and his Socrates program says about war in the near future.

 

Armstrong says if the US sidesteps the NATO, Ukraine, Russian war, there is still going to be war just about everywhere.  Armstrong says, “I have never been able to beat my computer (Socrates).  The computer is forecasting, basically, World War III.  This is not simply like Hitler invading Poland.  This is everywhere around the world.  You’ve got Iran vs Israel and Pakistan will nuke Israel if Israel attacks Iran.  You’ve got Pakistan vs India . . . Taiwan and China, South Korea vs North Korea and Japan (on the side of South Korea).  Then, we go to Europe and Ukraine.  When the computer is forecasting world war, it’s not just one place. . .. The US just sold jets to Greece, and they say now we can attack Turkey, which both are in NATO.  War is coming to everyplace where one country has a grudge against another.”

 

Whispers of Seal 3, the black horse of famine and hyperinflation

 

5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

 

6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. 

 

I think the price of gold and silver tells the story pretty well.

Many are saying gold will go above $10,000 per ounce and silver will rebound to its historical ratio of between 20 or 15 to one. At 20 to 1 with gold at $10,000 would put silver at $500. 

 

 

Whispers of Seal 4, the pale green horse of the death of 1 out of 4.

 

7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

 

8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. 

 

Check out what Elon Musk’s X girlfriend said in a recent Time magazine video interview about people losing their jobs to AI—is she in the know?

 

“What are we going to do after people’s jobs start being taken fairly aggressively? Luckily there’s a massive population drop coming.”

Take note that they snickered about the coming population drop. Do they know they will escape it and only the 'useless eaters' will be afflicted with it? Well, they won't escape God's wrath unless they come to Jesus.

Whispers of Seal 5, the mark of the beast and persecution

 

9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

 

10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

 

11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

 

After the worldwide financial collapse there will be a new worldwide digital financial system and this is some of what we have to look forward to—don’t take the mark.

 

The issuers of stablecoins can remotely and automatically block specific transactions or users and can freeze or seize individual  users’ stablecoins. This feature of programmability, in combination with the complete surveillance of stablecoin transactions, allows for the implementation of a Chinese-style social credit score system, where unapproved behavior automatically leads to sanctions in the form of an individual’s inability to perform certain transactions.

Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/10/27/technototalitarinism-part-three/

 

Christine Lagarde has given us some important information regarding the timing of the mark. In order for the mark to be implemented the digital financial system will have to be in place and operational. Christine says the digital Euro will be rolled out in 2029. See the post; Major Prophecy Alert: I Think We Just Got Our Confirmation—Is 2032 The End Of The World?!

With digital currencies becoming viable in 2029 paves the way for the mark of the beast to come online in 2029. This is exactly what the heavenly sign foretells; A Once in the History of the World Heavenly Sign Declares the Date the Antichrist Will Take Over the World! 

Seal 6: The Rapture and God’s Wrath. 

 

12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

 

13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

 

14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

 

15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

 

16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

 

17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

 

Yes, that is the rapture, Jesus appears is the sky, saints are taken and then God’s wrath begins. It is known as the day of the Lord, and it occurs after the sixth seal is opened.

 

15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

 

16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

 

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

 

18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

 

1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

 

2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

 

Are all of these ‘whispers’ a confirmation that we are in the last 7 years? Have you prepared for the end times? 

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:36  

Not sure that you will go to heaven? The end times are knocking on the door and so is Jesus. He wants to save you; will you let him? Find out what you must do to be saved, click here.  

New to end times prophecy? Get a solid grasp on what's coming and how to prepare. Download 'Escape God's Wrath: A Beginner's Guide to the End Times' for FREE and find out how to navigate the future with confidence. It is also available on Amazon in paperback, or audio.

 

The future is not for you to fear, but for you to know.

If you're tired of confusing theories and failed predictions, discover the clarity you've been looking for. The Coming Epiphany, trusted by thousands since 2004, offers a comprehensive and literal explanation of end-time prophecy, grounded firmly in scripture.

 

This updated edition goes far beyond our articles to reveal critical answers you need now: 

The true nature and timing of the Day of the Lord. 

The key events that must precede the rapture. 

America's surprising end-times fate. 

How to prepare for what is coming. 

An end times chronology reconciling the date parameters of 1260, 1290, 1335 and 2520. 

In a world filled with questions about the future, this book aims to provide a clear perspective. Don't guess what's next. Know what the scripture reveals. Get your copy in paperback, eBook, or audio and join thousands of readers finding understanding today.