Editing Rapture (section)

==== Midtribulational premillennialism ====

The mid-tribulation position espouses that the rapture will occur at some point in the middle of what is popularly called the tribulation period, or during Daniel's 70th Week. The tribulation is typically divided into two periods of 3.5 years each. Midtribulationists hold that the saints will go through the first period (Beginning of Travail) but will be raptured into Heaven before the severe outpouring of God's wrath in the second half of what is popularly called the [[Great Tribulation]]. Midtribulationists appeal to {{bible verse || Daniel|7:25|KJV}} which says the saints will be given over to tribulation for "time, times, and half a time," – interpreted to mean 3.5 years. At the halfway point of the tribulation, the Antichrist will commit the "abomination of desolation" by desecrating the [[Temple in Jerusalem|Jerusalem temple]]. Midtribulationist teachers include [[Harold Ockenga]], James O. Buswell (a reformed, Calvinistic Presbyterian), and Norman Harrison.<ref>{{Cite book | title = Contemporary Options in Eschatology: A Study of the Millennium | last = Erickson | first = Millard J. | publisher = [[Baker Publishing Group|Baker Book House]] | location = Grand Rapids, Michigan | year = 1977 | page = [https://archive.org/details/contemporaryopti0000eric/page/164 164] | isbn = 0-8010-3262-8 | url = https://archive.org/details/contemporaryopti0000eric/page/164 }}</ref> This position is a minority view among premillennialists.<ref>{{Cite book |last= Hoekema |first= Anthony A. |author-link= Anthony A. Hoekema |title= The Bible and the Future |year=1994 |edition= revised |orig-year= 1979 |publisher= [[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company|Eerdmans]] |location= Grand Rapids, Michigan |url= https://archive.org/details/biblefuture0000hoek/page/164 |isbn= 0-85364-624-4 |page= [https://archive.org/details/biblefuture0000hoek/page/164 164] }}</ref>