The 7 Year Tribulation Isn't Going to Happen?

Daniel 9:24–27 is one of the most well-known prophetic passages in Scripture. It describes the “seventy weeks” determined for Israel and lists six things that must be accomplished within that time.

“Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.”

In this episode, we’re going to focus on the first four:

• To finish the transgression

• To make an end of sins

• To make reconciliation for iniquity

• To bring in everlasting righteousness

Most Christians agree that Jesus offers reconciliation, but very few would go so far as to say that transgression has been finished or that sins have truly ended. Let’s explore what Daniel meant and how the New Testament connects to this prophecy.

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Sin Defined by the Law

What is sin, exactly? Scripture makes it clear:

• “I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law.” (Romans 7:7)

• “Where there is no law there is no transgression.” (Romans 4:15)

• “The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.” (1 Corinthians 15:56)

Sin is defined by the Law. Therefore, if the Law ends, then sin itself—at least as God counts it—also ends.

Paul even called the Law the “ministry of death” (2 Corinthians 3). The Old Covenant was never meant to last forever.

The Law Fulfilled

Jesus addressed this in Matthew 5:17–18:

“Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.”

The question is—has it been fulfilled?

Acts 10 gives us a strong clue. When Peter saw the vision of unclean foods and was told to eat, it showed a major shift. If even dietary restrictions could change, then the Law as a whole had reached its fulfillment.

Jeremiah 31 had already promised a New Covenant, and Hebrews 8 confirms that the Old Covenant was replaced. God said:

“I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

That’s the heart of reconciliation.

A New Perspective

The end of sin does not mean that people never do wrong anymore. It means that God no longer counts sin against us. Sin has been cast into the sea—forgiven, forgotten, burned away in the symbolic Lake of Fire we talked about in Episode 5.

Paul put it this way:

“Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.” (Romans 10:4)

This doesn’t mean righteousness is only available to those who believe—it means that anyone who understands what happened at the Cross recognizes that the Law is finished.

Sin was judged at the Cross. Our old self was crucified with Him. The “body of sin” was done away with (Romans 6:6).

Everlasting Righteousness

Romans 3 and 2 Corinthians 5 both point to a righteousness that exists apart from the Law—through the actions of Christ alone.

“God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them.” (2 Corinthians 5:19)

This is everlasting righteousness: not a perfection of behavior, but a permanent standing before God where sins are not counted against us.

Conclusion

So, when Daniel prophesied that transgression would be finished, sins ended, iniquity reconciled, and everlasting righteousness brought in—he was pointing directly to the Cross.

Isaiah foresaw it too:

“He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities… and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:5–6)

These four promises were fulfilled in The Hour We Least Expected.

That leaves two more: to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy. In the next episode, we’ll explore those, and reveal something we’ve never heard anyone else teach—why there was never a gap between the 69th and 70th weeks of Daniel’s prophecy.