Your confusion is separating Israel and the saints from the church. Also where is a 7 year tribulation defined in Revelation? I only see 3.5 years or forty two months.
Rev 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty [and] two months.
Rev 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty [and] two months.
Quoting: Achduke7 Your confusion is not realizing that those who are left behind and are forced to go through the 7-year Tribulation are not the church as Christ’s body/church is taken pre-tribulation in the Rapture and their removal starts the 7-year Tribulation itself.
Your confusion stems from claiming the church are those of Israel who by definition excludes them from His body of believers as they already deny Jesus as their Savior. The entire point of the Tribulation is for God’s chosen throughout the Bible to finally turn to Jesus and is why the Tribulation is centered around these people and why Christ’s bride is never mentioned in Chapters 4-20 of Revelation when these events of the Tribulation are described.
The denial of God’s son who is the only one who can save their soul as God’s wrath remains on them for their unbelief (John 3:36) for these people is the entire point of the Tribulation. Unbelievers not of God’s chosen who enter into the 7-year Tribulation and later through faith in Christ become saved and die are included as Tribulation Saints as well and had they believed before the Tribulation began, they would have been spared and been Harpazo’d.
The 7-year Tribulation is the last week of Daniel’s 70th prophecy. The first 3.5 years of the 7-year Tribulation is when the restrainer is removed and the man of lawlessness is revealed upon the world stage immediately after the pre-Tribulation Rapture where he ushers in a false peace (1 Thes 5:13) and those left “shall not escape” and are forced to endure the 7-year Tribulation as I’ve explained multiple times throughout this thread.
The 3.5 years you’re referencing above is the last 3.5 years of the 7-year Tribulation that I’ve already explained multiple times in this thread where Satan is cast out of Heaven permanently and assumes bodily control of his Anti-Christ puppet and forces the mark and all to worship him and those who oppose are hunted and killed.
