The "gap theory" (detaching the 70th week and placing it thousands of years later at the end of time) has no direct scriptural backing. It is not taught anywhere in the Bible. It was invented in the late 16th century by Jesuit Francisco Ribera as a counter-Reformation strategy to deflect historicist interpretations that identified the papacy as the antichrist power. The idea was later popularized in the 19th century by John Nelson Darby and Cyrus Scofield, becoming the foundation of dispensationalism. Believing in this gap theory is believing a lie. The 70 weeks started in 457BC and ended in 34AD. #70weeks #tribulation #rapture #Bibletruth