sentences:  Mid-tribulationists 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.Mid-tribulationists appeal to 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 Jerusalem temple.