What dates do you assign to the 70 weeks of Daniel?
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OK, I'm interpreting a time as 1 year. The following two verses describe the same event. So this equates the 1260 days and times, times and half a time.
Revelation 12:6 (NIV) The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
Revelation 12:14 The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach
I also think the 42 months and 1260 days refer to the same time because of this verse. Note that I allow for numbers that are rounded. So I would consider 42.00000 months to 42.99999 months as acceptable fulfillments for 42 months.
Revelation 11:2 But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. 3 And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
Revelation 12:6 (NIV) The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
Revelation 12:14 The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach
I also think the 42 months and 1260 days refer to the same time because of this verse. Note that I allow for numbers that are rounded. So I would consider 42.00000 months to 42.99999 months as acceptable fulfillments for 42 months.
Revelation 11:2 But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. 3 And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
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I believe that you (whoever) do yourself a great disservice if you "equivalize" all of the different time span descriptions that may be "framed" as 1260 days - particularly, for example, if some of them are referring to an actual 1260 day time span while others are referring to a time span of 1260 years.
Each of these descriptions must be considered with regard to verse/passage context and historical record.
As strange as this may sound...
While the time-times descriptions certainly seem like 3.5 years - and, certainly we can safely determine that [at least] the 3.5 multiplier makes sense and is true - it does not necessarily mean that it is referring to an actual 3.5 year time span - in the context of the verses/passages that contain these phrases, it seems to match history as being 1260 years.
In fact, all of the phrases that do not contain the word 'days' seem to match a 1260-year historical time span. And, the separate contexts of the verses/passages where these phrases are found seem to indicate long periods of time and not short ones.
I believe that the phrases that contain the word 'days' are literal days while the other phrases represent a time span in years.
Each of these descriptions must be considered with regard to verse/passage context and historical record.
As strange as this may sound...
While the time-times descriptions certainly seem like 3.5 years - and, certainly we can safely determine that [at least] the 3.5 multiplier makes sense and is true - it does not necessarily mean that it is referring to an actual 3.5 year time span - in the context of the verses/passages that contain these phrases, it seems to match history as being 1260 years.
In fact, all of the phrases that do not contain the word 'days' seem to match a 1260-year historical time span. And, the separate contexts of the verses/passages where these phrases are found seem to indicate long periods of time and not short ones.
I believe that the phrases that contain the word 'days' are literal days while the other phrases represent a time span in years.
All sabbaths, including the routine sabbath, and the liturgical sabbaths-- e.g.
the first and last days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Sukkot (Feast of
booths) Yom Kippur, and the Feast of trumpets, are normal days of 24 hours
each, so I think it would be typical that the sabbath years-- a.k.a Jubilee -
would be normal years too. But when calculating prophetic events, normal
years oftentimes don't come out right.
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