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BIBLICAL TIME
AND THE
SEVENTY WEEKS
OF DANIEL
360 DEGREES TO A CIRCLE,
AND 360 DAYS TO A YEAR.
12 SECTORS OF 30 DEGREES,
AND 12 MONTHS OF 30 DAYS.
THE SOLAR CYCLES AND LUNAR CYCLES
IN THE MATHEMATICAL AND
GEOMETRIC PERFECTION
OF GOD.
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By Gavin Finley MD
- endtimepilgrim.org
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The player below contains a short ten minute
video for broadband users. It is entitled
"Biblical (or Prophetic) Time"
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BIBLICAL TIME, (OR PROPHETIC TIME);
IT IS DISPENSED TO US FROM THE THRONE OF GOD.
SO HOW MANY DAYS ARE IN THOSE MONTHS AND YEARS
WE SEE MENTIONED IN HOLY PROPHETIC SCRIPTURE?
#1 In
Daniel 12:7 we read
7 Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river,
when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever,
that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time;
and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered,
all these things shall be finished."
The holy people,
God's Elect, (His covenant people), will be disenfranchised, shattered, and without political power.
for a time, times, and half a time;
or three and a half years. This is the final half of the
70th Week of Daniel, the final 3.5 years of this age.
How many days are in those three and a half or 3.5 years?
#2 In
Revelation 11:2 the Apostle John was told that the Gentiles, the heathen or goyim,
.... will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months."
How many days are in those 42 months?
#3 In
Revelation 12:14 we are told,
"....the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place,
where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.
How many days are in those three and a half or 3.5 years?
#4 And in
Revelation 13:5 the Apostle John was told that the future Antichrist
" .... was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies,
and he was given authority to continue[a] for forty-two months."
So how many days are in those 42 months?
The answers to these questions are very clear and very definite.
They are to be found in the following connecting scriptures.
Because the Holy Spirit has not finished.
He still has more to tell us about the final 3.5 years of this age.
Indeed, He has two more verses to show us.
And in these next two verses He is going to lay out the exact number of days!
#5 In
Revelation 11:3 we see the time set forth for the ministry of the two witnesses.
This is the first of our two Bible verses that speak of those latter day 3.5 years of trial
and our scripture here tells us plainly and accurately that they will last 1260 days.
3 "And I will give power to my two witnesses,
and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."
#6 In
Revelation 12:6 the Apostle John was told what will happen to the "woman", God's covenant people, during the
Great Tribulation Period,
the final half of the
70th Week of Daniel, those final 7 years of this age before Messiah comes.
The 666 economic system of the Beast will be in play during those final 3.5 years.
Quite obviously she will be in deadly peril. John saw the woman being threatened by the Dragon, Lucifer.
This very drama is laid out in the heavens in the constellations revolving around Polaris, the north star.
The
lesser sheepfold is being encircled by the constellation of Draco.
A similar scene is pictured in the constellation of Andromeda and the story has been told down through time.
In the ancient oral legend of Andromeda the woman is threatened by a monster emerging from the sea,
even as God's people in the latter days are threatened by a sea of nations raging against them. This is the drama of the Apocalypse.
And here we see Hashem, the God of Israel, responding and beginning to come into His end time role as the
Deliverer.
6 "Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God,
that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days."
It seems that God will be taking care of His covenant people during the Great Tribulation.
He will be leading them out "on wings of eagles" just like He did in the former time.
The exodus brought the children of Israel out of Egypt,
the superpower of that time. Again He will be taking His chosen on a journey,
into an adventure, and away from the destructive systems of this world.
They will arrive at a place of mystery, a geographical location the Holy Spirit merely identifies as "Bozrah".
There they will be nurtured and fed for those 1260 days.
It seems that once again the God of Israel will be stepping into history.
At Jerusalem central and out at the ends of the earth He will be
performing His wonders before the angelic host and before the watching world.
All this will be happening during the very time period of the Great Tribulation.
Hashem will be carrying His covenant
people across a bridal threshold. He will be carrying His beloved saints on "wings of eagles", even on the wings of a "great eagle".
This is the
Bozrah Exile. This Bozrah Exile and the Bozrah Deliverance at the end of the 70th Week
is more than just a Jewish story. All of the 12 tribes of Israel will be there.
And a remnant shall return.
These inspiring Apocalyptic scriptures in Rev. 12 and Micah 2 are almost never addressed by our Bible teachers today.
The prophet Micah picks up the story. He describes this epic end time gathering in exile of
God's Elect as "Jacob". And in this end-time drama the trickster and dodger of covenant matters
is going to meet his brother Esau once again as he journeys.
The covenant matters he has tried to avoid will be addressed, once and for all.
And Jacob the shyster will become "Israel", "prince with God".
Our Old Testament Bozrah scripture relating to the flight and exile of the woman in Rev. 12
is found in
Micah 2:12-13. Here is
an article on the subject.
The two verses we see in Revelation 12 up above make up our "Rosetta Stone" for Biblical time.
We shall have more to say on this extraordinary duo of verses further down in this article.
GOD DISPENSES TIME TO US IN BEAUTY AND IN TRUTH
ACCORDING TO THE MATHEMATICS AND THE GEOMETRY OF A CIRCLE.
A 360 DEGREE CIRCLE OF 12 SEGMENTS EACH OF 30 DEGREES
SETS OUT A PERFECT SOLAR SYSTEM AND A PERFECT CALENDAR
ACCORDING TO THE ORDER AND PERFECTION OF A HOLY GOD.
In this article we shall discover that the Holy Spirit in the Bible itself has given us clear and unequivocal
answers to all these questions relationg to the latter half of the 70th Week of Daniel and indeed the whole of the 70 weeks.
The God of Israel, the Ancient of Days,
has foreordained the "set times" of Bible prophecy, both past and future.
YHVH-God has not left us in the dark or left us with vagaries concerning the chronology of
Bible prophecy as important as
Daniel's Prophecy of the 70 Weeks. This applies to the
future 70th week that will terminate with the
second coming of Messiah as well to the past history of the former
69 weeks which terminated with the
first coming of Messiah.
And the time periods and chronologies pertaining to past and future events in holy history
have been plainly written down for our benefit.
Our first teachings about the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
demonstrate for us that God is holy. Accordingly we must assume that His Holy Word
as it comes to us from His throne is laid out for us in perfect
order and beauty.
So when God sends information to us regarding time periods related to
the unfolding of holy history here on earth we must find out what units of time He is using.
As we proceed in this study we shall come to understand that God issues
the time period into Bible prophecy the years are not years of 365.24219 days or lunar cycles of 29.530589 days.
These are the solar and lunar passages of our present day damaged cosmos.
When God issues time to us in terms of years and months Hw does it
according to what the passages of the sun and moon would be in the mechanics of a
perfect solar system conforming to the mathematical and geometric perfection of a perfect circle.
We serve a Holy God. That is the way He is.
This would be a perfect solar system in which the earth revolved around the sun
every 360.000000etc. days and the new moon to new moon lunar cycle of the moon would be 30.0000etc. days.
This would then set the sun and moon to describe and mark out a perfect circle and a perfect calendar.
This, in fact, is what we actually see in our two "Rosetta Stones" for Biblical time.
We shall describe these a bit further on in this article.
The
Seventy Weeks of Daniel is correctly and successfully laid out only when we reckon
the years and months of Bible prophecy in this way.
This is how Biblical time comes down to us from the Holy Scripture.
Indeed, the 360 day year and the 30 day month is the currency of time
we see issued to us from the throne of God. Proof of this is given
in the books of Genesis, (for the Biblical/prophetic month), and the book of Revelation,
(for the Biblical/prophetic year).
SCRIPTURAL PROOF #1, - THE FLOOD ACCOUNT. A
"ROSETTA STONE" IN GENESIS 7 IDENTIFIES THE
BIBLICAL OR PROPHETIC MONTH AS 30 DAYS.
In Genesis we are told that the flood of Noah began on
the 17th day of the 2nd month. -Gen.7:11) On that day the
"fountains of the deep were broken up
and the windows of heaven were opened". Exactly five months later
on the 17th day of the 7th month
"the floodwaters receded and the ark came to rest on Mount Ararat".
This five month span of time is stated twice in Genesis
to be 150 days. -Gen.7:24 and 8:3)
150 divided by 5 = 30 days.
This is a bit different from what we see in our damaged solar system today.
Five of our present months/lunar cycles would be 5 x 29.530 = 147.5 days.
But the Genesis account records a span of precisely 150 days.
So we must conclude that edicts coming to us
from the throne of God up in the third heaven
regarding time involve perfect months containing 30.0000000000 days each.
SCRIPTURAL PROOF #2, - THE EXILE OF THE WOMAN
THIS "ROSETTA STONE" IN REVELATION 12 IDENTIFIES
THE BIBLICAL OR PROPHETIC YEAR AS
360 DAYS.
So much for the Biblical month. How about the Biblical year?
We are not left to guess about the biblical year.
We have a single passage of scripture that tells us straight out how many days there are in three and a half Biblical years.
Here is our scripture.
REVELATION 12
5. She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron.
And her Child was caught up to God and His throne.
6. Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has
a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there
one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
A eight verses later this same message is restated using different time units.
The exile of the woman is stated in terms of of 'times' (or years) rather than days.
14. But the woman was given
two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the
wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time
and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.
The Flight to Bozrah during
the Great Tribulation.
Image by Australian photographer Peter Walton.
Click on the image to go to his work.
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This scripture passage above speaks of the end time flight into exile of
the Woman, (a Biblical picture of God's covenant people).
She flies into exile from the face of
the Dragon to a place of safety.
This will be the most massive airlift of people this world has ever seen.
As we saw in the scriptures above, the Apostle John gives us the time period of this epic exile in two verses.
The time given is during the
final 3.5 years of this age,
the time period of the Great Tribulation. See the article on the
flight to Bozrah and the
Bozrah exile.
John the Beloved in two sentences eight verses apart gives two different descriptions of the
flight of the woman and her subsequent exile at a wilderness place of safety and nurturing.
In the first instance the time period is
stated in terms of days.
Then, eight verses later, in the same chapter the Holy Spirit restates the very same story using 'times'
(or years) rather than days.
So our "Rosetta stone"
for the Biblical year in
Revelation 12 identifies 3.5 years as being 1260 days.
1260 divided by 3.5 = 360.
So our biblical year is 360 days.
This information is essential
as we lay out the timeline of the 70 weeks of Daniel.
Surely God did this to inform
His people that one 'time' or one year, whenever it is issued to us as a period of years
in scripture equals 360 days. A Biblical year is not the 365.24 days we presently observe in our solar system.
This 360 day year is the Biblical standard for time
which is consistently kept
throughout God's Holy Word from Genesis to Revelation.
This is critically important.
This understanding of the biblical/perfect year being 360 days
and the biblical/perfect cycle of the moon being 12 months of
30 days was the key to
Sir Robert Anderson's success in the 19th Century.
Sir Isaac Newton, two centuries earlier, had missed this and failed to lay out the timeline of the 69 weeks.
Sir Robert Anderson was the first, (that we know of), in our modern era to actually succeed.
Using Biblical years of 360 days he was able to unlock
the mystery of Daniel's prophecy of the seventy weeks.
He laid out the first
69 weeks of the 70 weeks/sevens. He discovered that there was an amazingly accurate timeline
stretching out between the Nisan new moon of
Edict of Artaxerxes Longinus in 445 B.C. and
Palm Sunday, on the tenth day of the Nisan moon, 5,888 moons later during the passover moon of 32 A.D..
THE 69 WEEKS (OR SEVENS) OF YEARS CONNECT
THE EDICT OF ARTAXERXES IN 445 B.C. WITH PALM SUNDAY, 32 A.D.
THE TIMELINE FITS ACCURATELY FOR 69 x 7 = 483 YEARS RECKONED AS 360 DAYS.
The first 69 weeks of years is a time period of
69 x 7 x 360 = 173,880 days.
This was the number of days used by Sir Robert Anderson to successfully lay out the timeline
between the edict of Nehemiah 2 and the Palm Sunday political appearance of Christ as "Messiah the Prince".
Knowing that we have a God of order and complete integrity
we can be certain that He is consistent in all that He does.
So the calendar God uses to count the days
of the the final
half of the 70th week will be precisely the same as the calendar He uses to
count out the days of the 69 weeks that preceded it.
All of the seventy weeks of Daniel will be reckoned in terms of 360 day years.
The biblical timeline will be issued to us using
a 360.0000000 day year and a 30.0000000 day month.
We serve a God of perfect order.
And He is not one to change His mind about how He does things
in mid-stream.
It seems that in holy writ
one year = 360 days and
one month = 30 days.
As the saying goes;
God said it.
I believe it.
That settles it!
THE BIBLICAL WORLD VIEW IS DIFFICULT FOR US TO GRASP.
IT CLASHES WITH OUR NATURAL WORLD VIEW, THE COSMOS WE
SEE AROUND US AND THE THE HUMAN VOICES WE HEAR IN OUR EARS.
Being earthbound creatures we find it difficult to think this way.
That 360 day/30 day reckoning of years and months does not fit
what we see of our present solar system. The earthly orbit around
the sun and our present lunar cycle is not a circle of 360 days.
The orbit takes 365.2422 days and it is not a circle but rather an ellipse.
But the final half of the 70th week as given to us in the Book of Revelation is
quite clear. 3.5 years = 42 months = 1260 days.
So we must conclude that as issued from the God's throne the standard is as follows.
One year = 360 days = 12 months.
And each month is a time period of precisely 30 days.
The biblical or prophetic year is made up of
twelve 30 day months.
So the biblical year does not match our present cosmos.
It is not 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 45.51 seconds.
It is not 365.2422 days.
It is precisely 360 days.
This matches perfectly the 360 degrees of a circle. -->
If the orbit of the earth around the sun were a perfect circle,
(it is actually an ellipse),
then the passage of the earth through space would neatly and
perfectly mark out exactly one degree each day. Such an ideal
would be the perfect holy solar system of God.
HOLY, BIBLICAL, OR PROPHETIC TIME VS. THE TIME WE SEE IN THE NATURAL ORDER.
THINKING BIBLICALLY VS. THINKING IN TERMS OF THE OBSERVED NATURAL ORDER.
With the Bible as our source we do something very unnatural.
We go with what the Holy Scriptures say.
We discount the current solar and lunar cycles and go with what the Bible says.
The scripture record gives us our foundation. We do not need to wander off into
gnostic mystical reveries, allegories, or occultisms or other medieval manipulations. As we have seen
we have six direct scriptural references to the final 3.5 years of thois age.
They are found in the books of
Daniel and Revelation. These six scriptures show us precisely how the final
week/heptad/7 years is reckoned by God Himself. All we need to do
is to close our eyes to what we see in the present natural order and cosmos and follow
along with what God has said. Let us put our hand in His hand and go with the Bible says on the matter.
Is this difficult?
For those of us who are of a naturalistic bent and who grew up in the scientific disciplines it is actually quite difficult.
It was difficult for Sir Isaac Newton. But here was a man who not only studied the heavens and laid out the mathematics of
the laws of motion and gravity but a man who wrote 1.5 million words on the subject of the Bible and Bible prophecy.
Evangelical Scotland Yard Inspector Sir Robert Anderson was more successful.
Using 360 day years he was able to make the jump to Biblical time.
And our inspector was the one who cracked the case of the Seventy Weeks prophecy.
See
this article.
APPLYING BIBLICAL/PROPHETIC TIME
TO DANIEL'S PROPHECY OF THE 70 WEEKS
So here we are with Daniel's prophecy of the 70 weeks.
It is a period of 70 x 7 = 490 years.
But 490 years of how many days?
Which measuring rod of time do we use? Do we use our current earthly
measuring rod of 365.2422 days?
The Bible uses a measuring rod of 360 days for the biblical year.
So which one do we go with?
Both cannot be true where the seventy weeks is concerned.
This is where we must close our eyes here and go with God.
And as we shut off the things of this world and this damaged cosmos,
in our minds eye we can begin to see a beautifully
choreographed solar system tracing out its cycles in a perfect universe.
We would see the earth circle around the sun in a precise
orbit of 360.00000000 days.
As we would look closer we would see a moon tracing out a perfect lunar month
with a new moon to new moon interval of precisely 30.00000000 days.
The moon would trace this out 12 times a year for the
perfect number of 12.00000000 months.
The full moon would arrive faithfully at the spring equinox every year.
Every year that first Hebrew month of Nisan would start the year
for a perfect calendar of 12 months each comprising 30 days.
OK. Now we can now open up our eyes.
This idealized vision of a perfect solar system is the biblical year.
In scripture a year comprises 360 days.
A week or heptade, (like a decade but containing seven years).
would be 7 x 360 days = 2520 days.
A "time, times and half a time (Dan.12:7) is half a heptade or
half a "week" or 3.5 years.
Half a "week" would be 7/2 = 3.5 years x 360 days = 1260 days
Half a "week" would be 3.5 x 12 = 42 months each of 30 days = 1260 days.
This, dear saints, is not esoteric or arcane.
The arithmetic here is quite straightforward and simple.
As we have seen, these well known numbers,
1260 days, and 42 weeks
are found in Daniel 12 and in Revelation 11, 12 and 13.
These days have been well marked out for us.
We have no excuse for missing the message here as the Pharisees did in 32 A.D..
Our God has a precise timeline in which He will wrap up His business
for this present age. The age of human gentile government under the four horsemen
will come to an end in the Apocalypse.
God is sincere about bringing down tyrants and restoring this creation.
This present world and this ecosystem is in a mess.
Human government is only making it worse.
This mis-ruled, war-torn, sin-sick, starving, polluted world desperately needs the coming of Messiah.
During some future fall season of the year
the trumpets begin to sound. And the
70th week of Daniel will open up.
The final seven years of God's determined dealings
with His Judeo-Christian people will have just begun.
Having established our yardstick for holy time
according to the denominations of time
God dispenses from His throne
up in the third heaven
we can now proceed on to the next article in our study of
Daniel's prophecy of the 70 weeks.
On to Section 5
The LUNAR CYCLES and the HEBREW CALENDAR.
Back to Section 3
of Daniel's Prophecy of the 70 Weeks.
The EDICT of ARTAXERXES
GIVEN TO NEHEMIAH in 445 B.C.
in the HEBREW MONTH of NISAN
Some more devotional articles on apocalyptic Biblical themes
for the enquiring Christian.
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