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But 1,260 days are exactly equal to forty-two months of thirty days, or three and a half years of 360 days, whereas three and a half Julian years contain 1,278 days. It follows therefore that the prophetic year is not the Julian year, but the ancient year of 360 days.§ [6] (*) Dan. vii. 25; xii. 7; Rev. xii. 14. † Rev. xi. 2' xiii. 5.
The day-year principle or year-for-a-day principle is a method of interpretation of Bible prophecy in which the word day in prophecy is considered to be symbolic of a year of actual time. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the method used by most of the Reformers, [ 3 ] and is used principally by the historicist school of prophetic interpretation. [ 4 ]
He applied recapitulation, identifying the seven "seals" with the seven "trumpets" and seven "bowls". According to him, the Apocalypse describes six periods of the church's struggles. The seventh period was to be the earthly Millennium, which would begin in 1260 (the number 1260 comes from Apocalypse 11:3, where it mentions 1,260 days).
The "1,260 days", "42 months" or "time, times and dividing of time" of apocalyptic prophecy are equated, and are interpreted as 1260 years, based on the day-year principle. This has traditionally been held to be the period AD 538 to 1798, as the era of papal supremacy and oppression as prophesied in Revelation 12:6, 14–16.
Of special interest to many was the 1260 prophetic day time prophecy of Daniel 7:25. Many concluded that the end of the 1260-day prophecy initiated the "time of the end". Having to their satisfaction solved the 1260 days, it was only natural that they would turn their attention to unlocking the riddle of the 2300 days of Daniel 8:14. [33]
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Seven summary points included the Second Advent ahead of the Millennium, and the identification of a 1260-year period preceding the Millennium as running from the reign of Justinian I to the French Revolution. [2] Transactions of the first three conferences were published in 1828–9 by Drummond, as Dialogues on Prophecy in three volumes.
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