John Prewett
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Better study your Bible more and please drop the expletive as I do not believe that Jesus would use it. You are a representative of him are you not?
The Day-Year Principle
What is the day-year principle? Is it based on Scripture?
The day-year principle says that one day in prophetic Scripture is equal to one year of actual time. For example, the 2300 days in the prophecy of Daniel 8 actually play out as 2300 years in history.
Here are some verses in Scripture that point us to the day-year principle:
According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years (Numbers 14:34 NKJV).
I have appointed thee each day for a year (Ezekiel 4:6).
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee (Deuteronomy 32:7 emphasis added).
There are three primary precedents in Scripture that show the day-year principle:
- Numbers 14:34. The Israelites will wander for 40 years in the wilderness, one year for every day spent by the spies in Canaan.
- Ezekiel 4:5-6. The prophet Ezekiel is commanded to lie on his left side for 390 days, followed by his right side for 40 days, to symbolize the equivalent number of years of punishment on Israel and Judah respectively.
- Daniel 9:24-27. This is known as the Prophecy of Seventy Weeks. Read about the 70-week prophecy here. The majority of scholars do understand the passage to refer to 70 "sevens" or "septets" of years—that is, a total of 490 years.
5 He was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies. And he was given authority to wage war for forty-two months.
No instruction to turn 42 months into 1260 years. Have a nice day. JP
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