Dougg,
The time, times, and half times is nominally 3 1/2 years, but not exactly 1260 days. In terms of days, there is no way to know exactly.
The only definition I can find that gives us a definition is 2 peter 3v8 in which says a day with the lord is as a thousand years. Greek for day is hemara- which has several definitions in which "Time" is one of them. The translators just chose day because that was what was commonly used during that time of translating. I think most commentaries that you read will agree with what I am saying. So could time equal a 1000yrs? Just thought I would throw that out there you be the judge.
Revelation 11: the two witnesses prophesy 1260 days and then are killed and lay in the streets of Jerusalem 3 1/2 days - that establishes the days are literal.
Revelation 12: after the 1260 days of two witnesses, there is the war in heaven, the first step in a process of the kingdoms of this world becoming the Kingdoms of God and of his Christ. Satan finds himself cast down to earth having but a short time left (12:12) - which is the time, times, and half times, before Jesus returns at which time Satan is bound and cast into the bottomless pit.
Since the 1260 days + 3 1/2 days + the unspecified time for the war in heaven will have been used up before the time, times, and half times begin, it is not possible to quantify the term exactly. That's why the term is used.
"time, times, half times" term is a "nominally" 3 1/2 years, not exactly 3 1/2 year, nor 1260 days, nor 42 months. For example 2x4 piece of lumber is nominally 2x4, but if you were to actually measure it, you would find that the real dimensions are 3 1/2 inches x 1 1/2 inches.
Peter was not giving a defintion of what a "time, times, and half times" is.
btw, the term 3 1/2 years in not found in bible prophecy either. It is just often used a convenient mechanism to facilitate discussion..
The 7 years are 2520 days. The 1335th day in Daniel 12 is day 2520, the day that Jesus returns to earth in Revelation 19 and Zechariah 14. Where does scripture say that 1335th day in Daniel is day 2520? and also are you sure that the 70th week is 7 years? because the word "week" used in the 70th week is different than "week" used in the previous 69 weeks.
The 1335th day is the day that Jesus returns based upon the context of the verse in Daniel 12:12. The 7 years, the last week of the 70th week, in terms of the 360 day year is 360 days/year x 7years = 2520 days.
It is necesssary to convert the 7 years to days in order to construct a timeline of events, which many of those events are expressed in days.
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
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Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
The confirmation of the covenant is for one week. The one week is 7 years.
Not only is the 7 years stated in the text of Deuteronomy 31:10-13, but the 7 years following Gog/Magog in Ezekiel 39 is the same 7 years. The reason is because in Ezekiel 39 there are two feasts by the birds and beasts. The first is the feast on Gog's army, in Ezekiel 39:4. The second, seven years later, is the feast on the armies gathered together to fight Jesus, in Ezekiel 39:17-20.
Therefore, the AOD will be setup 1335 days before the day Jesus returns. Which works out to be on day 1185 after the confirming of the covenant as day 1 of the count. Daniel is very clear its 1290 days after the sacrifices have ceased on the temple mount that the AOD is set up. there is no 1185 in scripture.
You have misunderstood the text about there being 1290 days between the sacrifices being stopped and the AOD setup.
The stopping of the daily sacrifice is tied to the
transgression of desolation (this is not said in Daniel 12, you have to go to Daniel 8:11-13).
The transgression of desolation
(an act) is transgression of the covenant, when the man of sin goes into the temple sits and claims to be God (
2thess2:4).
It is called transgression in Daniel 8 because the person will be a Jew, which his act is a transgression of the covenant.
The abomination of desolation
(an object because it is "set up") is different. It will be a statue image of the person, in the standing position, which will be placed in the temple,
(Revelation 13:13-15).
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
The 1290 days is anchored in the text at its beginning to the abomination of desolation (the statue image) setup. So the 1290 day count begins on the day the abomination of desolation statue image is setup.
The only timeframe that has an anchor in the text of Daniel 12:11-12
relavent to the 7 years is the 1335th day, which if a person remains faithful to that day he will be blessed. Which there is no other option except to be the day that Jesus returns.
So the day that Jesus returns is the point of reference. 1335 days before then, the AOD statue image will be setup. The 1185 is a calculated day on the 7 year timeline. It is not stated in the text.
Then 1290 days after day 1185 on day 2475 of the count, the events of the 6th seal take place, the cosmos parts, and the world sees Jesus before the throne of God, with the intent to carry out judgement, the Sign of the Son of Man in heaven in Matthew 24:29.
day1...............day 1185 (AOD setup).................day 2475 (1290 days)..............day 2520 (1335th day)
Again there is no scriptural support for the 1290 days to somehow nesseccarialy be the 6th seal of revelations.
There is scriptural support which I have provided all the explanations in terms of a timeline and the events that must take place, The understanding of the 1290 days, how it fits in, could not be known back in Daniel's day because Revelation was not given until the first century.