Monday, October 24, 2016

The Day-Year Principle

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According to scriptural reckoning of time, there were 360 days in the Bible year. thirty days equaled a Bible month. Satan persecuted the church for a time, times, and half a time… forty and two months…for twelve hundred and sixty days. These days are years-days. Each day stood for a year.

Messiah in His Sanctuary by F.C. Gilbert pp. 58, 59, 132


The time, times, and a half, the forty-two months, and the 1260 days, a day in the enacted prophetic type represented a year in the subsequent history.

The approaching End of the Age by H. Grattan guinness pp. 246, 247

The ancient Jewish year consisting of twelve months, and each month of thirty days, 'a time and times and a half a time,' as equivalent to 'forty and two months,' or 'thousand two hundred and threescore days:' A day in the style of the prophets is a year.

Dissertations on the Prophecies by Bishop Thomas Newton p. 247

A time, or one year, and times, or two years, and half a time. Forty-two months; that is, one thousand twelve hundred and sixty prophetic days or years.

The Family Expositor, vol. VI by Philip Doddridge pp. 448, 451, 452

For a time, times and a half a time, or three times and a half; that is, for 1260 solar years, reckoning a time for a Calendar of 360 days, and a day for a solar year.

Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse by Sir Isaac Newton p. 59

The three grand apocalyptic numbers of 1260 days, forty-two months, and time, times and a half, are not only synchronical, but must be interpreted prophetically, so as years must be understood by days.

The Rise and Fall of the Papacy by Robert Fleming p. 30

A thousand two hundred and threescore days; this number of prophetic days, taking a day for a year.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible p. 2467

The prophetical days as in Daniel a day is put for a year, and so thirty days for thirty years, and 1260 days for 1260 years.

The works of Thomas Goodwin, vol. III p. 120

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