Time Table:
The times given in Prophecy are always based on the Prophetic Calendar which consists of 12 months of 30 days each totaling 360 days in a year.
As to determining times, we can’t know WHEN the Judgment Period begins unless the Lord advises us ahead of time as He did Noah. Even then, Noah did not know WHEN the Flood would come until 7 days in advance of it.
Revelation tells us that these Events fall into a time-frame of 1,260 days or 42 months - but these are not necessarily the same exact 1,260 day time span. Normally, these figures would also be equal to 3 ½ years but due to the shortening of days they are NOT.
The Judgment Period expressed in terms of 1,260 days would under any other circumstances represent “3 ½ years”, however; due to the shortening of days it is only 2 years plus 8 months in terms of total hours. This missing year of the Messiah’s Last Half-Week is made up by the coming of the 2 Witnesses 360 days before the Judgment Period. That then make s at least 3 ½ years.
However; it no-where specifically says that the Judgment Period is in fact 1,260 days in duration. For that we have to go back to Daniel 9.26 where it tells us that the Messiah is cut off in the middle of His “Week” (7 years).
That leaves 3 ½ years to be completed in the End-Times. Between the two halves of that 70th “Week” is the “Acceptable Year of the Lord” which is approximately the same thing as what Theologians call the “Age/Dispensation of Grace”. Thus far it has been about 1,981 years in duration. The first 3 ½ years of Jesus’ “Week” (approximately) was the first 3 ½ years of the Acceptable Year of the Lord - and the last 3 ½ years of Jesus’ unfinished “Week” (the Judgment Period) are also the last 3 ½ tears of the Acceptable Year of the Lord .
Since 3 ½ years of His “Week” remain un-completed, we can translate that into 1,260 days for the duration of the Judgment Period. This coupled with all the other mentions of the same length of time pretty much confirms that the Judgment Period is to be 1,260 days in duration.
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How the times within the Judgment Period are determined:
A Time Table for every Revelation Event can be calculated from a single clue within the Text. This clue is given as the duration of the 5th Trumpet (Rev. 9.5 & 10) which is “five months’ (5 x 30 =150 days).
Do these 150 days apply ONLY to the 5th Trumpet? Well, it doesn’t say - does it? So, let’s try it on the other Trumpets. There are 7 Trumpets but the 7th is itself the 7 Bowls of God’s Wrath, so we can’t figure that one in yet – but 7 moments in time result in 6 time periods between them. Thus: 6 x 150 = 900 days.
1,260 days – 900 days = 360 days, leaving exactly one year for the 7 Bowls of God’s Wrath – how about that?
Ah, but – the 7th Bowl is the Battle of Armageddon and that lasts no more than an hour. So again we have 6 periods of time between the 7 Bowls like we did with the Trumpets. That’s an easy one; each Bowl period is 60 days long (360 divided by 6 = 60).
This works so perfectly that it serves to validate the entire Judgment Period scenario as given.
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Bringing Daniel’s 1,290 days into the Time Table:
But, what do we do with that extra hour of the 7th Bowl/Battle of Armageddon? Let’s count it as one whole day. Whoops, now we have 1,261 days. And how long is that lull between the 6th Seal Event and the 1st Trumpet given at Rev. 8.1? We don’t know - because “No-one knows the Day or the Hour”.
You see, whether the 7th Bowl is the 1,260th day or the 1,261st day depends on whether you count the beginning as zero or Day 1. It is matter of “mathematical semantics”.
And when does the Trampling of Jerusalem/Standing on the Temple Mount by the forces of the Beast fit in? Both Daniel’s 1,290 days and Revelation’s 1,260 days end on the same day. By over-laying Daniel’s 1,290 days over Revelation’s 1,260 days, we see that Daniel’s extra 30 days are at the very beginning of the time span.
Daniel’s 1,290 days start with the appearance of the Abomination of Desolation Trampling Jerusalem & Standing on the Temple Mount. Thus we know that the Abomination of Desolation appears 30 days before the 1st Trumpet.
Remember that it is the Beast that destroys Babylon the Great resulting in the desolation of the entire planet. In that case, the Beast fits the description of “the Abomination of Desolation” spoken of in Daniel.
Daniel 12.11 tells us that when you see (reiterated by Jesus in the “Olivet Discourse” at Matthew 24.15 & Mark 13.14) the Abomination of Desolation standing in the Holy place. There are 1,290 days until the 7th Bowl. That means the Trampling of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount by the Beast will mean +29 days after this Event until the 1st Trumpet - or 30 days including the Event itself. And that’s how the “extra hour” is accounted for.
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The 6th Seal Event/Destruction of Babylon the Great:
That also means that the Destruction of Babylon the Great occurs sometime during those next 29 days - probably much closer to the 1st Trumpet than to the Trampling. Remember: this 6th Seal Event is the Day of which Jesus said; “Of that day and hour no man knows, neither the Angels,…”
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Time, Times & Half a Time:
I want you to note something quite significant. NO-WHERE does God ever use the terminology of “3 ½ years” in Revelation. The significance of this is that with the increase of the spin of the earth on its axis resulting in shorter days, now more days will be in a year (547.9 days if the earth’s orbit around the sun isn’t changed). Thus to speak in terms of “years” would be pointless. He does however use the cryptic “Time, Times, and half a Time”.
Truth is; it does NOT mean “3 ½ years” in Revelation simply because the concept of “years” are not applicable to those days. If you insist on the formula 1+2+½ then it can be any number of days that evenly divided by 7. But there is nothing to suggest that “Times” actually means 2. It could mean 3, or 4, etc.
As it happened, I didn’t ask the Lord a single question regarding the Book of Daniel because I was focused on the Book of the Revelation. Since that process took 3 ½ months after which I was “burnt out” I didn’t push it any further. But ever since that time I have been getting further insights into various aspects of the Judgment Period. It seems that the Lord keeps feeding me answers to questions I wasn’t smart enough to ask, and which I wouldn’t have been able to digest at the time anyway.
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TIME TABLE:
The following Time Table is made by a simple extrapolation of the above data. It includes the 1,290/1,335 days Prophesied in Daniel 12.11 & 12 overlaid on the 1,260 days of the Judgment Period. Note how simply and perfectly it compliments the interpretation of the Judgment Period.
Day:
Wit.……..1
Rev…- 364 (From 1st Trumpet)
Dan…..N.A.
2 Witnesses begin mission
Rev….unkn.
Dan… N.A.
144,000 presented before God as “First Fruits” of the End-Times Harvest of men’s souls
Rev…unkn.
Dan…N.A..
Last Sign - 1st Flying Angel
Wit….330
Rev….-30
Dan……0
(From the day of this event it is another 29 days until the 1st Trumpet)
DANIEL’S 1,290 DAYS BEGINS
Rev…..- 29
Dan……..1
Trampling of Temple Mount by Beast
Beast comes to power for 42 months
Rev….unkn.*
Dan….unkn.*
Grain Harvest begins - 6th Seal Event - 2nd Flying Angel - Destruction of Babylon the Great - 1 hour
Shortening of the days begins*
JUDGMENT PERIOD BEGINS (1,260 days duration)
TRUMPET PERIOD (900 days duration)
Rev…..…0
Dan…….30
1st Trumpet - 3rd Flying Angel - 5 months/150 days duration
Huge Hail-storm - Mark of the Beast
Rev…..150
Dan…..180
2nd Trumpet - 5 months/150 days duration
Something like a Burning Mountain falls into the ocean - 1/3 of life in the ocean dies
Rev…..300
Dan…..330
3rd Trumpet - 5 months/150 days duration
Something like a Blazing Torch falls on the Earth - 1/3 of life in fresh water dies
Rev…..450**
Dan…..480**
4th Trumpet - 5 months/150 days duration
Shortening of days completed**
Rev…..600
Dan…..630
5th Trumpet - 1st Woe - 5 months/150 days duration
Satan & his angels cast out if Heaven down to Earth
Rev…..750
Dan…..780
6th Trumpet - 2nd Woe - 5 months/150 days duration
Most severe persecution of entire Judgment Period - 200 Million man army amasses for march to the West
Wit….1260
Rev…..896
Dan….926
2 Witnesses killed - lie dead 3 ½ fays
Rev…..900
Dan…..930
2 Witnesses raised to life - Rapture concludes 1st Resurrection
7th Trumpet - 3rd Woe - 360day/12 months/“1 year” duration
BOWLS OF GOD’S WRATH PERIOD (360 days duration)
Harvest of the Vineyard begins -
1st Bowl - 2 months/60 days duration
Sores caused by Mark of the Beast
Rev…..960
Dan…..990
2nd Bowl - 2 months/60 days duration
All of life in the ocean is dead
Rev….1020
Dan….1050
3rd Bowl - 2 months/60 days duration
All of life in fresh water is dead
Rev…. 1080
Dan…..1110
4th Bowl - 2 months/60 days duration
The sun novas
Rev…..1140
Dan…..1170
5th Bowl - 2 months/60 days duration
The sun ceases to shine
Rev…..1200
Dan…..1230
6th Bowl - 2 months/60 days duration
200 Million man army nears Megiddo
Rev…..1230
Dan…..1260
1 month/30 days duration
Beast finally succumbs to Satan & Co. - Complete possession of mankind by demons -
Rev…..1260
Dan…..1290
7th Bowl - Battle of Armageddon - 1 hour or less
Rev……N.A.
Dan…..1335
(?) “Blessed is he who comes to the 1335th day.” (see Note below)
* Hours in day begin at normal 24 hours per day and then begin to dwindle. Apparently this acceleration is greatest at the beginning although it continues to increase speed of the Earth’s spin on its axis finally leveling off at 16 hour days by the 4th Trumpet - a period of 450+ days. A nominal 19.6 hour day may be used to calculate time over this range.
** From this point onward, all days have a total of 16 hours in them - this continues at least until Rev. 20.3. Apparently the radiance from New Jerusalem will replace the sun and there will no longer be “days’ in the usual sense being that there will be no night.
N.A. = No information given for this
The 1,335 Days:
Nothing is expressly given to explain the addition of 45 days to Daniel’s 1,290 days. What is clear us that Revelation’s 1,260 days and Daniel’s 1,290 Days end on the same Day because they both end with the same Event; the Battle of Armageddon.
So, why these extra 45 Days? This is merely what I think - no Word from God on this: It marks the Day when the Woman’s Children in Rev. 12.13 thru 16 come out of their hiding place back into this world. The 45 days will possibly be a tine when God will refurbish the Earth so that it will be livable during the Millennial Kingdom.
After that, those folks will be marking locations of dead bodies for burial for 7 months (Ezekiel 39.12 thru 15) and burning war materiel for 7 years (Ezekiel 39.9). And they shall beat the metals into plow-shares and pruning hooks (Isaiah 2.4 & Micah 4.3).
See also:
SMC-70430 Time-Line
SMC-70525 The Prophetic Calendar
Shalom,
Searl Miller
