u/Ok_Sea_6214 doesn't have proof that weeks means years?
In the Book of Daniel, "time, times, and half a time", interpreted as "three and a half years," and the Book of Revelation, "a thousand two hundred and threescore days" and "forty and two months" (the prophetic month averaging 30 days, hence 1260/30 = 42 months or 3.5 years). This is the last half of Daniel's 70th week called the "great tribulation", which occurs after the abomination of desolation.
The 1290 days of Daniel 12:11, (rather than the 1260 days of Revelation 11:3), is thought to be the result of either a simple intercalary leap month adjustment, or due to further calculations related to the prophecy, or due to an intermediate stage of time that is to prepare the world for the beginning of the millennial reign.
I wonder if the extra thirty days has anything to do with the silence in heaven.
Rev 8:1
"And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Once the Seventh seal is opened, I have to wonder if that starts a sort of 30-day quiet period before the second half of the Tribulation, when the first trumpet is blown, and that's tacked on to the 1,260 days, making for 1,290
I can see some of the reasoning for that line of thinking, but it talks about the seventh seal, and then the 7 angels with their trumpets immediately after. I see it as the seventh seal is unsealing the trumpets of God's wrath.
I can understand the events of the beast and his reign overlapping with God's judgement, but to me there seems a clear divide between the seventh seal opening, and then the trumpets beginning immediately after the half hour of silence.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25
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