FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
Maccabees, the Temple was cleansed in 1,080 days.To make matters worse, while the King James version states 2,300
days for this period, the Greek Septuagint, which was used during the
time of Christ, says 2,400 days. In his 1754 book Dissertations on the
Prophecies, Bishop Thomas Newton wrote about the existence of a
third manuscript of the book of Daniel, which was mentioned in a
Commentary of Jerome, the early church leader. This manuscript gives
the figure of 2,200 days. Since this figure can not be applied literally to
the events of that time, it is believed that the figure should be
considered as years. This assumption is based upon Ezekiel 4:6,
which says: “I have appointed thee each day for a year”; and Numbers
14:31, which talks of “each day for a year.” If the figure of 2,200 ‘days’
is used, the following calculation is then applied: 2,200 years X 360
days = 792,000 days, which adjusted for our calendar year of 365.25,
results in 2,168 years. When this figure is added to 168 BC, it leads us
to the year 2000.Another theory deals with the Times of the Gentiles. This phrase stems
from a statement by Jesus in Luke 21:24: “...and Jerusalem shall be
trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be
fulfilled.” This refers to a period which began in 606 BC when the
Babylonians conquered Jerusalem. In Daniel 4:23, according to
Nebuchadnezzar’s vision (who is represented by a tree, as men
sometimes were: Psalms 1:3, Psalms 37:35, Ez. 31:3), “seven times”
were to pass over him. Revelation 11:2-3 (“42 months” X 30= 1,260
days), Rev. 12:6 (“a thousand two hundred and threescore days” or
1,260 days), Rev. 12:14 (“a time, and times, and half a time” or 360 +
720 + 180= 1,260 days) indicates that a “time” is 360 days, which
means that seven “times” would be 2,520 ‘days’ or years (on top of
referring to the seven years God struck him down with a period of
insanity to show his power).The calculation would go like this: 2,520 years X 360 days = 907,200
days, which adjusted to our calendar year of 365.25 days, results in
2,483.78 years. When this figure is added to 606 BC, it leads us to the
year 1878, which is believed to be the end of “the times of the
Gentiles.” Now comes an interesting proposal. When Jesus spoke of
the way things were in the “days of Noah,” when God gave mankind an
additional 120 years (Gen. 6:3) to repent, before he sent the flood; this