What is 1260 days?
Revelation 11:1Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there. 2But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months. 3And
I will empower my two witnesses, and they will
prophesy for 1,260 days,
clothed in sackcloth.
Interpretation
It is their title. The 2 witnesses are the Old Testament, and the New Testament as witnessed by the prophets, psalmists and the Messiah.
It is shown in Revelation 1:2 Who bare record of
the word of God, and of
the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
Why a sackcloth? rome suppressed the faith by first persecution and then by a state religion. The Scriptures were tightly controlled and was subject to the whims of the state. For example, it was made is a crime to translate and disseminate the Gospels - other than in latin.
In 1539 the Great Bible (OT, NT and Apocrypha) was published in the english vernacular and was authorized to be read in every church in Britain. It was accesible to all free men, no longer controlled by the state elite.
When did the political suppression of the citizen christians begin?
orthodoxwiki.org
"His importance as a figure in Church history is as the instigator of a the Great Persecution of Christians which produced many martyrs. His wife, known historically as Prisca, but in Christian tradition Alexandra, was among these martyrs. He increased the cult of the Emperor, calling himself the son of Jove, and tried to revive the worship of the Roman gods.
In about 297 an edict was made that all soldiers and Imperial officials must sacrifice to the gods - failure to do so resulted in dismissal. "
True Christians can no longer hold office in the empire.
What is the duration
1539 - 297 = 1242 solar years.
1242 * 365.25 / 360 = 1260.1125 lunar years
(from Diocletian suppression to the printing of the Great Bible in english)
In Daniel 7:25, the little horn of blasphemy suppresses the saints for a time, and times, and half a time. That is a season plus 2 seasons and half a season = 3.5 years = 42 months = 1260 days converted to 1260 years. It is post Antiochus Epiphanes, it is post rome.
In Daniel 12:7 "And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when
he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.,
The
he shall have accomplished to scatter should be rendered, "When the power of the shatterer of the holy people shall come to an end."
The end implies when the Book of Life is opened. As Daniel 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake,
some to everlasting life, but others to shame and
everlasting contempt.a 3Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens,b and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars
forever and ever.
This is the end times, post Antiochus Epiphanes,
