I do not listen to men for my interpretation, but rather am Holy Spirit Taught.... He showed me this oversight in the kjv of Daniel 8:14, and how it led to the millerite disappointment. (Translating it as "days" instead of "mornings and evenings" Like the original Hebrew contains.) THE FACTS are, Antiochus defiled the temple for EXACTLY 2300 days. He is the Little horn spoken of in Daniel 8, and applying this prophecy to the end time Antichrist is a mistake, which leads to all kinds of errant eschatological timelines out there.
It is you who is making the same error as the SDA and JW's do in applying Daniel 8 to where it does not belong, and making your end time timelines errant.... you need to change this if you want anyone to take you seriously. I am just trying to help you out here, because anyone who is a scholar in eschatology will immediately dismiss you as a novice when you make this mistake.
Wish churches would train the saints more in biblical typology so that the saints would be able to recognize that Antiochus is the type of 'the Antichrist' (whom the Bible doesn't actually call by that description, but at least we know what is meant by the term).
Those days also depend on whether or not the year is what we would call a leap year - but the biblical calendar's leap years of course work completely differently - so sometimes the final 3.5 years of a seven-year cycle would be 1,290 days instead of 1, 260 days. I learned that from Chris Gedge.
More importantly, the abomination set up by Antiochus did not result in the destruction of the temple - but the abominations mentioned in Daniel 9:27 did accompany the destruction of the temple. And Antiochus is a biblical type of the man of sin / son of perdition.
Daniel 11
36 And the king shall do according to his will. And he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper until the fury is fulfilled. For that which is decreed shall be done.
37 He will not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god. For he shall magnify himself above all.
2 Thessalonians 2
3 Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.
As if the above isn't handing people here enough ammo to shoot me with (which is going to happen), the 6th seal events, the 6 trumpet events, and the 6tth plague events (6 6 6) all come immediately before the thunders of the 7th seal and 7th trumpet and 7th plague (7 7 7).
The 6th trumpet is the 2nd woe, and the text links the second woe to both the 6th trumpet, and the 1,260 days of the two witnesses prophecy. It's the final 1,260 days leading up to the 7th trumpet. We see armies being gathered for battle in both the 6th trumpet and the 6th plague. It's the 42-month reign of the beast.
The
first woe is linked by the text to the
5th trumpet. That's the time that the abyss is opened. The beast ascends out of the abyss (Revelation 17:8).
"And the fifth angel sounded (his trumpet). And I saw
a star fall from the heaven to the earth, and it was given the key to the abyss.
And it opened the abyss. And there arose a smoke out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace.
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And the sun and air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.
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(Revelation 9:1-2)
"And the fifth
angel poured out his vial (bowl of wrath / plague) on the throne of the beast,
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and its kingdom became darkened.
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(Revelation 16:10)
The 5th seal is telling us that the martyrdom of the saints in the final great tribulation (6th seal, 6th trumpet and 6th bowl) is about to occur - not in those words, but that's basically what it's saying.
What's about to follow is revenge against the saints and all out war against Christ, because the locust plague did not harm those who have the seal of God on their foreheads - think of Moses and Aaron, God's two witnesses in Egypt, and the plague of locusts God brought upon Egypt by their hands.
But the plague of locusts
torments those who it does harm:
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom became darkened. And they gnawed their tongues from the pain. (Revelation 16)
3 And out of the smoke came forth locusts onto the earth. And authority was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have authority.
4 And they were commanded not to hurt the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men
who do not have the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that
they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months. And their torment was like a scorpion's torment when he stings a man.
6 And in those days men will seek death and will not find it. And they will long to die, and death will flee from them. (Revelation 9).
So both the 5th trumpet and 5th plague both talk about a plague of darkness and pain and torment - but not for those who have the seal of God on their foreheads.
10 And the ones who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them (the martyred two witnesses), and will make merry, and will send one another gifts,
because these two prophets tormented those living on the earth. (Revelation 11).
The 6th trumpet and 6th plague events are a revenge attack on the saints (Revelation 13:7). The 5th seal tells us what's coming for the saints (but it's not here yet). The 5th trumpet and 5th plague tell us about the darkness and pain and torment of those who follow the beast
- and then comes the 6th trumpet's and 6th plague's gathering of the beast's armies. The dragon's war at the hands of the beast against the saints has begun (Revelation 13:7). The two witnesses will be prophesying clothed in sackcloth for that 42 months.
- and the 6th seal tells us that the kings of the earth
know what follows immediately after this in the thunders. The kings of the earth mentioned in the 6th seal committed fornication with the harlot (Revelation 18:9). The kings of the earth are identified in Revelation 1:5-6. There is an apostasy coming (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4; Matthew 24:10).