Daniel 8:14 2300 evening-mornings Daniel 8:13-14, 2613 Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that particular one who was speaking, “How long will the vision about the regular sacrifice apply, while the transgression causes horror, so as to allow both the holy place and the host to be trampled?”14 And he said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be properly restored.”26 “And the vision of the evenings and morningsWhich has been told is true;But keep the vision secret,For it pertains to many days in the future.” NASB DiscussionDaniel is told that the career of the little horn will be for 2300 evening-mornings as he opposes and dominates the people of the Commander of the host. To understand this measure of time we go first to the further explanation of the angel in Daniel 8:26. In the matter of all the other things Daniel saw, the angel had to explain what they meant. Here he says, the 2300 evening-mornings are true. In other words "What you saw is what it is." No further explanation needed. But it is here, right at this point that most mistakes are made. Readers bring their baggage and prejudices to the passsage that keep them from accepting the simple meaning. We all know what an evening is, we all know what a morning is, we all know what a day is. But because there are those who do not understand how to reconcile the plain sense of the creation account and the findings of science, the Genesis language stating a litereal six-day creation is redefined to mean something else. Listen, God knew we were going to have a problem here, that's why He used the evening and morning language. If you wanted to communicate to someone the word "day," meaning a day of the week rather than a long period of time, "an evening and a morning one day," is as good as it gets! And then when Gabriel is finishing his explanation of the 2300 evening and mornings, he says they "pertain to many days" (v. 26). Unfortunately many Bibles add the words "in the future" at the end of verse 26, but that is not in the text. Gabriel is simply anticipating the confusion and stating the truth. But here we are 2500 years later calling it everything but what he said! Next, we must ask, "Why is God communicating in Daniel 8 the passage of time in this Genesis One measure of time?" This conjoining of evening-morning is used only here and in Genesis One. We review Genesis One and simply note that as God did His work of creation, He recorded two events, an evening and a morning, and that would be one day. After the sixth day He rested on the seventh, but there is no mention of an evening and a morning on that seventh day. It simply says He rested. The evening-morning phrase is used exclusively for a work day, not the seventh day, or Sabbath. Next we notice that the little horn tampers with time keeping, as recorded in Dan 7:25, "make alterations in times and in laws," and in like manner takes the continual away from Him [the Commander of the Host], Dan 8:11, 12, 13; 11:31; 12:11. (Most English Bibles say "daily sacrifice" to their discredit. But there is only one common word here which means "regular," "continual," "repetitive," denoting some continuous regular act. There is no word for "sacrifice" here.) We should have also noted or will note that Daniel's time sensitive words concerning the other end-time passages are in terms of 3 1/2 years, 3 1/2 units of time, or week of years divided in half (7:25; 9:27; 12:7, 11, 12). A Simple AnswerThe 2300 events of evening-morning are 1150 work days (here we use Genesis as our formula, "an evening and a morning were one day"). But something else is needed. This obvious end-time passage that should add up to 3 1/2 years does not, if we count it as it appears. God knows that by using this Genesis work day, evening and morning, his people will understand that this period should include something else that is not overtly stated, and that the something is the Sabbath to be complete. It is simply a fact that every six days (or 12 events of evenings-mornings) God's people observe the Sabbath (Ex 20:8). So we take 1150 work days, adding a Sabbath after every six days to arrive at the total passage of time for the career of the little horn. Thus we must add 191 missing Sabbaths to the 1150 work days. (That is 2300 divided by 2=1150. 1150 divided by 6 work days reveals 191 missing Sabbaths, then adding 191 Sabbaths to the 1150 work days=1341 or 3 1/2 years and the extra time revealed in Daniel 12:12.) This and the notification that he takes the continual worship away from Him reveals that the end-time ruler will outlaw the Sabbath and change the calendar.8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, abeloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and ba thousand years as one day. In anticipation of the person who will answer with 2 Peter 3:8, please simply note, since you are not God, to you one day is one day!