Nu 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days,
each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
Eze 4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
Go back to those examples you posted and see how many of them are surrounded by literal language? If they are in the midst of symbolic language, what reason would there be in interpreting everything symbolically, except for the time?
The above two examples provide precisely what you have asked for..."
the way scripture presents prophetic days and years." You may be interested to know that Adventists did not invent this principle. The following great Protestant scholars all agreed that the day for a years interpretation of time prophecy was good sound exegesis. John Wycliffe, John Knox, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, Phillip Melanchthon, Sir Isaac Newton, Jan Huss, John Foxe, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Charles Finney, C. H. Spurgeon, Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Albert Barnes, E. B. Elliot, H. Grattan Guinness, and Bishop Thomas Newton." (S. Gregg, "Revelation: Four Views," Nashville: Thomas Nelson Pub, 1997, p. 34.)
Here's some interesting points relating to the various time prophecies in scripture.
i) The 390 + 40 = 430 days/years of Ezekiel (mentioned earlier) are exactly one-third of 1290, (cf., Ezekiel 4:4-8, 5:2. I.e., 430 days x 3 = 1290 days).
ii) The time from when Ezekiel was told to lay on his side 430 days symbolizing the siege of Jerusalem (593 BC), until the end of the literal siege of Jerusalem (586 BC), are 7 full years, or 3½ + 3½ years.
iii) The total siege-length of Ezekiel's symbolic siege of 390 (+ 40) days, plus the 945 days of the literal siege, amounts to
1335 days---the same figure found coupled with the 1290 days in Daniel 12:9.
iv) The fact that there are
1290 years from the entry into Egypt (1876 BC, which lasted 430 years until the exodus, 1446 BC), until the exile back again into Egypt (and Babylon) at the fall of Jerusalem (586 BC), is proof that 1290 days are intended to be years as well.
All the above, plus more, and particularly what I show below, all contribute to the day/year principle. To maintain that there is no Biblical foundation for it, and to offer the question "
How can anyone figure out anything if days are treated as years? " reveals at best, short-sighted ness.
If there was any prophecy that confirms the principle it is the above. You agree that one week =7years...where do you get that idea from except from absolute historical fulfilment? However, if you are willing to study the whole 70 weeks prophecy with care and without prejudice and pre-conceptions, you will discover there is no "70th week" yet to come. This will give a far more comprehensive study than I could offer here....of course it depends on how hungry one is or truth...how willing one is to to truly understand where other interpretations are formed and what they are based on.
70 Weeks Of Daniel Prophecy