Quote Originally Posted by bulldog_in_baton_rouge View Post
(1) Basically, Daniel 4:16 uses the expression “seven times” . The Bible shows that in calculating “prophetic” time, apparently, a day is counted as a year. (See some examples here…Ezekiel 4:6; Numbers 14:34)

So, how many “days,” then, are involved?

Revelation 11:2, 3 states that 42 months which is equal to 3 1/2 “years” or “times” in that prophecy are counted as 1,260 days. Seven “years” or “times” would be twice that, or 2,520 days. Applying the “day for a year” rule would result in 2,520 years.
Does the day for a year rule apply for all "days" mentioned in the Bible? How do you know it applies to Revelations Chapter 12?

(2) I think you are essentially asking, when did the counting of the “seven times” (meaning the amount of time that humans would be able exercise full control over their own affairs without outside intervention) begin?

It would be, basically, after Zedekiah, the last Jewish king in the “Kingdom of God” as it was described in the Christian Hebrew scriptures, was removed from the throne in Jerusalem by the Babylonians. (See Ezekiel 21:25-27) As of early October of 607 B.C.E. the last vestige of Jewish sovereignty was gone. By that time the Jewish governor, Gedaliah, who had been left in charge by the Babylonians, had been assassinated, and the remaining Jews had fled to Egypt. (See Jeremiah, chapters 40-43) Bible chronology indicates that this took place 70 years before 537 B.C.E., the year in which the Jews returned from captivity; that is, it took place by early October of 607 B.C.E. (Jeremiah 29:10; Daniel. 9:2)


In short:


Early October, 607 B.C.E., to December 31, 607 B.C.E. = 1/4 year
January 1, 606 B.C.E., to December 31, 1 B.C.E. = 606 years
January 1, 1 C.E., to December 31, 1913 = 1,913 years
January 1, 1914, to early October, 1914 = 3/4 year
Total: 2,520 years
Sounds like the originator of this theory is hedging. I thought 587 BCE (or thereabouts) would be the key year.