42 PROPHETIC MONTHS

"They (the people of Islam) will trample the holy city for 42 months." First of all, why didn’t the angel just say 1,260 days? Why did he change it up a bit and say 42 months? I believe the reason is that it gives us the freedom to do more than one equation. How many days are in a lunar month? There are twelve equal months in the lunar calendar. Each has 30 days. In order to find out how many days are in 42 months, we simply multiply 42 by 30 and we get 1,260 days. We already know that, so let’s try something else. We will use the solar calendar of 365.25 days. If 365.25 days are in a solar year, how many days are in a solar month? It varies between thirty, thirty-one and twenty-eight. Every four years it’s twenty-nine, so we have to come up with our answer a different way. We divide the solar year of 365.25 days by 12 and we get the answer 30.44 days. Multiply 42 by 30.44 and you come up with 1,279. So, now we have two groups of years; 1,260 and 1,279. If you add 1,260 to 688, you come to the year 1948 which was the year that the Exile ended and Israel became a nation once more. There is one problem with that. This equation is not about Israel, but it’s Holy City, Jerusalem. If you add the new number of 1,279 to 688 you come to the year 1967, which is the year that Jerusalem was restored to Israel. Now that makes a whole lot of sense.

PROPHECY FOR 1,260 DAYS

There is something that needs to be addressed here. It can be assumed that the 1,260 days of the testimony of the two witnesses and the 42 months of the trampling of the Holy City happen at the sametime. This cannot be. The reason being is that John’s prophecy says, "After they have finished their testimony (not before) the Beast from the Abyss (Islam) will declare war, conquer and kill the witnesses." The 42 months happen after the 1,260 days. It says that specifically. If that is the case, when do these 1,260 years begin. This time we have to subtract. Moving backward from 688 AD 1,260 years we come to the year 572. Let us try that equation with 707 AD. Moving back 1,260 years from 707 AD we come to the year 553 BC. These two dates are important. What happened in the year 572 BC? That is the year that Nebuchadnezzar’s army took Damascus. What happened in the year 553 BC? Daniel gave a prophecy in that year. Before we go into that prophecy, let us look at the two dates of 553 BC and 1967 AD. How many years are there between 553 and 1967? There are 2,520 years from 553 BC until 1967 AD. Now let us look at the prophecy in Daniel that took place in 553 BC.

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