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evolt. However, according to the apocryphal book of the Maccabees, the Temple was cleansed
in 1,080 days.
To make matters worse, while the King James version states 2,300 days for this period, the
Greek Septuagint, which was used during the time of Christ, says 2,400 days. In his 1754 book
Dissertations on the Prophecies, Bishop Thomas Newton wrote about the existence of a third
manuscript of the book of Daniel, which was mentioned in a Commentary of Jerome, the early
church leader. This manuscript gives the figure of 2,200 days. Since this figure can not be
applied literally to the events of that time, it is believed that the figure should be considered as
years. This assumption is based upon Ezekiel 4:6, which says: “I have appointed thee each day
for a year”; and Numbers 14:31, which talks of “each day for a year.” If the figure of 2,200
‘days’ is used, the following calculation is then applied: 2,200 years X 360 days = 792,000 days,
which adjusted for our calendar year of 365.25, results in 2,168 years. When this figure is added
to 168 BC, it leads us to the year 2000.
Another theory deals with the Times of the Gentiles. This phrase stems from a statement by
Jesus in Luke 21:24: “...and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of
the Gentiles be fulfilled.” This refers to a period which began in 606 BC when the Babylonians
conquered Jerusalem. In Daniel 4:23, according to Nebuchadnezzar’s vision (who is represented
by a tree, as men sometimes were: Psalms 1:3, Psalms 37:35, Ez. 31:3), “seven times” were to
pass over him. Revelation 11:2-3 (“42 months” X 30= 1,260 days), Rev. 12:6 (“a thousand two
hundred and threescore days” or 1,260 days), Rev. 12:14 (“a time, and times, and half a time” or
360 + 720 + 180= 1,260 days) indicates that a “time” is 360 days, which means that seven
“times” would be 2,520 ‘days’ or years (on top of referring to the seven years God struck him
down with a period of insanity to show his power).
The calculation would go like this: 2,520 years X 360 days = 907,200 days, which adjusted
to our calendar year of 365.25 days, results in 2,483.78 years. When this figure is added to 606
BC, it leads us to the year 1878, which is believed to be the end of “the times of the Gentiles.”
Now comes an interesting proposal. When Jesus spoke of the way things were in the “days of
Noah,” when God gave mankind an additional 120 years (Gen. 6:3) to repent, before he sent the
flood; this period has been added to the year 1878 (of course in the adjusted form of 118.28 of
our calendar years), which indicates the year of 1997 as the end of “the times of the Gentiles”
and the beginning of the judgment period known as the Tribulation, which when you add this 3-
1/2 years, and leads us to the year 2000.
Let me throw one more at you, which came to me from an e-mail, and the website of Torstein
Langesaeter from Norway, who made a very detailed mathematical calculation to determine the
number of years between Adam, and Jesus; and believes that the period of 6,000 years will
conclude in 2028.
All of these calculations can be somewhat correlated to the six ‘day’ theory, in that it
indicates a time frame for events within this 6,000 year period. Jesus was very specific when He
spoke about the signs of His return, and He exhorted His disciples to watch, and pray. Because of
the symbolism, type and anti-types, and dual prophecies used in the Bible, was there something
that would signal the end of time as we got closer to the end of the six ‘days’ or 6,000 years? In
Luke 21:25, Jesus talked about the “signs ... upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity...”
There was a period in our history when a sequence of events occurred which seemed to set
the stage for the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Let’s look at the events which happened during
the three year period of 1945 – 1948: