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Jewish History:
Varous Timelines related to the "time of the Gentiles" Old Testament Prophecy.
For biblical prophecies regarding Baha'u'llah see http://sites.google.com/site/causeofgod/home/papers/baha-u-llah-and-biblical-prophecy
2520 Years:
if you will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments... I will chastise you seven times for your sins... I will make your cities waste... I will scatter you among the heathen. - Leviticus 26
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2520 Chart (2)Stan03FEb08.pdf attachment is from Christian sources, not Baha'i. http://www.2520yearprophecy.com/2520%20Chart%20(2)Stan03FEb08.pdf
2300 Years and 70 Weeks:
Daniel 8:13: How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression (abomination) of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? 8:14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. (King James Bible)
Daniel 9:24 where Daniel says that 70 weeks are appointed from the date of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem then shall Messiah be cut off.
24 "Seventy 'sevens' [a] are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish [b] transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy. [c] 25 "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree [f] to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, [g] the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. [h] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' [i] In the middle of the 'seven' [j] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.
Dates from Book of Daniel:
Dates from the Ezra 7 Chronology:
Ezra 7: 1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, 23 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, 4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, 5 the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest— 6 this Ezra came up from Babylon; and he was a skilled scribe in the Law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given. The king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him. 7 Some of the children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes. 8 And Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. 9 On the first day of the first month he began his journey from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him. 10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.
the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
1260 Years
Returning to the Book of Revelation again. . . in the 11th, 12th and 13th chapters, we are told seven separate times that the last beast referred to by John will control Jerusalem for 1260 years. In the Book of Revelation we read:
11:2: the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months...
11:3: I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days (1260)...
11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 11:9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half (3 1/2 cycles)
11:11 And after three days and an half (3 1/2 cycles) the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. (1260)
12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time (3 1/2 times)...
13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
In his book, the Jewish Prophet Daniel also refers to the 3 1/2 'times of the beast'.
1335 Years
in accordance with Abdu'l-Baha's commentary on the 1335 days prophecy from the Book of Daniel (Dan 12:12). Abdu'l-Baha said of this date:
Now concerning the verse in Daniel, the interpretation whereof thou didst ask, namely, "Blessed is he who cometh unto the thousand three hundred and thirty five days". These days must be reckoned as solar and not lunar years. For according to this calculation a century will have elapsed from the dawn of the Sun of Truth, then will the teachings of God be firmly established2 upon the earth, and the Divine Light shall flood the world from the East even unto the West. Then, on this day, will the faithful rejoice! (p. 49-50)
O servant of God! The aforementioned a thousand three hundred and thirty-five years must be reckoned from the day of the flight of His Holiness Muhammad, the Apostle of God, (Hegira) salutations and blessings rest upon Him, at the close of which time the signs of the rise, the glory, the exaltation, the spread of the Word of God throughout the East and the West shall appear. (p. 50)
It should be noted that there are other occurrences of the 1335 days, one in which Abdu'l-Baha reportedly in answer to a question of a young Mason Remey in 1911, which put the date at 1917. Another which was reported by Ruth White that has the 1335 coming out to 1957. The 1335 prophecy may be a polysemous example of Biblical prophecy, having more then one meaning and interpretation.
Daniel 7:23 The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. (3 1/2 times)
Daniel 12:6 How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 12:7 And I heard the man clothed in linen... sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half (3 1/2 times); and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
1290 Years
Afterward, in verse Daniel 12:11, it is said: “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolation be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.” 7
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