For the first 2 problems posted in this forum see "Daniel's Times Problems" here:
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=77.0DAY YEAR LANGUAGE OF PROPHECYWithin this traditional
continuous historic context of study we also find a "language" of prophecy wherein we consider "
each day for a year". We learn that this day-year principle was well known prior to the 20th century, when we look to those of the "former age" and "
search of their fathers", as the Bible instructs.
The following is a summary of seven more of the math problems explored in "
The False Prophet" (available absolutely free by simply clicking on the link), that uniformly apply this day = year "language" of prophecy. Much better to
start the book at the beginning, rather than explore the math out of context, because "The False Prophet" is a brick by brick empirical argument.
Let's start this section with a problem involving 1260 "days" in prophecy, from John's vision detailed in Revelation:
Here is a link to a godtube video of this problem.
3. Revelation 12:6 (KJV): 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.
Most agree that Israel, is the "woman" in the context of this verse. If we then consider that the end of the 1260 "days" was when Israel came out of "the wilderness" (of the people
Ezekiel 20:35), or out from being scattered among the nations, returning home and declaring her independence in
1948, and subtract 1260 years ("
each day for a year"), we arrive at
688 AD.
A quick
Yahoo search reveals that this is widely understood to be the founding year of the construction of the Islamic mosque, the Dome of the Rock.
The founding verses of the Dome of the Rock "O you People of the Book, overstep not bounds in your religion, and of Allah speak only the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, is only an apostle of Allah, and his Word which he conveyed unto Mary, and
a Spirit proceeding from him. Believe therefore in God and his apostles, and say not Three. It will be better for you. Allah is only one Allah.
Far be it from His transcendent majesty
that he should have a son."
Luke 24:39
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.1 John 2:22
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also].The blasphemous founding verses are written in the mosaic on the Dome of the Rock both inside and out. Over the nearly 1400 years of Islamization of the Middle East, the Holy Land became spiritually desolated by the exile of Christians and Jews. Today Iran is
99% Muslim, with Iraq at 98% and Syria at 90%, while Saudi Arabia is 100% and Turkey 99% Muslim. Below is a map of this spiritual condition.
By the 1800's Israel was rendered a desolate, barren, relatively abandoned, wasteland.
Continuing our study it will become increasingly apparent that the Dome of the Rock is God's symbol for Islam in prophecy, and that Islam is the subject of Daniel's "time of the end", and the "end of the world".
The language of prophecy wherein we calculate "each day for a year" was well known by
Matthew Henry, Thieleman J. van Braght, and Jamison, Faucett & Brown, to mention just a few. One example of a source verse is:
Ezekiel 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. Next let's try a verse that involves
42 "months" in prophecy.
There are 365.24 days in our modern solar year, or John's 1st century Julian (365.25) year, divided by 12 months =
30.44 average days in a month:4. Revelation 11:2: But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty [and] two months.The city of Jerusalem was under the foot of, or controlled by, Gentiles until the Israelis took back the holy city in 1967.
42 months x 30.44 days = 1278.5 days (as years).
Subtracting this from 1967 we arrive at 688.5. Once again, the founding year of the Dome of the Rock.
It wasn't until after the events and the years of 1948 and 1967 had come to pass that we could understand the textual and mathematical solutions to these
two simple problems.
Further study of the above verse may well demonstrate God's wonderfully wry sense of humor. The Solomonic Temple was built over the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, and on that bedrock the Arc of the Covenant, or Holy or Holies, was kept. It is obvious that the stone pictured below, in the Dome of the Rock, could hardly have served as a threshing floor, because both threshing and recovery of grain would have been beyond reason, particularly when there was a perfectly suited smooth flat rock just 300 feet away.
Today the
little gazebo aptly named the "Dome of the Tablets", or "Dome of the Spirits", covers the smooth flat former threshing floor of the
old Temple site. (Circled in Temple Mount
photo at this link)
The old
Eastern Gate lines up perfectly with the little "Dome of the Tablets".
The Solomonic Temple "
Court of the Gentiles", where even unwashed slaves were allowed, is likely where the Dome of the Rock was constructed.
Photo from: http://www.excel.net/~hoy/east-tab.html
It would seem that the Dome of the Rock was built in the court that was outside of the Solomonic temple, that the Lord gave to the Gentiles. In other words, the Moslems built the Dome of the Rock - over the wrong rock! Does God have a wonderfully wry sense of humor?
Let's study another 42 "months" problem from John in Revelation, prefaced with a related verse:
Revelation 13:2
And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his [Daniel's beast is "his"] feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.7. Revelation 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.Again using the average of 30.44 days in a month, multiplied by
42 months = 1278.5 days (as years). Subtracting this from 1967 we arrive again at 688.5. The founding year of the Dome of the Rock.
The political and religious control (through jizya - that is -
humiliation taxes of the enslaved, etc.) of the Islamic
LBL beast, of Revelation 13 "continued" in Jerusalem until the Israelis retook the Holy City in 1967 - Islam being marked symbolically by the founding year of the Dome of the Rock.
Daniel defined what a beast is, when the figurative language of a dream or vision is used in Scripture, and he did it in the context of the lion, bear, leopard and fourth "terrible" beast: Daniel 7:23
Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,...And so we learn that in the figurative language of a dream or vision in prophecy,
beast = kingdom.Islamic conquest resulted in the exile of Jews and Christians from the Holy Land, and subsequent
spiritual desolation of the region. By the 1800's it was a physically desolated, deserted wasteland.
In "A History of the Jews" page 321 Paul Johnson writes: "Between 1827 and 1839, largely through British efforts, the population of Jerusalem rose from 550 to 5,500 and in all Palestine it topped 10,000 - the real beginning of the Jewish return to the Promised Land. In 1838 Palmerston appointed the first western vice-consul in Jerusalem, W.T. Young, and told him 'to afford protection to the Jews generally'."
We can see from Revelation 13:2 above, that the dragon, Satan, gives the beast the power that is mentioned in Revelation 13:5, that is manifest in Islamic control of this empire.
See illustrationDaniel's successive kingdom beasts of lion, bear and leopard, which Bible scholars recognize as Babylon, Medo-Persia, and ancient Greece, form the composite
leopard-bear-lion - beast / kingdom - we find in Revelation 13. This
same geographical region is today occupied by
Iraq, Iran, and Syria/Lebanon. While some Islamic sects have national autonomy, and different sects of Islam are at war against each other, they are all perfectly united behind their false prophet Mohammed, and united in the
spirit of antichrist. These modern day realities perfectly compliment this sound hermeneutic, textual and mathematical study.
The prophetic pin date of 688 and the symbol of the end times - the
Dome of the Rock - the
abomination of desolation - also fits all of the definitions of terms used to describe this abomination, since it was "
set up", and "
stands", "
where it ought not", "
in" the "
holy place", as
Matthew 24 confirms, in conjunction with that passage in Mark and Luke, as well as Daniel, where Matthew and Mark instruct us to "understand" the concept from.
Eventually Western wealth transfer to the Middle East through oil purchase would
heal the wound of the
leopard-bear-lion beast, financing the second Jihad in
the image of the first Jihad. Jihad is the pinnacle of worship in Islam. This image worship may also include the Black Stone in the Kaaba, that at one time housed over 360 idols, that all Muslims bow toward, in their daily prayers, from everywhere in the world.
