The prophet Daniel understood that the prophetic days which were revealed to him were actually years. He realized that if they were literal days; the prophecies would have been fulfilled in his lifetime. Since nothing of significance happened on the timeline in which literal days fell; he knew that the days which were revealed to him had to be of another duration.

We learn from the following verses that the prophetic days which were revealed to Daniel were actually years.

Numbers 14:34 "After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise."

Ezekiel 4:5 "For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

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."

After this revelation of Ezekiel , when "days" are spoken of in a prophetic sense, they should be looked upon as Hebrew or Solar years, unless the context of the verse clearly indicates otherwise.

Hebrews used a lunar Calendar of 360 days while in Babylon which is .9857 Solar years. The .9857 Solar year is used only for interpreting Old Testament prophecy.

The Solar year of 365.24 days is the measurement of New Testament prophecy. Hence, John was under Roman rule and used a Solar calendar. A year of 365.24 days should be used for interpreting New Testament prophecy.

Matthew Henry "Commentary on the Whole Bible" Vol VI, p 1157, col 1, par II: "...time of their (the two witnesses) prophesying, or bearing witness for Christ. A thousand two hundred and three score days ...and if the beginning of that interval could be ascertained, this number of prophetic days, taking a day for a year, would give us a prospect of when the end should be."

So we understand a prophetic day = a year!

But 2nd Peter speaks of another length of time for the duration of a day. God doesn't contradict Himself. So if the prophetic days of Daniel are equal to years how do we reconcile the duration of time in 2nd Peter?

2 Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one he_mera is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one hemera."

The Greek word used here for 'day' is 'hemera' (Strong's 2250g) which can be translated as day, year, age, while, or "time" depending on the context of the verse and surrounding verses. In the NASB, He_mera is translated "time" in 12 places: Luke 1:39, 6:2, 23:7; Acts 1:15, 5:36, 6:1, 7:41, 9:37, 11:27, 21:38, and Hebrews 12:10.

Since there is nothing in the context of 2 Peter 3:8 and the surrounding verses to determine the translation "time" is as valid a translation here as anywhere else.

Consequently, the duration of "time" is a thousand years and a thousand years is as a "time."

Furthermore, we have indicated from Numbers 14:34, Ezekiel 4:5, and Ezekiel 4:6 that a prophetic "day" is equal to a year!

Now consider the verse found in Revelation 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, from the face of the serpent."

Let's examine "a time, and times, and half a time."

The Bible is full of idiomatic language. Here are a few important examples to illuminate the point of which I bring to your attention.

2 Kings 6:10 "And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice."

Job 33:14 "For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not."

Job 40:5 "Once have I spoken, but I will not answer: yea, twice, but I will proceed no further."

Psalm 62:11 "God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this, that power belongeth unto God."

It is highly likely that Daniel 7:25, Daniel 12:7, and Revelation 12:14 utilize idiomatic language. Hence, "a time, and times, and half a time" isn't three and a half times.

Consequently, the verse uses idiomatic language which indicates "a time, a second time, and a half a time" for a total of 2 1/2 times not 3 1/2 times.

Revelation 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 hafl a time, from the face of the serpent."

In Daniel's time, the northern kingdom of Israel had been dispersed for over 150 years! Consequently, the people to whom Daniel's prophecies were directed were to the Jews of the Southern kingdom conquered and held in captivity in Babylon.

The major deportation of the people of the northern kingdom of Israel occurred in 724 B.C. Samaria fell in 722 BC two years before the major deportation of Israelites in 724 BC.

The language of Revelation 12:14 'might fly into the wilderness' pins us to the major deportation of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.

"a time, and times, and half a time" would be 2500 years! The lost tribes of Israel would disappear for 2500 years and finally emerge.

2500 - 724 = 1776

It is highly likely that America is the "wilderness" in which God has hidden Ephraim for time, times, and a half time!

Genesis 48:19 "...he [Manasseh] shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but...[Ephraim] shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations."

Hos 1:10 "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea...in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God."

Hos: 2:16 "And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi [Husband]; and shalt call me no more Baali [Master].

Hos 8:8 "Israel is swallowed up now shall they be among the Gentiles..."

Hos 11:10 "They [Ephraim] shall walk after the LORD...then the children shall tremble from the west."

Additional verses for study: Hos 1:10-12; Hos 2:14-16; Hos 2:19-20, Hos 2:23; Hos 3:5; Hos 7:8; Hos 9:13-17; Hos 11:8-10

"42 Months" of Revelation

Let’s examine the “42 months” which John speaks in Revelation.

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.”

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.”

There are an average of 30.44 days in a month.

30.44 x 42 months = 1278.5 days (as years) 1278.5 years.

1967 – 1278.5 = 688.5 AD which is the founding of the Dome of the Rock.

The Islamic Leopard – Bear – Lion Beast of Revelation 13 had political and religious control “continued” in Jerusalem until 1967 when the Israelis regained Jerusalem taking control of the city and the temple mount.

The Leopard – Bear – Lion beast had exerted control through “jizya” a humiliating tax on the enslaved non Muslim people. Islam is symbolically marked by the founding year of the Dome of the Rock.

Daniel defined the figurative language of a “beast” in the context of Daniel 7:23.

Daniel 7:23 “Then he said, ‘The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom in the earth, which shall be unlike to all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down and break it in pieces.” (Geneva Bible).

Hence, in the figurative language of a dream of vision “beast” = “kingdom.”

On page 321 of Paul Johnson’s book “A History of the Jews” he declares:

"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'."

From Revelation 13:2 we understand “the dragon [Satan] gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.”

It is Satan who gives the Leopard – Bear – Lion beast the power of which is spoken in Revelation 13:5

The kingdom beasts of the Lion, Bear, and Leopard of Daniel’s prophecy are recognized as Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece. Hence, the Lion, Bear, and Leopard in Daniel’s prophecy are the composite beast / kingdom found in Revelation chapter 13.

The nations of Iraq, Iran, and Syria/Lebanon are the same geographic regions of the Lion, Bear, and Leopard. There is a measure of national autonomy between the various Islamic sects who war with each other.

They are united through their false prophet Mohammed and the spirit of antichrist.

Matthew 24 confirms the “Dome of the Rock” – the “abomination of desolation” fits the terms used to describe the abomination. It was ‘set up,’ and ‘stands,’ ‘where it ought not’, ‘in’ the ‘holy place’. Matthew and Mark instruct us to “understand” this principle.

The transfer of wealth from the Western nations to the Middle Eastern Islamic nations happened through the purchase of oil. The purchase of oil was the means to “heal the wound” of the Leopard Bear Lion beast. It was the purchase of oil by Western nations which finances the 2nd Jihad. Consequently, the second Jihad is a “likeness” of the first jihad. Therefore, it is an ‘image’ of the first jihad. The ‘image’ of the beast may also be in the Kaaba which contains the Black Stone. Muslims bowed to the Kaaba which once contained over 360 idols in Mecca.

Daniel's "1335 days"

Daniel 12:12 “Blessed [is] he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.”

Tanach: Daniel 12:12 “Fortunate is he who waits and reaches days of one thousand, three hundred, and thirty five.”

360 / 365.24 = .9857

1335 x .9857 (Old Testament prophetic year “language” conversion) = 1315.9

1315.9 - 583 BC (sacrifices were abolished in Jerusalem) = 732.9 AD

732 AD was the year Charles “Martel” (the hammer) defeated the Islamic army at the Battle of Tours in France. This very historically significant battle occurred 100 years after the death of Mohammed. It has been considered the most important battle of the whole Christian era. Martel stopped the First Islamic Jihad which sought to conquer Europe.

Hence, the Scriptures are clearly accurate when they declare “Blessed [is] he that waiteth…”and survives the First Islamic Jihad without denying the Lord Jesus Christ by converting to Islam.

The “Battle of Tours” was the high water mark of the Islamic invasion of Europe. Charles Martel delivered the mortal wound which halted the Islamic forces and literally killing Emir Abd er Rahman the head of the Islamic forces.

"Without his leadership and guidance, the other commanders were unable to even agree on a commander to lead them back into battle the following morning. The effect of the death of Abdul Rahman on both Islamic and world history was profound."

".... according to one unidentified Arab, 'That army went through all places like a desolating storm.' sacking and capturing the city of Bordeaux, and then defeating the army of Duke Odo of Aquitaine at the Battle of the River Garonne — where the western chroniclers state, 'God alone knows the number of the slain'—[3] and Odo fled to Charles Martel, seeking help."

"1260 days"

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 Biblical scholars agree that the “woman” referred to in Revelation 12:6 is “Israel” in the context of this verse.

Ezekiel 20:35 “And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.”

At the end of the 1260 “days” which equal years; Israel came out of the “wilderness” “of the people” and from being scattered among the nations. They returned home declaring their independence in 1948.

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."

1948 – 1260 (“each day for a year”) = 688AD

Here are the founding Islamic verses of the Dome of the Rock

"O you People of the Book, overstep not bounds in your religion, and of God speak only the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, is only an apostle of God, 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. God is only one God. Far be it from His transcendent majesty that he should have a son."

"42 Months"

The prophecies of the “42 months” and the “1260 days” begin from 583 BC, the date when the daily sacrifice ended in Jerusalem.

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 two months.”

“Leave out the court…it has been given to the Gentiles.”

Jerusalem, the holy city shall be “tread under foot forty two months.”

I will be consistent to principle which I introduced to you.

A prophetic day = a year.

A solar year is 365.24 days. There are 12 months in a year.

365.24 divided by 12 = 30.44 average days in a month.

Revelation 11:2 speaks of 42 months.

Hence, 42 months x 30.44 days = 1278.5 days as years.

The city of Jerusalem was “under foot” of the Gentiles until it was taken by the Israelis in 1967.

June 6, 1967 at the end of the Six Days War, General Moshe Dayan led a contingent of Israeli commandos that stood before a wall of ancient stones in the holy city of Jerusalem. They were standing at the Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem swearing an oath: “Never again shall be we driven from this place.”

For the first time in 2573 years (606BC to 1967 AD) the Jewish people were in control of the Holy City.

1967 AD – 1278.5 = 688.5 AD (The Dome of the Rock)

Evidently, it is very possible that this event was the fulfillment of the prophecy concerning 42 months.

Solomon built the temple over a threshing floor which his father David purchased from Ornan the Jebusite. The threshing floor was the bedrock on which the Ark of the Covenant stood in the Holy of Holies.

The popular assumption is the Dome of the Rock is the site of the location where the Arc stood. If one carefully examines the stone beneath the Dome of the Rock; it becomes apparent that a farmer could never thresh grain upon this stone. Threshing and recovering the grain is impossible on the rock beneath the Dome. But there is bed rock which flat and smooth 330 feet northwest of the memorial to the false prophet.

The Old Testament principle – day = year “language” is suggested in the Genesis’ account of the flood; a thirty day month indicating a 360 day prophetic year. Consequently, each prophetic year is equal to .9857 solar year.

360 / 365.24 = .9857
1290 x .9857 = 1271.5
1271.5 – 583 (date of the abolition of the sacrifice in Jerusalem) = 688.5 AD

1271.5 solar years.


The “Dome of the Tablets” also known as the “Dome of the Spirits” is a cupola covering the smooth flat threshing floor at the site of Solomon’s temple.

The Eastern Gate aligns perfectly with the “Dome of the Tablets”. The Court of the Gentiles, an area where unwashed slaves were permitted, is the location of where the Dome of the Rock now stands. Consequently, the “Dome of the Rock” was built in the court outside of Solomon’s magnificent temple. The Moslems built the Dome of the Rock over the wrong rock!

There is a 2-3 year latitude in the historic Babylonian dating period. Therefore the "zero year" between 1 BC and 1 AD is rendered unimportant. It is likely the Lord allowed the calculation to remain simple.

Although Daniel and John’s prophecies were written over 500 years apart; their prophecies coordinate with precise mathematics. Both John and Daniel’s prophecies establish 688 AD. The explanation is indicated to Daniel when he is given the following instructions.

Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Daniel 12:9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words [are] closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

Consequently, we would not understand the book of Daniel and Revelation until the ‘time of the end.”

The Man of Sin - Son of Perdition

“The man of sin” found in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 has been interpreted as "the antichrist".

2 Thessalonians 2: 2-12 “That you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
(3) Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
(4) who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.
(5) Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?
(6) And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed.
(7) For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains (restrains will restrain, NASB and NIV) will do so until he is taken out of the way.
(8) Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;
(9) that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
(10) and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.
(11) For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,
(12) in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.” NASB

When we understand that the corporate body of Christ - believers - is the "temple of God" we can begin to understand the "man of sin" found in 2nd Thessalonians.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a departing first, and that man of sin be disclosed, even the son of perdition.
(4) Which is an adversary, and exalteth himself against all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he doth sit as God in the Temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”

The “man of sin” will “exalteth himself against all that is called God.”

John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and that Word was with God, and that Word was God.”

Hence the “Temple of God” which exists in the Christian era - the corporate body of Christ - is composed of individuals. The "temple of God is in the human heart.

Consequently "he" that takes his seat in the human heart is not a human being but a spirit, the same "spirit of antichrist" mentioned in 1st and 2nd John.

It is much easier to detect Antichrists than “the son of perdition.”

Antichrist “denies that Jesus is the Christ;” he “denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father.” “…every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God…” “…those who do not acknowledge that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is THE deceiver and the antichrist.”

Judas Iscariot was described as “the son of perdition” and was among the most trusted disciples. “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first…”

Apparently, “that man of sin” is a spirit in persons within the church “which is an adversary, and exalteth himself against all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he doth sit as God in the Temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”

Who is the “man of sin” if it isn't Satan?

I Timothy 4: 1-2 “Now the Spirit speaketh evidently, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, and shall give heed unto spirits of error, and doctrines of devils. (2) Which speak lies through hypocrisy, and have their consciences burned with an hot iron."

2 Timothy 4:3-4 “For the time will come when they will not suffer wholesome doctrine: but having their ears itching, shall after their own lusts get them an heap of teachers. (4) And shall turn their ears from the truth, and shall be given unto fables.”

It is currently fashionable to suggest that the rebuilding a physical “temple of God” on the temple mount in Jerusalem is scriptural. To believe so would require Christians to believe that the finished work of redemption of Jesus Christ is incomplete and unfinished.

Jesus gave the Pharisees the following warning.

Mark 7:13 “Making the word of God of none authority, by your tradition which ye have ordained; and ye do many such things.”

Hebrews 8:13 “In that he saith a New Testament, he hath abrogated the old: now that which is disannulled and waxed old, is ready to vanish away.”

Romans 1:16 “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Grecian.”

Location of the Temple in the "Last Days"

I Corinthians 3:16 “Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (Geneva Bible)

I Corinthians 6:19 “Know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, whom ye have of God? And ye are not your own.”

II Corinthians 6:16 “And what agreement hath the Temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God: as God hath said, ‘I will dwell among them, and walk there; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

Ephesians 2:21-22 “In whom all the building coupled together, growth unto an holy Temple in the Lord. (22) In whom ye also are built together to be the habitation of God the Spirit."

Consequently, the temple of which Paul speaks in Thessalonians is the human heart!

False church in the end time

I Timothy 4: 1-3 “But the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, be means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.”

2 Timothy 4:3-4 “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside from myths.”

The Temple of God

John 2:19-22 “Jesus answered, and said to them, “Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up again. (20) Then said the Jews, “Forty and six years was this Temple a building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?” (21) But he spake of the temple of his body.” (22) As soon therefore as he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he thus said unto them; and they believed the Scriptures, and the word which Jesus had said.”

Jesus Temple rose from the grave in three days as he prophesied. The Temple has been rebuilt through his crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension which is the corporate body of Jesus Christ.

The following quote suggests that the Temple of God is the corporate body of Christ.

Ephesians 2:19-22 “Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners: but citizens with the Saints, and of the household of God. (20) And are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone, (21) In whom all the building coupled together, growth unto an holy Temple of the Lord. (22) In who ye also are built together to be the habitation of God by the Spirit.”

Through this clause: “ye also are built together to be the habitation of God by the Spirit” in Ephesians we understand I Corinthians 6:19

I Corinthians 6:19 “Know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, whom ye have of God? And ye are nor your own.”

Hence, the “temple of God” of which the Scripture speaks is the corporate body of Christ. The corporate body of Christ is composed of the regenerate individual people redeemed through the Holy Spirit.

Here is a list of verses in which the phrase “Temple of God” is found.

Matthew 21:12 refers to the literal material temple that Jesus prophesied would be torn down.

Matthew 21:12 “And Jesus went into the Temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the Temple, and overthrew the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves.”

Matthew 26:61 “And said, “This man said, ‘I can destroy the Temple of God, and build it in three days.”

The following verses declare and confirm that the Temple of God is corporate body of Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 “Know he not that ye are the Temple of God. (17) If any man destroy the Temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the Temple of God is holy, which ye are.”

2 Corinthians 6:16 “And what agreement hath the Temple of God with idols? For ye are the Temple of the living God: as God hath said, ‘I dwell among them, and walk there; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

The Scriptures which I have quoted above clearly indicate that the corporate body of Christ is the Temple of God. Hence, it is apparent and not open to interpretation that the corporate body of Christ is the Temple of God.

The Revelation in which John records his vision is in figurative language. We find two verses speaking of the “temple of God” in Revelation.

Revelation 11:1 “Then was given me a reed like unto a rod, and the Angel stood by, saying, ‘Rise and mete the Temple of God, and the Altar, and them that worship therein.”

Revelation 11:19 “Then the Temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in the Temple the Ark of his covenant; and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and earthquake, and much hail.”

The verses I have quoted are ALL of the verses using the phrase “temple of God.”

The accounts in Revelation locate the temple of God in the heavenlies and corresponds to Ezekiel’s description.

Ezekiel 43:7 “Which said unto me, ‘Son of man this place is my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, whereas I will dwell among the children of Israel forever, and the house of Israel shall no more defile mine holy Name, neither they, nor their kings in their high places.”

The Scriptures clearly indicate that God does not dwell in buildings made with hands.

Acts 17:24 “God that hath made the world, and all things that are therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.”

Any future literal physical temple built with hands would be desolate before its creation.

Hebrews 8:1 “Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum, that we have such an High Priest, that sitteth at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heavens. (2) And is a minister of the Sanctuary, and of the true Tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man.”

Now we can begin to understand the “man of sin” found in 2 Thessalonians.