Teachers of end-time theories say they will comprehend the Heavenly Book words in the period of seven years. They extend a "seventieth" of Daniel messages. "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, 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. After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off . . ." (Daniel 9:25-26)
Who wants to consume a "seventieth" from Daniel for the Heavenly Book, he needs to force it in himself. Such a long description of a world in peace, wars, and catastrophes lasted never a short time as seven years. The Second World War lasted almost seven years, and what about the time needed for its preparation? Then a few years was needed to recover. The same is with famine or catastrophes. The conclusion is that teachers of the end times force us to accept something which is unreal in our nature and societies.log11 Hence something is wrong with their interpretation of "seventy".
A break determines some time for discontinuing. A period is set in factories, schools etc. when their activities stop for an appointed time. When that time passed (break ended) their activities continue. Since "seventy" are appointed to the point when God will enter the Temple in Jerusalem and the King in Israel will start to rule again, then they must start logically by destroying the Temple and the kingdom. Only this is possible in human logic, other theories are unhuman theories.log12
The Bible says Daniel reconsidered the Jeremiah "seventy" "in the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus (Xerxes)." (Daniel 9:1) Darius I ruled from 521 to 486 B.C. when Israelites built the Temple (Ezra 6). Therefore, Gabriel's words are after the decree for the return in Jerusalem. This decree has come on light in the first year of Cyrus's rule, when Cyrus had taken over Babylon in the year 538 B.C.. Hence, the bridging period for the Temple already ran at Gabriel visit.
The Temple's destruction came in 586 B.C., a year after fall of Jerusalem. Jerusalem had the
Temple again after seventy years. (516-515 B.C.)
This Temple did not become the dwelling place of God because God did not enter it as He did
the Tabernacle (Exodus 40:34) or Solomon's Temple (1Kings 8:10). The old state of the Temple
still was not renewed although Israelites renewed the building and offering after seventy years.
And therefore, Jeremiah seventy are not finished yet. And more, neither in our days the Messiah
as the king of the world can be found in the Temple. Therefore, the end of "seventy" is in future.
The Bible says Daniel was concluding that the "seventy" would be fulfilled (Daniel 9:2). But as I
mentioned above this was unreal. God did not want him to come to such a conclusion and sent
Gabriel to edit his thoughts. Gabriel did not come to disprove the start of the Jeremiah "seventy,"
but to give them higher meaning.
Can someone beat Daniel in his wisdom? And therefore, when Daniel considered the "seventy"
as running from the fall of Jerusalem and the Temple, you should not think otherwise?
Zechariah had the vision of horses and heard a debate between the Lord and an angel during the
finishing of the Temple. An angel said, "Lord Almighty, how long will you withhold mercy
from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah, which you have been angry with these
seventy years?" (Zechariah 1:12)
If angels count years from the fall of Jerusalem and the Temple, men and so authors of the end
times theories should, also.bib21
Frontiers of "seventy" are Temples. The old sacrifices and the old Temple had fallen and the period of "seventy" started. This period will end when the new services in the new Temple start to run according to Ezekiel 40-48. According to the Bible no one shall move an ancient boundary stones. (Hosea 5:10) Then neither nowadays teachers should set new limits in order that their teaching may fit accurately in them.
History of Christianity starts when Jesus Christ died, although there was not the exact time.
Scholars dispute about years 26-33 A.D. and therefore some variation existed for Anderson also
in this limit.
Variations for the start were in the captivity history:
608 B.C. - Several princes of Judah, among them Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abedneggo,
were taken into Babylonia.
597 B.C. - Conquered Jerusalem and captives taken.
586 B.C. - Destroyed Jerusalem and captives taken.
585 B.C. - pulled down the Temple.
538 B.C. - Cyrus's decree for the return to Jerusalem to build the city and the Temple.
Zerubbabel led them.
515 B.C. - Temple rebuilt.
521 B.C. - Darius's decree confirms Cyrus's decree.
458 B.C. - King Artaxerxes sent a Temple offering and the priest Ezra led Temple services.
444 B.C. - King Artaxerxes made Nehemiah the ruler of Jerusalem. The king allowed them to
repair the Jerusalem wall.
Sir Robert Anderson chose not the year 586 B.C. (the fall of the Kingdom, Jerusalem, and the
Temple) neither any year from years 597 B.C. - 585 B.C., because he could not apply 483 years
to it. Sir Robert Anderson said the time should be counted from the year 445 B.C. until the year
32 AD. He refers to King Artaxerxes.
The main Biblical criterion is no one may change each foretold historical event. Adding or taking from it is impossible. Who does so is an unbiblical man. Anyone who reads the Bible cannot believe him.
If God speaks to Daniel about "the issuing of the decree" by someone (9:25), then He also had to foretell an author such a decree. If He did, then theories about someone else have no right to be in Christian theologies.
Theological schools had to verify Anderson's thoughts first and then to accept. Christians know
that God called Isaiah to prophesy Israel's restoration, kingdom, and the Coming of the Messiah.
Let's first look there. "Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I
please;' he will say of Jerusalem, 'Let it be rebuilt,' and of the temple, 'Let its foundations
be laid.'" (Isaiah 44:28-45:4)
"This is what the LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to
subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so
that gates will not be shut: I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break
down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness,
riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, God of Israel,
who summons you by name. For the sake of Jacob my servant, of Israel my chosen, I
summon you by name and bestow on you a title of honor, though you do not acknowledge
me."
Isaiah foretold Cyrus to be the "he" in two chapters.ins3
If, in spite of that, Cyrus did not acknowledge God, was not a Jew, and still God called him by his name and bestowed an honorable title on him, then it is the strong Biblical aspect. If God foretold that some man would arise, He usually did not reveal his name. Why did He do so if Cyrus was not from the people of God?log13 Perhaps He foresaw that many men would consider another name.
God spoke about Cyrus as He did about the Christ. (The name Cyrus may have meant simply "son" in a local dialect.) The meaning of Isaiah's words is that the Christ will accomplish what Cyrus started. The conclusion is that period of "seventy" ending by Christ Jesus ministry started by coming Cyrus on the throne in the land where Israelites were at that time (Babylon). Then, if Robert Anderson wanted to start from the Christ (The Crucifixion), then he had to consider Cyrus as the man issuing these events, so issuing the decree.bib22
Isaiah and Jeremiah prophecy were already fulfilled. "Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of
Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD
stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his
kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, This is which Cyrus king of Persia says: 'The
LORD, God of Heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the Earth and he has appointed
me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Anyone of his people among you--may
his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the
LORD, God of Israel, God who is in Jerusalem.'" (Ezra 1:1-3)
When God foretold some event and the Bible showed its happening then it is so a firm point of
the history and the Bible that no one can move. If someone still tried to move then he is sorcerer
or she is witch.
Can someone move it what the Bible confirms in Ezra 4:3, 5:13, 6:3 and II Chronicles 36:23
also. Five times mentioned Cyrus to be issuing decree for the new era in the history of Israel is
so firm biblical truth that must stay till the end of our world.bib23
No one has firmly based Artaxerxes's writing on God. Therefore, inspiration to put Artaxerxes to be a foundation for accomplishing "seventy" is not from God.
Nehemiah had prayed (chapter 1), and God heard him. Any fulfilled prayer does not mean the God's Word foretold by God's prophets runs.bib24
The Artaxerxes dealing is: "The king asked me, 'Why does your face look so sad when you
are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.' I was very much afraid, but I said to
the king, 'May the king live forever! Why should my face not look sad when the city where
my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?' The king said
to me, 'What is it you want?' Then I prayed to God of Heaven, and I answered the king, 'If
it pleases the king and if your servant has found favor in his sight, let him send me to the
city in Judah where my fathers are buried so that I can rebuild it.' Then the king, with the
queen sitting beside him, asked me, 'How long will your journey take, and when will you
get back?' It pleased the king to send me; so I set a time. I also said to him, 'If it pleases the
king, may I have letters to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, so that they will provide me
safe-conduct until I arrive in Judah?'" (Nehemiah 2:2-7)
It was Nehemiah's will; "It pleased the king". The king granted Nehemiah's request, allowing
Nehemiah's will to be realized. So, it was not the king's will. The queen was there and could
have influenced the king to satisfy Nehemiah.
If God put a person to work, then the person does it full-time. We cannot say this about Nehemiah. His main job was to serve to the king. Artaxerxes appointed him for another job and set a time. Because that job was Nehemiah's will, someone may think he got a vacation in order to realize what he wanted.log14
According to Gabriel, it has to be the public declaration. King Cyrus declared his word in public, but Artaxerxes's words to Nehemiah are the personal decree for his new office.bib25
Artaxerxes granted Nehemiah the decree for the office the mayor of Jerusalem. The majoring of Nehemiah went into the history of Jerusalem as the period of rebuilding city walls. But, were walls of Jerusalem the bearer of Israeli identity? No. For instance, when God punished the Kingdom of Judah, He allowed the breaking of the walls of Jerusalem (II Kings 14:13), but not the Temple. If breaking the city walls was used to harm that unfaithful generation, the city walls were not considered to endure to the last generations.bib26
If city walls had to endure to last generations, they made their city a locked city. Other cities built new walls often to be more significant than those with ancient walls. Therefore, city walls did not necessary serve to keep city power position for the next generations. And therefore neither Nehemiah's wall should serve to keep the power of Jerusalem for next generations.log15
The Daniel "seventy" should end by the establishment of the Messiah as the High Priest and the King of people of God. This will be in Jerusalem. God foretold that time, "Jerusalem will be a city without walls." (Zechariah 2:4) Everyone could understand that no one needs Jerusalem's walls to accomplish the Jeremiah and Daniel "seventy."bib27
Let's look at a house-raising. In its construction, builders use only the materials the house needs.
If the house does not need any bronze, they do not use it in the construction. And what about the
foundation's material? Could they include a material the house should not have? If they do, will
its construction be stable? If it is not in the house's materials, perhaps they made a mistake and
mislaid it. If it would have evaporated, dissolved, or decayed, and a hole appears. Can the house
not fall because of this hole?
Then such a destiny may await every theory based on unneeded terms. It should also be true with
every theory of the end times that started by walls of Jerusalem.
City walls did not contain only Jews, but others nations. The walls of Jerusalem are not unique compared to the Temple; therefore, words about the walls of Jerusalem are not unique for the nation chosen By God.log16
Today enemies do not care about the city walls.
As the needed condition for the establishment of the Millennium, Christians also consider the
Temple in Jerusalem, not its walls.log17
Only authors of end-time theories go by the city walls' theory. Using the beginning of the Daniel "seventy" for works done with the walls of Jerusalem is insensible. Therefore, serious ones about God's business cannot follow Anderson's thoughts.
Certainly neither God nor someone else said that the years when prophets prophesied have to be recounted to 360 days. Is it possible to add any term in the Bible?bib28
The communication needs the same understanding of spoken terms on both sides of used communicate channel. To change the meaning of transmit terms is illegal. The same must be applied in any communication between God and His people. The meaning of the term must be the one for the Lord and His people. If the Lord used prophets to be the communication channel then God's prophet could not change any term, could not give it some new meaning. Therefore, a prophetic year could not exist in communication between the Lord and His people.log18
Christians who believe in the "prophetic year" of 360 days should rewrite all the years in the Bible. As Anderson made 483 years from 476 historical and Biblical years (445 B.C. - 32 AD), so writers should also make the same with other historical years. Their believing in a prophetic year mean, historical years in the Bible are not right anymore, the existing Bible lies readers of the Bible.log19
Moses' Law does not say anything about this. We consider him a prophet. Should we reconstruct a jubilee year or other years of the Moses Law because Anderson did? To speak about "prophetic years" brings chaos into the understanding of the Bible and we know who intend to do so (Satan).log20
Anderson has brought doubt (about the years in which the Biblical events happened). If we start to doubt about these Biblical words, doubts about other Biblical truths are on the way and we are there where Eve was (Genesis 3:1). After the doubt about God's Word did the sin come, and humans were expelled from the Eden. The Bible calls such a job to be a serpent's job (2. Corinthians 11:3), that expelled us from "the Eden". Here can lay a key why Revelation is not the domain book for our times. They expel the book which Christ Jesus holds during his sitting on the Throne by saying, the events written there are for left behind, for those who will not be raptured. log21
Under the term "year," the Bible considers the seasons (Leviticus 26:16).bib29
Scholars do the same because it is the period of revolution of the Earth about the sun; so a year
depends only upon seasons that meet our Earth on the solar orbit. As far as we are from the sun,
we have winters or summers, or between them, springs and autumns. This is clear to a student.
Therefore, if the Earth turned 483 times around the sun, or the Earth completed 483 trips around
the sun, this is expressed simply by 483 years.
If a teacher taught the Earth turns around the sun 483 times and it is 476 years, would any school
accept him? Nevertheless, the teachers of the end times, who say 476 years are 483 years, are
accepted and honored in many churches.log22
God created a man and put him among His other creations. We could derive from that process that a man can only study the creation and not change it. Yet, he does not have any power to change the solar orbit. If someone can change the created universe, he is called a god and not a man.bib30 If Anderson did, we do not have to title him "sir" but "god."
The Earth revolves on its axis. We call one turn a day. This is different from the definition of a year. So a year does not depend on a day, and a day does not depend on a year.log23
People have chosen to divide a day into hours. A day has twenty-four hours. If a day has twenty-four hours, then a year has 8,766 hours (365.25 x24). The Bible speaks about days that had more than twenty-four hours (Joshua 10:12-14, II Kings 20:11). So, more hours did not change the number of days in those years. If a change of hours did not change the biblical numbers (of Earth's turns on its axis) of days, this should also be true for a year--that a change of the number of days can change the number of years (numbers of Earth's turns around the sun). bib31
Perhaps we could think that a creation day lasted longer than twelve or twenty-four hours, at
least till the fourth day of creation. God created so much on the third day that, according to laws
of physics, it would be impossible in twenty-four hours. For the instance, drying land and
planting and growing trees. Those creations in that time period could be accepted easier if we
considered a day longer than ours. It would mean that the Earth revolved slower on its axis than
today. Then the Earth could have changed its movement on its axis because it met the moon on
the fourth day of creation. (The moon and the sun had been created.) So, a time period does not
define biblically numbers of day or years.
Today Venus completes one trip around the sun in 224.7 Earth-days, but Venus was found to
rotate once on its axis every 243 days, which means Venus's year is shorter than its day.
The moon revolves around Earth, and therefore, we have months. Calendars could be based on
months, but they were corrected to the sun. Our calendar is the Gregorian respecting exact
numbers of days (365.2425)log24
God put the Earth under a human being, and yet a human cannot change the Earth's days.
Although theoretically, it is possible by firing a great object from the Earth's surface into the
universe.
Historically, a man already changed Earth's movement on its axis by God's help. God's servant,
Joshua, said the sun should stay, and Isaiah prayed the Earth would move backward. (Joshua
10:12-14, II Kings 20:11) Still when we speak about a day, we refer to the revolving of the Earth
on its axis, not in the solar orbit.
Then theoretically we may accept any dispute about a "prophetic day", but never about the
"prophetic year."log25
Anderson used Revelation for establishing the "prophetic year". If it would be so, a year will have 360 days, still this is for future times. However, 69/70 are already the history. Never future can change history.log26
Revelation 12 speaks about the climax for the Church from Christ Jesus ministry. To know more you need to read my book "The Chronology of Revelation" or at least to see the presentation www.climaxofrevelation.com.
No one can say that verses 6 and 14 speak the same because the character of the chapter 12 is dynamic. Events run in time as:
To say two events from different position of the time line above are the same is nonsense. Moreover, they used this nonsense to prove the existence of the "prophetic year".log27
The dragon persecuted the "woman" the first time. It was the same devil who persecuted Jesus
from the birth. He was not expelled from Heaven then. He used Roman emperors as his tools.
The second time it was a dragon expelled from Heaven who was also called a devil or Satan or
serpent. The word serpent means one who tempts. (See Eve in the Eden.) Under the word Satan
or devil, he lies. So his tools could have been those looking like his own brothers but who were
seduced by the Evil One, and therefore, forced lies.
So, if the Bible describes the first and the second persecutor differently then they are not one and
the same persecution.bib32
Then the "woman" fled (run away) to her first dwelling place outside of that ancient society. Secondly, she flied away. There are two kinds of moving and not the onebib33
First time she went into the desert to a place prepared for her by God. She was there under the care of God. Secondly, she stay on the earth because now the earth helped her and so she could continue to work but somewhere where the dragon did not have any power. They are two different activities and so, they are two dwelling places after depurtures.bib34
If the Bible describes the airplane (the two wings of a great eagle) given to "woman" for the second departure, it means, a long time (centuries) passed between her first and second departure. bib35
After the first departure, the dragon went in the war in heaven but secondly, the dragon went to make war against the rest of her offspring. They are different, not the same wars.bib36
Anderson's conclusion that Revelation 12 proofs the existence of the "prophetic year" in Daniel "seventy" is wrong because the dragon made war against those who hold the testimony of Jesus. Daniel, neither his people held the testimony of Jesus because they were not Christians.bib37
To pass literature, every pupil must see that they are two different departures. log28 Only teachers
of the end times say it is one and the same case and therefore, 1,260 days = a time, times, and
half a time = 3.5 years.
We need to understand that a time is God's time, not humans' time. It is not our year, it could
only be a year. A time (kairos) is the Lord's time for the end times. As the Lord's time existed
first, the Early Church could continue, so should the Lord's time exist for the end times that the
Church of the "later rain" could continue in the victorious crusade.
This word "time"--kairos--is used in the Gospel as the meaning of God's time. (Luke 12:56,
19:44, Matthew 16:3, John 7:6) So the Bible does not prove "time" means a year with the
number of days.bib38
The period commonly translated into English as "a time, times, and half a time" is used also in Daniel 7:27 and 12:7). All three phrases (Daniel 7:27; 12:7 and Revelation 12:14) issue God's dealing. It is Anderson fiction that they are appointed for the last seventieth week of "seventy", when the evil will set abomination on a wing of the Temple (Daniel 9:27).
God's dealing at the end times is not just the Second Coming to start God's kingdom on the earth. God should act at the end times according to the written Words in the Heavenly Book, shouldn't He? If He should, He needs times for it according to Ephesians 1:10 "to be put into effect when times will have reached their fulfillment - to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ."bib39
How is it possible not to have any schedule for the Heavenly Book? Whether are not receipts for instance in cooking scheduled? There is set a time for fermenting, baking and so on. Then, it is logical that each writing (scroll) has own timely period.log29
There are periods for each part of the book sealed by a seal. Every seal is God's Seal. Then, the writing under the First Seal is initiating one and belonging just to God. Therefore, the First Scroll (the writing under the First Seal) has God's time. Then, it must be the full time, not divided "kairos".
A "semi-time" or "hemi-time" is not half of a year. It can only be a half of a year. (Today we use "semi" instead "hemi.") It is divide God's time because God's doing in our world is interfered by the evil. It is average time for next six parts of the Heavenly Book. As after the Lord Jesus Christ's time (kairos) came the Early Church's times--due to different ruling emperors (different conditions and times)--so exist for the last Church because of their enemies' reactions. These times depend on the world responses, and therefore, should be "semi-times".
A plural word of "time" means more times than one. As they can be two, so they can be seven also. Although teachers of the end times use two years, the other teachers in our world do not confirm times = two years.
Plural of times must exist because the Heavenly Book has plurals periods. They are seven
because are seven writings, scrolls. Each writing is sealed - so seven seals.
So, seven periods make times for the Heavenly Book. (see more later)
Concluding is that a period phrased like "a time, times, and half a time" precedes the period of the Heavenly Book.log30
Anderson also declares that the event in Revelation (11:3) runs in the same time as is in Revelation 12:6; 12:14.
Revelation 11:3 speaks: "I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth." This prophesying during the period of "women"'s departure exclude them from belonging among those who are behind the symbol "woman". Namely, "woman" fled because did not have any protective power for 1260 days. But these two witnesses are protected for 1260 days. "If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want." (Verses 5-6)bib40
Anderson's arrogance continues and puts occupation of the holy land for 42 months (Revelation 11:2) in "woman"'s departure.
Chapter 11 is also dynamic chapter. The Old Testament's events enter the world events of Christianity in this chapter. Therefore, they are different from those in the chapter 12. They measure the Temple, which could be the one built for the Messiah. Because the outer court is not measured and the Temple is given to the Gentiles, it could means the new Temple will stand beside of the existing mosque. Then Gentiles will trample on the holy city for 42 months (verse 2).bib41
It's unclear whether 42 months for Gentiles and 1260 days of two witnesses start on the same
day. We naturally consider events run in sequence, i. e. one follows another.
But the end of prophesying does not corresponds with the end of this occupation because
occupants will overpower two witnesses on 1260-th day. "Now when they have finished their
testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill
them. Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and
Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified." (verse 7-8) So the biblical proof of 42 months =
1260 days does not exist neither among 42 months and 1260 days in Revelation 11.bib42
Chapter 11 runs during the second woe of the Seventh Scroll in the future. Our Earth would have
moved to disorder before the Seventh Scroll is opened because of the big catastrophe described
in the Sixth Scroll.
Before the Seventh Seal is opened, the Earth should not move for some time because it is written
that angels were "standing on four corners of the Earth holding back the four winds of the
Earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree." (7:1) If
angels stand on Earth's corners, this would involve the Earth's movement in the universe. Wind
is air in motion, relative to the rotating surface of the Earth. So if Earth has no wind, then there
is no movement. When moving for the Seventh Scroll, it is possible the Earth slowed, and a year
might have fewer days less. We can apply this to future days, but not to past days, so to the
sixty-nine year weeks.
Anderson wrote: Now this seventieth week is admittedly a period of seven years, and half of this period is three times described as "a time, times, and half a time," or "the dividing of a time;" (Daniel 7:25; 12:7; Revelation 12:14) twice as forty-two months; (Revelation 11:2; 13:5) and twice as 1, 260 days. (Revelation 11:3; 12:6)" (page 67 from the book The Coming Prince).
Let me go lastly to Revelation 13:5. The proof of the existence of the "prophetic year" puts the equal mark between the dragon in Revelation 12 and the beast in the chapter 13. This is biblical nonsense. Revelation 12:6 speaks about a dragon before he's expelled from the Heaven. He acted at Christ's birth. Chapter 13 tells about a man who will act before the Lord Jesus Christ's return, before the Second Coming as the King.bib43
Revelation 12:3 speaks of a dragon with seven crowns, and Revelation 13:1 writes about a beast having ten crowns.bib44
The Bible describes evil power in Revelation 12 as a dragon. A dragon used a few persons. The first one was Herod, who wanted to kill baby Jesus, then Nero, then others. But Revelation 13 speaks about a human person, a beast in the end times.log31
The chapter 13 still speaks about another person being a beast. It is not told the second beast's length of power. If both cannot come to power on the same date, then the time for the first beast must not be the same for another person in chapter 13 or many persons in chapter 12.log32
Now the evil man, the beast, will have power to harm and conquer saints. Escaping him will be impossible because a whole world will be under his power (verse 7). Chapter 12 speaks of flying by airplane in free country where evil does not rule.bib44
Anderson derives the "prophetic year" also from history before Daniel. He used words about the
flood. (Genesis 7, 8) The flood started "in the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the
seventeenth day of the second month."(Genesis 7:11) "The water receded steadily from the
Earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, and on the
seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat."
(Genesis 8:3-4)
Here is not any year. 150 days are just five months what means that a month had 30 days.
We do not know (I think) Earth revolving on its axis for that time. That day could have been
longer or shorter. Our days could have been fixed after the flood when the Earth was divided (I
Chronicles 1:19).
However, the flood was before prophets have risen or Daniel's "seventy" started. log33
Anyway, here is proof that what the Bible speaks is truth. Who reads the Bible should understand historical years as they are written and do not need any key called now the "prophetic year".