Bible Prophecy Numbers:
The Writing on the Wall
Chapter Two, Part
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Bible Prophecy Numbers
Introduction (Writing on the Wall)
Intro. a A Secret Message
Intro. b Purpose and Scope
Chapter One ("Yes It is I")
Ch. 1a Ten Epoch Events (Detailed)
Ch. 1b Seven-Year Famines
Ch. 1c What Prophecy Numbers Reveal
Chapter Two ("How Long?")
Ch. 2a General Meaning of "How Long?"
Ch. 2b The Famine of Joseph
Ch. 2c A-Day-Equals-a-Year
Ch. 2d What are the Bible Prophecy Numbers?
Ch. 2e 390, 430, (1290), and the 1150
Ch. 2f 1260 days/years, 1290 days/years
Ch. 2g 3½-yrs Prophetic, Solar, Lunar (Detailed)
Ch. 2h Time, Times, and a Half-a-time (Detailed)
Ch. 2i 1335 of Daniel and 430 of Ezekiel
Ch. 2j (Endnotes 1-11) and 2k (Endnotes 12-23)
Chapter Three ("The Mirror")
The Lunar Witness
(Table 7)|
Entry|1876 BC_______+_1270________as 606 BC| Exile Middle |1875 BC________+_1270________as 605 BC| Exile famine |
The Solar Witness
(Table 8)|
Entry|1876 BC_______+_1278________as 598 BC| Exile Middle |1875 BC________+_1278________as 597 BC| Exile famine |
The Prophetic Witness
(–1 yr) (Table 9a)|
Entry|1876 BC_______+_1290________as 587 BC| Exile Middle |1875 BC________+_1290________as 586 BC| Exile famine |
General Explanation of the Above Table ‘9a’ only
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1878–1871 BC (7-yr famine) + 1290 yrs = 588–581 BC. Siege of Jerusalem lasted from Jan. 588 to 586 BC, (or to 587 with the alternative date). (The "– 1 yr," (thus, for a total of only 1289 yrs), is explained shortly.) |
The Prophetic Second Witness (Table 9b)
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7-yr famine|1878–1871 BC__+_1290_(–1 yr)__as Jan. 589–582| 7-yr famine |1878–1871 BC___+_1290_____as Jan. 588–581| |
Start of siege till final exile |
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Start of siege till final exile |
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1878–1871 BC (7-yr famine) + 1290 years (or –1 yr etc.) = 588–581 BC. Jan. 588 BC is when the siege of Jerusalem started; (it ended 2½ yrs later). And 581 BC was the fourth and last exile (Jer. 52:30). Hence, there are two separate strands of alignment, i.e., from both the start and finish of the 7-yr famine. |
In the last two tables (i.e., tables ‘9a’ and ‘9b’––excluding the very last time line), the true total is 1,289 years (cf. "– 1 year,"), rather than an exact 1290. Why this slight inaccuracy? (Nevertheless, this principle exists in the numbers: Whatever appears to be a weakness is actually a concealed strength.)
Before I answer this question, let the reader remember the utter simplicity and flawlessness of the earlier chart (i.e., table ‘4’), where Daniel’s "1290" was divided evenly by Ezekiel’s "430" (i.e., 1290 ÷ 3 = 430); where exactly 430 years was spent in Egypt as well as 1290 years till the exile back again to Egypt (and Babylon) forming cycles of even 430-year periods. However, to make the alignment of these last charts (i.e., tables ‘9a’ and ‘9b’) perfectly conformable with the two charts before it (i.e., tables ‘7’ and ‘8’), we must subtract one year (i.e., 1,289 years instead of an even 1290). Thus we ask, "Why?"––"Why isn’t table ‘9a’ and ‘9b’ flawless like the others time-lines?" The answer is to be found in the way the Bible breaks down a 3½-year period, and then comparing that breakdown with the lengths of Ezekiel’s siege added to the actual siege. As we shall see, these two sieges were exactly 7 years apart,{16} with the total length of both sieges together amounting to 1290 days, less one-day. Hence, the exact total number of siege days (1,289) when converted to years, spans back to Joseph's 7-year famine as just observed in tables ‘9a’ and ‘9b.’ Hence, both 1290 and 1,289 day-years are correct, with "1,289" in this context being an authorized variation of the "1290" of Dan. 12:11.