Chapter Two, Part G

"Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1335 days"––this vision came to Daniel (10:1, 4; 12:12) in April of 536 BC––1335 years to the very month from the end of Joseph's 7-year famine. One month after this vision came to Daniel, they began rebuilding Solomon’s temple (Ezra 3:8), which was 430 years to the very month years to the very month (1Kg. 6:1, cf. Ex. 12:41) after Solomon himself had first begun to build (May 966 BC to May 536 BC)! Babylon had fallen exactly 2½ years to the very month years to the very month prior to this vision of Daniel (aut. 539 to spr. 536 BC, or plus one month more to the temple rebuilding in May). (This is a repeat of the Jerusalem siege that also lasted 2½ years, with yet another month till the fall of the temple. Thus God reverses the harm Babylon caused Jerusalem, here illustrated in the recurrence of same time sequences.) The decree to return home to Judah was in 538 BC^{22} (2Chr. 36:20-23; Ezra 1:1). Their actual journey home, till the reconstruction of the altar was from spr. to aut. 537 BC (Ezra 1:11; 3:1, 2). Seven months after the altar was built, as said, the temple itself began to be rebuilt (May 536 BC)––ending "70 years" of captivity as prophesied by Jeremiah the prophet (i.e., 606 to 536 BC).

"In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem" (Dan. 9:2).

The all-important temple (with its own fortifications) was finally captured and burned 30 actual days (31 prophetic) after Jerusalem itself was taken.^{23} Thus it took 930 prophetic days till the temple was captured (i.e., 899 till the fall of the city, + 31 more = 930 days); but 945 actual days (i.e., 915 days till the fall of the city, + 30 = 945). Therefore consider this amazing fact, that, just as the 1290 days of Dan. 12:11 is made up of the 900 (prophetic) days of the siege of Jerusalem (i.e., 899 exact) plus the 390 of Ezekiel’s siege (see table ‘12’), even so the 1335 days of Dan. 12:12 is likewise made up of the 945 (actual) days till the fall of the temple plus the same 390 of Ezekiel, (i.e., 390 + 945 = 1335 days total.)^{24}

"Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1335 days"

Thus was fulfilled the word to Jeremiah:

"Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that it shall no more be said, As Jehovah liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; but, As Jehovah liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north (i.e., from Babylonia), and from all the countries whither he had driven them" (Jer. 16:14–15; and 23:7–8 too).

These three numbers: 1) the exact "430" years from Solomon’s temple as prophesied by Ezekiel, (agreeing in both number and theme with the likewise "430 years" till the exodus/tabernacle, see table ‘3’ and ‘4’); 2) the prophesied "70" years from the first exile (606 BC); 3) and the "1335" years from Joseph’s famine; these three numbers bear witness together that God’s set time of deliverance had come. God kept His promise to Judah concerning how long the captivity would be, and God will keep His promise to you too!

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