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(Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald

Publishing Assn., 1950), vol. 1, pp. 376-381.

Page 54. Prophetic Dates.—An important

principle in prophetic interpretation in

connection with time prophecies is the year-

day principle, under which a day of prophetic

time is counted as a calendar year of historic

time. Before the Israelites entered the land of

Canaan they sent twelve spies ahead to

investigate. The spies were gone forty days,

and upon their return the Hebrews,

frightened at their report, refused to go up

and occupy the promised land. The result

was a sentence the Lord passed upon them:

“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.” Numbers 14:34. A similar

method of computing future time is indicated