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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 12 – The Gospel Church
to this end. The like figure is used to describe

God’s dealings with ancient Israel. By Moses

he said to them: “Ye have seen what I did unto

the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’

wings, and brought you unto myself.” Exodus

19:4.

The mention of the period during which the

woman is nourished in the wilderness as “a

time and times and half a time,” the exact

phraseology used in Daniel 7:25, furnishes a

key for the explanation of the latter passage;

for the very same period is called in verse 6 of

Revelation 12, “a thousand two hundred and

threescore days.” This shows that a “time” is

one year, 360 days; two “times,” two years, or

720 days; and “half a time,” half a year, or 180

days, making in all 1260 days; and this, being

symbolic, signifies 1260 literal years.