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year because 1 B.C. to A.D. 1 is only one year. So we have
476 years and 24 days. 476 years x 365 days (in our
Julian calendar) = 173,740 days. Adding in the extra 24
days = 173,764 days.
That doesn't quite do it. But peculiarities of our calen-
dar, the Julian calendar, must also be considered. We have
leap year every four years; therefore, there were 119 leap
years during the period (476 years divided by 4 equals
119). So, adding in the extra 119 days,
173,764
+ 119
173,883 days

That's too many days. But Anderson went so far as to
calculate the slight inaccuracy of our Julian year as com-
pared with the true solar year. The figures, from the Royal
Observatory, show that our year is about 1/128 of a day
longer than the true solar year. We therefore skip leap year
every 128 years on our calendar. Three such leap years
must be skipped during Daniel's prophetic period of 483
years. Thus we subtract 3 days:

173,883
— 3

173,880
And we see that Daniel was accurate to the exact day.
Our purpose here is not to check Anderson's arithmetic,
but to underline the very real accuracy of the prophet
Daniel. We have based our prediction of the future con-
struction of the Tribulation Temple and the events sur-
rounding it largely on this seventy-weeks prophecy. If