snicker08 Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 in revelation 11:3 it states, "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth." What does the term "a thousand two hundred and threescore days" mean? Quote
Dravin Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 Score = 20. Consider the Gettysburg Address' "four score and seven years ago" means 87 years ago. Your phrase "a thousand two hundred and threescore days" means 1,260 days. Quote
RipplecutBuddha Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 also, just a little short of three and a half years. Quote
FunkyTown Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 also, just a little short of three and a half years.1260 days, like everyone else is saying.But wait! If 1000 years is as a day, then that means that they'll prophesy for 1, 260, 000 years....That's probably not the correct interpretation. Much more likely that Revelation shows the last seven years of existence, the first 3 1/2 being characterized by the 2 witnesses who will prophesy in Jerusalem and then be murdered. Quote
RipplecutBuddha Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 wow...think of the beards they'll have grown by then... Quote
prisonchaplain Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 To add to everyone's exquisite math skills, they will be prophesying for roughly half of the literal Great Tribulation period, according to premillenial understanding. (Ref. Left Behind for the sci fi/fantasy version of this) Quote
spamlds Posted April 8, 2011 Report Posted April 8, 2011 in revelation 11:3 it states, "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth." What does the term "a thousand two hundred and threescore days" mean?This same formula shows up different ways. Revelation chapter 12 refers to it as "a time, and times, and half a time" and Revelation chapters 11 and 13 refer to a period of "forty and two months." Daniel chapter 7 calls it "a time and times and the dividing of time." Quote
bytor2112 Posted April 8, 2011 Report Posted April 8, 2011 (edited) About the same time as Christ's earthly ministry.......then they will lay dead in the streets for three days and rise again.......similitude? Edited April 8, 2011 by bytor2112 Quote
RipplecutBuddha Posted April 9, 2011 Report Posted April 9, 2011 consistent patterns for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. God is indeed the same today, yesterday, and forever. Quote
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