Lesson 7 - Kingdoms in Collision
This period of a time, times, and half a time, is also mentioned in Revelation 12:14. According to Revelation 12:6, this time period equals 1,260 prophetic days.
Another way to calculate this period is this way.
In the Bible,
| a time (year) | = | 360 prophetic days | |||
| 2 times (2 years) | = | 720 prophetic days | |||
| 1/2 time (1/2 year) | = | 180 prophetic days | |||
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In Bible prophecy, one prophetic day equals one literal year (see Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6). The little horn, or church-state power, would reign supreme for 1,260 years, or throughout the centuries of the Dark Ages. This Roman power—the Medieval church—would substitute human tradition for God’s Word, man’s law for God’s law, and penances and indulgences prescribed by the church for the forgiveness and repentance prescribed by God. Many faithful Christians, who refused to yield to this church-state union, would be persecuted.
Understanding Bible Prophecy: Questions 14-15
In a magnificent judgment scene in heaven, God sets all things right. Wicked rulers are condemned. Counterfeit systems are exposed. God’s name, alone, is exalted.
God’s kingdom is eternal—it lasts forever. Human kingdoms rise and fall, but God’s kingdom remains forever. Political leaders may attempt to destroy it, but it endures. Counterfeit religious leaders may betray sacred purposes, but it remains. James Russell Lowell put this truth in verse:
“Truth forever on the scaffold.
Wrong forever on the throne.
Yet that scaffold sways the future
and beyond the dim unknown,
standing still within the shadows
God keeps watch above His own.”
The kingdom of God opposed, oppressed, thwarted on every side, and attacked by the enemy will finally, fully, completely triumph.
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