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The "Time, Times, and a Half-a-time"
Three times in the Bible, the "3˝-year period" is broken-down into "a time, times, and half a time," (Daniel 7:25; 12:7; Revelation 12:14, cf. Daniel 4:16,23,25,32). Anything repeated three times in the Bible is exceptionally important. The consensus of scholarship understands "a time, times, and half a time" to signify "a year, two years, and half a year." In other words, "a time, times, and half a time" consists of "360 days, 720 days, and 180 days," for a total of 1260 days or 3˝ years (Revelation 11:3; 12:6).
The reference to "time, times, and half a time" from Daniel 12:7 is given in parallel to the "1290 days" mentioned just four verses later in Daniel 12:11. By standard interpretation, the "1290" is simply the "1260" (of Revelation 12:6) except with the leap month of 30 days added to it. (See "Intercalary Month"). Consequently, again we have "a time" ("360," except + 30 now makes it "390"), "times" ("720"), "and half a time" ("180 days"), for a total of 1290 days.
A Year with the Leap Month Added Equals 390 Days {17}
Table 10
The 3˝ years is further broken down into a "time, times, and half-a-time."
(Click here for a fuller discussion of the "time, times, and half-a-time," of Daniel 7:25; 12:7 and Revelation 12:14.)
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TIME |
TIMES |
HALF-TIME |
==> 3˝ times |
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(1 year) |
(2 years) |
(˝-year) |
= 3˝ years |
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Or, + 30 days = 390 (if we here add the leap month) |
Or, + 30 days = 750 (if we here add the leap month) |
Or, + 30 days = 210 (if we here add the leap month) |
= 1290 |
Evidently, therefore, the "390 days" that Ezekiel besieged Jerusalem simply denoted a Bible-Prophecy year with the leap month added; it is but the first "time" ("390 days") of the "time, times, and half a time," (Ezekiel 4).
Furthermore, since Ezekiel acted out his siege precisely 7 years before the city fell (i.e., seven "times," cf. Daniel 4:16,23,25,32), thus we have a "time, times, and half a time" (3˝ years), twice repeated between Ezekiel's siege and the fall of the city. (I.e., two of "3˝ times" totals "7 times.") (At this point things become more complex, because of this we have a detailed version of this document.)
Ponder the following chart:
(All three time-lines are of equal value.Table 11
They represent three ways of describing a seven-year period.)
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Ezekiel’s siege |July 593 ___1290 + 1260 days___July 586 BC | Exile Ezekiel’s siege |July 593 __3˝ "times" + 3˝ "times"__July 586 BC | Exile Ezekiel’s siege |July 593 _390 + 720 + 180 + 360 + 720 + 180_July 586 | Exile |
Therefore, Ezekiel’s "390" is simply one segment in the breakdown of the 1290 of Daniel as much as was the full "430" of Ezekiel, (i.e., 430 x 3 = 1290; and 390 + 720 + 180 = 1290 too). In later chapters, all of this will be fine-tuned to the exact "hour and day and month and year," (Revelation 9:15, cf. Ezekiel 5:2).
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Entry |__390_years__| exile__+_40_| Exodus |
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1876 BC (Israel enters Egypt) + 390 years = 1486 BC (failed exodus, and exile of Moses), + 40 = 430 years total till the actual exodus of 1446 BC. (1876 BC) + 390 + 40 = 430 + (430 + 430) = 1290 years to 586 exile. |
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