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How do you derive the figure of 2520 years of
punish~
ment ror Israel?
This is a basic question involving God's methods of
giving us prophetic keys so that we may
un~ock
the mysteries
of Bible prophecy.
In
II Peter 1:19-20, we read that no prophecy
is of any private, or individual, interpretation. Therefore we
must not interpret a prophecy apart from other scripture and
using our own human understanding to arrive at a conclusion.
We must compare scripture with scripture to :find the scriptural
interpretation of Bible symbols.
In
this case, we should first understand that
1n
Leviticus
26,
God promised Israel great national
blessin~s,
including the promises of nati onal greatness to Abraham {verse
42),
if they would obey Him. Then God lromised that if they
obstinately refused to obey Him, He wou
d
punish them for a
period called seven times.
Now let us see how t he Bible interprets the meaning
of times. Turn to Revelation
12:6,14
and you will see by
examlriation that the two periods of time mentioned in these
verses are exactly the same in length. They amount to
3i
years
in
both cases. Therefore we lmow that
in
a prophetic sense
the word times simply means yearsl ALSO, in verse
6
we see that
the Bible itself shows that these years can be divided into 360
day£ each. This apparently was the original year length. Now
multiplying these seven times or years or punishment by 360, we
find that this gives us
2520
days.
But where do the years come in?
Let
us see God's
prophetic definition of
~4ys
when applied to the punishment of
nations. In Numbers 14:
,
God said Israel would bear their
iniquities after the number of days they searched the land;
forty daysJ each §mY for a aear. This is the Bible definition
of a day of punis enrr-
Go~
i s consistent!
So we see that the seven times or years of Israel's
punishment equals 2520 days
(7 X
360),
and that these daya
1
according to scriptural interpretation, are actually
2520
years.