1260 days
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Tim,
You teach that it is possible to separate the two halves of the tribulation by how the 3,5 years are expressed. When it says “1260 days” it is the first half and when it says “42 months” it is the second half. This works everywhere except for Rev 12:6:Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
This must refer to the second half, but still it is expressed as 1260 days. How may this be explained?
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Anders,
Here is Rev. 12:6 from the LGV.
6 And the woman escaped into the wilderness where she has a place there having been prepared from God (so that they may be nourishing her there) a thousand two hundred sixty days.
The verb translated “having been prepared” is in the perfect tense, which indicates that the place was prepared before the women flees to it. The bracketed words (so that they may be nourishing her there) is a parenthetical statement explaining why the place was prepared beforehand. So, without the explanation which interrupts the flow of the sentence, this verse reads: “And the woman escaped into the wilderness where she has a place there having been prepared from God a thousand two hundred sixty days. That is, the 1260 days is the duration of the time of preparation not the time she is being nourished.
Also, the antecedents for “they” (which is plural) must also be plural. Those who will nourish the woman are the two witnesses in chapter 11. In other words, prior to the woman fleeing, God has been preparing a place for the entire duration of the ministry of the two witnesses, so that when their ministry is concluded, and when the woman flees there at the time of the abomination of desolation, they may nourish her in that place where she flees which was prepared beforehand. When the two witnesses are killed by Antichrist when he rises to power, they will be raised 3.5 days later, and then be “taken up into the sky” and relocated to the place of refuge just as Elijah was relocated and Philip was relocated after baptizing the Ethiopian eunuch.
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