Bible Questions Answered: Daniel 12:7; 11,12

Bible Questions Answered:
I see a great discrepancy between Daniel 12:7 (three and one half years) and following verses 11, and 12! The last three and one half years are not 1,335 days!
Neal/ Durham, North Carolina

Bible Answer:

Correct!

Daniel 12:7; 11,12 NCV
7 The man dressed in linen, who stood over the water, raised his hands toward heaven. And I heard him swear by the name of God who lives forever, "It will be for three and one-half years. The power of the holy people will finally be broken, and then all these things will come true."
11 "The daily sacrifice will be stopped. Then, after 1,290 days from that time, a blasphemous object that brings destruction will be set up.
12 Those who wait for the end of the 1,335 days will be happy.

Daniel's writing here of course refers to the last one half of the time known as “Jacob's Trouble,” or the Great Tribulation.

At the mid way point of the Tribulation, the Ant-Christ, erects an image to himself in the “holy place,” of the temple, referred to as the “abomination of the desolation.”

Daniel 9:27 NCV
That leader will make firm an agreement with many people for seven years. He will stop the offerings and sacrifices after three and one-half years. A destroyer will do blasphemous things until the ordered end comes to the destroyed city."

Daniel 9:27 NLT
The ruler will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven, but after half this time, he will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings. And as a climax to all his terrible deeds, he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration, until the fate decreed for this defiler is finally poured out on him.”

Daniel 11:31 NLT
His army will take over the Temple fortress, pollute the sanctuary, put a stop to the daily sacrifices, and set up the sacrilegious object that causes desecration.

(See the following: Revelation 13:14,15/ 14:9,11/ 15:2/ 16:2/ 19:20/ 20:4).

The last three and one half years, equal 1,260 days, based upon prophetic years of 360 days.

How then is the question, that Daniel speaks of 1, 290 days in verse 11, and yet again in verse 12 of being some 1,335 days, all of which are past 1,260 days or 3 ½ years?

Really there is no problem. We must realize the prophecy is true, the Tribulation, will end at time appointed, the 1,260 days. The extra time of verse 11, some 30 days, and the extra time of verse 12, some 45 additional days, in all some 75 extra days, will no doubt be necessary for preparing for the Kingdom.

After Christ has ended the war of Armageddon, which ends the Tribulation period,
He judges the nations.

Matthew 16:27 KJV
For the Son of Man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels; and then He shall reward every man according to his works.

Matthew 25:31-46 KJV
31 When the Son of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory:
32 And before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one from another, as a Shepherd divideth His sheep from the goats:
33 And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungered, and ye gave Me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave Me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took Me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed Me: I was sick, and ye visited Me: I was in prison, and ye came unto Me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer Him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.
41 Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungered, and ye gave Me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave Me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took Me not in: naked, and ye clothed Me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited Me not.
44 Then shall they also answer Him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall He answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to Me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Then Christ, sets up His Millennial, Kingdom Age.

Matthew 6:9,10 KJV
9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

I Corinthians 15:24,25 KJV
24 Then cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies under His feet.

That 45 extra days have been added to set these things up, is of little consequence.