Prophecy
Daniel 9: 24-27
“Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined. And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”
Daniel 12: 5-12
Then I, Daniel, looked and behold, two others were standing, one on this bank of the river and the other on that bank of the river. And one said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be until the end of these wonders?” I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, as he raised his right hand and his left toward heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time; and as soon as they finish shattering the power of the holy people, all these events will be completed. As for me, I heard but could not understand; so I said, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these events?” He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time. Many will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand. From the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days!”
According to Hebrew thought a “week” can be a seven day period or a seven year period. And it is thought that this particular week is referring to the seven year Tribulation (also known as “the birth pangs of the Messiah”) which is to take place just prior to the return of Jesus.
Also according to Hebrew thought the expression “time, times and half a time” means 3½ (time = 1, times = 2 and half a time = ½, therefore 1 + 2 + ½ = 3½). And in this case it means the 3½ year period in the middle of the week of the Tribulation.
Also according to Hebrew thought a prophetic “month” = 30 days and so all of the following expressions mean the same thing…
middle of the week = 3½ years = 42 months = 1260 days.
Daniel 12:12
“How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days!”
The following lists the dates and the number of days between Rosh Hashanah and Shavuot for years 2023 - 2033 which you can look up and calculate for yourself (just remember to account for leap years)…
Rosh Hashanah Shavuot (Pentecost) # of days
9/15/2023 6/10/2027 1364
10/2/2024 5/30/2028 1336
9/22/2025 5/19/2029 1335
9/11/2026 6/6/2030 1364
10/1/2027 5/27/2031 1334
9/20/2028 5/15/2032 1333
9/9/2029 6/2/2033 1362
9/27/2030 5/23/2034 1334
9/17/2031 6/12/2035 1364
9/5/2032 5/31/2036 1364
9/23/2033 5/19/2037 1334
Rosh Hashanah 2025 begins on the evening of September 22, 2025 and Shavuot (Pentecost) 2029 begins on the evening of May 19, 2029. Shavuot falls in the middle of the week of the Tribulation. And if you count the number of days between Rosh Hashanah 2025 and Shavuot 2029 you get 1,335 days.
