As I mentioned in an earlier study, the 1335 days of the Book of Daniel tie the public ministry of Jesus and that of the Apostles together. Daniel 12:12 mentions the mysterious period of 1335 days, saying those who wait until the days are concluded will be blessed! I believe the key to understanding all these mysterious periods is fitting them into the background of the annual Jewish Holy Days mentioned in Leviticus 23. A clue to determining the meaning of this particular period of the 1335 days is in the fact that he who waits until it is over is blessed. I don’t believe mankind could have ever been more blessed than on Pentecost Day AD 31, when the Holy Spirit fell down upon the disciples of Jesus, and God began making his abode with men (Acts 2:1-4; cp. Revelation 21:3).
If this understanding is correct, then the end of this period would be Pentecost, AD 31, and all we need to do is count back 1335 days to test the theory. If the 1335 days begin on a significant day having to do with the Jewish annual festivals, and the beginning of the period defines the end or Pentecost Day, then there is no reason to say this isn’t by design. Does anyone who trusts the scriptures are inspired by God believe there are any coincidences in his word?
If we count back 1335 days from Pentecost AD 31, we would arrive at the Feast of Trumpets, the first day of the seventh month, AD 27. This was the very day that Jesus was in Nazareth reading from the scriptures in the local synagogue. He began by saying “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me…” and announced that the scripture from Isaiah, from which he read, was fulfilled on that very day. Below is a graph of how this would appear.
| Month | AD 27 | AD 28 |
AD 29 |
AD 30 | AD 31 | Total |
| 1st | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | ||
| 2nd | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | ||
| 3rd | 30 | 30 | 30 | 8 | ||
| 4th | 29 | 29 | 29 | |||
| 5th | 30 | 30 | 30 | |||
| 6th | 29 | 29 | 29 | |||
| 7th | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | ||
| 8th | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | ||
| 9th | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | ||
| 10th | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | ||
| 11th | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | ||
| 12th | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | ||
| 13th | 29 | |||||
| Totals | 177 days | 383 days | 354 days | 354 days | 67 days | 1335 days |
The Jewish calendar follows the moon, instead of the sun, so and ordinary year of 12 months contains only 354 days, eleven days short of a solar year (365). Therefore, an intercalary month was needed to keep the Holy Days, like the Passover in its correct season (spring). When a 13th month was added it was done to keep the 1st month in its proper season. An intercalary month can be added 2 to 3 times within a 7-year cycle and contains either 29 or 30 days, figured, as the regular month cycle—if one month contains 30 days then the next month following would contain 29 days; so too the intercalary months.
The 1335 days began with the Lord saying in Nazareth, “the Spirit of the LORD is upon me…” on the first day of the seventh month (Feast of Trumpets), AD 27. He was offering himself as the Jews’ Messiah, but they rejected him. The 1335 days ended with the Holy Spirit coming upon the disciples of Jesus on the 9th day of the 3rd month (Pentecost) AD 31. The mission of these believers, who later became known as Christians, was to continually offer Jesus as the Messiah (Christ) to both Jews and gentiles. Jesus is the Savior of all.
Just as the Spirit was upon Jesus, as he began his public ministry in Nazareth in AD 27 (Luke 4:16-21), so the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples of Jesus on the Feast of Pentecost in 31 AD, as the apostles embarked on their ministry commanded by the Lord. On the Feast of Trumpets Jesus offered himself as the Messiah to Jewish friends and neighbors, but he was rejected. They even tried to kill him, but from Pentecost and onward the Church of God has preached Jesus as Christ or Messiah first to the Jewish nation but also to the whole world through the power of the Holy Spirit.
No other use of the 1260 days (found HERE), 1290 days (found HERE) or the 1335 days seems acceptable, if we use only scripture to determine their purpose. Using them for any other purpose, vis-à-vis a future world dictator, leaves their beginning and, therefore, their ending in doubt. Moreover, without the Jewish annual holy days and Jesus’ public ministry, as their background, we have no way of figuring out when to begin any of them.
Therefore, if this study is logical and true, it places great boundaries upon the Seventy Weeks Prophecy. For example, if the 1260 days and the 1290 days together equal the seventieth week, and that week encompassed both Jesus’ public ministry and the beginning of the Apostles ministry, then things like Satan being cast to the earth had to have occurred during the ministry of Christ (Revelation 12:7-12; Luke 10:18). If we insist that the fulfillment of the Apocalypse is yet future, how can the scriptures be true? Either Satan was cast down during Christ’s ministry or he wasn’t. Either these days tell us about what Christ did for us or they don’t. What do we believe, if we don’t believe the scriptures?
May our heavenly Father open our eyes to see what men have done to his word and give us the courage to believe what the word of God clearly says.
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7 responses to “The 1335 Days of the 70 Weeks Prophecy”
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Greetings and Blessings to you Edward.
As I read through your findings and understandings about the days spoken of in Daniel, I seem to agree with you on the 1260 days and 1290 days, that they both respectively refer to the time of Jesus ministry till his crucifixion, and then until the stoning of Stephen. As for your understanding of the 1335 days I am not so sure. I have a concern… Within the context of Daniel 12 it does not seem logical to me that the end of the 1335 days ends before the end of the 1290 days. Stephen obviously didn’t die until after Pentecost. Why would the prophecy jump backwards on itself? To me it reads logically that there are two successive timelines to look for the fulfillment of. My understanding is that another significant even would happen just 45 days after the death of Stephen. To me, within the context of Acts, that is the conversion of Saul, and the command from that point on that the Word would be given to the Gentiles through his ministry. As I understand it, the old covenant came to an official end at that point for the Jewish nation, yet officially marked the beginning of the New Covenant for all nations. It was the death of Stephen that pushed the Gospel to the World, and the ministry of Paul that helped it grow. This to me is the bigger blessing!! I do not disagree with you that the Holy Spirit is a great blessing, however it is not the Spirit that saves us, It is Faith! Therefore blessed are ALL who come into the New Covenant at the end of 1335 days! What are your thoughts?
Thanks!
Clayton
Greetings, Clayton and thank you for reading by blog, and for sharing your point of view with me.
My thoughts…
Well, my study is certainly not written in stone, but it works according to what I read in the Bible. First of all, the way I came to this understanding was quite by accident. I was reading in Luke and it seemed to me that the first few chapters of Jesus’ ministry occurred during the fall festivals. At least the Sabbaths seem to line up this way. I decided to count the number of days between the Last Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles to the Passover 3 1/2 years later when Jesus died. I was surprised to find it was exactly 1260 days. I wondered if the 1290 and 1335 days aligned up with important events as well. It seems to me that they do, but only in way I have it in my blog (i.e. if the Jewish Holy Days are used to determine their place). I tried to force the days onto other Holy Days or important times in the Jewish calendar, but nothing else worked. Of course, my method of interpretation may be wrong (I don’t believe it is), because, as I said, nothing is in stone–no “thus saith the Lord!” to show us that this or that is the definitive answer.
If we align the 1260 days with the 1290 days it makes up the final 70th week in the 70 Weeks Prophecy of Daniel. The 1335 days **must** by definition find its place somewhere within the boundary of that week, or show reason in Scripture that says it should go beyond that week of years. Therefore, I looked and found that, if Jesus began his ministry in Nazareth with the Spirit on him on the Feast of Trumpets, then 1335 days later the Spirit fell down upon his people on the Feast of Pentecost. That makes sense to me; the Spirit of God is significant in both situations, just as Jesus giving the sign that he was the Messiah would be that he would be in the heart of the earth for 3 days and 3 nights. It pointed to his death at the beginning of the 1260 days and ended in his crucifixion at the end of that time. The 1290 days, likewise, begins on a significant day in the Jewish calendar and ends on another significant day. At Jesus Resurrection to a point 3 1/2 years later (1290 days) one ends on the Day of Atonement. By killing Stephan the high priest set himself up as authority instead of Jesus, the High Priest. This is the Abomination that brought desolation upon the Jewish nation and the Temple, not the ‘killing of Stephen’ per se, but but the national rejection of Stephen’s testimony that Jesus is Lord (Messiah).
This is how the days fit into the Jewish Calendar. If you or anyone else are able to show differently, by all means believe what you think the Lord has spoken to you. Nevertheless, I don’t see the conversion of Saul / Paul as the thing to which the 1335 days point. Moreover, I understand the giving of the Holy Spirit as the point of salvation. It is Christ in us that is our hope of glory, and he dwells in us through the Holy Spirit, and it is in this very thing that we place our faith. Christ in us is the earnest or down payment of our inheritance (Ephesians 1:14).
Anyway those are ‘my thoughts’ but you have a great day, and may the Lord bless you in all you do.
Eddie
Blessings Eddie!
I appreciate the time for your response. The way that I understand it is somewhat different. I actually believe that Jesus himself is the Abomination of Desolation mentioned in Daniel 12:11. I base this on Daniel 9:27 “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”……. This is talking about Jesus and notice It says that HE shall make the abominations desolate. This took me a while to fully understand but i realized that Jesus was the one who was causing the abominations of the Jewish people to cease by his own sacrifice.
Then if we also compare it with Daniel 12:11 “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.”…. ….It says here that From the time the sacrifice AND the abomination are set up there will be 1290 days. I do not see them being separate timelines, the abomination being setup marks the beginning of the 1290 days, not the end of the 1290 days…. The 1260 days ended with Jesus Crucifixion, but marked the beginning of the 1290 days. Stephens death marked the end of 1290 days.
However the one that tied it together for me is in Daniel 12:7 “And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.”……… Notice it says AFTER he has scattered the power of the holy people. This is not a definitive timeline necessarily included within the 70 weeks. I think that is why God specifically gives us the two numbers of days 1290 and 1335. The scattering marked two occasions in my opinion, the death of Stephen caused the disciples to scatter and it marked the hand over of the power of God from the Jewish nation to the Gentiles with Pauls conversion. The 70 weeks are still fulfilled regardless of the extra 45 days.
I do not necessarily disagree with your view that these days might fall on feast days, yet I think its to forced to require that. That said, I also don’t definitively say mine is concrete and I am always open to further insight as the Lord guides me, so any thoughts are always appreciated.
Blessings and may the Lord be with you!
Clayton
Greetings Clayton, and thanks again for reading and for your comment.
This is how I interpret Scripture. First, I agree with Jesus that nothing in Scripture is able to contradict another Scripture (John 10:35). That puts limits upon what I am able to truthfully say about what is in the Bible. Secondly, I compare Scripture with Scripture, as much as that can be done (1Corinthians 2:13). Once I begin comparing Scripture with itself, that puts further limits upon what I am truthfully able to interpret from what I read. In other words, more emphasis is placed upon the Scripture explaining itself than upon me coming up with an explanation on my own. Finally, I agree with Peter that no Scripture was written so that I could simply give my own opinion on in order to define the truth therein (2Peter 1:20). This actually takes away from me a cart blanch attitude to offer my opinion about the Scripture. A great emphasis is placed upon finding out what the Scriptures say about themselves. Anyway, that’s the rule of interpretation I find in the Bible, and I try to live by it. So, what seems ‘forced’ to you is probably the limitations I have placed upon myself in order to see what the Scriptures are telling me.
I don’t believe Jesus could be described in Scripture as an abomination. Thayer defines the Greek word (G946) as “a foul thing, a detestable thing” or secondly as “idols and things pertaining to idolatry.” I don’t see how one could understand Jesus in this manner; the Bible doesn’t seem to give one room to do that. But, let’s consider Daniel 9:27 upon which you base your assumption. We both agree that the “he” in Daniel 9:27 refers to the “Messiah” or “Anointed One” in verse-26. So, it is the Messiah who confirms the covenant for one week or the 70th week of the Seventy Weeks Prophecy. We agree so far. In the middle of the week (i.e. 3 ½ years into the 70th week) “he” i.e. the Messiah shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease. What does this mean? I am told that the Hebrew is somewhat obscure or vague. One could draw out several different interpretations at this point. The Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint, offers this explanation: “and in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away…” (Brenton LXX). This seems to say that the Messiah is God’s Sacrifice and Drink Offering, and it is taken away—picturing the crucifixion. I presume we can both agree to this.
Finally, we come to: “and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”…” It seems to me that “he” (the Messiah) makes “it” (the Temple) desolate **because of** the ‘overspreading of abominations.’ How can the Messiah be the ‘abomination’ for which he judges the Temple? Notice how the Septuagint translates this portion into Greek: “and on the temple shall be the abomination of desolations; and at the end of time an end shall be put to the desolation” (Brenton –LXX).
I believe you are looking for meaning without using the context. What the angel swears in Daniel 12:7 is in response to a question in verse-6. “What shall be the end of these wonders?” What wonders was this angel asking about? I believe it has to do with:
I believe a comparison of Revelation 12:7-9 with Luke 10:17-20 shows that Michael and Jesus are the same Being. I am not saying Jesus is an angelic being, but I am saying Michael (Jesus before he took flesh) is God and is the Arch-angel—or Lord of the Angels. The Bible reveals only one Archangel. And, I believe it shows him as the Lord of angelic beings in heaven. He is God who later became flesh (Jesus). That said, what is the **power** of the holy people? Is it not Michael/Jesus who stands for them? If this is logically correct so far, then scattering the “power” of the holy people would be something like killing Jesus—the crucifixion. Strong defines the Hebrew word (H5310) as: “to dash to pieces, or scatter: – be beaten in sunder, break (in pieces), broken, dash (in pieces), cause to be discharged, dispersed, be overspread, scatter.”
If my understanding is correct so far, then the angelic reply in Daniel 12:7 says that it will be “for a time, times and a half of time” (1260 days). The 1260 days has to do with Jesus’ public ministry. But, ‘after’ this time – i.e. after “the time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time” (Daniel 12:1) – “all these things shall be finished” (verse-7) or “thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book” (verse-1).
I really cannot think of a time in history or imagine a time in the future that could challenge the importance of putting to death one’s own Creator. Everything else fades away in the presence of this event. Anyway, these are my thoughts.
Have a great day, and my the Lord bless you, Clayton, in your studies of his word.