If I had to pick an end time date I would go, word by word, with the scientist, Isaac Newton...
"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. " -
Daniel 12:7
From a folio cataloged as Yahuda MS 7.3g, f. 13v:
"So then the time times & half a time are 42 months or 1260 days or three years & an half, reckoning twelve months to a year & 30 days to a month as was done in the Calendar of the primitive year. And the days of short lived Beasts being put for the years of lived kingdoms, the period of 1260 days, if dated from the complete conquest of the three kings A.C. 800, will end A.C. 2060." - Isaac Newton
As Charlemagne was crowned king on December 25, 800 by Pope Leo the III so the day of Christ's coming will be on Christmas Day, 2060. If the rapture of the saints (
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17) occurs seven years before the time of Christs coming the date of the rapture 12.25 2053. However
Isaac Newton notes
"It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fancifull men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, & by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail.
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast." - Isaac Newton
I believe, then, the 2060 prophecy as closest, noting room for error as in Newton's quote. But... My goodness... 2060 is a lot closer than it was when Isaac Newton uttered these words 300 years ago!
The times, equal to 2,000 years, cannot go past 2030. The Cross is God's point of time, not humans doing human things. The 490 years of Daniel's 70 weeks was all wrapped up, by the Cross. The only part left was Jesus as King over Israel. Paul explained that as being put off, until the fulness of the Gentiles is brought in. Daniel lived over 500 years prior to the Cross. Here are the verses again:
"But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 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."
"And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand."
"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. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days."
Three different and separate issues here. The times, time, and half of time is not the same time keeping as the latter "days". The abomination and removal of the sacrifice was Hanukkah, the event of Antiochus Epiphanes. That had to happen even before the first coming when Jesus would bring an end to the OT part of God's plan. There would still be the 10 toes of the very first vision in Daniel 2. Jesus came in the midst of the Roman Empire, yet all the empires including the Greek golden age would be wrapped up including the "days" mentioned in these verses from Daniel 12. That is why Jesus said that people reading the Olivet Discourse should know the difference between the AoD of Antiochus Epiphanes, and the one He addressed in Matthew 24. Yet many want to conflate the 1290 days and the 1335 days with a future event, when they were already fulfilled within the 69 weeks of Daniel 9. Some even claiming that Daniel would have to wait until the GWT to be judged. Daniel was removed from Abraham's bosom at the Cross with all of the OT redeemed.
The Cross was the last days of that OT dispensation. Whenever the last days were brought up between Jesus and those asking Him questions prior to the Cross, that was their last days. Jesus was the anointed one that ushered in the last day judgment and resurrection wrapped up in the Cross itself. Yes some lived post the Cross, and entered into the NT church as firstfruits. Lazarus was the representative of those in the OT and last days that would indeed see both Abraham's bosom and the blessed physical resurrection into Paradise. Moses was correct that, "If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
That reality was a done deal for Daniel after only half a time, 500 years.
Now we are sitting at 1992 years after the Cross. We have missed the time. We are looking at the times as the fulness for the Gentiles. The 1,000 years in Revelation 20 is looking more real as the final time mentioned in the above Daniel 12 passage. We have yet another dispensation that will be wrapped up soon, or the times, time, and half a time since Daniel viewed that scene, will be meaningless.
We all will be post times as in 3,000 years until the end instead of 2,000 years as an end. But Daniel did not have to wait 3500 years for there to be an end. The Cross already fulfilled one aspect of our understanding of what Daniel was allowed to see and write down.
No one can set a date on the Second Coming. But this is one of the points in history that will make or break what Daniel 12 was literally referring to. Is there a margin of error to account for all the different time frames since no one can agree on even the date of the Cross, nor the birth of Jesus? I don't think any one could have set the date of Jesus' birth and the Cross using Daniel's 69 weeks formula in the same way as setting the date for the Second Coming. Only 2 people seem to have been cognizant of the anointed one, Simeon and Annah. No Essenenes sitting around debating when the first coming would happen. Only John the Baptist in the spirit of Elijah proclaiming Jesus would show up any day now. The rest of Israel loosing hope, and then many rejecting Jesus as Messiah vehemently.
Attempting to claim the times, time, and half a time as 1260 years cannot fit Daniel 12. It was from Daniel's perspective not the perspective of those living in 800AD. What is earth time to God? According to the Psalmist, Peter, and then John in Revelation 20, it would be 1,000 years. Half a time is 500 years, and multiple time would be several 1,000 year periods.
Yes we could be in the fulness of the Gentiles for 2,000 and even up to 10,000 years. But then Exodus 20 comes into the prophetic perspective. God told us that humans only had to work 6 days in light of the Sabbath day of the Lord in Genesis 2. So only 6 times would humanity be subject to sin. 4 times were already accomplished at the time of the Cross. Probably to the very day, Adam disobeyed God, Jesus obeyed God on the Cross exactly 4 Days/times we call 4,000 years. So do we hold God accountable to that promise made in the 4th Commandment? Jesus was obedient bringing the 4th Day to a close. Jesus will be obedient bringing the 6th Day to a close ending both Daniel's 70 weeks and Adam's 6 Days.
