Reason #18:
"Many great scholars, both Seventh-day Adventist and non-Seventh-day Adventist have understood
and taught the year/day principle. Unfortunately, after the Great Disappointment of 1844, Protestants gave up on the year/day principle which had been used by the Millerites to calculate the prophetic time periods.
In other words, because Jesus did not come as predicted in 1844, the Protestant world threw out the method which the Millerites had used. Thus they threw out the proverbial baby with the bath water!! We will limit ourselves to comments which were made by two men whose last name is Newton:
"Three times and a half; that is, for 1260 solar years, reckoning as time for a calendar year of 360 days, and a day for a solar year. After which the judgment is to sit, and they shall take away his dominion, not at once, but by degrees, to consume and to destroy it unto the end."
(Sir Isaac Newton, Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John, part 1, chap. 8, p. 114. London: J. Darby and T. Browne, 1733).
"We must therefore compute the time according to the nature and genius of the prophetic language. A time, and times, and half a time are three years and a half; and the ancient Jewish year consisting of twelve months, and each month of thirty days, ‘a time and times and half a time,’ or three years and a half, are reckoned in the Revelation 11:2,3; 12:6, 14, as equivalent to ‘forty and two months,’ or ‘a thousand two hundred and threescore days:’ and a day in the style of the prophets is a year: ‘I have appointed thee each day for a year,’ saith God to Ezekiel 4:6; and it is confessed that ‘the seventy weeks’ in the ninth chapter of Daniel are weeks of years; and consequently 1260 days are 1260 years." (Bishop Thomas Newton, Dissertations on the prophecies, London: B. Blake, 1840, p. 247)." SecretsUnsealed
"Many great scholars, both Seventh-day Adventist and non-Seventh-day Adventist have understood
In other words, because Jesus did not come as predicted in 1844, the Protestant world threw out the method which the Millerites had used. Thus they threw out the proverbial baby with the bath water!! We will limit ourselves to comments which were made by two men whose last name is Newton:
"Three times and a half; that is, for 1260 solar years, reckoning as time for a calendar year of 360 days, and a day for a solar year. After which the judgment is to sit, and they shall take away his dominion, not at once, but by degrees, to consume and to destroy it unto the end."
(Sir Isaac Newton, Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John, part 1, chap. 8, p. 114. London: J. Darby and T. Browne, 1733).
"We must therefore compute the time according to the nature and genius of the prophetic language. A time, and times, and half a time are three years and a half; and the ancient Jewish year consisting of twelve months, and each month of thirty days, ‘a time and times and half a time,’ or three years and a half, are reckoned in the Revelation 11:2,3; 12:6, 14, as equivalent to ‘forty and two months,’ or ‘a thousand two hundred and threescore days:’ and a day in the style of the prophets is a year: ‘I have appointed thee each day for a year,’ saith God to Ezekiel 4:6; and it is confessed that ‘the seventy weeks’ in the ninth chapter of Daniel are weeks of years; and consequently 1260 days are 1260 years." (Bishop Thomas Newton, Dissertations on the prophecies, London: B. Blake, 1840, p. 247)." SecretsUnsealed
And he said unto me,
Unto two thousand and three hundred days;
then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Daniel 8:14