"Historicist
interpreters have usually understood the "time, times and half a time"
(i.e. 1+2+0.5=3.5), "1,260 days" and "42 months" mentioned in Daniel and
Revelation to be references to represent a period of 1260 years (based on the 360 day Jewish year multiplied by 3.5)."
- 1260 days / 360 days = 3 1/2 (3.5) years
- 3 1/2 (3.5) years = 42 months
- 42 months X 30 days = 1260 days
Little Horn:
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Daniel 7:25
Beast:
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days...And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent....And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Revelation 12:6,14/13:5
The apostle Paul warned the church not to look for the coming of Christ in his day. "That day shall not come," he says, "except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed."
2 Thessalonians 2:3.
Not till after the great apostasy, and the long period of the reign of the "man of sin," can we look for the advent of our Lord. The "man of sin," which is also styled "the mystery of iniquity," "the son of perdition," and "that wicked," represents the papacy, which, as foretold in prophecy, was to maintain its supremacy for 1260 years. This period ended in 1798.
The coming of Christ could not take place before that time.
Power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And, says the prophet, “I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death.” And again, “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity; he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.” The forty and two months are the same as the time and times and the dividing of time, three years and a half, or
1260 days, of Daniel 7,—the time during which the papal power was to oppress God's people.
This period, as stated in preceding chapters, began with the
establishment of the papacy, A. D. 538, and terminated in 1798.
1260 days, of Daniel 7,—the time during which the papal power was to oppress God's people.
This period, as stated in preceding chapters, began with the
At that time, when the papacy was abolished and the pope made
captive by the French army, the papal power received its deadly wound, and the prediction was fulfilled, “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity.”
captive by the French army, the papal power received its deadly wound, and the prediction was fulfilled, “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity.”
The Justinian Code, which was completed in 534, “enacted orthodox
Christianity into law,” placed the pope as the formal 
head of
Christendom, “ordered all Christian groups to submit to [his]
authority,” and gave him civil power of life and death over heretics.
This code, however, did not become legally promulgated and enacted on
the ground until the siege of Rome was lifted in 538. Justinian’s
general, Belisarius, had entered Rome unopposed at the end of 536, but
shortly thereafter the Ostrogoths came and laid siege to Rome. After
about a year the siege was broken, and Belisarius had control of Rome
and its environs. It was then that the provisions of the
code elevating the Papacy could actually be implemented by Belisarius
beyond the borders of Rome itself.
The Code of Justinian was a persecuting instrument. Justinian 
upheld the supremacy of the papacy. He permitted through the Council of Orleans actions to be done on Sunday that Constantine prohibited like travel and preparation of food and cleaning the house. In Novellae CXLIV Justinian instituted a Seventh-day Sabbath persecution. He changed the times and laws ad hoc as his Novellae XLVI and coins of 538 A.D. (XII year) indicate.
Justinian’s own legislature saw to it that the papal power increased spiritually and politically. In his novella, he decreed that the priest is the keeper of the soul and the emperor the provider of public welfare (nov. 6)."
E.W./AW/Keum Ahn/Sook Kim/G. Damsteegt/Heinz Schaidinger
