What Are the 1,260 Years?

Using the symbolic thirty-day month, forty-two months equal 1,260 days. Time, times, and half a time are read as three and a half years. Historicists compare these equivalent expressions across Daniel and Revelation.

Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6 provide biblical examples of a day representing a year. Historicists apply that principle to these apocalyptic time symbols, not indiscriminately to every biblical narrative.

The chronology presented here uses changes in the post-Roman order in 538 and the disruption of papal temporal power in 1798 as boundaries. The dates are historical applications, not years explicitly named in prophecy. Papal influence developed unevenly, and 538 must not be described as the complete destruction of the Ostrogothic kingdom.