THE 2300, 1260, 1290, AND 1335 DAYS IN DANIEL AND THEIR LITERAL FULFILMENT DURING THE MACCABEAN WAR

Abstract

The 2300, 1290, 1335, and the supposed 1260 days in Daniel have received varied reckonings depending on the interpretation method to which one subscribes. The current study examines the direct speech of the angel speaking to Daniel and, based on these words, tries to investigate whether there might be possible interpretation errors in the existing popular interpretative views. To do this, the study examines and derives meaning from the direct speech of the angel himself. The research findings show that the ‘1260’ and the 1290 days are actually two versions of one and the same dispensation (running from around 167 BC when the temple was defiled by Antiochus (IV) Epiphanes-163 BC when Antiochus died). Just like the ‘1260’ and the 1290 days, the 1335 days also start around 167 BC and end in 163 BC. Finally, the 2300 days start from the murder of Onias III in 171 BC to the cleansing of the sanctuary by Judas Maccabeus in 164 BC. Thus, a keen analysis of the angel’s actual words will reveal that these days actually concerned precise timings on particular future events that were to transpire during the fierce Maccabean war between the Jews and the Seleucids, meaning they were to be literal not prophetic/symbolic days.