The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
Religion
The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940
Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction; Science fiction
He then wondered when the war would end. He knew that Daniel's 70 weeks
indicated the end in 1932, or about 3-1/2 years from the time that war
first broke out in Europe in 1928. He read Daniel 7:12: "As concerning
the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their
lives were prolonged for a season and time." And again the 25th verse:
"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." He had proved by study and comparing past cycles
that a time or a season referred to in the Bible meant 360 days, 360
years, or 360 degrees,--a measure known and used by the astrologers in
olden times and still understood and used by modern astrologers for
measuring time. He knew that half a time meant 180 degrees, 180 days or
years, because Ezekiel had said that the Lord had appointed a day for a
year. He figured that America began with the discovery by Columbus in
1492 and that in October, 1932, would be 440 years since the discovery.
The measurement used thruout the Bible was by scores and man's span of
life was three score years and ten, and that four hundred and forty
years equalled twenty-two scores, leaving two scores, or forty years,
more for the completion of the jubilee years. He read Matthew 18:21 and
22: "Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother
sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto
him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, Until seventy times
seven." Robert figured that seventy times seven meant four hundred
and ninety years from the discovery of America until we would cease
fighting, forgive our brothers and live in peace. He knew that the
seventh period was always a jubilee period, that there was a jubilee
period of seven years at the end of each forty-ninth year period and
that there was a great period of forty-nine jubilee years at the end of
seven times seventy; that the sixth period would end in 1933 and that
from 1933 to 1982 would be the forty-nine years of the great jubilee
following the end of wars and the United Kingdom of the World.
He read Daniel 7:25: "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." Then read Daniel 12:7: "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." He figured that a
time equalled twenty years or a score, and that a time, times, equalled
four hundred years, and half a time equalled ten years.
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