My
Vision on Daniel and Revelation
Mysteries
Part 2
I was thrilled to find after the fact of writing out my vision
in Part 1, that in the historic interpretation pertaining to the two witnesses,
Ellen White defines the time period as 42 months or 1,260 days.
"Said the angel of the Lord: “The holy city [the true church] shall they
tread under foot forty and two months. And I will give power unto my two witnesses,
and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in
sackcloth....And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that
ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall
overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great
city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucified.... And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and
make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets
tormented them that dwelt on the earth. And after three days and a half the
Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and
great fear fell upon them which saw them.” [Revelation 11:2-11.] {GC88 266.1}
“The periods here mentioned—“forty and two months,” and “a
thousand two hundred and threescore days”—are the same, alike representing the
time in which the church of Christ was to suffer oppression from Rome. The 1260
years of papal supremacy began with the establishment of the papacy in A. D.
538, and would therefore terminate in 1798. At that time a French army entered
Rome, and made the pope a prisoner, and he died in exile. Though a new pope was
soon afterward elected, the papal hierarchy has never since been able to wield
the power which it before possessed.” {GC88 266.2}
—rwb