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"A whole awfule lot of folks like to make things out of Daniel and the 40 (?) weeks that he prophesies about. None of them consider the weeks to be normal everyday 7 day time periods. They instead reflect different epochs or periods of years or whatever.

I guess since they don't reflect literal weeks the prophesy is not true, eh?"

Those weeks are literal though. The debate is over what the weeks signify, and the general consensus is a period of 7 years. Taking that into account you get an extremely accurate prophecy of Christ, but what about the other prophecy in Daniel. The one that was fulfilled in Daniels lifetime. He had noted through studying the Scripture that the 70 prophecied years of Israel captivity was about to be concluded and he fervently prayed to the Lord concerning this. He obviously understood that the 70 years was literal. So I ask again can you show me one instance in Bible where prophecy concerning a period of time is not literal. Can you show me in the Bible where 40 days and 40 nights is used that is NOT literal?

JM

Those weeks are literal though. The debate is over what the weeks signify, and the general consensus is a period of 7 years.

Maybe we are using the language differently. If the weeks were literal, it would indicate to me that they would be "7 day units." That is the literal definition of a "week."

If you can make weeks not be actually 7 days and still maintain that they are literal, then I can surely say that 40 days and 40 nights don't mean actually 40 days and 40 nights and 1000 years doesn't mean actually 1000 years.

So at last we are in agreement.