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I could go further. In Revelation 11, we are told that the court outside the Temple would be given over to the Gentiles, and they would tread it down for 42 months, ie 1260 years prophetically. In AD 707, the Al Aqsa Mosque was built in what had been the court of the Gentiles, and 1260 years later the state of Israel resumed control over all of Jerusalem, ending the "treading down." It is a pity that they did not have the faith and belief to go ahead and destroy the Dome and el-Aqsa at that time.

The Jordanians had destroyed every synagogue in Jerusalem in the 19 years it was under their control, and had also destroyed much of the Jewish cememtery of the Mt of Olives (Har ha Zeitim), building a road over it, a hotel in it on top, and the like.

If American Christians do not know these things, it is time they learned them.

For as long as Muhammad lived, the Muslim warriors clustered around him, awaiting his every word with bated breath. When he died in AD 632, they burst upon the world with a fury never seen in human history. Never have so few killed so many in so short a time, whether in the name of religion or in any other name.

Read Daniel 12, the key to our times. 1290 years from 632 yields AD 1922, when the British set up a non-Islamic government in Eretz Yisroel for the first time since the Islamic takeover, appointing a Jew as governor and with instructions to implement the Balfour declaration which had called for a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel/Eretz Yisroel.

1335 years yields AD 1967, when the State of Israel became ruler of all the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean, praise God. May it never again come under Islamic rule, whether under the guise of a pally state or any other ruse.

May we all b e faithful by God's power, may the Temple be speedily rebuilt in our days, and may our children and grandchildren see the arrival of Moshiach in all power and glory, as God hastens His coming exactly as scheduled in the prophecies.

Baruch ha Shem.

Crystalk, those are some very interesting numbers, especially the ones relating to the "trampling down" of the holy city. But if you mark the beginning of the 1260 years with the construction of the Al Aqsa Mosque, wouldn't you mark the end with the destruction of the Al Aqsa mosque?

I've also read that the number 1260 actually refers to the number of days that are in three-and-one-half years. Apparantly, the number three-and-a-half is symbolic of incompletion or evil, so the 1260 days could represent the evil or the trampling down in a general sense, rather than referring to a specific period of time.

As far as Danial 12, some believe that the 1290 and 1335 days are actually days and have something to do with Jewish persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes.

These scriptures are interesting to look at, but there's enough uncertainty surrounding them that, in my opinion, they aren't nearly as authoritative in answering fundamental questions of doctrine as are the words of Jesus or the apostles or the clearer Old Testament scriptures (like Psalm 40 or Jeremiah 31).