Also kind of ironic and hypocritical. It goes both ways, even if they can't see it now.
For that matter, there are some alarming statistics of what Catholic priests currently believe. Daniel1212 has them I believe.
Isn't this all Old Testament references?
The 1335 days of our prophecy chart,
(and the 430 of Ezekiel)
Bible Prophecy Chart
Theme: Exile and Tribulation
From the seven-year "world-wide" famine of Joseph,
until the falls of Egypt, Israel, Assyria, Judah, and Babylonia
18781871 BC |
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1446 BC |
722 BC |
612 BC |
586 BC |
539 BC |
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Josephs |
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Fall of (i.e., the Exodus) |
Fall of |
Fall of |
Fall of |
Fall of |
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Total years later from the famine --> |
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390/430 from famine |
1150 from famine |
1260 from famine |
1290 from famine |
1335 from famine |
"At first my people went down to Egypt to live;
lately, Assyria has oppressed them."
(Isaiah 52:6b)
From many translations
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Blessed is he that waiteth - This indicates a patient expectation of an event that was to occur, and the happy state of him who would reach it. The angel refers to another period different from the "time, and times, and an half," and different also from the twelve hundred and ninety days. He speaks of this as the consummation - as the desirable time; and pronounces him blessed who shall be permitted to see it. The idea here is, that of one looking out for this as a happy period, and that he would be regarded as a happy man who should live in that age.
And cometh to - literally, "touches." That is, whose life would reach to that time; or who would not be cut off before that period.
The thousand three hundred and five and thirty days - The article is not used in the original, and its insertion here seems to make the period more distinct and definite than it is necessarily in the Hebrew. There is much apparent abruptness in all these expressions; and what the angel says in these closing and additional communications has much the appearance of a fragmentary character - of hints, or detached and unexplained thoughts thrown out on which he was not disposed to enlarge, and which, for some reason, he was not inclined to explain. In respect to this period of 1335 days, it seems to stand by itself. Nothing is said of the time when it would occur; no intimation is given of its commencement, as in the former cases - the terminus a quo; and nothing is said of its characteristics further than that he would be blessed who should be permitted to see it - implying that it would be, on some accounts, a happy period.