[Quix]

Have tried to get various scholars I've known to comment on what "shortened" days could mean.

Seems to me it could mean one of 3 things:

1. The number of days would be decreased.

2. The length of each day would be less hours of daylight or

3. less total--say the spin somehow results in less than 24 hours or some such.

I tend to not think it's #1. If it were #1, why would God have gone to such lengths to number the specific number of days in several different ways. Seems like that's rather emphatic.

If it's 2 or 3 . . . perhaps meteors are involved or volcanoes or some such???

Thoughts?

[Just mythoughts]

The word shortened = curtailed so to curtailed *days* seems to indicate time. Although none of the events Christ described as signs of His return are omitted there is the usage of the woman in travail - birth pangs. (There are several references Old and New regarding this analogy.)

To use labor as a symbolic of the *end* comes in three stages and that final one cannot be stopped without interference.

This being the case of birth pangs, no omission of events yet *days* being shortened I am inclined to believe the message is about time.